It’s up to Newcastle to sign Ben Arfa.
Posted on October 6th, 2010 | 140 Comments |
Perhaps it’s understandable that most of the news seems to be about Ben Arfa. After all, there is no club football coming at the weekend, and to be fair the injury to Ben Arfa is just about the biggest talking point of the moment for us.
Most of us are aware that the signature of Ben Arfa was to be triggered after the young Frenchman played 25 times for Newcastle. Given the quality of the lad that wouldn’t have been a problem and we would have signed him automatically I would imagine. This catastrophic injury though has put a proverbial cat amongst the proverbial pigeons however.
There is no way that Ben Arfa is going to play 25 games this season now, which has led to a lot of questions and speculation regarding the future of our new crowd favourite. Just what does it mean? Will we sign him regardlesss? Is the deal now off? They are all questions that I have heard and read over the past few days.
Well you can decipher this for yourself, but this is what Deschamps has said about Ben Arfa today;
It’s a shame because he had just started to get his bearings with Newcastle. Now we’ll have to wait until the end of the season to see what happens.”
“There is an option for Newcastle to purchase him, bound to a number of matches. He won’t play them, obviously, but we’ll have to see what Newcastle do.
“There would be no problem for me in him returning to Marseille, but I don’t think it’s too much in his own plans.”
To me that reads as though the ball is firmly in the court of Newcastle United and Hatem Ben Arfa. The player seems to enjoy it here and seems to have taken to the fans already. It works both ways aswell as the fans love him already.
The bottom line is that Newcastle can sign him if they wish to, but that wish will be very much dependant on securing another season of Premier League football.
Let’s hope we can do it!
I don’t really think it’s put the cat amongst the pigeons Toony mate, I think it’s all signed sealed and delivered. He’s a toon player.