Duff set to leave Newcastle in summer after disappointing spell

[Fop 1]

I really think his pre and early Chelsea days are behind him now. I thought it was worthwhile keeping him to see if it could regain it as his initial season with us was blighted with injury, but it is looking like that injury at Chelsea took a LOT off him and maybe the ones here haven't helped. Looking a bit like another Carr maybe.

[Tooj 17]

I really think his pre and early Chelsea days are behind him now. I thought it was worthwhile keeping him to see if it could regain it as his initial season with us was blighted with injury, but it is looking like that injury at Chelsea took a LOT off him and maybe the ones here haven't helped. Looking a bit like another Carr maybe.

He's got no stamina now and that explosiveness he once had is just gone. He's still got the technique and everything but those other attributes were key as combined with that technique it made him what he was.

[trophyshy 7094]

was the 'spell' wishing for a bumper potato harvest and a good long snooze?

[Fop 1]

I really think his pre and early Chelsea days are behind him now. I thought it was worthwhile keeping him to see if it could regain it as his initial season with us was blighted with injury, but it is looking like that injury at Chelsea took a LOT off him and maybe the ones here haven't helped. Looking a bit like another Carr maybe.

He's got no stamina now and that explosiveness he once had is just gone. He's still got the technique and everything but those other attributes were key as combined with that technique it made him what he was.

 

Yeah, in his first season here it was hard to judge as he was repeatedly and eventually badly injured and never got a spell where he was genuinely match fit or playing for any period, but it does just seem now that physically he's lost a bit and there's not enough there to reinvent in another role (as Owen has been), even if he gets more form/match practice back.

 

In all honesty buying Chelsea (or more specifically Mourinho) rejects doesn't seem like a great idea, he clearly knows when to get shot.

[sammynb 3640]

If we were to keep him, he might make a decent LB but at the over inflated wage he's on the club would be smart to try and get some money back for him.

Maybe they should be looking at touting him to Celtic.

[MrBass 2811]

Personally I'd rather we held onto him until after we'd signed his replacement. But then that wouldn't be the Newcastle way would it!

[sweetleftpeg 0]

Lost the ability to beat a man after his injury and as a consequence this has fucked his confidence. Will end up being a cracking signing for a Wolves or someone I reckon.

[Scottish Mag 3]

FORMER NEWCASTLE United skipper Mick Martin today revealed how he expects Damien Duff to stay on Tyneside and fight for his future.

 

The player was widely tipped to quit the club after putting his house on the market.

 

Yet Martin – who is coaching the player in Portugal with the Republic of Ireland – feels he is ready for another campaign with United.

 

Duff has said that he wants Newcastle to be his final club after a glittering career with Blackburn and Chelsea.

 

And despite injury problems and loss of form, Duff will be the first to put his hands up and say the move hasn’t worked out the way anybody wanted.

 

Yet Martin said today from Eire’s Portuguese training camp: “He looks great in training over here and there are two games coming up for him to get his teeth into.

 

“We’ve got a game against Serbia at Croke Park on Saturday and then Colombia at Craven Cottage.

 

“So he’ll be involved there.

 

“He hasn’t been involved at Newcastle but, knowing Damien, he won’t sit back.

 

“He’s a lad who will work hard and try to get his form going.

 

“I think his plan is to stick in at Newcastle.

 

“Whether he plays or not is solely down to Kevin Keegan, and up until the last game he didn’t play too much.

 

“That was down to the formation in which Mark Viduka, Oba Martins and Michael Owen were the front three which doesn’t leave much on the table if you are a winger, so it’s not just Damien.

 

“Any player who is a winger will suffer in that situation.

 

“Personally I don’t think Newcastle will play like that week in, week out.

 

“There’ll be competition for places and Damien can concentrate on getting a good run.”

 

Martin is a coach for Eire boss Giovanni Trapattoni’s side who are now preparing for next autumn’s World Cup qualifiers after failing to make it to Euro 2008.

 

But while international clashes this weekend dominate the global picture, Newcastle have failed to stay out of the national headlines following Joey Barton’s prison ordeal.

 

Martin says: “Nobody at the club likes the situation.

 

“And nobody wants to be at Her Majesty’s pleasure, but you always felt that’s how this sentence was going to be.

 

“At the end of the day it doesn’t matter if you are Joey Barton or Joe Soap, you can’t act like that in public and get away with it.

 

“I’m sure Joey will get on with it. Six months will be tough but it will come and go.

 

“It’s not nice, and Joey won’t be happy, but it’s very simple.

 

“As a footballer, you have to set an example and live by the rules.

 

“If you are a footballer and you don’t, you are vulnerable.

 

“Joey will just have to serve his time.”

[spongebob toonpants 4183]

At the end of the day it doesn’t matter if you are Joey Barton or Joe Soap

[sammynb 3640]

At the end of the day it doesn’t matter if you are Joey Barton or Joe Soap

 

If Barton drops it in the shower he will be Joe Soap!

 

As for Duff, fuck off to Celtic will you.