I have looked at them all and no where does he expressly state we are now on third choice. He alludes to getting 1st and 2nd choice if you're early. He doesn't state his are now not available or where we actually are with anything. Rafa playing the media and fans like a fiddle is all. As usual. At every club he's ever been at. Just gotta know the man. At Valencia, his rivalry with the board was a weekly item on the news agenda. He memorably accused the board of buying him a ‘lamp’ when he had ‘asked for sofa’. Sporting director Jesus Garcia Pitarch had signed attacking midfielder Fabian Canobbio when Benitez wanted a winger. At Liverpool, former chairman Rick Parry recalled in Simon Hughes' book, Ring of Fire, how Benitez responded to the club signing Fernando Torres by asking why they also failed to sign Florent Malouda. Don't be fooled he knows how to play this game and always has done. The supporters love him wherever he goes for it.
To be fair they will because he's all out to get players for them, whether this is through playing the media or not. And I'd argue the facts imply we're on to 3rd choice atleast on striker. 1st is Plea (bid made), second is Rondon (loan bid)
Possibly. Not confirmed though so not worth speculating about or using as a reason to lose our ****. Unfortunately Mitro is still on his hols so its ****ing up our business a bit. I understand the need to shift him before we buy or our bargaining position is weakened significantly which is not a luxury we have like West Ham.
Both confirmed on sky sports, which is about as close to the truth we, as fans, can get. I cannot fathom why we have to shift Mitro in order to make bids now, we had him in our team when we were making bids for Jorgensen
So not confirmed. He was on loan getting his wages paid. I assume that is now not considered an option. We have to sell to buy and he is fairly pivotal in wage and fee terms. We can’t carry his 65k wage. He’s said he’s not playing for us allegedly if he feels we price him out of a move. As I say he has to go first or we weaken our position. Jorgensen was money being pumped forward as a preventative measure. We are now longer at threat.
He wasn't on loan when we bid for Jorgensen, if you remember he actually signed for Fulham at the last minute after the Anderlecht loan fell through. And SkySports were right about all our business last window, clubs hardly going to come out and confirm their failed bids, they prefer to put out they will break their transfer record instead. Like you say, it's because Ashley doesn't see us at threat of relegation right now but that is again lack of foresight and reason for fans to feel disillusioned. An injury to Gayle, Perez, Lascelles, Shelves or Dummett absolutely ****s us and I'm not confident of us getting adequate cover in all those positions in time. Especially when we also have to shift Mbemba, Mitro, Hayden, Sels, probs Elliot, Colback, Saivet and no doubt others before we can make any of that happen.
We'll be fine, Kenedy is absolutely belting. Mike is right on this occasion. Its just Newcastle fan window hysteria. Happens twice a year, every year. They think its 1998 under Fat Freddie, trying to take the club out of existence.
I'm not going to panic and moan about our transfers yet. If the window closes and we haven't bought a new striker (with or without Mitro still here), that'll be the time to panic.
