Onouha tipped for Toon transfer deal?
Posted on May 27th, 2010 | 77 Comments |
I must stress it is being reported in The Sun, but apparently Hughton is lining up a £3.5 million deal to bring the former England Under-21 international to St James’ Park over the summer. It also claims that this ‘bid’ will use up nearly half of our summer transfer budget, which means we could be looking at a kitty of around £10 million to purchase players with. As much as I would love this to be true, I really can’t see it. Although it does seem to roughly tie in with my initial valuation of around £3 million. Unfortunately though, as will be the case a lot more often over the summer, I suspect this is just paper talk.
Now we have moved back into the Premier League we don’t have the luxury of getting on with things quietly. The interest in Premier League clubs is at such a level that the press just won’t allow us to get on with things like we were able to do in The Championship.
It’s par for the course though, and it would be naive to expect anything less as various news outlets try to push sales up. The now famous statement has warned us that we shouldn’t expect anything to be leaked to the press, and to pay no attention to what is written unless it comes directly from the club.
But speculating is fun at the end of the day, and it would be very boring if we didn’t discuss at least some of the transfer rumours we hear about, even if they end up not coming to fruition, which will more than likely be the case.
I have picked this rumour out as it is a move that I would like to see. At the quoted price of £3.5 miilion, I think it would be a great bit of business for a player who is arguably already better than what we have and still has the best years of his career in front of him.
Unfortunately, the signing of players isn’t my job. But if I was to put myself in a position of someone who likes making money, like perhaps our owner, then this deal is surely worth looking into? A player like Onouha, at the price quoted would be a bargain, and his price would only rise over time.
Citeh don’t need him, or the money, and it looks like his days at his boyhood club could be over after Onouha blasted Roberto Mancini on live TV the other week. Surely they could let poor Newcastle have one of their players at a reasonable price? Actually while we are at it can we have Steven Ireland aswell? I’ll even throw in some cheap trainers to sweeten the deal.
As I said earlier, it is all speculative, but my god it would be boring if we couldn’t gossip or speculate, especially now there appears to be no leaks from behind the iron curtain. That is good news for the club, really professional for once. The bad news is there is 97 days until the transfer window shuts, and that’s a lot of gossiping to be getting on with!
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I’d like to see this fella come in and Smith go. I hope someone comes in with a bid for Smith as I do think Chris wouldn’t mind letting him go. he knows his opportunities are limited and will not be signed and is still maybe young enough to get one last decent paying contract.