Toon in hunt for Chelsea defender?
Posted on May 22nd, 2010 | 102 Comments |
In spite of that though, it is actually pretty quiet on the Newcastle transfer speculation front today, which is surprising and not what I want to see when I wake up on a Saturday morning.
Ultimately this time of the year always leads to speculation from fans across the country. It’s a little bit different this year due to the World Cup, but the focus of fans of clubs across the country remains on their respective clubs for the time being. One new link today has been regarding Chelsea player Slobodan Rajkovic. The controversial defender has been on loan for three seasons and has spent the majority of that time in Holland, with the pinnacle so far being a league winners medal won last season with Steve McClaren’s FC Twente.
Rajkovic is a full Serbian international player, although as I mentioned above, has had some controversial encounters in his short career to date. The most notable perhaps was the player being banned from playing football for 12 months following an allegation of spitting in the face of a referee. This ban was later reduced to only international football and is now spent, although Rajkovic maintains his innocence and is still fighting to clear his name.
I can’t see it happening myself, and I struggle to see how we will be able to work a loan deal for any of these top youngsters from other clubs. I mean would this player get in the team ahead of Colocinni or Taylor? I very much doubt that, and if he did it would take time to earn the chance to start ahead of anyone.
The whole idea of these players going on loan is to get first team football. It’s how Bolton Wanderers got Jack Wilshere, by promising to play him. There is no point in any team sending a player out on loan if they are only going to warm the bench at another club. They may aswell do that at their parent club, right? And Chelsea have already recalled this player once from PSV Eindhoven as he wasn’t getting enough games.
So it looks like another non starter of a story, unlike one of our own players who will be heading out on loan again next season. Frazer Forster is being targetted for a loan deal to a number of Championship teams including a return to Norwich where he has performed brilliantly in the season just passed.
Using much the same theory that makes me question the Rajkovic loan deal, we should only send our players out on loan if they are going to get games somewhere. Aswell as the Forster deal, temporary switches have been mentioned including Nile Ranger and Brad Inman, which is a shrewd move if they are actually going to play, otherwise they may aswell sit on our bench!
Oh, one more thing. Come on Blackpool!
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Not a bad player – saw a few Twente games, typical Serb, tough and uncompromising