Losing such an influential player is a blow although it has been softened by the arrival of Luuk De Jong who joins the club on an initial loan deal until the end of the season.
The likelihood is that the former FC Twente and Borussia Mönchengladbach forward will be thrown in at the deep end and will make his debut in the Tyne-Wear derby this weekend, especially now Loic Remy is suspended as a result of his red card against Norwich on Tuesday evening.
I’m pleased we’ve beefed up our attack but then again the success of this deal depends on the detail and whether we get the chance to use the option to sign De Jong at the end of the season. If all goes well, will another club become interested and try to scupper any deal? That’s just an example…
Things never worked out for De Jong in Germany as he found his chances restricted. However his goalscoring record in Holland was impressive and if he can recapture that kind of form – the kind which has had us chasing him for some time – then he could be a good signing for us.
The problem with strikers who scored lots in the Eredivisie is that for every Ruud van Nistelrooy who was an astonishing success in England, there is an Afonso Alves who never managed to hit the same goalscoring heights on these shores. Time will tell I guess.
Moving on to Cabaye, I’m sad to see him go but I don’t really see how anyone can either be surprised that he has moved on or argue against his move to PSG. They are a rich club so he’ll be paid handsomely, will be playing in the capital city of his country just a couple of hours drive away from where he grew up and will be fighting for titles and medals whilst playing in the Champions League under the guidance of a French former playing legend. Not bad really is it?
It’s been revealed that there was some form of agreement about letting Cabaye go this winter following a failed move to Arsenal in the summer window. The fact he supposedly went on strike shows he had his eyes on bigger things and has done for some time. Anyone who listened to Joe Kinnear and his “nobody will leave” claptrap deserves to be disappointed in fairness and probably won’t go very far in life.
Besides we have little Vurnon who always got looked over in favour of Cabaye despite doing nothing wrong. Perhaps he may get a chance now? Maybe with him and De Jong we are now moving away from France and looking at Holland for transfers?
Ah well, C’est la vie. Or should that be het leven gaat door?
Lovely thought that BLIP @149. Tatty leisure ware with I am **** written on it would be suitable for Mike and Joe.
GeordieTwo(Quote)
The players a blatant cheat, He got Barton sent off for the same thing. THe FA would help their refs out if they didnt support players who have conned them.
PS What about west ham with the man who “would never have taken newcastle down” in charge, Id love to see the fat charlatans reputation in the bog
CC(Quote)
I have to say that is an absolute fucking disgrace that Jonhson’s got overturned and ours didn’t.
What a joke lets reward cheating fucking scumbags.
Santii(Quote)
so one day left… 6 months knowing Cabs was gone and we had 30 days to buy a replacement.
If we only sign loanee De Jong (a hopeful replacement for Remy) our club is a f**ing joke.
Take the money and happily bullshit to the fans regarding nobody leaving, plans in place etc.
Ne wonder players want to be away from here..
mark(Quote)
Remy’s card not rescinded? total joke
if it was for the “head ****” then Johnsons ban should of been upheld for diving. He’s totally conned the ref and the F.A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UvLh5Q3GBY
mark(Quote)
You were right and I was wrong Dekka. I’ll say it now. You were clever compared with Mr. Puss Face aka JFK. You were shrewd. You made permanent signings! This is your chance. Come back in and save us. There’s still time. 🙂
GeordieTwo(Quote)
CC-Their lads ban was lifted? That’s fucking pathetic. Not happy at all. Hopefully this will be used to give us a siege mentality for the scum/coming games but it’ll be nowt compared to missing Remy. **** sake.
Newkie(Quote)
Honestly not even kidding i want to see our lads diving as often as they can get away with it. Surrounding the ref at every opportunity and fighting every decision made by the officials.
**** fair play
Santii(Quote)
Toon up bid to 12mil,let’s see now???
icedog(Quote)
Grenier has told both clubs he does not wish to move so one storey goes
icedog(Quote)
@ Ice. hopefully he keeps his word like Cabaye who said he wasnt going and JFK said nobody was going 😀
mark(Quote)
MARK the whole set up is a joke club knew for months cabaye was going and set up nowt pack of clowns.put the lot in a group you wouldn’t get a half-wit
icedog(Quote)
These things happen, it didn’t make any different to the result at least. We should have really been 2 or 3-0 by then anyway if the finishing had been better.
DJG(Quote)
@Ice.
total joke m8. I can’t believe I still have some hope before 11 2moro.
Sucked in again by the bull.
