Deadline Day Thread

How about the likes of Jean-Alain Boumsong?

 

Beyond a joke. Tom Ince, subject to an ACCEPTED £8m bid. You know the fee, you know the player, you either sign him or you don't. I'd just like to know, for certain, what the club is thinking about? Is it bluff and bluster to try and fool the fans? Is it genuine incompetence?

The whole "we'll buy if we sell Cabaye" - does that mean ANY player? What happened to all the TV money, the £15m for PEA, the £8m for Gomis? Or does it mean a replacement?

The only saving grace is that in 14 hours we'll know.

 

From the BBC web site



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THE VIEW FROM FRANCE

French football writer Matt Spiro: "Marseille are often wheeling and dealing, and they're likely to be busy today.

"At one stage, it looked as though they would need to sell André Ayew in order to finance a £12.7m deal for Lille's Florian Thauvin - and Newcastle have expressed a strong interest in the Ghanaian. That, however, is no longer the case. They received an unexpected injection of £4m after Lyon failed to make the Champions League group stage, meaning the domestic television revenues for that competition are being split between two rather than three clubs."

This is interesting but again worrying when one is looking for players who aren't going to be present for the African Cup again. It must be possible to sign someone with EU citizenship who won't vanish every second year.

As it happens, I was thinking about Titus Bramble...

 

Wouldn't it be nice to have a POSITIVE deadline day? Can anyone remember a time when we've had that?

 

Read somewhere we are 'enquiring' about N'zonzi at stoke

 

Anyone else think we should have been in for Amalfitano? WBA have got him on loan for the season, decent player and could cover wide right or through the middle.

 

Rumour has it someone just told Joe the transfer window's closed today. Joe didn't know what a transfer window actually was - this is how he took the news...

 

Arsenal likely to sign Ozil. So is Cabaye our "new signing"?

 

Sky claiming Pardew isn't even expected at Benton. Why would he talk so much about bringing in a "key player"? Surely there has to be ONE arrival today??

 

Would take more than £50's worth of booze to give JK a massive hangover.

 

Pardew keeping his head down, as he knew all along we were not going to do anything

why do you think Kinnear was brought in....... to take the ****

 

Reports on twitter that Pardew and Kinnear are in London. Ashley is reported to not even be in the county

Edit:I have zero confidence that we'll bring anyone in.

 

it doesn't take much for an alcoholic to tip over the edge, it's in his system

 

Good living, non smoking, non drinking boy, don't know too much about that kind of thing.

 

Ben Smith, BBC Sport
GOMIS BLOW FOR NEWCASTLE

"Newcastle will not be signing Bafetimbi Gomis from Lyon today. They have tried twice to sign the striker this summer, but without luck.

"Having also attempted to sign Darren Bent, who chose Fulham, it has been a frustrating transfer window for all those at St James' Park. There have been no further bids for Yohan Cabaye but that may change if Arsenal miss out on Mesut Ozil."

 

BBC reporting we are not going to be signing Gomis today.... what a surprise!!!

Sorry beaten to it

 

I bet we won't bring anyone in. Kinnear has said as much, we can compete top10 with our current squad. **** Off

 

You little devil you.

 

It's quiet and David Craig is at Sunderland. I'm right so far...

 

Well, Ozil's off to Man U. So that means we'll have a Carroll mk2 situation. Kinda knew that would happen when Pardew basically said if we sell Cabaye, we MUST MUST MUST replace him. Follows that, of course, we won't replace him.