Dr Gloom 21760 Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 been linked with the mackems hasn't he? i'd take him like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew 4713 Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 To expand on CTs typically informative post, twitter is going slightly berserk with reports that we've had a 4.2 million bid for Micah Richards accepted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 6968 Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 If take him as a CB in a heartbeat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil 6 Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 Going by his own quotes, build a new training pitch. Planning permission has been approved and work starts at the end of this season. For completion by Xmas. Toon stars are set to enjoy new state-of-the-art training facilities to help them compete with Europe’s elite. A new training centre will put the club’s facilities on a par with those enjoyed by top teams such as Arsenal and Manchester City. http://www.nufc.co.uk/articles/20131130/united-announce-new-training-ground-plans_2281670_3555556 http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/newcastle-united-submit-plans-new-6729068 It might go some way to explain why we havent spent the TV money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil 6 Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 permacrock i'd be surprised if he's managed 50games in all comps in the last 3 seasons combined It's a massive concern, which is why I'd be surprised if we signed him. His record wasn't too bad before he lost his place in the team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 34725 Posted August 15, 2014 Share Posted August 15, 2014 Planning permission has been approved and work starts at the end of this season. For completion by Xmas. http://www.nufc.co.uk/articles/20131130/united-announce-new-training-ground-plans_2281670_3555556 http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/newcastle-united-submit-plans-new-6729068 It might go some way to explain why we havent spent the TV money. Stop it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 10674 Posted August 15, 2014 Share Posted August 15, 2014 Ba especially seemed daft to me. We sold for £7m someone we'd have to pay double that to replace BEFORE wages. Why not just give him the wages he's asking for. Of course, we never did replace him so that was why I thought it was fairly well known that Ba had a £7m release clause? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted August 15, 2014 Share Posted August 15, 2014 I thought it was fairly well known that Ba had a £7m release clause?Aye. It didn't stop us trying to renegotiate his contract if anyone triggered it though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 10674 Posted August 15, 2014 Share Posted August 15, 2014 Aye. It didn't stop us trying to renegotiate his contract if anyone triggered it though. Yeah, true, but now it's down to the club's wage structure, ambition and all the other facets that can affect a player agreeing "personal terms". I agree that we should have moved heaven and Earth to keep him, and I think you or I could have convinced him. I've said this plenty, but any one of us could see how to be ambitious AND stay within the financial restrictions that are currently in place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 30167 Posted August 15, 2014 Share Posted August 15, 2014 With Cisse scoring everything he touched the club were never going to really make a big effort to keep Ba. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 21760 Posted August 15, 2014 Share Posted August 15, 2014 wasn't ba the form player of the two when he was sold, with cisse shunted out on the left? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 21760 Posted August 15, 2014 Share Posted August 15, 2014 anyway, the point is we went form a position of relative strength to shola being our second choice striker again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 30167 Posted August 15, 2014 Share Posted August 15, 2014 wasn't ba the form player of the two when he was sold, with cisse shunted out on the left? Aye, I think you're right. It was the opposite at the end of the previous season iirc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brock Manson 0 Posted August 15, 2014 Share Posted August 15, 2014 wasn't ba the form player of the two when he was sold, with cisse shunted out on the left? Ba was shunted on to the left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 21760 Posted August 15, 2014 Share Posted August 15, 2014 Ba was shunted on to the left. Initially he was but wasn't the other way around just before he was sold? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil 6 Posted August 15, 2014 Share Posted August 15, 2014 wasn't ba the form player of the two when he was sold, with cisse shunted out on the left?Yeah, that how i remember it. The point i wanted to make was the club made no effort to remove Ba's contract clause because in the summer Cisse was seen as the better player and everyone knew they couldn't play together. It still seems odd that we didn't go back in for Ba. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayatollah Hermione 13762 Posted August 15, 2014 Share Posted August 15, 2014 Yeah, that how i remember it. The point i wanted to make was the club made no effort to remove Ba's contract clause because in the summer Cisse was seen as the better player and everyone knew they couldn't play together. It still seems odd that we didn't go back in for Ba. Champions league football and a comparable wage packet elsewhere, even if it was in a place like Turkey, Russia etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil 6 Posted August 15, 2014 Share Posted August 15, 2014 (edited) Champions league football and a comparable wage packet elsewhere, even if it was in a place like Turkey, Russia etc. I doubt we went in for him, as i dont think getting tubbed in the Champions League is a bigger draw than the Premiership? Edited August 15, 2014 by Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClubSpinDoctor 0 Posted August 16, 2014 Share Posted August 16, 2014 Extra, extra read all about it! CSD's statement during the club's little transfer flurry that they wouldn't pay the going rate for a proven goalscorer proving to be correct. http://www.shieldsgazette.com/sport/football/pardew-i-ve-no-room-for-another-striker-1-6789111 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 6968 Posted August 16, 2014 Share Posted August 16, 2014 Tbf you simply said we wouldn't sign another striker. And then we signed Chucky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted August 16, 2014 Share Posted August 16, 2014 Hardly Nostradamus like. The stated club policy is not to throw money at "proven" quality. We buy 24/25 year old prospects, sell 28/29 year olds where there's profit to be had. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClubSpinDoctor 0 Posted August 16, 2014 Share Posted August 16, 2014 Tbf you simply said we wouldn't sign another striker. And then we signed Chucky Did I, or did I say "buy"? Then I'd still be right Either way, underwhelming strikers. Mid table looms Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClubSpinDoctor 0 Posted August 16, 2014 Share Posted August 16, 2014 From the Riviere thread Of course you compare him to Remy, he's replacing him in the team. You can bookmark this if you want because I'm telling you now we're not signing a better striker. Janmaat started the first two games for holland, then was dropped. I'm not dismissing him. I'm saying he's not an upgrade on Debuchy. The point I'm making is whether we're better off than how we started last season is so marginal that it's down to opinion, and for me the lack of a goalscorer makes us significantly worse off. It's the area of the team we've needed to strengthen for years but we've actually weakened it, again. You can clutch at straws that we'll sign a proven goalscorer but unless one inexplicably becomes free like Ba or Remy did (ridiculous good fortune) then it won't happen. People can get excited when we've actually made significant moves to strengthen and not just replace. People were going on about how he was a good signing and that we just needed a 'senior' one to come in. I told you's he was as good as it was getting. I was attacked. Time yet like Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adios 717 Posted August 16, 2014 Share Posted August 16, 2014 You come across like you'd rather be right than have a good season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beatty 24 Posted August 16, 2014 Share Posted August 16, 2014 Janmaat was dropped by van Gaal for tactical reasons. Only seen a little of him, but what I saw I liked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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