Pardew will be in the mirror now rehearsing his lines. “unfortunately, it wasnt to be, everything possible was done to make it succeed. but we can’t compete with the Real Madrids of this world.” 😕
mark(Quote)
Well what a fucking joke the FA are ,did they not even look at tape of the incident 😕 , Johnson made a meal of it, there was no contact ,a simple coming together and he bloody instigated the whole thing to start with. This is the same guy who was in the top 5 players to receive the most yellow cards last season see my link @109 ,it’s there in black and white. So now you get rewarded for feigning injury, cheating ******* . We should never expect anything from the FA, ever since the club spoke out about their antiquated systems it has sealed our fate imo, they don’t like to be questioned .
KIMTOON(Quote)
I’ve said all along that any permanent signings which the toon make will be done in the summer, once the World Cup is out of the way. No one will come in this window. We are safe and guaranteed next season’s cash windfall, that’s all Ashley is worried about
The close season 2014 is going to be one of the most difficult that Pardew and the legendary Joe Kinnear have endured. Shola, Cisse and Remy all toast in one fell swoop… three strikers gone, though one of them wasn’t ours to begin with 🙄
Munich Mag(Quote)
@MM
De Jong might be off too by then 🙂
Re-call Ranger! 😀
What message does this send out to Krul, Debs, Tiote etc. It stinks of 10th spot each season..
Hope I’m wrong like but its too close to the window slammer for my liking..
mark(Quote)
Well, rumour was they wanted £11m for Grenier so if we have upped the bid to £12M that was bollocks. I would think that’s a decent enough offer for an unproven player in our league, it’s not exactly small change is it. iT IS £’s and not Euro’s I take it. 😕 .
Pissed off beyond belief with the FA and pissed off that we have left it this late to replace Cabs if a deal to leave was in place, just proves we have to sell to buy 🙄 And all this with a billionaire owner 👿 .
KIMTOON(Quote)
talk fo a deal for Filip Duricic? apparently a winger. so theres Jonas replacement…
why we didnt try for Ince.. 🙄
mark(Quote)
we will always be a sell b4 buy club under Ashley..
anyway, i’m off before we go and sign 6 players 😳 😆
mark(Quote)
MM, if they leave it to Summer then it just proves that Mike has still learned nowt about running a football club. Any player we fancy who even remotely has a half decent world cup will command a helluva lot more coin than he would now. Even if they are freebees out of contract they will want a much bigger signing on fee, that’s if pre-contracts haven’t been put in place with other clubs by then. 🙄
KIMTOON(Quote)
Well if this is true ,it beggers belief the scouts didn’t sound the lad out 😳 fucking amatures if true.
http://sportwitness.ning.com/forum/topics/grenier-personally-pulls-plug-on-newcastle-united-move-after-club
KIMTOON(Quote)
at last some good news workys blog is closing down. 😀 😀
icedog(Quote)
Well, the FA made that decision quickly. They held back John Terry and Rio’s so they wouldn’t be banned for big games. That does not even touch on the Norwich guy being let off.
FA is bent and corrupt and complicit in match fixing.
funkyjesus(Quote)
Also, if we want a new centre back, Virgil Van Dijk from Celtic is immense. Owned the SPL this year and well rated along with Forster in Champions League against top teams.
Colo but younger and ridiculously offense mided for a centre back. Scored a goal dribbling from his own half a few months ago.
funkyjesus(Quote)
This grenier transfer attempt has been embarrassing, another to add to the list. Crazy to say but we’ve been a shambles since llambias left, can’t even believe I’m saying that. At least with him we were slightly professional and it felt like there was half a plan, now we’re all over the shop. Mental
Evans(Quote)
How has it been embarrassing? Looks like a pretty straight forward attempt to me.
Santii(Quote)
its a tad embarrassing if we’ve only shown an interest since Cabaye left. Why weren’t plans in place before Cabaye left. We did know he might go.
mark(Quote)
well that Grenier deal is defo over his agent has said a couple of things he said are toon are saying he’s only worth half of what cabaye was worth,but the main thing that rings true in the interview to me is the offer to Grenier was not good enough,we must have been trying to do things on the cheap AGAIN with wages 👿
icedog(Quote)
Ice what do you mean “good” news? Now some of those but cases may start coming on here! 😆
MDS(Quote)
Nut cases……
MDS(Quote)
MDS bloody good point mate,dam,only way round it is not to reply to their comments they might get the message,that spoiled the good news 🙁
icedog(Quote)
Icedog@173, now that is interesting news, this blog blew Worky and his mates out of the water at the end of the day. 😆
Munich Mag(Quote)
Icedog, there’ll always be a place for Chucky’s words of wisdom on here 😆 😆 😆
Munich Mag(Quote)
Munich…..don’t temp fate with jokes like that.
