Mauricio Isla

Reported on Sky Sports.

Chilean publication El Mercurio is reporting that Newcastle have reached an agreement with Juventus for Mauricio Isla. An £8million fee is said to have been agreed for the full-back, who will join on a four-year contract.

 

gotta be made up we have just bought janmaat

 

Eh? Very random, why would we buy another right back? For that fee?

 

Well if true it would give us some more options a bit more strength in depth so I woukd be happy. Still need to find a striker and a CB though.

 

If we are going to spend 8m I'd rather it was on a solid CB, rather than another RB. To be honest the only recent link I could find is from WhatCulture, hardly uber reliable. Plenty of links earlier this month but this is before we signed Janmaart.

 

Why another FB.? Makes no sense sseing as we need a quality CB and CF as priorities. Mapou played ok today and Raylor back soon so plenty of cover at RB.

 

Pete Graves off SSN has already said on twitter he doesnt believe its a genuine story.

Would make little sense.

 

He's a wingback...we'd probably put him on the wing. Gee... I mean I'd take him. He looked gooooooooooooooood for Chile.

Maybe we plan on going 3 at the back?

 

Who cares the more quality the better it means we can survive an injury or suspension in one area and to honest other than cm we don't have that at all.

Left side looks increasingly week t me but anyone good I'd have regardless

 

Albeit a friendly, but the left side of Haidara, Aaron's and Sammy when he came on was the highlight for me.

 

Seriously all three are ****e at premier league level try seeing things as a neutral would they will all tell you the same.

We need two decent players in basically every position not one quality player and then some goof that won't ever amount to more than putting out company link arse comments when we lose trying to get in the first eleven that way

 

How can anyone say Aarons is sh.te at premiership level when he's yet to make his debut. FFS the lad is what 17/18 years old, give him a chance. By the way he did look promising.

 

Ffs exactly I'm saying you can't start getting excited playing eleven farmers. Pardew could have given him 9 games last season and we'd gave some idea but nnnooooooo the intelligencia that us Pardew failed to see that opportunity.


Jesus ****ing hid help us

I remember people going on about the wonders chopra beheld before once again they realised he was ****e.

 

No. You said all three were ****e at premiership level.

 

Great.



Is that really the way to conduct a debate??!!



Quoting someone's own words back at them!!

 

More serious comment than my last one is that Pardew should have "blooded" some of the kids in the latter part of last season. We weren't going higher and we weren't going lower, or at least not to any relevant degree.

I doubt whether Aarons would have been one of those "blooded" and there was the issue of the losing run which ideally is not the time to "blood". Pardew could and should have played one or two of the kids once we were safe but once the losing run had picked up momentum then that would not have been the time to try the kids.

Put simply, there was a few games where he could and should have but he missed the opportunity and once missed it was then too late for the sake of the kids' confidence.

 

It was important to Pardew - he picked up a nice little bonus for finishing in 10th.

 

They are ****e

Totally unproven and again we have no cover

 

Unproven doesn't mean rubbish, it means unproven. They may be great, rubbish or somewhere between. Personally I'd say Haidara is looking to be a reasonable option, but no world beater. Aarons is a promising unknown. Sammy looks good in spells but is made of glass so can not be relied upon. The way it is always going to be under MA is that 'cover' is provided by utility players - Santon will likely be considered cover for LB, LW and RB. DM as well according to Pardew. RTaylor likewise - RB, RW, LB, DM. Just got to hope we don't get too many injuries at once because you'll be wasting your time hoping for genuine squad depth to be developed.

 

Agree totally that we should have played the kids as the season fizzled out.
We would have reaped the benefit this season.