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Newcastle United Transfer Rumours and General Chat

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,563 ✭✭✭kinaldo


    This is such bull****, hes only scored 11 in 90- something apperances, desperate buy imo.

    He's a midfielder!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,312 ✭✭✭Limerick Dude


    kinaldo wrote:
    He's a midfielder!

    hes a striker and an attacking midfielder!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,563 ✭✭✭kinaldo


    hes a striker and an attacking midfielder!

    He's one of those versatile types yeah but anytime I've seen him for City he's played midfield or on the left. He's tall and he can head the ball not much else to say about him. I expect he'll be very much a squad player to be used sparingly.

    Edit: tbh I know very little about him, maybe a City fan will come on here and enlighten us.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,563 ✭✭✭kinaldo


    Bollox all the same. Looks like this is gonna be huge season for Ramage. God help us if any of our defenders get injured. Bring back Boumsong I say! I'd have even taken Andy O' Brian back, that's how depleted our defence is. Him and Bernard were said to be available for next to nothing. It's almost like Roeder and Co. know something we don't and we don't really need defenders. My guess is we're gonna have to win a lot of games 4-3.

    Edit: Apparently Olivier Bernard is out of contract and available on a free so the transfer window is irrelevant if we want to re-sign him. Money grabbing traitor imo but he's better than Baba.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 680 ✭✭✭Salmon


    I feel like throwing in the hat and becoming an arsenal fan!!! I Expected a lot this transfer window!!!! Oh well!!! Mid-bottom of the table this year and no uefa cup next season!!!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,563 ✭✭✭kinaldo


    Salmon wrote:
    I feel like throwing in the hat and becoming an arsenal fan!!! I Expected a lot this transfer window!!!! Oh well!!! Mid-bottom of the table this year and no uefa cup next season!!!
    I shall remain the eternal optimist when it comes to NUFC...

    Nobody will get injured. Luque will come good, Rossi will be a revelation, we'll score tons of goals and get dubbed "the entertainers" by the media, then by January we'll have loads of cash to splash due to a takeover or Man Utd paying way over the odds for Dyer and end up finishing 5th in the league whilst winning the Carling (?) and Uefa Cup.

    Martins will also win the golden boot and Owen will turn out to be our saviour making a miraculous recovery in time to play the 10 remaining games of our season.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,563 ✭✭✭kinaldo


    Just reading the morning papers I spotted this gem in the ever reliable source that is The Sun
    Chelsea had hoped to offload Wayne Bridge, 25, to Newcastle.
    But the move collapsed when Newcastle insisted he join initially on loan until Christmas with a view to a permanent deal in January.
    If that's true then Shepherd has a lot to answer for. The level of incompetence shown in Newcastle's affairs recently over replacing Boumsong, signing a left back and trying to flog Milner off before pulling the plug on him is nothing short of mind boggling and embarrassing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,464 ✭✭✭evilhomer


    I can't believe we didn't get Bridge!
    I can't believe we signed sibierski (although he will be handy to have as a 4th choice striker)

    Where is the top class defender we are so obviously screaming out for?
    damn you sheephead!!! Damn you!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88 ✭✭Spaco


    It's a long way to January for some new defenders. If we get 1 or 2 of those lads injured, it'll be a relegation dogfight this season. Roeder and Shepard dragged their heels all summer, came up with a few good attacking players and forgot that we leak goals like no one.....
    Brilliant


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 680 ✭✭✭Salmon


    We've re-signed oli bernard! Wasn't good enough for us to hold onto a couple of years ago and has just been released by rangers. Just shows where abouts we lie in the scheme of things and how far we have fallen back since the keegan era! Gonna be a long while waiting for that elusive trophy!!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,836 ✭✭✭Vokes


    Newcastle are after signing Bernard (free agent).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,312 ✭✭✭Limerick Dude


    Bernard is a good left back imo, way better than that piece of ****e baba.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,464 ✭✭✭evilhomer


    Salmon wrote:
    We've re-signed oli bernard! Wasn't good enough for us to hold onto a couple of years ago

    mmm, we let him go two seasons ago because he wanted 40k a week wages, not because he wasn't good enough. He tried to hold Newcastle over a barrell by not signing a new contract and saying he wanted to go as a free agent and get more money, we got rid of him to recoup a little money on him.

