January Transfer Speculation (or lack of) Thread

[Dave]

I see the geordies are shelling out ten million on another striker who is away on African Nations duty.  Papiss Cisse, seems to have a decent record, albeit in the Bundesliga.  SSN claiming we were interested.

Good signing imo. Has a good goalscoring record in the Bundesliga like Demba Ba did and they play together for Senegal.

As much as I hate to say it, Newcastle have got to be some sort of role model for us, they weren't even in the prem two seasons ago!

They have the fan base though, we don't.

And that stops us from buying good, cheap, young continental players does it?

[Lowendbehold]

I see the geordies are shelling out ten million on another striker who is away on African Nations duty.  Papiss Cisse, seems to have a decent record, albeit in the Bundesliga.  SSN claiming we were interested.

Good signing imo. Has a good goalscoring record in the Bundesliga like Demba Ba did and they play together for Senegal.

As much as I hate to say it, Newcastle have got to be some sort of role model for us, they weren't even in the prem two seasons ago!

Sherry was on £43k a week so Warnock Collins & Dunn will be on at least that, in fact more. Together it may be as much as £150k a week.  AM said the other day Warnock is on massive wages and he's 30 and lost his form.  He's not going to get any better. 

AM has confirmed the drive to get the wages down is still on.  So apart from Cuellar Beye o
Who are out of contract in the summer, and Ireland who is starting to play a bit. There is only those three and Petrov and Bent to sort.  I cannot see the last two going this January.  We need Bent to score goals and keep us out of trouble and Petrov is very important to us and is the only experienced central midfielder at the club.

I think Collins and Dunn might go this month if there was a reliable replacement available.  I doubt Dann is on much. Blues were poor payers and Blackburn arn't much better.  So a swop of Collins for Dann might save £20k a week or more.  Persuading Collins to go might be a different matter though.

[Lowendbehold]

Sorry Shorey not Sherry! Autocorrect !

[Jimmy Smash]

I see the geordies are shelling out ten million on another striker who is away on African Nations duty.  Papiss Cisse, seems to have a decent record, albeit in the Bundesliga.  SSN claiming we were interested.

Good signing imo. Has a good goalscoring record in the Bundesliga like Demba Ba did and they play together for Senegal.

As much as I hate to say it, Newcastle have got to be some sort of role model for us, they weren't even in the prem two seasons ago!

They have the fan base though, we don't.

We have the fan base... we just choose not to capitalise on it.

[ROBBO]

Just completed the BBC predictor thingy and with giving us only one win for the rest of the season i had us finishing fifteenth with 36 points. QPR, Wigan and Bolton bottom to be relegated, Wolves escaping relegation by one point. The big if though is QPR, if they buy a few this month they could improve and make things tighter, no hope for Wigan and Bolton though.

[PaulWinch again]

I see the geordies are shelling out ten million on another striker who is away on African Nations duty.  Papiss Cisse, seems to have a decent record, albeit in the Bundesliga.  SSN claiming we were interested.

Good signing imo. Has a good goalscoring record in the Bundesliga like Demba Ba did and they play together for Senegal.

As much as I hate to say it, Newcastle have got to be some sort of role model for us, they weren't even in the prem two seasons ago!

They have the fan base though, we don't.

And that stops us from buying good, cheap, young continental players does it?

Absolutely, our strategy is completely wrong.

[Irish villain]

Just completed the BBC predictor thingy and with giving us only one win for the rest of the season i had us finishing fifteenth with 36 points. QPR, Wigan and Bolton bottom to be relegated, Wolves escaping relegation by one point. The big if though is QPR, if they buy a few this month they could improve and make things tighter, no hope for Wigan and Bolton though.

I'll get the bubbly out...

[ROBBO]

Don't go on my predictions IV what do i know.

[pauliewalnuts]

I see the geordies are shelling out ten million on another striker who is away on African Nations duty.  Papiss Cisse, seems to have a decent record, albeit in the Bundesliga.  SSN claiming we were interested.

Good signing imo. Has a good goalscoring record in the Bundesliga like Demba Ba did and they play together for Senegal.

As much as I hate to say it, Newcastle have got to be some sort of role model for us, they weren't even in the prem two seasons ago!

They have the fan base though, we don't.

What difference does that make to the sort of players we sign?

They're not even spending that much money.

[Risso]

I see the geordies are shelling out ten million on another striker who is away on African Nations duty.  Papiss Cisse, seems to have a decent record, albeit in the Bundesliga.  SSN claiming we were interested.

Good signing imo. Has a good goalscoring record in the Bundesliga like Demba Ba did and they play together for Senegal.

As much as I hate to say it, Newcastle have got to be some sort of role model for us, they weren't even in the prem two seasons ago!

They have the fan base though, we don't.

And that stops us from buying good, cheap, young continental players does it?

Newcastle are a funny one, and I can't make them out this season.

Is their relative success a case of Ashley learning from his mistakes and making a shrewd (if unpopular at the time) managerial signing in Pardew, or have they just got lucky?

[ROBBO]

I think it displays the level of interest Randy has for us these days Paulie. I'm convinced he is trying hard to sell us.

[pauliewalnuts]

Pardew got the job because he's casino mates with Ashley and Lambias, their CEO (who managed the casino they used).

They've done pretty well so far. It's hard to look at Ben Arfa, Tiote, Ba and Cabaye and not feel a certain amount of jealousy.

[Somniloquism]

Newcastle are a funny one, and I can't make them out this season.

Is their relative success a case of Ashley learning from his mistakes and making a shrewd (if unpopular at the time) managerial signing in Pardew, or have they just got lucky?

TBH, I think it is the latter but with other influences. They have decided to get cheap european players in and got a decent scouting network going. They gave Pardew carte blanche to get rid of players he deemed trouble makers or might be challenging his authority. By rights they should be in a transitory period but pretty much every player they bought this year has done the business and they also took advantage of a great fixture list of weakened teams at the start which allowed an easier bed-in of said players.

[Dave]

I see the geordies are shelling out ten million on another striker who is away on African Nations duty.  Papiss Cisse, seems to have a decent record, albeit in the Bundesliga.  SSN claiming we were interested.

Good signing imo. Has a good goalscoring record in the Bundesliga like Demba Ba did and they play together for Senegal.

As much as I hate to say it, Newcastle have got to be some sort of role model for us, they weren't even in the prem two seasons ago!

They have the fan base though, we don't.

And that stops us from buying good, cheap, young continental players does it?

Newcastle are a funny one, and I can't make them out this season.

Is their relative success a case of Ashley learning from his mistakes and making a shrewd (if unpopular at the time) managerial signing in Pardew, or have they just got lucky?

Lucky is the wrong word.

They've realised that there is no point trying to complete with buying expensive English players, so they are looking at somewhere where other people aren't.

It might not always work, but you can be pretty sure that you have a better chance of succeeding than the tactic of 'buying the Premier League players that Liverpool and Spurs don't want'.

[ROBBO]

How many supporters would have been happy with Pardew as our manager? well okay most would have been if we new who the alternative was. For how many years have we been decrying the lack of cheaper imports, all through the MON years and it looks like we are continuing the process, can we get GH back please even with a dicky heart.