Summer 2015 Transfer Window General Discussion

That_Guy

Done deal.

Florian Thauvin arrives at Newcastle for a reported £12m deal. Not exactly what we badly need but is certainly an upgrade on the quite frankly, useless Yoan Gouffran.

Welcome to the mad house.

ctrl-alt-delete

That_Guy wrote: »

Done deal.

Florian Thauvin arrives at Newcastle for a reported £12m deal. Not exactly what we badly need but is certainly an upgrade on the quite frankly, useless Yoan Gouffran.

Welcome to the mad house.

Promising signing, Is Cabella going to be loaned out the other way?

They badly need defensive minded recruits now.

eh i dunno

ctrl-alt-delete wrote: »

Promising signing, Is Cabella going to be loaned out the other way?

They badly need defensive minded recruits now.

Yep cabella gone on loan for the season

That_Guy

ctrl-alt-delete wrote: »

Promising signing, Is Cabella going to be loaned out the other way?

They badly need defensive minded recruits now.

Yeah pal, Cabella gone the other way. To be honest, it's no great loss. He was muck for us last season. Full of step-overs and very little else. Ok, it was a bad season with nobody performing well but when we signed him to be our creative hope, we got nothing in return.

He'll certainly go next window.

I don't know anything about him other than some articles claiming he's promising. Others claiming that he has an attitude problem.

I'll wait and see.

As for defensive players. We've been saying this for years. Williamson and Steven Taylor are simply not good enough anymore particularly the former.

Coloccini is past his best and should be nowhere near the club given how he's pretty much held the club at ransom.

I don't think we've had a bad transfer window but if we're left bare at the back, I fear for us and will be a big test of McClaren's coaching skills.

Wilberto

That_Guy wrote: »

Yeah pal, Cabella gone the other way. To be honest, it's no great loss. He was muck for us last season. Full of step-overs and very little else. Ok, it was a bad season with nobody performing well but when we signed him to be our creative hope, we got nothing in return.

He'll certainly go next window.

I don't know anything about him other than some articles claiming he's promising. Others claiming that he has an attitude problem.

I'll wait and see.

As for defensive players. We've been saying this for years. Williamson and Steven Taylor are simply not good enough anymore particularly the former.

Coloccini is past his best and should be nowhere near the club given how he's pretty much held the club at ransom.

I don't think we've had a bad transfer window but if we're left bare at the back, I fear for us and will be a big test of McClaren's coaching skills.

Any chance of Mclaren signing Richard Keogh from Derby? Or is that just me hoping that we'll get another Irish centre back playing in the Premier League?! :pac:

That_Guy

Wilberto wrote: »

Any chance of Mclaren signing Richard Keogh from Derby? Or is that just me hoping that we'll get another Irish centre back playing in the Premier League?! :pac:

I hope not!!

Paully D

Surprised Newcastle haven't put more focus on the defensive side of the pitch but they have made some cracking signings this summer. Must be nice to have ambition.

That_Guy

Paully D wrote: »

Surprised Newcastle haven't put more focus on the defensive side of the pitch but they have made some cracking signings this summer. Must be nice to have ambition.

Ambition on paper sure but keeping with the same defence that leaked tons of goals last season is a dangerous move in my opinion.

Everybody can see how poor we are at the back and nothing has been done to rectify that.

I'm amazed that the club have gone out and spent 50m this window but we're glaringly lightweight at the back and have been for many many years now.

yabadabado

If Newcastle can get in two good defensive players they will have the bones of a good side.Without improvement at the back its gonna be a long hard season for them,no matter the good attacking players they have signed.

Left Back on the Bench

Harry Palmr wrote:

Utd will make a huge stupid offer for Kane, you watch. Spurs will ponder it and say yes for about 40m and then get Berahino for 25m

And still only be left with 1 striker

Christy Browne

Magico Gonzalez wrote: »

Are we all going to pretend that we've been watching Sadio Mané for a while now? I doubt many here have done more than go straight to Google to find out something about the lad.

What? He plays for Southampton. The way you're going on you'd swear he was some unknown from the Ukrainian League.

astonaidan

Ive seen a lot of place people saying Pedro is in decline and the reasoning given that hes lost his place in the Barca team last year, hes back up to 3 of the top 10 players in the world, how are people missing this, would have been a great signing for United and Chelsea have got a bargain at what they payed.

