mike65 wrote: » Did you know Danny Guthrie is out of contract? Be a good player to bring back, better than Spearing....
Sir Gallagher wrote: » Yeah lets get Jon Otsomobor back while we're at it.
monkey9 wrote: » My immediate thought was that it would be Giroud in particular they were looking at. This thought came into my head during the week and i know he's in his thirties now, but we should put a bid in for Di Natale of Udinese. He's exactly what we need, a finisher. He probably wouldn't leave because he seems to genuinely love Udinese and i think even turned down a move to Juventus, but still, we could at least try!
mike65 wrote: » Okay.....the point is getting rid of a very limited player for money and replacing him with a better squad player for nothing.
amiable wrote: » I don't personally think it was Olivier Giroud that Kenny was looking at. I think it was Sissoko, Capoue, Abdennour or Yanga-Mbiwa
Kess73 wrote: » Would hope that he was looking at Belhanda as well. We simply don't have as good a midfielder of his ilk in the squad. Newcastle got Cabaye after he had an excellent season for the team, Lille, that had just won the French league and I reckon Belhanda would be gettable. With two years left on his contract Montpellier might well want to cash in on him. The club president has already stated to the press last month that he would consider selling the player this summer and he stated that £15m would be the price clubs would have to come in at for the player. Getting a player like Belhanda for anything between £15m and £20m would be a great bit of business imho. He only turned 22 this year and is already looking like a player with years more experience. Plus his technical ability and reading of the game is already excellent.
Kess73 wrote: » Very debatable. Since Newcastle came back to the EPL he has been very much a fourth or fifth choice midfielder for them. He pretty much has the same role in the Newcastle squad as Spearing does in the Liverpool one. He is as far behind Tiote in the Newcastle squad in terms of ability as Spearing is behind Lucas. Nowt more than an EPL squad player or a decent Championship player at best. No better than Spearing in terms of ability. Doubt we would get very much at all if we sold Spearing in the morning, so the move would make no sense for me.
amiable wrote: » I'd hope Liverpool are in for Giroud and Belhanda but I just get the feeling they will both go to Champions league football. Giroud in particular looks like the type of player Bayern Munich could snap up IMO
G.K. wrote: » Guthrie, over the season, has firmly been 1st choice for Newcastle if either Cabaye or Tiote aren't available. He's put in a number of excellent shifts for them this year. Spearing might be a tad better defensively but Guthrie is far superior in all other areas of the game.
Hoki wrote: » Bolands Jaffa Cakes are firmly my first choice after Jacobs & McVities. Basically they're my third choice
Hoki wrote: » I have no idea who he is & upon googling him im glad i didn't!
Kess73 wrote: » RTE used to give out viewing figures that were amazingly accurate. Figures like 749,354. Amazing accuracy right down to exact viewing figures that countries with much more modern (and close to fully digital) set ups could not match or verify to the same level. Then again Ireland has a great history of honest reports at the highest levels so I would assume that the National broadcaster would have the same high and honest standards.
amiable wrote: » Marko Marin who's been linked to Liverpool before is rumoured to be going to Chelsea next season with Lukaku going on loan to Werder Bremen as part of the deal.
amiable wrote: » Automatically thought of Willie John Boland there
mormank wrote: » Maybe someone just figured out early that if you give a figure ending with odd numbers as opposed to ending in 000 that people will believe it easier i.e. 456,761 is more believeable than 456,700. I always wondered what costitues a viewer in those polls anyway? If I flick through and watch the Late Late for 2 mins during the ad of whatever show I'm watching do I become a statistic for the Late Late? How long do I need to watch before I do??
Turtyturd wrote: » On a serious note if the 8 million pound fee being reported for Marin is genuine, it makes you want to bang your head against the wall.
mike65 wrote: » If you possessed a measuring box, 15 minutes.
Kess73 wrote: » So what you are saying is that he is first choice if the players ahead of him are injured. Last season he was behind Tiote, Nolan, and Barton. This season he has been behind Tiote, Cabaye and has been scrapping with the likes of Gosling for the back up slot. If Tiote had not had time out injured this season then I reckon that Guthrie would have got nowhere near the 19 games in all comps that he got. Even last season without Cabaye being at the club Guthrie only managed 14 games in all comps. He is a back up player for Newcastle and saying that he is a first choice player if the real first chicers are out just confirms that really. Liverpool have enough by way of average midfielders who are squad level rather than first team level right now to want another squad level player to further drag the midfield options down.
