Newcastle Thread

Must be watching Charles N'Zogbia. We've got Villa in a few days and a loanee at Bradford, Curtis Good.


Bit strange we Newcastle didn't announce Hairrera signing and do a joint photo thing. That deal was rumoured to be completed earlier today.

http://www.themag.co.uk/the-mag-articles/what-happened-when-i-bumped-into-nile-ranger-last-saturday-night/

My hatred for that fucking moron just continues to increase.

He says he'll play for England one day too

Nile Ranger is top draw. Love him.

Fucking prat is what he is.

Nile Ranger is the total package.

Nile Ranger is the total package.

Nile Ranger is 100% correct in everything he has said regarding Newcastle.

Ranger comes across as a complete cunthive who seems completely disinterested. Sell sell sell.

How does he look uninterested? He's played about 20mins in the past year. And in a couple of cameos he's looked quite lively. And by 'having
a go' at fans, that at least he shows he cares.

I agree he's a prat and maybe he should have been released for his off the field activities, but we kept Joey Barton for four years.

And that guy is shouting at someone he doesn't even know in a takeaway in front of his wife and is claiming the moral high ground? Shows how fans think.

Interesting read, and very well put here in particular:

I wasn't posting it because I agree with what he said - I was posting it because Nile Ranger believes he'll play for England

His record for us is 2 goals in 52 games - both of which came in the Championship.

My dead dog could probably score more than that ffs.

San Lorenzo have announced that they won't be signing Coloccini.

Great news.

I get he might want a return to Buenos Aires, but why does it have to be San Lorenzo?

What difference is San Lorenzo to Boca/River/Velez/Argentinos etc. considering he's not moving for financial or footballing reasons, but strictly for geography.

Wasn't his father involved in the taking over of San Lorenzo or something?

He's a youth coach or something I think. I can see why that would make San Lorenzo a preferred destination, but it's often reported like San Lorenzo is the important bit of the deal, rather than going to Buenos Aires.

His first loan spell from Milan was there - maybe something to do with it?

He's a San Lorenzo fan. He's not going to move to one of the other grandes and the likes of Vélez and Argentinos can't/won't buy him.

Why not?

I'm guessing there's a really, really intense rivalry, but he wants to move their for personal reasons. I'm guessing that Buenos Aires clubs must swap players regularly because there's loads of them.

Because the five grandes are rivals (even if San Lorenzo aren't direct rivals to Boca/River/Racing/Independiente) and as I said before, he's a San Lorenzo fan. He clearly has a degree of fondness for Newcastle, it seems unlikely he's going to fuck over Newcastle so he can get paid fuck all (pretty much every Argentine club is poor) for a team he doesn't like.

And players do move between Buenos Aires clubs - but that's only because 3/4 of the league are from B.A. - big-names like Coloccini don't move between clubs like that, most big-names get sold abroad. The closest I can think of in recent times is Mauro Camoranesi leaving Lanús for Racing and they aren't even rivals. Most of the older Argentine players returning make a point of going to their club, Maxi Rodriguez and Newell's or David Trezeguet and River for example.

Jimmy Kebe

According to Toulouse, you've signed Moussa Sissoko. For a stupidly small fee too, from what I've read.

€2m for Sissoko apparently.

He was out of contract this summer.

Marseille wanted him but he didn't wanted to come.

Great prospect but he has slowed down in his progress the last couple of years

Apparently he waived his signing on fee so that Newcastle could use that towards the €2m, so the deal could be completed now rather than him joining in the summer.

Been a while since we had a ridiculously good transfer window.

Are we announcing a signing every 24 hours for dramatic effect?

He looks like Carlton Cole with hair.

Exactly how annoying must Joey Barton be, that after having him in their country for 6 months the whole of France emigrate to Newcastle?