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I reckon we should try and get a little thing going on with Celtic and Fraser Forster... maybe a swap for Izaguirre if Enrique goes?
 
I was extremely pleased to see Newcastle's lastest transfers, but I kinda doubt Pardew's managerial skills. But, let's hope he will prove I am wrong and will pull the club to the fans' expectations. A place in Europa would be great, but, realistic, somewhere in top 10 would be also great.
 
cant believe iv found a toon thread on this :D:D i do feel erdic would be a good signing although not exactly proven imo. i think we need to break the mold and get a major marquee signing!! similar to the shearer signing id be happy with berba! or even drogba (considering hes mates with tiote) although his wages will be HUGE!!!
 
Think this will fit here better as he is Newcastle player.

“I was in advanced talks with Liverpool but then they started to change the details of the contract.”

“They were causing problems and I wasn’t happy with what was happening. I was close to signing for them, but Newcastle came in and that was it, I signed for them instead. I did not fail my medical at Liverpool.”

“I do not have a problem with Liverpool. There is no vendetta. I’m looking forward to playing them, but I’m looking forward to playing every team in the Premier League.”
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NEWCASTLE boss Alan Pardew insists he will not beg striker Mevlut Erding to join the club.

The Paris St Germain frontman is high on the Magpies' wish-list, despite his indication he wants to stay in France amid a row over bonuses.

Pardew has not yet given up on the Turkey international, but says he will not pursue the matter if Erding is not desperate to play his football at St James' Park.

The Toon chief said: "It's quite easy for me — if the boy wants to stay at his club and be third choice and doesn't want to come to Newcastle, then I don't want him because Newcastle, for me, are a bigger club.

"I'm not being disrespectful and I know that Paris St Germain are in the Champions League, but with our stadium, our support and the squad we have got, we are the bigger club.

"We have to be careful. Some of the things being quoted are not from him and we have got to cut through it.

"It's difficult to criticise the player because sometimes it's the agent or someone else not getting what he wants.

"But we won't bring him to the club if he doesn't want to be here. We are certainly not going to force his hand."

Meanwhile, Newcastle fear full-back Jose Enrique is prepared to see out the last year of his existing contract and leave for free next summer after failing to agree a new deal.

Pardew added: "He's made it pretty clear that he still won't sign a contract and that his future may be elsewhere.

"I'm not really comfortable with that, but we will have to deal with it and we are still hoping that he signs a contract with us. There has to be doubt over that situation."
Arsenal and Liverpool have both been lined with Enrique.
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Copied from Sunderland forum. Jose enrique on twittw

El club esta dejando irse a todos los jugadores importantes del equipo. Enserio creéis que es culpa de los jugadores? Andy,nobby etc etc

The club is leaving to go to all the major players of the team. Seriously do you think is the fault of the players? Andy, etc etc nobby


Nunca este club va a volver a luchar por estar entre los 6 primeros otra vez con esta política.

This club will never fight again to be among the first 6 again with this policy.

Yo creo que vosotros los fans sois los mejores y os merecéis lo mejor no lo que están haciendo con el club. Gracias a todos por apoyarme

I think you fans are the best and you deserve the best not what they are doing with the club. Thanks to everyone for supporting me



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But Pardew himself have said that you have a "fantastic deal on the table" - that doesn't sound like they want you to go

Enrique replied with

that is a lie. The give the money I Have already. They lie all the time. But money is not for want is Because They don't want spend in the club and bring quality players that's why everybody go.
 
He won't leave imo, he's just annoyed that he doesn't have the contract already.
 
We signed Davide Santon,
We signed Davide Santon,
na na na na,
na na na na.
 
I heard Obertan ripped some defenses for Newcastle already. Any truth in that ?
 
Newcastle have done best business in this transfer window. Superb signings.

Spent less than 15 Million and signed quality players:
ohan Cabaye
Demba Ba
Sylvain Marveaux
Gabriel Obertan
Davide Santon


And also maybe Macheda on loan.

