Beckford link and St James’ smokescreens?
Posted on July 31st, 2011 | 29 Comments |
The same paper is reporting that Newcastle have not reached any agreement over PSG striker Mevlüt Erdinç, in fact, a PSG ‘spokesman’ had this to say:
“The fax machine is on, the door is open, but no-one has made a bid.”
If the above quote is true, it kind of contradicts the noises coming from Pardew, unless of course he has been talking about someone else this past week…
So, using the favourite word of this seasons transfer window ‘allegedly’, United are allegedly looking at once former target Beckford. Newcastle tried to sign Beckford in the January of their Championship winning season, when Chris Hughton was at the helm, but couldn’t reach an agreement with his former club Leeds United. Beckford eventually did get a move in the summer of that season though, as Everton snapped him up on a free transfer.
Beckford had a slow start to life in the Premier League, but eventually towards the later months of the season, started to show his talent, and finished the season with 8 goals to his name. One of his 8 goals came on the last day of that season, in a home tie against Chelsea, where he demonstrated his pace and skill, by running over half the length of the pitch to score for the Toffee’s in a 1-0 win.
Now, I see this story as total and utter rubbish to be honest, and it’s not going to happen. I really can’t see Everton parting with their striker, though this story is slightly more believable than the more recent stories linking Peter Crouch and Jermaine Defoe.
There seems to be a lot of names being linked to the club, the only name that seems to have any truth behind it is Mevlüt Erdinç, but one minute we hear a bid has been accepted, and a deadline has been set, and the next minute we hear no bid has even been made!
Of course, the reasoning behind some of these ‘non-starter’ stories could just be due to the press having no idea what’s going on and printing any old rubbish they believe will sell a newspaper. I would like to think papers such as the ‘Chronicle’ and ‘Sunday Sun’, should have some inkling as to what is going on at St James’ Park, but in my opinion they haven’t got a clue. Even with internal matters involving the club, and when Derek Llambias does decide on the rare occasion to share his wisdom with the World, he conducts his interviews with the ‘Telegraph’ instead. I thought the local rags were to have more communication from board room to fans after we got relegated in 2009?
Anyway, moving on to transfer matters, it seems when the club do actually sign someone, the rags know nothing about it. So, maybe we should just ignore what’s being written and see who turns up between now and September 1st (if indeed anyone does).
Hopefully, none of these potential targets are just smokescreens to try and make the club look like it’s busy in the last few weeks of the transfer window. If we have another situation where we lose a player near the end of the window, and get the excuse “we didn’t have time to get a replacement”, I will go literally insane (that is if this transfer window hasn’t already made me slightly insane).
One final thought, on the last day of the January transfer window, after ‘you know who’ departed, we made a £12 million bid for Charles N’Zogbia. Whether or not that was true or not, the noises were that it was indeed a true story. So, you would assume Newcastle would follow up their interest in the summer? I’m not so sure that they did, even when Pardew stated N’Zogbia had a move to Villa sorted last week, there was still 2 months before to get him (if they wanted him), but N’Zogbia eventually went to Aston Villa for £9.5 million (cheaper than we allegedly bid in January). Maybe because we got Sylvain Marveaux, we didn’t go for N’Zogbia?
Remember the January of our relegation season and an £8 million bid for Sunderland’s Kieron Richardson, and £8 million bid for Michael Johnson from Manchester City?
Like I’ve said above, maybe it’s just the rags not knowing what’s going on, reporting false information. If the rags don’t know what’s going on, and their job is to obviously let us fans know the story, it means none of us have a clue, which leads to speculation and hear say.
So with that said, lets just see what happens between now and September 1st, but don’t get too excited by what the papers are saying, in all likely hood, IF someone else does sign for Newcastle, we won’t know about it until the last minute!
NUFCBlog Author: Jimbob
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all this crap about we’re going to sign this player and we;re going to sign that player is keeping me totally amused!! because believe me im just waiting for the headlines ! SHOLA WILL BE OUR HERO THIS SEASON!!!
AND LO AND BEHOLD NO ONE WILL BE SIGNED!!!
how long as the erdinc saga been going on now !!! and now PSG have confirmed that no-one has put any bid in for him! contrary to the news coming from the club! and in the meantime the days and weeks of the transfer window are flying by!! NO, SORRY, NO ONE WILL BE BROUGHT IN UNLESS ITS ON A FREE!!! IM sure AP was told that he would have to sell in order to buy! well if thats the case was carroll and nolan not classed as sales!!!