Hopefully that lot will filter back to Ed’s
MDS(Quote)
so workys finally give up then , Eds is still going jesus their is a load of basket cases on their too , but looks like Toonsy has won the blog war.
AXEL(Quote)
MM Chuck can get back down those sewers in USA where he came from and take his amstil with him
icedog(Quote)
😆 😆
hitman(Quote)
AXEL trouble with eds is there is a load of school kids on and a lot with ego as big the empire state building
icedog(Quote)
MDS@185, sorry bud 😳 😳 😆 😆 😆
A lot of Worky’s articles were well penned, it was just the place was full of croutons making daft statements…
Munich Mag(Quote)
ICEDOG yeah i know pity really ,years ago when a lot on here were on Eds it was a good blog he was the guy that started all this really . Hope they all stay away from here their is no nasty slagging on here really .
AXEL(Quote)
MM penned some good articles. must have missed that one,I remember what he penned to you in a comment,the guy not all there imo
icedog(Quote)
AXEL aye I remember it was canny I left when he first packed in never went back,I told Toonsy a good while back that worky would pack up
icedog(Quote)
Another cracking transfer window for us! That will be a full Calender year without signing a permanent player! Oh and we’ve sold our best player! How do you move forward working like that?
Proof if ever we needed it that success in Ashley book is staying in the PL…
What’s the point of supporting NUFC anymore? There’s no ambition, no hope and no point!
We need to stop going to the games. Empty stadium will make thebpointbthat without us he has nothing!
Stuart79(Quote)
Ice i agree about eds
i know us lot argue a bit (:D)
but christ almighty they fight about anything on eds. I dont know what age they all are but judging by some of the comments i would say the average age is about 17 😀
What has happened to Worky anyway is he writing for a real paper now or something?
Santii(Quote)
Agree 100%@194 said that a few times,but to many die-hards like I USED to be for it to work and IMO jabba knows that
icedog(Quote)
SANTII kna mate he is not writing anything his trouble is he does not like work Toonsy did all the work when he was there,nobody will write any threads for him now plus he falls out with everybody and is very rude,he once told MM that he wishes he would **** off and die,I once had a very rude email from him,guys a ******
icedog(Quote)
Icedog@192, aye that was a cracker that one 🙂 In fact I still have the screen shots of that exchange, way out of order it was too…. aye you are right, he isn’t all there 😆 😆
Munich Mag(Quote)
I still read Ed’s stuff but haven’t posted there since .org started up. Those posters speak their own language over there…can’t understand them really
MDS(Quote)
Icedog@197, yeah we’re talking about the same “exchange”…
Do you remember the period when he used to get involved in a heated and at times vitriolic debate with bloggers, then go in and delete the bloggers posts to cast himself in a better light ? I’ll never forget that … I thought I had been seeing things, then pooof, the comment was toasted 🙂 😆 😆 😆 😆
Munich Mag(Quote)
Seems like a lovely chap by all accounts 😆 😆
Santii(Quote)
Lee Ryder @lee_ryder · 1 hr
Clement Grenier snubs #nufc after not being comfortable with tag of “Cabaye’s replacement” http://bit.ly/1ffyzrJ via @EveningChron
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Lee Ryder @lee_ryder · 1 hr
#nufc have had a nightmare dealing with Lyon in last two windows. Gomis deal and now Grenier.
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Lee Ryder @lee_ryder · 2 hrs
Guerra: “Clement would have arrived at Newcastle , not as Clément Grenier , but as replacing Yohan Cabaye” #nufc
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Lee Ryder @lee_ryder · 2 hrs
Frederic Guerra added: “Finally, the conditions of his departure did not create a favorable environment to flourish.” #nufc
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Very strange this, every player replaces another, me thinks it’s code for, I want to go to a club with ambition so I will wait for Liverpool ,Arsenal in the summer 😆 Question is do we have a plan B 😕
Lee Ryder @lee_ryder · 2 hrs
Frederic Guerra said: “It is not easy to say no to a big club like Newcastle , but Clement is finally decided to stay in Lyon” #nufc
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KIMTOON(Quote)
Lyon have a point – Pardew has agreed with the media who question Grenier as being Cabaye’s replacement so it is taken as a club stance.
