All appears quiet on the Newcastle front.
Posted on June 11th, 2010 | 60 Comments |
You can blame the start of the World Cup for diverting media attention away from Newcastle United, or you could blame the shroud of secrecy that the statement has brought about, or you could just point your fingers at the suggestion that maybe, just maybe, there isn’t anything going on.
That last option sounds foolish to me, and the very notion that Chris Hughton will be sitting there in his office twiddling his thumbs is amusing to say the least. But the bottom line is that things will be happening at Newcastle, things that we don’t even have a hint of yet.
There has been a lot of melodrama over the last few weeks concerning the lack of information leaking out of the club, but that isn’t a new thing. In fact the very thing that is being condemned now was widely being praised during last season, particularly in the fall out of the alleged Carroll v Taylor death cage match. Well it was actually a punch up, or was it an argument? Who knows? Which kind of proves the point about the lack of information.
That whole episode was handled with the utmost confidentiality, using the same rights that you or I are entitled to when we go to work. If that incident had happened in our relegation season, or if the Geordie shyster Shepherd was still in power, does anyone really think that we would be lacking details of the whole debacle now?
Thought not.
Information is a good thing, sometimes. But too much information is not needed and is uncalled for, in my opinion anyway. Yes it’s frustrating, and yes it is pretty boring, but the cold hard fact is that there really mustn’t be anything to tell anyone at the minute.
There is the obligatory paper speculation of course, but for the most part that is all it is, speculation. What do we expect Newcastle to do? Should they release a public statement detailing their transfer plans and potential targets? Or should they not give the game away until a deal is done?
We DO get information, on things that are actually happening at the club. If there is anything to be revealed then Hughton reveals it, much like the admission yesterday that a new contract is being written up for Steven Taylor to, hopefully, sign.
The whole point of the article, really, is to try and put some perspective on things happening, or not happening, at Newcastle right now, and to point out that just because the club aren’t airing all their dirty laundry in public for a change, it doesn’t mean that things aren’t progressing behind the scenes. That is another Hughton admission by the way, and I can add a quotes to it if requested or in doubt.
There is still loads of time left to sort things out, and the first we will hear of them is either from Hughton himself, or from an official club statement. So unfortunately it looks like the waiting game is here to stay, for the time being anyway.
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Errrmm ! can you run that by me again ?