Scottish Mag 3 Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 Newcastle are considering challenging Sunderland and several other English rivals for Celtic star Shaun Maloney. The Scotland international is in a contract stand-off at Parkhead and will be free to talk to other clubs in the New Year. And with little prospect of Celtic agreeing to Maloney's estimated £20,000-a-week wage demands, the pressure will be on them to sell him in January. Maloney's ability to play up front, in the hole or out wide is highly rated by teams South of the border. "Shaun knows Newcastle are interested, as is Roy Keane at Sunderland," a source close to 23-year-old Maloney told the Sunday Sun. "There's been talk of Aston Villa coming in - probably due to Martin O'Neill knowing Shaun from his days at Celtic - but we've heard nothing about that." Meanwhile, Atletico Madrid are the latest club to consider taking Newcastle's Albert Luque back to Spain in January. Injuries to Maxi and Martin Petrov have left Atletico short of attacking options and pondering signing Luque, if only on loan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJ 0 Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 We could do a lot lot worse than Shaun Maloney. He's a very good player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottish Mag 3 Posted November 19, 2006 Author Share Posted November 19, 2006 We could do a lot lot worse than Shaun Maloney. He's a very good player. However he is another lightweight shortarse. What with Baba, Carr, Emre, Solano, Martins, Dyer, Owen and Duff we really could do with some height in the team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJS 4456 Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 Don't know who he is tbh but that is a classic story placed by his agent to get the pay rise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baggio 0 Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 We could do a lot lot worse than Shaun Maloney. He's a very good player. However he is another lightweight shortarse. What with Baba, Carr, Emre, Solano, Martins, Dyer, Owen and Duff we really could do with some height in the team. We really need two strikers coming in anyway, it's possible that Luque will be sold and Rossi not extending his loan which will leave us with Martins and Sibierski up top, you can add Dyer to that if he can maintain his fitness. Bringing in Maloney on the cheap would be smart business from us, as long as we still bring in someone else who is capable of holding the ball up up front. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooj 17 Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 Didn't he get SPL Player Of The Year last season? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
menace13 0 Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 Good player and for 500k, it's a steal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brock Manson 0 Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 Shite on FM2007 tbh. 18 for free kicks though. Glenn's been on pro-zone again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottish Mag 3 Posted November 19, 2006 Author Share Posted November 19, 2006 We could do a lot lot worse than Shaun Maloney. He's a very good player. However he is another lightweight shortarse. What with Baba, Carr, Emre, Solano, Martins, Dyer, Owen and Duff we really could do with some height in the team. We really need two strikers coming in anyway, it's possible that Luque will be sold and Rossi not extending his loan which will leave us with Martins and Sibierski up top, you can add Dyer to that if he can maintain his fitness. Bringing in Maloney on the cheap would be smart business from us, as long as we still bring in someone else who is capable of holding the ball up up front. Whilst I agree, if he was to give us options up front, he has played most of his games over the last couple of years down the left flank. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo 175 Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 Didn't he get SPL Player Of The Year last season? Players player of the year and Young player of the year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 31657 Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 Celtic must be fucking stupid not to give him £20k pw if those figures are accurate, how much will they have to spend to replace him? Cutting of their nose tbh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@yourservice 67 Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 Maloney's ability to play up front, in the hole or out wide is highly rated by teams South of the border Can we not just go for a player who sticks to the one position,maybe we would find out just which direction the team would be going then?Sick of the one out and one in carry on aswell.Buying players just to cover injurys when we need to be buying to cover the shite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matty 0 Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 Wouldn't be surprised if this was made up by an agent to assure his client gets his new and improved contract. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottish Mag 3 Posted November 19, 2006 Author Share Posted November 19, 2006 Also with the exception of last year his injury record is pretty absymal and even this season he has struggled for fitness, this being one of the key reasons Celtic will not be held to ransom for funny money. Celtic must be fucking stupid not to give him £20k pw if those figures are accurate, how much will they have to spend to replace him? Cutting of their nose tbh. Well they do not seem to be doing to badly without him this year as he has not played that much of a part this year and even when he has, including yesterday, he has contributed very little. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Kenneth Noisewater 0 Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 Not seen much of Maloney, but I think Kris Boyd from Rangers would be of more use to us. Scores plenty of goals, but Le Guen keeps dropping him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ally 0 Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 Is he a striker? I've heard of him, thats about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fop 1 Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 Also with the exception of last year his injury record is pretty absymal and even this season he has struggled for fitness, this being one of the key reasons Celtic will not be held to ransom for funny money. Should fit right in at NUFC then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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