Taylor, Carroll and Krul in contract talks with Newcastle.
Posted on July 4th, 2010 | 121 Comments |
I wrote an article a few weeks back that suggested Steven Taylor would be offered a new deal at Newcastle, and now it looks like preliminary talks have taken place and the paperwork is being drawn up on a new deal for the defender. The same applies to Tim Krul who is reportedly ready to put pen to paper on a new four year contract with the club, whilst it is understood that Andy Carroll will be offered the chance of tripling his wages to sign a new deal on Tyneside.
That all sounds pretty positive, and I believe that Tim Krul and Andy Carroll will sign the new deals as and when they are offered them. For Taylor, I think the outcome could be different, and whilst it is partly the club to blame for letting his contract run down to the point where Taylor holds all the cards, I can’t help but feel that this could be the excuse needed for Taylor to move onto pastures new.
Taylor has been linked with a move away from Tyneside for some time now, with clubs like Everton, Aston Villa, Chelsea, Arsenal and now Liverpool all reportedly interested in the defender, and it wouldn’t surprise me of Taylor ended up with one of them before the start of the season.
One thing that has struck me is the sound of silence coming from the Steven Taylor camp, it’s practically deafening. Carroll and Krul have both said that they want to stay at Newcastle when they have been faced with interest from other clubs, yet we have heard nothing like that from Taylor, which surprises me given the fact that he is always giving little media interviews here and there.
I’m not even going to debate the monetary aspects of the new contract, or if we will stretch above our media invented spending cap, you know, the one that only exists in the newspapers. As far as I am aware, there has been no mention of anything like that from the club anyway.
Maybe I am reading too much into it, and I hope I am, but the cruel fact is that if Taylor is to try and sit on what remains on his contract then we may aswell sell him now rather than allowing him to walk out the door for nothing in 12 months time. It’s reported that Taylor wants to see signs of ambition before he pens a new deal, but common sense dictates that the minimum ambition is to stop up next season. It is up to Hughton to try to persuade him that his future lay at Newcastle.
In an ideal world, all three of them will sign their new deals with gusto as I believe that they will form an important part of the future of our team. Until that time though the speculation will continue. We are heading into pre-season training now where things like this should be sorted out, but this is Newcastle, and the world ‘should’ when combined with ‘Newcastle’ don’t seem to work to well together.
I guess we’ll have to wait this one out.
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If he wants out and is not committed then sell now instead of free next year!