Gameiro definitely a no-no. Nolan possibly a go-go.
Posted on June 10th, 2011 | 50 Comments |
I think we’d all pretty much accepted that Lorient’s Kevin Gameiro wasn’t coming to Newcastle and the player himself has now confirmed that, saying:
“I’ll think about my future in the coming days.
“It will be Paris or Valencia. The two clubs are very good.
“I will calmly make my decision over the next days.
“I love both clubs. I have always been attracted to Spain.
“We will see what will happen. An agreement has yet to be made with Lorient.”
So we can scratch that one off the list.
There is still the question of Lille’s Gervinho of course and whilst he’s confirmed he wants to play in the English Premier League, he’s also said that he wants to prove himself in a ‘large European club’. That could be taken to mean a club playing European football next season, which would make Manchester City and Arsenal the favourites of his alleged English suitors.
Rumour has it that Alan Pardew has cut his holiday short to officially welcome Yohan Cabaye to Newcastle United. That could happen today and whispers of press conferences have reached my delicate (and rather fetching) ears, although such rumours may of course be total bunk.
Cabaye has all but confirmed he’s coming here on a five year contract anyway, but it sill needs the rubber stamp now that the French transfer fenêtre has opened.
Finally, it seems that Martin Jol fancies Kevin Nolan. Not in the Biblical sense you understand, but rather it seems he wants to take him to Fulham. Or at least that’s what The Daily Star thinks based on nothing that could conceivably be called evidence. Mind you, evidence has never particularly bothered a lot of the newspapers and I get the impression that if the newspapers were the rozzers they’d be the sort who reported a lot of ‘accidents’ in the cells: “he maliciously attacked my fist with his groin and then proceeded to savage my knee with his nose, m’lud”.
Jol has competition though. Apparently Big Sam is preparing to come back with a better offer to take Nolan to West Ham after having had his initial £3m bid rejected.
Sadly I suspect he’ll be on his way somewhere before the summer’s over as Ashley seems intent upon getting shot of the players who are allegedly most influential in the dressing room and were major figures in the ‘player committee’ that formed in the wake of relegation. Although that’s just speculation on my part of course – it could just be coincidence.
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F@#k him then…if he doesn’t want to be here the club and everyone else should move on and stop talking about him. I would rather go for someone like Shane long, Daniel sturridge or even carlos vela. We have a great scouting system so I’m sure we have identified other targets. I pray we don’t waste all summer going after players who don’t want to come here leaving us no time to get anyone physically through the doors.