It’s a sign of disrespect and I can’t blame him for snubbing.
funkyjesus(Quote)
FJ I can see your point but in another sense I worry that it shows the player is not ambitious enough or doesn’t believe he can fill that role.
Really though I think it’s a smokescreen for the fact he doesn’t fancy being part of a feeder club 😉
SJP14(Quote)
http://www.sportinglife.com/football/news/article/165/9140923/agent-rules-out-toon-move
All good points of argument at the end of the day. I reckon if it hadn’t have been World Cup year the bloke would have joined us…
The agent seems to be doing a canny job for him though…he’ll be worth a lot more next season if he makes the WC squad and performs well in the Champions League, whereas if he signed for the toon he’d need to sign the “don’t try too hard in the cups” clause.. 😳 😳 .
They learn qui
Munich Mag(Quote)
MM do you have to remind of the nightmare that was worky it would be funny if he wasn’t so sick I the heed
icedog(Quote)
I sometimes go there to read the comments, it’s a laugh the insults they throw at each other. They ain’t joking either. Chuck is still there today, insulting folk. 😛
DJG(Quote)
I am still of the opinion that signing someone from a foreign league to “replace” Cabaye is a bad idea.
We either sign someone who currently plays in this division and gets it and we KNOW is better than Anita or we just let Anita get on with it and focus on signing a striker that actually belongs to us for a change…… or try and get Virgil Van Dijk to replace Colo because that’s another transfer farce that has been overlooked this month.
funkyjesus(Quote)
Or it could be his agent has blocked the move in the hope he hikes the price up thus he earns more money for himself .Agents dont think about their clients ,only about how much they can earn from them .
AXEL(Quote)
Axel mate, did you see my question to you on the previous blog ?
Munich Mag(Quote)
MM yeah i gave a replym8
AXEL(Quote)
Axel@210
Totally agree that the agent ‘killed’ the deal.
sidekick(Quote)
MUNICH MAG Finnbogasson is the real deal he is better than both of them but also a different type of striker De Jong is a target man and i honestly think he will fit in at the Toon . Boney is more explosive and Finnbogasson can in many ways be likend to Andy Cole the lad is a goal machine and would be worth a 8 too 10 million investment .I know its the eredivisie that he plays in but he is a cut above any other striker in Holland and his trainer Marco Van Basten has tipped him for the very top .
AXEL(Quote)
So I take it we havent signed anyone to replace Cabs yet 😀
Ice long runs the Fox regarding Workys it was only a matter of time, im just surprised he run it in to the ground before closing.
Maybe he’ll learn that you cant accuse people of being racist or bullies without having any proof to back it up 😉
Big Dave(Quote)
ha fkin shocked the fooka kept it going for so long.must of ran oot of peeps to *** donations off .fkin bellend.
hitman(Quote)
My concern here is that:
Adam Campbell is loaned out. Loic Remy is banned. Pardew almost outright said De Jong is not match fit and won’t start. Gouffran is seemingly injured. Papiss Cisse is only just back from injury apparently. This leaves Shola Ameobi and Adam Armstrong as our strikeforce.
While Shola rarely lets us down in derby games, our set up is not good enough for a derby game.
funkyjesus(Quote)
Hitman yeah 😉 plus he couldn’t get anyone to do all the work for him, if he was a decent guy the place would still be buzzing
Big Dave(Quote)
prik of the highest ordr..glad to see this blog still rockin like
hitman(Quote)
Please tell me this Mark Noble story is some form of sick joke
Toby Le Rhone(Quote)
Where did you hear that from Toby lol
Santii(Quote)
When I said sign a midfielder who is in this league – I also said better than Anita. Mark Noble is not this man, lol
funkyjesus(Quote)
I don’t see how it’s an insult to be considered Cabs replacement, it’s nonsense because every player a club signs replaces someone or am I missing something 😕 What I want to know is what’s plan B going to be ,reading between the lines I don’t think we offered him enough wages .
KIMTOON(Quote)
yee can see whats gan to happen here like.pards will be rolled oot on satda before the derby saying we tried to get players but just couldnt get them owa the line.same bs 🙄
hitman(Quote)
Worky has packed it in then? I did like place yonks ago and used to read it and Ed’s a while before i started commenting on either. I gave up on eds virtually straight off but there was some good crack on org. Then people just started having a go for the stupidest things, like you post a formation you’d like to see and ten people come out with “Pardew will never play” etc etc. The whole hughton love in/anti pardew stuff right from the kick off was really sour. Been downhill ever since it seems.
Newkie(Quote)