ewerk 31195 Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 So with an extra £30m in TV money, £20m for Cabaye and having bought nobody we should be showing a very healthy profit by the end of the season. I think that's the important thing to take out of all this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 43063 Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 How did CT feel when we sold Waddle, Beardsley and Gascoigne? Even when you spend every penny of a big fee, (and who says we will), for one of your top players there's no guarantee the side will be improved. Who? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OTF 7485 Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Are you telling me you'd swap a 24 hour Tesco for the champs elysees? That would depend whose wage I was on! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 22143 Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Nufc.com capturing the mood (other than CT's) perfectly Departure: Cabaye: au Revoir Reports circulating on Monday evening that a revised bid of an undisclosed value from PSG for Yohan Cabaye was accepted by Newcastle have now been confirmed. The player will now leave the United squad preparing for Tuesday's match at Norwich to undergo a medical before signing on the dotted line at Parc des Princes. Cabaye is in line to debut at home to Bordeaux on Friday evening and should make a return to Champions League action midway through next month, when PSG face Bayer Leverkusen in the first leg of their last 16 tie. What proved to be Yohan's final action as a Magpie came at Upton Park on January 18th, an added time free kick hitting the net for his 18th Toon goal in his 93rd game. Tragic and inevitable in equal measure, Cabaye's exit is the latest manifestation of our declared policy to buy players, increase their market value and sell for profit. That's a bigger version of Crewe Alexandra's vision - but lacking any elements of success, ambition or silverware. Keeping hold of Cabaye in August was a genuine plus, his goals and general play instrumental in our current top ten placing. Where we'd be without him is unthinkable. Like the Carroll sale, the supporters become victims of his success. The points earned via him have propelled us to a place of safety now - meaning that he can be cashed in on with no threat to our top-flight status and the rest of the season can be written off as a non-event. They may have more time than when Andy Carroll left in 2011, but whether United have the ability and desire to sign a replacement this week remains to be seen. Given previous experience you'd think not, on the basis that we're not in the perilous situation of a year ago and there's therefore no need to actually spend any cash on a permanent signing. It's debatable whether a loan would even be sanctioned by this mob, if they think we can muddle on until the summer with what we've got. Quite what effect this has on United's French contingent (in particular Mathieu Debuchy) is another imponderable, but in it immediately hands Hatem Ben Arfa a route back into the side and sees messrs Obertan and Marveaux undeservedly edge back into the first team picture. Whether overseas players (and their agents) now view Newcastle as a valid career move in the light of Cabaye's elevation at both club and international level is one line of thinking, but that edges further towards the football mercenary scenario and relies on the scouting network continually sifting out chancers like Xisco from talents. Cabaye isn't the first and certainly won't be the last fan favourite to leave, but in terms of replacing optimism with disillusionment for another generation his absence will be keenly felt. No player is bigger than the club, but there's a void that needs to be filled very urgently. The only slight benefit is that he's not remained in the Premier League, thus making it easier for us to "move on".... The wisdom of building a successful team round a strong spine becomes ever more difficult to apply when looking at our current squad - and this summer looks like being among the busiest for years in terms of player exits. The unrelenting diet of disappointment that Newcastle supporters are fed shows no sign of altering, but while this remains a one club city, its fan base is no longer as stoic or steadfast as it once was. Estranged, perhaps. "Good business" then we'll doubtless be told, but another one those invisible threads connecting fans to their club has been severed when the proceeds are just trousered. Sadly, it becomes ever more justifiable for fans to also decide that it's "good business" for them not to buy tickets - not just for meaningless cup ties, but for what are meaningless league games. Presumably the players would be fined for finishing in a European spot. There comes a point when people say "why bother" to financially or emotionally back a club whose deliberate policy is not to achieve anything of worth on the field. Selling your best player - again - is a neat way of highlighting that policy. Alan Pardew quotes, Monday: "We know there’s a club interested in him, and they’re a very wealthy club and a powerful club. We’re doing our best to protect Newcastle. He’s worth more than £14million, but the conversations are going above me at owner level (surely he meant Director of Football??) “We’ve informed the club concerned that we need time to sign a replacement and we’re very conscious of that. There’s a price tag on everybody’s head, and it needs to be the right price that works for this club. “I’d be foolish if I didn’t have a plan to deal with him going. We have. But until such time that a deal is agreed, we can’t put a bid of our own in. You’re talking to someone who lost Andy Carroll with about eight hours to go so am I confident? No. “I do think that the team, the coaching staff and myself have got him into a great position because we have given him a different role this season. He’s a vital cog in our system. I think that has boosted his profile and his valuation. Will he get that role at a different club? I don’t know. “The timing is unfortunate, but we are vulnerable. If you’re going to bring players to a club like this and you’re saying to them that you want to break into Champions League football, you will attract better players like that, but you’re more likely to lose them if you’re not in the Champions League. "We didn't have 36 points when we lost Andy Carroll, so it was a hell of a blow (we had 30 points but were a place higher, in seventh. Wolves stayed up with 40). