Coloccini: We haven’t been tested yet
Posted on October 6th, 2011 | 9 Comments |
Speaking in an interview, he suggested that while everything is good in the Newcastle camp at the moment, we have yet to see how the new look side will react when tougher times inevitably come. After describing the team spirit at the club as “outstanding” at the moment, he also described it as “different” to last season thanks to the club’s fortunes in the League so far. On this he said:
“We’re happy because we’re working well and things are coming right for us.”
“The team spirit is different to last season. When you start well everything is good, everyone is happy. It’s different. We’ll find out more when we have some bad times.
But now the spirit is fantastic. We have some good people in the changing room and I think that’s the key for us to keep winning and playing well.”
A sterner test may come when the Magpies face Tottenham Hotspur, who have looking threatening since getting over a dissapointing start in the Premier League, which saw them fall to bad defeats against Manchester’s United and City. They have won all of their Premier League games since including a comprehensive 4-0 demolition of Liverpool. Another sticky patch may come when the Magpie’s face a terrible trio of games against Manchester City, Manchester United and Chelsea in succession from the 19th November onwards.
Meanwhile, the Newcastle United captain was noncommittal on looming contract negotiations, with the Collocini’s contract set to expire in June 2013, and current owner, Mike Ashley, seeking to purge older, more highly renumerated players from the club, it is thought that he may only be offered a much reduced salary package to his currently estimated £80,000 per week. If this was the case, Coloccini may prefer to run down his existing contract in the hope of reaping the financial benefits of being a free agent, or the club may feel forced into selling the player while they could recoup at least some of the £10.3 million paid to Deportivo La Coruña in 2008. But I digress.
Getting back to the main point, when the permed one was asked whether he would pledge his future to Newcastle United, as fellow Argentine Jonas Gutierrez has recently, he began by saying:
“I’m very happy here, so we’ll see what happens.”
Then adding on Gutierrez’s recent two year contract extension, which will now last until 2015:
“It was important for Jonas to get his new deal too. Then he scored against Wolves, so it was a good week for him.”
However Gutierrez is on a lower wage than his captain and compatriot, so time will tell.
That’s some serious hair he has.