    I bet he is back on the same money or less then he was on before.

    Good attacking left back hopefully he can find his form he had under bobby robson again!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,498 ✭✭✭iFight


    SofaKing wrote:
    Newcastle are after signing Bernard (free agent).
    Excellent, he was very good, solid attacking defender.

    evilhomer wrote:
    I bet he is back on the same money or less then he was on before.
    Would be funny alright. :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,013 ✭✭✭✭eirebhoy


    He was brutal in the SPL.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,464 ✭✭✭evilhomer


    eirebhoy wrote:
    He was brutal in the SPL.

    He sure was! I think he has just been bitter since leaving Newcastle :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 680 ✭✭✭Salmon


    Not sure about bernard, I dont think he is a step forward(but I hope he proves me worng!!)! We dont need a good attacking full back, we need a good defending full back. If we could just firm up a little at the back we could be in contention for a trophy in the not too distant future. We always get caught out at the back!!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,563 ✭✭✭kinaldo


    I'm off to Newcastle in the early hours this morning and man I can hardly wait, Rossi and Martins raring to go!
    Sep 8 2006
    By Luke Edwards, The Journal

    Obafemi Martins is ready to become one of the most explosive strikers in the Premiership after stunning team-mates with his pace and power in training this week.

    Martins, nicknamed `Oba-gol' by fans at his previous club Inter Milan, is expected to line up alongside Giuseppe Rossi in a new-look United frontline against Fulham tomorrow as the Magpies attempt to move on from the disappointment and criticism which followed a lacklustre close to the transfer window last week. But, while there has inevitably been some frustration at Glenn Roeder's failure to add sufficiently to his squad, Titus Bramble believes the United boss has already managed to pull off one excellent piece of work in the transfer market by luring Martins to St James's Park.

    The Nigerian international, who cost £10m from Inter Milan, failed to set English football alight on his debut against Aston Villa and the 21-year-old's first appearance in a black-and-white shirt will be best remembered for the second-half injury scare which saw him leave the Villa Park pitch on a stretcher.

    "Obafemi has looked absolutely fantastic in training and he is raring to get his Newcastle career up and running," enthused Bramble of Martins, whose injury proved to be nothing more than a badly bruised thigh muscle.

    "It might just sound like a team-mate talking up a new player, but he has impressed everyone, his finishing is unbelievable.

    "We had all heard how fast he was and he's certainly quick, I've never seen a striker quicker over 10 or 20 yards. But it is also the power and accuracy he has when he shoots which has impressed me.

    "He's been scoring goals for fun since he returned to full training and I think we're all excited about what he will bring to the team. He looks like he has everything needed to be a success in the Premiership and the club have done very well to get him.

    "You can see what a talent he is and he will only get better. He has the ability to become one of the best in the Premiership and I'm confident he will get plenty of goals this season."

    Martins' international goal record - he has scored 11 goals in 14 appearances for Nigeria - would suggest he is a better natural finisher than some have given him credit for since his arrival on Tyneside. But Bramble has already suggested there is someone who has an even keener eye for goal at Newcastle - fellow new arrival Rossi.

    The Italian will have had only two training sessions with his new team-mates before United entertain Fulham, but Bramble has liked what he has seen from a player described as the "best finisher" at Old Trafford by Red Devils colleague Wayne Rooney earlier this week.

    "Giuseppe has shown plenty of nice touches and his finishing is superb," added Bramble. "Some players are naturally clinical in front of goal and he looks like one of them.

    "A lot has been said and written about our lack of firepower because of the retirement of Alan Shearer and the awful injury Michael (Owen) suffered at the World Cup.

    "But I think we have signed two very good strikers. As a defender you can tell straight away and we have got two natural- born goalscorers."

    Roeder has failed to add another centre back to his squad after missing out on Robert Huth and Jonathan Woodgate to local rivals Middlesbrough and Bramble admitted they must do better at the back.

    He said: "It didn't upset me that the manager was looking at other defenders, it just makes me more determined to hang on to the shirt. In the end we missed out on a couple of players, but we're not kidding ourselves.