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 43063 Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 "Who ordered a kebab to go, peeps?"/Stavros http://www.toontastic.net/board/topic/33935-yohan-cabaye/?p=1254718 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitman 2207 Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 (edited) So with an extra £30m in TV money, £20m for Cabaye and having bought nobody we should be showing a very healthy profit by the end of the season. I think that's the important thing to take out of all this. Fantastic! It's like winning the Cup! Edited January 28, 2014 by Kitman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 22143 Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Why not keep hold of him until we sign a replacement? Because Ashley only cares about money, not success on the field. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitman 2207 Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Why not keep hold of him until we sign a replacement? Because Ashley only cares about money, not success on the field. What replacement? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 46020 Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 People, grow up please and resist the urge to respond. It's exactly what he's looking for. If you keep serving it up the greedy glutton will keep gobbling it down and we'll get more of the same from him ad nauseum as he tries to feed his swelling hunger. Aye unfortunately times like these are CT's favourite times supporting the club cos everyone is united in annoyance, and he gets to play Devil's Dickhead. He'll be on here more often than normal if people continue to give him what he wants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 22143 Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Devil's dickhead, Boldon's buttered slice, Weightwatchers' wanker, taxi driving tit, cuntish cabbie, Ashley apologist arsehole Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 31195 Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Why not keep hold of him until we sign a replacement? Because Ashley only cares about money, not success on the field. As Pardew has stated, we aren't allowed to place any bids until the Qatari money is in the bank. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
essembeeofsunderland 811 Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Does it still take 3 working days for a ( Qatari ) cheque to clear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christmas Tree 4821 Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Are you trying to insinuate Cabaye's move cementing our status as a stepping stone/selling club is a good thing? Football genius It's a good thing given that's the business plan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christmas Tree 4821 Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Cos it really is that easy to replace him folks That's what they said about Nolan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toonotl 3106 Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Right on cue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 46020 Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Sssshhhhhhhhh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trooper 940 Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Papiss Cisse can leave Newcastle for £6million this summer. The striker has a buy-out clause that is set to be activated in July. Qatar Stars League clubs are chasing Cisse, 28, who is out of form and favour on Tyneside. Al-Rayyan lead the race and the Senegal international – still with three-and-a-half years left on his contract – is understood to be keen to go to the Arab state. Newcastle wanted to swap Cisse for Borussia Monchengladbach’s Holland striker Luuk de Jong. But Cisse, who Toon signed from Freiburg two years ago, has no interest in a return to Germany. The Magpies, though, still have de Jong, 23, on their radar. Check out all the latest News, Sport & Celeb gossip at Mirror.co.uk Follow us: @DailyMirror on Twitter | DailyMirror on Facebook His buy out clause could be activated in the summer "step up Mr Cisse you might be next" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howmanheyman 33827 Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 That's what they said about Nolan We sold Gazza, Goddard and McDonald, (Not Supermac ), probably our best three players the season we finished eighth in the league. Spent the majority of the money and promptly finished 20th the season after and relegated. In a perfect World you become a stronger side in this situation but it mostly doesn't work out this way. Let's hope they have plenty of inside info on (good) players with clauses in their contracts as this is the only we can progress from here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toonotl 3106 Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 We don't need to 'hope'. We've got Joe Fucking Kinnear. All hope is lost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
essembeeofsunderland 811 Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 If Cabaye does go i cannot see us beating the makems Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 31195 Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 What a shock that that is your first thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 There will be lots of players similar to Cabaye when he joined us who are not yet wanted by a CL club but will look at How Cabaye joining Newcastle has led to a big money move to PSG at the top of his game. Agents will be lining them up to come here. Cabaye was already at a Champions league club. He'd just won the league/cup double when we bought him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 In the last 10 games our short passes per game have dropped below 300 in one game, the average being 398. Southampton (285), which Cabaye sat out. We average almost 50 less short passes per game in the 3 games he's missed than in the 19 games he's played. HOOF!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
essembeeofsunderland 811 Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 And for you to reply Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitman 2207 Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 We don't really need statistics to appreciate what we've lost…... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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