I <3 Tiote. I think he likes it at St James', but a bid from title contenders could tempt him. You guys could do better. Del Rossi or Javi Martinez maybe? You'd have to pay like 25m for Tiote. I know he isn't worth that much, but we're playing a hard bargain game here.
Wouldn't say nowhere near because i perosnally think hes decent, but hes not quite the different class of player that we want to keep us challenging for title.
I would rather make an offer for Lass Diarra, he's a similar player that would probably be available for around a third of that price, although to be honest I would prefer to see us bidding for the likes of Witsel, Sahin or Fellaini... any two of those would be nice .
He's not good enough, half hype. You'd do better to get Fellaini or Lass as Psycho2k said. Javi Martinez, by the way, is a near dead cert to go to Barca.