    "We made mistakes against Aston Villa and it's up to the defenders who are here to put things right."
    http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/newcastleunited/journalsport/tm_objectid=17707692%26method=full%26siteid=50081%26headline=bramble%2dhails%2dfantastic%2doba-name_page.html


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,563 ✭✭✭kinaldo


    To anyone thinking of going to Newcastle and St. James' Park, I can't recommend it enough. Great day out apart from the fluke result. The city is amazing and the stadium is truly awesome.

    Only just over 50,000 turned up on Saturday (our lowest Prem attendance since 2001), due to a lack of away support and growing anger amongst the locals over the way the club is being run. I was in the Milburn Stand up near the heavens where most of the empty home seats were situated so the atmosphere wasn't the greatest but I can imagine what it would be like in the golden days of Keegan and Robson, something I can probably only dream about though.

    I can't wait to go back. Very easy to get to thanks to Ryanair and the stadium being located right in the heart of th city (and it's a small city!). Goldfish bowl is probably the best way to describe it. The whole trip cost less than €100.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,464 ✭✭✭evilhomer


    Over and back on the saturday? or did you stay over?
    Certainly sounds like a good trip to take.

    Maybe in October/November. Pompey at home 26th of november might be a good trip to take :)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,563 ✭✭✭kinaldo


    evilhomer wrote:
    Over and back on the saturday? or did you stay over?
    Certainly sounds like a good trip to take.

    Maybe in October/November. Pompey at home 26th of november might be a good trip to take :)

    Same day return with Ryanair 99 cent each way pre-tax of course. Arrived in Newcastle at 7.40am and got home at 10pm. Match tickets cost me £33 online but they were terrific seats and I could've got them at the box office when I got there for £28.

    My only previous visit was for 2 days when we played Man Utd at the start of Robson's final season and I was seated amongst the away fans which was kinda awkward. The chain of events that day was not too dissimilar to Saturday - Newcastle took the lead but Man U scored twice in the second half to win 2-1 :(

    You should definitely try and get out there though, u may bring the team better luck than me :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 680 ✭✭✭Salmon


    Kinaldo,

    Did you buy the tickets online @ nufc.co.uk? I remember registering for that site before! Do you get the tickets before the match or do you need to collect them from the box office?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 385 ✭✭deise_boi


    They get posted out to you.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,563 ✭✭✭kinaldo


    Salmon wrote:
    Kinaldo,

    Did you buy the tickets online @ nufc.co.uk? I remember registering for that site before! Do you get the tickets before the match or do you need to collect them from the box office?
    I bought them online here and they were posted to me. You can have them picked up at the box office if u buy them closer to match day.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,563 ✭✭✭kinaldo


    The less said about that performance in Estonia the better...

    but it's sad to say the least to see poor Duff playing at left back.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,464 ✭✭✭evilhomer


    Shocking performance!

    Martins can't hit the side of a barn door!

    At least we got out with an away goal. I'm not very happy about Roeders tactics lately. He just can't get the team scoring goals!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 680 ✭✭✭Salmon


    Probably not a great time to bring it up, but would anyone be interested in heading over to st. james' for the return leg of the uefa game? I'm headin to Old Trafford for the game on the sunday but wouldnt mind catchin the European game in Newcastle a couple of nights before! If anyone has any info on where 2 stay etc. i'd be greatful!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,563 ✭✭✭kinaldo


    Salmon wrote:
    Probably not a great time to bring it up, but would anyone be interested in heading over to st. james' for the return leg of the uefa game? I'm headin to Old Trafford for the game on the sunday but wouldnt mind catchin the European game in Newcastle a couple of nights before! If anyone has any info on where 2 stay etc. i'd be greatful!!
    Interested but too soon for me I think. I'm saving my money for Spurs, Man U or West Ham and maybe a game in London. I can't remember where I stayed last time I was there but it was cheapo and near the Quayside which is where u wanna be.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,464 ✭✭✭evilhomer


    Love to go, but off on holidays that week :(

    We should definately get over to a game soon though.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 680 ✭✭✭Salmon


    Yeah that'd be a bit of craic!! Is it very difficult to get tickets to prem games? If so maybe it might be a bit of craic to organise a boards.ie raiding party over to SJP for the Uefa cup group stages, thats if we make it that far!!!!! I'm think I'm gonna press on an book stuff for the game on the 28th. I'll let ye know how it went!!


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