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NUFC confirm the signing of Charlton Athletic goalkeeper Rob Elliot, for undisclosed fee - on a 5-year deal.
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The rise, fall and re-birth of Davide Santon


The night of February 15, 2009 seemed like a watershed moment in Italian football.
Milan and Inter were lining up in the tunnel at San Siro awaiting kick off and the cameras focused on the old man and the young boy stood across from each other. Paolo Maldini, now 40, was reflecting on his last ever Derby della Madonnina while Davide Santon, still only 18, was contemplating his first.

To those in the press box, it was destiny that they should meet, a passing of the torch from one great full-back to another.

Barely a month earlier, Santon had made his first team debut in a Coppa Italia tie against Roma and convinced José Mourinho that he deserved to keep his place in the starting XI the following weekend when Inter hosted Sampdoria. He successfully ousted Maxwell, a player deemed of a high enough calibre to earn a move to Pep Guardiola’s Barcelona, and soon afterwards was almost unanimously tipped for greatness.
Lest we forget, it was Santon who was given the responsibility of marking the reigning Ballon d’Or winner Cristiano Ronaldo when Inter met Manchester United in the last 16 of the Champions League that year. “The fact that José decided to play him is a sign of the confidence he has in the lad,” noted Sir Alex Ferguson. “He is a fantastic footballer,” added Ronaldo.

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Previously not known for nurturing young talent because of the short-termism that has always appeared to underline his ‘win-now’ coaching philosophy, Mourinho developed a real soft spot for Santon. To him, he was simply known as the Bambino, a fresh faced kid with a willingness to learn who offered a stark contrast to Mario Balotelli, the club’s other star academy graduate already renowned for his bad behaviour.

“I’m willing to bet on one thing,” Santon told La Gazzetta dello Sport. “I will keep my feet on the ground. I will keep looking forward to getting home and eating the lasagna that my mother and grandmother make, I will keep listening to my father, who repeats to me every day: ‘Davide, you've done nothing yet’.”

Not meaning to pour cold water on his son’s achievements, Santon senior had a point. A former amateur footballer himself, he used to bang in the goals as a striker for Mazzocco. He knew first hand how fickle the game could be and preached caution.

Up until the previous summer, his son had not been a defender but a midfielder. The change of position had been thrust upon Santon during a Primavera match when Marco Filippini, the team’s right-back, was sent off and a replacement was needed.

Far from looking out of his depth, he thrived and never went back. Gianluca Zambrotta had evolved in exactly the same way tactically at Juventus under Marcello Lippi, but once established in Inter’s first team Santon’s assured performances began to draw comparisons with other, more revered names from the annals of Italian football history.

“Davide is a great player and in 10 or 15 years time when he has made 400 or 500 appearances for Inter like Giacinto Facchetti and Javier Zanetti, who knows, he might remember me,” Mourinho smiled.

Suitably pleased with himself, the former Porto and Chelsea manager looked on like a proud dad as his young charge made his Italy debut in a friendly against Northern Ireland on June 6, 2009. It was then that Lippi caught the Santon bug too. “I always thought he was a person destined for great things and now that I’ve seen him up close I can confirm that this is absolutely the case,” he declared.

With the ink not yet dry on his school exam papers, Santon was on his way with Italy to the Confederations Cup in South Africa. Meanwhile, his teammates back at Inter’s training ground were also getting carried away. “If you don’t go to the 2010 World Cup you should go over to the balcony and throw yourself off,” Marco Materazzi joked.

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Lo and behold, when Lippi named his 23-man squad in the alpine resort of Sestriere a year later, Santon’s name wasn’t on the list. There was no misprint, no oversight. He had disappeared.

If, as Mourinho had frequently suggested, “we must no longer talk about Santon as a great talent because he is already a great footballer”, then what had happened to the player he called the “White Maicon” or “the Next Maldini”? When and how did his fall from grace occur?

The turning point came in late October 2009 when Inter played host to Palermo in Serie A. Samuel Eto’o and Mario Balotelli had put the home side 4-0 to the good at half-time and with his team cruising, Mourinho decided to throw on Santon after the interval.

It was then that he received a lesson, as the marauding Palermo full-back Mattia Cassani proceeded to run rings around him. By the 67th minute the score was 4-3 and Mourinho was furious. A late Diego Milito goal put the match beyond the visitors, but it wasn’t enough to save Santon who felt the full force of his manager’s anger in the dressing room. He was seen leaving San Siro that night in tears, a broken young man.

