Porto's Hulk

We were rumoured to be looking at him in Feb, but heard nothing recently.

Anyone know if we are still interested, or is this just a little too ambitious?

 

Never heard any rumours apart from Bartons tash mentioned him.
Would have him tho he looks quality.

 

Apparently Spuds, with their inexplicable unlimited funds, are interested. Personally I'm looking forward to the day 'Arry leaves and Spurs go bankrupt

 

Would prefer Welliton. Much better player in my opinion and his goal scoring record speaks for itself really. 75 appearances with 50 goals

 

we were linked with him in the summer

hell of a player. we played porto in the champs league a couple of seasons ago and he gave our defenders a torrid time because hes so quick and strong and direct. he's added a lot of goals to his game recently too ive heard. dunno if the north would suit him though looking at this pic

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I read it somewhere too yeah, but can't remember where now. Evidently just rumours like, but the type of rumours we like, in comparison to..say...the ones about C. Cole. (y)

Would love him, cracking player, he's got pace, strength, great movement and can put a decent cross in too, but unfortunately doubt we'd get him. Too much and bigger clubs are after him.
We'd become Newcastle "The Justice League" United though, what with Hulk, Spiderman, Super Shola and the power that is Cheick Tiote all in the same team.

 

Doubt we'd be able to afford his wage demands... always wishful thinking though

 

Think the fee will be too high and he'll go to a fellow CL team to be honest. I'll be surprised if we try to get him, but delighted if it happens

 

I'd love Hulk but yeah, hes a champions league player tbh.

 

His ambition may play a big part of it, he may want guaranteed Champions League.

Financially, a bid of around £28m could do it, with the remaining money from the Carroll transfer paying for 2 years wages (assuming a wage of around 80k pw). And don’t forget we are now around 30k pw week better off because Carroll has gone.

Lot of assumptions, but trying to point out that financially it shouldn’t be a problem.

 

That would be the entire budget on one player though, Carroll's money is a chance to replace him and bulk up the squad rather than just improving on him, which Hulk certainly is.

 

Oscar Cardozo is similiar and probably more realistic.

 

excellent player who i'd love at the toon but on a long contract (means nowt) with a 100 mil euro get out clause and on huge wages so a non starter

 

Very prolific. Would like to see Cardozo here

 

yess i would love this

 

Doubt we will get him.
If we did though we would defiantly pushing for europe next year.

 

I would love to see him here but his situation would be similar to Hulk's - they both play European football and have been tracked by big clubs that play European football every year, so i doubt he would come to us.

 

I think this is why it wouldn't be a bad thing to spend the money on one player.

Even without that AC transfer, we still would have got money to spend this summer. So that could be used to sign one or two other players.

 

But you should know by now how tight MA is with money, any money we do spend will be on the Carroll sale and other outgoing players, Benny was signed for £5 mil and didn't spend a penny more (apart form loans) money and the money that comes in by being in the premier league won't make a blind bit of difference.

 

i've been bumping on about him for ages would love it if we signed him