Toon titbits: King Kev, Nolan, Nile and a glamour model
Posted on March 1st, 2011 | 18 Comments |
Ex Newcastle United manager Kevin Keegan has been doubting Pardew will see much of the £35m we got from Carroll, Nolan tried to drink his way to international stardom and Nile Ranger nails a glamour model.
Wor Kev has been talking to Radio 5 and doesn’t fancy Alan Pardew’s chances of seeing much of the £35m the club got for Andy Carroll. Keegan said:
“I saw an interview with Alan Pardew where he said he hoped to get some of the £35 million and I thought ‘Alan, you ain’t going to get any of that’.”
Well, time will tell on that front. Keegan goes on to say that he’d have sold Carroll for £35m, but he was also critical of last minute sales like that as he’d have wanted to get a replacement for any player sold. Keegan said:
“I think £35 million for Andy Carroll … if I’d been manager I’d have taken it.
“But how can you spend it on the last day of the transfer window?
“My big argument was that we were selling James Milner for a lot of money – probably above the value we put on him – and I said, ‘Please don’t sell him before we get someone in’.
“The reason I didn’t want them to put that out and to hold on a little longer was so I could get a good value signing. It’s business. It’s a sensible way to do to do it.
“If you sell Milner for £11 million then they say, ‘If he’s worth £11 million, our guy must be worth £9 million’.“
Keegan has a point but I wonder if part of the reason we got £35m is because we hung on until the last minute and forced a desperate Liverpool to up their price.
Personally I can’t stand transfer windows, particularly the January one. It’s like telling to a window cleaner he can only buy mops and buckets for one month in the winter and three months in the summer.
I’d replace them with something else. Penguins possibly. No, actually I’d remove them altogether – transfer windows that is, not penguins; I like penguins – and if the worry is that a club would simply ‘buy a team’ to ensure success at the end of a season (or whatever) then I’d apply some other type of restriction to stop that happening. Don’t ask me what right now though, I haven’t thought it through yet and I’m just cogitating as I write.
Moving on, Kevin Nolan has revealed that his attempts to play international football for Ireland involved the drinking of much Guinness:
“The possibility of playing for Ireland has been brought up a number of times but unfortunately my grandad and my nans are only a quarter Irish, or half Irish, and they need to be fully Irish
“I did try and cheat like Tony Cascarino did by going over and having 14 pints of Guinness. Didn’t work though.”
I’m quite fond of Guinness myself and if drinking the stuff was all that was necessary to play international football I’d surely have knocked Lionel Messi off his perch by now.
Finally, it seems young Nile Ranger has been putting his foot in things with a glamour model called Chenade (and I assume that’s her first name – no idea what her last one is). Literally, because apparently he asked her to cut his toe nails on a date. He certainly knows how to woo a girl eh?
Is that really news? Or just an excuse to put a picture of a glamour model at the top of this post?
Actually, the subject of glamour models brings me on to something that gets my goat (he’s a keen critic). Can someone please explain to me why Katie Price is interesting enough to have so many TV programmes and so much press coverage?
As far as I can tell she’s simply a woman that became famous for her large breathing apparatuses and has no other interesting aspects. She so obviously plays up to the media that surely even to dumbest of viewers can’t be taken in by it, yet people keep paying her to plague our TV sets. The world’s gone mad. Mad I tell you.
Anyway, rant over. This is a football ‘blog!
Sorry…I didnt read a word of that; couldnt pull my eyes away from that lovely young ladies clevage ;-)