Out of favour, Santon lost confidence in himself. He had fallen in with the wrong crowd too, dating Balotelli’s ex-girlfriend, Sofia. Matters only got worse when he tore the meniscus in his right knee while playing for the Italy Under-21s against Luxembourg in November. The injury was much graver than Inter’s doctors first thought and there were complications. Two operations later, Santon was brought back to reality.

It seemed the curse of the left-back at Inter had struck again. With the exception of Facchetti, Andy Brehme and Roberto Carlos, the position has always been a poison chalice. Santon was now no longer considered worthy of their company. He was unfairly lumped with the flops like Fabio Macellari, the defender Lippi played when Inter were knocked out of the Champions League preliminary stages by Helsingborg in 2000. Then there was Vratislav Gresko, the hapless Slovak, at whose door the blame for losing the title on the final day of the season in 2002 had been laid.

“It’s been really tough psychologically,” Santon revealed. “It was hard having all those eyes on me, giving me for a phenomenon. Then it was even tougher to get back after the injury knowing that I had to show everything I was worth straight away. But the worst has past. Now I am thinking with optimism.”

Although Santon got back on the straight and narrow, dumping the showgirl for the girl next door, and swapping nights out in Milan’s clubs for fishing trips with his dad, he still struggled to rediscover his form and recapture the imagination of Mourinho’s successors. In January, he begrudgingly accepted a loan to Cesena as part of the deal that saw Yuto Nagatomo join Inter.

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While it would be wrong to suggest Santon saw the move as below him, the new recruit’s initial sulky attitude frustrated the local supporters who rather cynically thought he was more preoccupied with picking the No 46 shirt in honour of Moto GP legend and Inter fan Valentino Rossi than actually sweating for it.
Belatedly, Santon’s talent flickered again. Buoyed by Ciro Ferrara’s decision to give him the captain’s armband when the Italy Under-21s played England in February, he began to turn a corner at Cesena with a series of steady rather than sensational performances.

“I have learned to suffer,” Santon admitted once his loan ended.

Asked about his future, he added: “Like everyone, I don’t like being on the bench. I’d prefer to play a season as a regular in the first team somewhere and then perhaps return as a protagonist at Inter.”

Santon won’t get that chance now. On Tuesday, he left the club for Newcastle in a surprise deal said to be worth £5 million. “It’s never easy to leave any country, never mind Italy,” he told nufcTV. “It was a difficult decision but I’ve only been here for a short while and I feel very comfortable. There are some good people here, it’s a beautiful place, therefore, I am very, very happy.”

Photographed on the pitch at St. James’ Park, he held the No 3 shirt aloft - the number Santon could never wear at Inter because it had been retired in honour of Facchetti. The question for Newcastle fans this morning is have their club signed the next Paolo Maldini or the new Alessandro Pistone?
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The rise, fall and re-birth of Davide Santon - Euro vision - FourFourTwo
 
Just heard on SSN, that we are trying to hijack Bryan Ruiz bid!???
 
Confirming, Newcastle have matched Fulham's bid for Ruiz, it is up to the player to choose where he'll play next season.

EDIT: Emile Heskey has been spotted in Newcastle, although he was probably aiming for Middlesbrough. lol.

EDIT2: Sky mention Ruiz to Newcastle but L'Equipe are going on the Gignac to Newcastle line.

If you sign Ruiz, Ridgewell and Gignac, you have a big option for Europa spot next year.
 
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We have a helicopter in London standing by to bring Ruiz upto Newcastle . Ruiz has said he would prefer a top ten team in England and has said he would prefer a move to Newcastle over Fulham (time will tell lol)
 
GeordieRichee said:
We have a helicopter in London standing by to bring Ruiz upto Newcastle . Ruiz has said he would prefer a top ten team in England and has said he would prefer a move to Newcastle over Fulham (time will tell lol)
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Just contradicted yourself there, didn't you?
 
Lol what position are we in the league ?? I think we maybe in the top ten ..... it was a quote from sky sports news about an hour ago
 
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