RedemptionZ

astonaidan wrote: »

Ive seen a lot of place people saying Pedro is in decline and the reasoning given that hes lost his place in the Barca team last year, hes back up to 3 of the top 10 players in the world, how are people missing this, would have been a great signing for United and Chelsea have got a bargain at what they payed.

He's a good footballer but doesn't have that much pace for a winger and at 28 that's only going to get worse, I'd imagine he'll be pretty underwhelming, though not as bad as a complete failure that some are predicting.

astonaidan

RedemptionZ wrote: »

He's a good footballer but doesn't have that much pace for a winger and at 28 that's only going to get worse, I'd imagine he'll be pretty underwhelming, though not as bad as a complete failure that some are predicting.

Never really saw him as a speedy winger, more the type who has a great football brain sort of player, who mata would have and fabergas will really enjoy playing with

RedemptionZ

astonaidan wrote: »

Never really saw him as a speedy winger, more the type who has a great football brain sort of player, who mata would have and fabergas will really enjoy playing with

I don't think he ever relied on pace per se, but it never does any harm to have it. You might be right though.

Giggsy11

Left Back on the Bench wrote: »

And still only be left with 1 striker

We already have 2 strikers in the squad. Rooney and Hernandez.

Doff

Giggsy11 wrote: »

We already have 2 strikers in the squad. Rooney and Hernandez.

Helen Keller would be better up front than Rooney at the moment. Didn't realize Pedro was 28, still a very clever player who would have done very well at United in my opinion. Interesting to see how he will fit in at Chelsea.

Giggsy11

Doff wrote: »

Helen Keller would be better up front than Rooney at the moment. .

OK..

Neamhshuntasach

Otamendi confirmed to Man City.

https://twitter.com/MCFC/status/634289005593522176

Paully D

Jonathan de Guzman off to Sunderland, according to Sky Italia. Loan with a £3.5m obligation to buy at the end.

Reports of Marseille interest too so it's difficult to see it happening unfortunately.

Alfred Borden

That would be a great signing for Sunderland.

Left Back on the Bench

Giggsy11 wrote:

We already have 2 strikers in the squad. Rooney and Hernandez.

Was talking about spurs

Beefy78

Doff wrote: »

Helen Keller would be better up front than Rooney at the moment.

No she wouldn't.

x43r0

Doff wrote: »

Helen Keller would be better up front than Rooney at the moment.

Beefy78 wrote: »

No she wouldn't.

Hyperbole (/haɪˈpɜrbəliː/ hy-PUR-bə-lee; Greek: ὑπερβολή, hyperbolē, lit. "exaggeration") is the use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech.

Cantona's Collars

It's official,Pedro has joined Chelsea,

https://twitter.com/ChelseaFC/status/634334256710467585

rob316

Bids for Mane and Wanyama, Southampton could probably pocket £50m (another huge profit) but they would be foolish to sell. They got away with it last season and arguably improved but they have lost some key defensive players this summer in Clyne, Schneiderlin and Toby Aldweireld (a loan I know but they did try to buy him).

They have a very good manager but there's only so much chopping and changing his ability can cope with.

marklazarcovic

pedro is a great signing for chelsea,he's only 'in decline' because he didnt sign for utd as expected,better than willian and curdrado for sure. would have loved him in a red shirt at anfield.

marklazarcovic

marklazarcovic wrote: »

pedro is a great signing for chelsea,he's only 'in decline' because he didnt sign for utd as expected,better than willian and curdrado for sure. would have loved him in a red shirt at anfield.

Who's said he's in decline?

CSF

marklazarcovic wrote: »

pedro is a great signing for chelsea,he's only 'in decline' because he didnt sign for utd as expected,better than willian and curdrado for sure. would have loved him in a red shirt at anfield.

Willian is heavily underrated. Much more suited to Mourinho's style too. But it doesn't have to be an either/or in any case. Both players have a non-starring role to play in the Chelsea squad. Chelsea's primary strengths last season was probably the supporting cast (maybe I'm going too far with my movie comparisons here) in any case.

I don't see Pedro being able to make the same impact as a Hazard, Suarez, Aguero, Sanchez, but Chelsea have Hazard to be the main man anyway. Pedro will do a good job in easing the goal burden on Hazard and Costa which is something Willian doesn't really provide himself.

I did tbf, Arsenal fan though.