Transfer Speculation / Gossip

[boboonthecorner]

Todays press linking Benteke with Newcastle and Vlaar moving to QPR for £4m??

We should remind them that we haven't actually been relegated.

I actually wouldn't be surprised with either deal anymore. Money talks and all

[Monty]

Money does talk, but Newcastle don't have enough money to even begin talking about signing Benteke. Nor is £4m enough for Vlaar.

[Chris Jameson]

Ki not a lost cause then  ( lost Ki ?...never mind ! ) , according to the Telegraph article on Hutton :

By John Percy

6:48PM BST 15 Jul 2014
Villa are pressing ahead with their bid to sign Swansea midfielder Ki Sung-Yueng and would ideally like to agree a deal before the weekend.

Ki has one year left on his contract at Swansea and Lambert wants to make the South Korea international his fourth signing of the summer.

I do wonder about this. Percy was the one journalist reporting that the takeover was a done deal until recently and has had to eat his words somewhat

He is 'Admin' and I claim my £5.00.

[ozzjim]

Vlaar is worth, even with 12 months on his deal left, over 12 million following his world cup exploits. As such, I doubt he will be going anywhere, and certainly not to the twitchy nettle licker.

Benteke - would not even pass a medical at the moment, so that story is copmplete rubbish, and if he could pass a medical, would still be worth £25 million when you look at the prices being paid for the likes of Lallana and Lovren.

[RussellC]

Vlaar is worth, even with 12 months on his deal left, over 12 million following his world cup exploits. As such, I doubt he will be going anywhere, and certainly not to the twitchy nettle licker.

Benteke - would not even pass a medical at the moment, so that story is copmplete rubbish, and if he could pass a medical, would still be worth £25 million when you look at the prices being paid for the likes of Lallana and Lovren.

For me Vlaar's value should be calculated either by what relegation would cost us, or what we would need to spend to find a direct replacement. I think even £12m would be a bit too light.

[kiddylion]

Stewart Downing passed a medical on crutches

[BoskoDjembaSalifou]

On what planet will Newcastle come and take our best player? Seriously, who comes up with this stuff?

[mr underhill]

downing played like he was on crutches most of the time

[sirlordbaltimore]

downing played like he was on crutches most of the time

apart from when he was our player of the season you mean ?

[pauliewalnuts]

On what planet will Newcastle come and take our best player? Seriously, who comes up with this stuff?

It does sound a bit far fetched.

However, I struggle to think of a club showing less ambition than us in the top flight of late.

I wouldn't hitch my career to that wagon if I were a player.

[Ads]

Benteke to Newcastle though? Its barely even worth typing the scorn.

[LeeB]

downing played like he was on crutches most of the time

apart from when he was our player of the season you mean ?

He was as much player of the year that year as Messi was player of the World Cup, the big stinking shitout.

[RussellC]

People regard Newcastle as being a badly run club, and shambolic behind the scenes but they're putting together a pretty impressive squad together.

Players like Siem De Jong and Darryl Janmaat are exactly the type of players that we should be able to attract IMO. If they can find a regular goal-scorer this summer (surprised they're not looking to keep Remy) they should be looking at top 8 next season.

[Olneythelonely]

On what planet will Newcastle come and take our best player? Seriously, who comes up with this stuff?

It does sound a bit far fetched.

However, I struggle to think of a club showing less ambition than us in the top flight of late.

I wouldn't hitch my career to that wagon if I were a player.

It's not up to the player. It's up to us. We've already shown that he'll only be sold when we want to sell him.

It's complete rubbish.

[Dr Butler]

downing played like he was on crutches most of the time

apart from when he was our player of the season you mean ?

He was as much player of the year that year as Messi was player of the World Cup, the big stinking shitout.

sorry as much as I loathe to say it....he was