Perch – No evidence whatsoever for Wigan move.It has been “reported” by several frauds in the media, as well as several lazy copy and paste style blogs that James Perch is set to leave Newcastle United.
It all started around a month ago on the 2nd June with a short piece by Alan Nixon in the Mirror. It read:
“Newcastle prepare to dump James Perch to make room for more Frenchmen”
2 Jun 2013 22:30
“Alan Pardew’s Baguette Batallion set to grow and grow – which means no place left for the Englishman.
“Newcastle United will let versatile James Perch go – to make way for new foreign signings.
“Boss Alan Pardew has decided that Perch, who played several roles for him, can be sacrificed in the summer sales.(more…)
Will Hughton land James Perch in his net?A little bit of a transfer news coming out of St James’s Park suggests we could be on the verge of making our first signing of the January transfer window. Nottingham Forest’s James Perch worked under Colin Calderwood during his spell as Forest manager, so no doubt there would have been some recommendation coming from our Scottish assistant manager.
Predominantly a right back, the 24 year old can also play in the center of defence and has covered various positions across the midfield at points in his career. So, a utility player then, although one who is apparently held in high regard by manager Billy Davies, who quickly signed Nick Shorey as temporary cover whilst Perch recovers from a long standing shin problem.
You’ll forgive me for not getting over excited over us being linked with a player who has played the majority of his games in League 1, and perhaps this shows the level of ambition being shown by our current owner!
If it’s a right back we are after so desperately then why don’t we pull out all the stops to secure Danny Simpson? Fair enough, he didn’t have the best of games last night, but every player has a below-par game once in a while and Simpson has been largely excellent during his time with The Toon. Manager Chris Hughton is still confident of landing the Salford lad in a £500,000 deal, with fresh talks scheduled today. Hughton said: (more…)
