£13m+ for Papiss Demba Cisse in January?
Posted on September 30th, 2011 | 15 Comments |
Having allegedly had a £10m bid for Papiss Demba Cisse rejected in the summer transfer window, it would seem that Newcastle will have to find more than that if they want to bring the striker to St James’ Park in January. Furthermore, we’d find ourselves competing with the Mackems for his signature from Freiburg.
Cisse definitely wants to move on from the German club and recently told German radio:
“I want to leave. I want to try to play at a different level.”
And Freiburg chairman Fritz Keller is fairly pragmatic about the matter, saying:
“We are all still pretty calm, the boy has been doing a little in-house advertising, that’s legitimate.
“As long as he is scoring goals for us, then things are very well.“
The asking price is allegedly £13m+, which would be no doubt be considered ‘high’ by Mike Ashley, but I do think we’d be getting the goods with Cisse. He has 87 goals in 197 career first class games and last season he scored 24 goals in 34 games for Freiburg. This season he already has 6 goals in 7 games.
Steve Bruce is allegedly after the player too, having missed out on some of his summer targets, and there has also supposedly been interest from Arsenal, Fulham and Bayern Munich.
Personally I think Cisse would be a better purchase than our other alleged ‘priority target’ Modibo Maiga, although I will admit I base that on very limited knowledge about both players.
The question of need might figure high in Ashley’s mind come January. If Ba and Best are knocking in goals aplenty, Ashley may wonder if we need to spend £13m+ on a new striker, although if goals start drying up then obviously a new striker looks more of a necessity.
I’m fairly certain Alan Pardew would like the options a new striker would offer though, regardless of how many goals we score in the interim.
Anyway, there’s a lot of football to be played between now and January, so we’ll have to see how things look in the new year.
And we’d still have 22 mill left over… come on Mikey!!