Summer Transfers 2013

[ChezGiven 0]

Not much and as I've said it's all relative. I wonder what will happen to Gomis.

[LooneyToony 41]

How many more ways can Mike Ashely fuck over the fans? Change the club name from Newcastle to Cockney something or other?

[Ayatollah Hermione 13863]

Not sure out posts are inconsistent. We buy in the winter as its easier to judge if money is needed to coast along. To be fair, the squad is better than last September. So is everyone else's obviously.

 

Think that strategy is asking for trouble tbh. The fifth placed finish was built on a good start brought on by signing the likes of Ba and Cabaye early. Granted, Cisse helped a lot in January but that's how clubs shooting for Europe each season operate. I know you're not defending it btw.

 

I think the first XI is stronger (with Marveaux, Steven Taylor, Anita as your subs to make it 14) but after that, I think we're poor. Players like Simpson and Perch were at least dependable, solid options and we lack those decent hands now. Dan Gosling is ineffectual a central midfielder as we'll ever have.

[Phil 6]

Is January 13 not a special case because of a possible relegation threatening Ashley's asset? If we're operating on the idea that is being floated around regarding Ashley hoping to coast along and profit along the way?

January windows are fairly productive for us. worth noting Cissé & Debuchy were both summer targets we put off until the January window.

 

2010: Williamson, Routledge, Simpson

2011: Ben Arfa*, Ireland

2012: Cissé

2013: Debuchy, Mbiwa, Gouffran, Haidara, Sissoko

 

*made permanent

[Ayatollah Hermione 13863]

January windows are fairly productive for us. worth noting Cissé & Debuchy were both summer targets we put off until the January window.

 

2010: Williamson, Routledge, Simpson

2011: Ben Arfa*, Ireland

2012: Cissé

2013: Debuchy, Mbiwa, Gouffran, Haidara, Sissoko

 

*made permanent

 

The special case was in the money we spent. Had we been relatively safe, I'd have argued it was only Debuchy that would have came in. Maybe Sissoko's contract situation would have seen him come in too. Obviously, we don't know anything, mind.

Edited September 2, 2013 by Ayatollah Hermione

[Phil 6]

The special case was in the money we spent. Had we been relatively safe, I'd have argued it was only Debuchy that would have came in. Maybe Sissoko's contract situation would have seen him come in too. Obviously, we don't know anything, mind.

Agreed.

 

Sissoko was all set for a pre-contract, but we moved it forward. I vaguely remember his club having a moan about it.

 

http://www.espn.co.uk/football/sport/story/190169.html

[S-I-S-S-O-K-O 0]

We buy in January because the season ticket cancellations are in February.

[Park Life 71]

Got to hand it to Ashley he's like a Colonel Kurtz at the end of a long dark river. His thinking is pure and crystalline. Summer spends? Nah.

[ewerk 30599]

Sissoko and Gouffran were the only two targets we brought forward in January?

[OTF 7295]

Can someone please collate quotes from the club/Pardew/Kinnear regarding our transfer intentions and dealings in the summer and arm a credible journalist with them.

[ewerk 30599]

I'd guess that any credible journalists are already close to the final draft of their Kinnear assassination.

[OTF 7295]

I'd guess that any credible journalists are already close to the final draft of their Kinnear assassination.

If we're deemed to be worthy of the bother.

[Monroe Transfer 0]

How many more ways can Mike Ashely fuck over the fans? Change the club name from Newcastle to Cockney something or other?

 

Not sure why he'd do that, given he isn't from London...

 

[OTF 7295]

He's not from Mongolia either, yet he's carrying on like a right mong.

[toonotl 2978]

No surprises then.

 

JFK can fuck off then considering he has accomplished exactly nothing since being brought in.

 

Trot on now John Kinnary.

[ewerk 30599]

When things are so shit that even Derek Llambias is jumping ship then you know you're in trouble.

[Kitman 2204]

Since no new striker has been brought in we're massively reliant on the form and fitness of the rapist. Shola is a sub at best and gouffran is a support striker. We can't rely on hba to score wonder goals each week and cisse is also out of form. Myopic transfer policy imo.

[Christmas Tree 4725]

When things are so shit that even Derek Llambias is jumping ship then you know you're in trouble.

[PaddockLad 17252]

We buy in January because the season ticket cancellations are in February.

 

There may be more than a grain of truth in this

 

I'd guess that any credible journalists are already close to the final draft of their Kinnear assassination.

 

They'd be missing the point though. Ultimately its not Kinnear's money and if he'd turned round to Ashley and said "we need four players priced 5-10 million each Mike" it wouldnt have made a blind bit of difference.

[aimaad22 4156]

All the idiots saying we did our summer spending in January, yes we did, but it was the previous summers' spending not this one ffs.

[aimaad22 4156]

Even bloody West Brom finally managed to shell out some cash.

[PaddockLad 17252]

All the idiots saying we did our summer spending in January, yes we did, but it was the previous summers' spending not this one ffs.

 

Not sure if thats actually true. We get what we get, I dont think there are any hard and fast rules as such. We've spent in the previous two January windows, both for completely different reasons.

[aimaad22 4156]

Whatever.

I think this is the proper way to close this thread and sum up everyone's feelings:

 

[Dr Gloom 21915]

As predicted, Pardew had been royally stitched up for the second summer running. Our second string is appalling. We're a couple of injuries away from another relegation battle. It's going to be another long, hard season.

[Anorthernsoul 1221]

When you've got Joe Kinnear turning up to a club to negotiate a transfer, can anyone blame a player for not wanting to sign for us?