Problem is Steve R, we're not playing in the Championship or Division 1.. lets be honest with what we have, whoever they are, we will be 11 behind the ball every game. Mo is a luxury a brilliant luxury at times and defending isn't what he pulls on a shirt for. As for being out of the spotlight... Newcastle wont be out of the spotlight..
As Ive said GLP.... whats the precedent for having g to approach the FA and saying we do not have 11 fit players. !! I mentioned on here and someone phoned Blunderside about bringing the Premiership into disrepute, every day that seems more feasible to me, legitimate or not.
The offer was a fair bit less than £100m and nobody has details of the basis on which payments were to be made other than those involved (and Tony). As a Championship club we were worth £30-40m tops and had we not been promoted, I don't believe for a second we'd have been sold.
Philip Buckingham @PJBuckingham #hcafc are to offer Mo Diame a new long-term contract after Newcastle triggered a £4.5m buy-out clause. Not giving up yet.
We do have 11 fit players, we have a whole development squad and then a youth team. It's of no concern to the Premier League how good those players actually are.
Transfer Centre Live @TransferCentreL 13m13 minutes ago Mohamed Diame is set to reject a new contract with Hull City in favour of a £4.5m move to Newcastle United.
Diame has arrived at the training ground as expected, he's definitely nowhere near Newcastle at the moment.
If we're not an attractive option for the managers being mentioned then we sure as **** ain't going to be for the players either. Mo has seen the writing on the wall and opted for a lower league on bigger money (probably)...I don't blame him...at least he'll win some games.
It's no doubt been asked before but how many of our players have a buy out clause - I recall the Allams had most of our squad on them when we reduced their wages when we got relegated.
I thought they were put in place when we got relegated from the PL to the Championship as a part of accepting reduced wages. Therefore on promotion and PL wages I would have expected any such clauses to have been revoked. **** knows what is going on with our club at present.
4.5 million buy out seems low in these current markets. We seem to have history (long excepted) of letting our players go on the cheap....I can remember this going back to Marwood to Sheff Wed..
They're actually the most reliable transfer site on Twitter, outside of Sky and the BBC. who tend to only post about deals that are pretty much done.
I can just envisage Diame getting a crippling injury within 24-48 hours of sigining a new mega bucks contract with us, just to further **** us over.
