Think this one is gathering pace..... as TJ said.. it looked like he was playing his last game by Mac's reaction to him... Mike trying to spark up a bidding war??? http://www.themag.co.uk/2016/01/cheick-tiote-put-up-for-sale-reports/ Cheick Tiote put up for sale – Reports Cheick Tiote has been put up for sale by Newcastle United according to Sky Sports, who are quoting club sources. please log in to view this image 1 min ago by Graham Porter Cheick Tiote has been put up for sale by Newcastle United according to reports this morning. Sky Sports say that club sources have informed them that the Ivory Coast midfielder will be ‘allowed to leave’ this month. (Sky Sports have been tipped off by the club first with both Saivet and Shelvey signing as they look once again to be the preferred medium of communcation, so you can only presume this is close to the mark). Cheick Tiote had a half decent game against Manchester United last night and was certainly more effective than Jack Colback, who was poor. However, Tiote looked knackered for the last half hour but McClaren had little choice but to keep him on until the last few minutes, due to no viable options on the bench. With Jonjo Shelvey and Henri Saivet both arriving, the vast majority of supporters have already assumed that the club would try to offload Cheick Tiote to balance the books a little. As one of the biggest wage earners at the club and turning 30 in the summer with just one year remaining on his contract, this is surely the last chance for Mike Ashley to get any sort of decent fee for the player. Yesterday morning, Newcastle were claimed to be considering an £8million offer from Shanghai Greenland Shenhua, the Chinese club already have former Newcastle striker Demba Ba on their books, with another high profile player being Tim Cahill, once of Everton. Talks of a potential £8m fee are surely vastly inflated even in this current market and Ashley will surely settle for something around half that figure for a player who has had increasing problems with injury and form. Back in the day his partnership with Yohan Cabaye was one of the best in the Premier League but it definitely now looks time to move on. Steve McClaren was put on the spot after the match last night and asked whether the 3-3 draw with Manchester United had been Cheick Tiote’s last match for Newcastle, to which he replied: “We are not too sure about that…and as I said before, when something happens we’ll announce it and let you know. “But I do think he has been very very good the last two or three games.”
It's kind of fair enough, but it's so, so late in the day when his head was gone more than a year ago. Why did it take so long? Also I don't want the club to just recycle. Tiote out, Saivet/Shelvey in is fine, but also then letting Anita go is my fear. We need a proper squad.
Watching Tiote last night just confirmed for me that his time is past, he has a habit of playing under weighted passes in areas of the pitch that can immediately put us under pressure and had a few moments in the penalty box where he held on to the ball for too long, he was lucky to get away with it as Man Utd are not the team of old, other teams with more mobile midfield and forward lines will severely punish his laxities.
Work??? Damn forgot about that!! My productivity seems to have dropped after going on a youtube journey following the links to highlights of that game at the end of the video
Not a big loss in my opinion. He has not played well since Cabaye left. And he got booked for a horrible foul again last night. He is a liability and one player I wont be to fussed about leaving!
He was motm for me yesterday We need him we're in a relegation battle hes basically fit again and he's much better than anita and colback
We can't judge tiote on a couple of good games against dozens of bad ones. He's been gash. I'd keep him over colback and anita. However if he wants out there is little u can do. It's not a massive loss, he is terrible most of the time and injury prone but it makes us worse. Which says a lot about us
Hang on the entire team was for just as long. He's our only half decent cm along with Shelvey now and the rest are championship standard at best.
I agree. He's been ****e along with the rest. He had one good season and then has about 2 or 3 good games a season. He is better than the others but that is not a big deal. He is not a massive loss though.
