Transfer Rumours Charlie Austin

  • Please bear with us on the new site integration and fixing any known bugs over the coming days. If you can not log in please try resetting your password and check your spam box. If you have tried these steps and are still struggling email [email protected] with your username/registered email address
  • Log in now to remove adverts - no adverts at all to registered members!
Status
Not open for further replies.
Rolando said:
I think where any NUFC fan is going to struggle is in saying definitively anyone would be great. Bas Dost is a type of player, Austin a different one, Aubameyang another - is any Geordie confident any of the three would succeed? I don't think we are. The team has no spine, no identity, no leadership and it's echoed in senior management. We cant make decisions for sh!t, ever fearful we don't get "pound for pound" value. Srnicek summed it up nicely saying that the club's stance of saying they'd rather not do the deal than pay slightly over the odds is a bad strategy. The club's problem is how does Graham Carr know, definitively, which player(s) are going to solve our problems? He can't. But he's given license to make that call. Fundamentally flawed.

Austin may be, in certain circumstances, "worth" £15m, but not to a present NUFC he's not.
Click to expand...

I think he's exactly what that sort of team/club needs. Regardless of how many **** mercenaries there are, he just plays his normal game and runs his nuts off. He sets a great example if nothing else.
 
G4rdToonArmy said:
Yeah but is that because he gets stuck out wide? Could be a handy little player for us and for £5mil would be up Mikes street
Click to expand...

Possibly. He would be up Ashley's street. Cheap fee and wages with a possibility of a sell on profit. I would take him because he's a good player. But, I would want us to buy a proven goalscorer as well.
 
Windy_Mag said:
Possibly. He would be up Ashley's street. Cheap fee and wages with a possibility of a sell on profit. I would take him because he's a good player. But, I would want us to buy a proven goalscorer as well.
Click to expand...
Agreed - wouldn't want to pin all hopes on Campbell scoring 15-20 goals a season! Does look as though we will be missing out on Austin though ATM but the Dost move is sounding like its creeping ever closer to the "line".

On a side note do you think they use the ref's foam spray for the line, might explain why we can never find it....
 
G4rdToonArmy said:
Agreed - wouldn't want to pin all hopes on Campbell scoring 15-20 goals a season! Does look as though we will be missing out on Austin though ATM but the Dost move is sounding like its creeping ever closer to the "line".

On a side note do you think they use the ref's foam spray for the line, might explain why we can never find it....
Click to expand...

I think Campbell's more of a big fish/small pond type. Always seems to excel when the pressure is off - I mean, Wenger's tried for about 3 years - but Arsenal is such a massive, massive club it's easy to see why he wouldn't make it. I'd be happy if he was one of the six, for sure, but he'll more likely attract foreign attention.

Austin, I don't know, he's good and I'd be happy enough but the way certain website go on it's like they'll burn their kit if he isn't signed. Dost looks similar to Huntelaar, or Pelle at So'ton, so will need service we currently don't have. Our best LM hasn't really shown anything (Cabella) and our best RM isn't really a creative force (Sissoko). Can Dost hold a ball up?
 
  • Like
Reactions: G4rdToonArmy
Rolando said:
I think Campbell's more of a big fish/small pond type. Always seems to excel when the pressure is off - I mean, Wenger's tried for about 3 years - but Arsenal is such a massive, massive club it's easy to see why he wouldn't make it. I'd be happy if he was one of the six, for sure, but he'll more likely attract foreign attention.

Austin, I don't know, he's good and I'd be happy enough but the way certain website go on it's like they'll burn their kit if he isn't signed. Dost looks similar to Huntelaar, or Pelle at So'ton, so will need service we currently don't have. Our best LM hasn't really shown anything (Cabella) and our best RM isn't really a creative force (Sissoko). Can Dost hold a ball up?
Click to expand...

Sign of the times? Our best RM (and your spot on) is a CM hahahaha
 
G4rdToonArmy said:
Sign of the times? Our best RM (and your spot on) is a CM hahahaha
Click to expand...

Ha, should have added that. Same with CB, our "best" CB is a LB. And if Dummett is CB, that makes Haidara our LB, so therefore our best LB isn't even a footballer.

Worrying times. And there was me hoping we were done buying left backs.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Maximin Effort
Even old "Arry" reckons he should sign for the Toon. Chelsea supposedly showing interest but he'd be a bench warmer virtually all season, however, Austin doesn't strike me as a money grabber.
 
I see the Telegraph are reporting that Austin feels he is being overpriced as QPR have yet to receive ONE SINGLE OFFER yet!!! WTF is Charnley doing?? I cant believe we havent even put a single effing bid in for him!!! Lying, Coniving little shizer..
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Top Bottom
Back