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Post by FullerMagic on Jun 9, 2008 11:03:18 GMT
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Post by sheikhmomo on Jun 9, 2008 11:08:08 GMT
At a time when I'd accept us signing anyone just to set the ball rolling, this still rates as great news!
Possibly worth a risk at £1.5M, that is way too much.
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Post by Anto1962 on Jun 9, 2008 11:10:14 GMT
Thank God for that. ;D
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Post by FullerMagic on Jun 9, 2008 11:10:15 GMT
5th/6th-choice striker, out of contract this time next year.
Crazy money.
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Post by miffmister on Jun 9, 2008 11:29:37 GMT
Are we talkin £ or pence here, from what I saw last season he aint worth £350000.
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Post by wakefieldstokie on Jun 9, 2008 11:33:46 GMT
Lets offer £10 more than Ipswich then change our minds next week ;D
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Post by crowey on Jun 9, 2008 11:44:57 GMT
They're welcome. Would rather sign Jay Bothroyd on what I saw
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Post by FullerMagic on Jun 9, 2008 12:16:01 GMT
You've got to hand it to Wise, or whoever keeps making these deals for Ameobi. Does he use hypnosis?
United accept Ipswich Sho bid
Jun 9 2008 by Alan Oliver, Evening Chronicle Shola Ameobi
NEWCASTLE United have accepted a bid from Ipswich Town for striker Shola Ameobi. The Suffolk club have put a package together which would see United receive just under the £4m they had agreed with Stoke City for the 26-year-old former England Under-21 international.
Ameobi was on loan at the Britannia Stadium at the end of last season, but did not play that much of a part in Stoke’s promotion to the Premier League.
And The Chronicle revealed last month that Ameobi was not happy with life in the Potteries, and that he was not going to stay at Stoke after United director of football Dennis Wise and vice president Tony Jimenez had agreed a tidy £4m deal for him.
Now Ipswich have stepped in with a package which, when all the bits and bobs have been totted up, will not be that short of the money United were going to pick up from Stoke.
It’s a big decision for Ameobi to make in a summer when he is getting married, but he looks certain to leave United.
His former boss at St James’s Park, Glenn Roeder, does not have that much money to spend at Norwich City, and it remains to be seen whether he tries to lure Ameobi to Carrow Road.
Roeder will be back at his desk at Norwich tomorrow after a holiday in Florida, and he will have to decide whether to pick the phone up and ring Wise or Jimenez.
Meanwhile, Joey Barton’s agent Willie McKay has met Wise and Jimenez in London to discuss the situation with United’s jailed midfielder.
United are understandably not happy with the situation, not so much on moral grounds which would be admirable, but more from the financial point of view.
It’s an open secret that United owner Mike Ashley would like to cut back on the club’s £60,000-a-week men – and there are plenty of them.
Barton is one, with United wanting to reduce his £65,000-a-week wages by half.
The word is that United have three choices with Barton – sell him, sack him or get the controversial midfielder to take a massive wage cut.
And I hear that United would favour the latter option.
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Post by Danstoke82 on Jun 9, 2008 12:21:46 GMT
Ipshit are welcome to him, the guy was total dross.
Ipshit couldnt be a better club for him, £4mill though, you gotta be having a laugh.
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Jun 9, 2008 12:22:16 GMT
Heheheheheheheh - Ipswich probably think they are putting one over their local rivals....
In time Norwich will be delighted that they didn't have the money to compete.
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Post by mermaidsal on Jun 9, 2008 12:25:24 GMT
His agent must be God
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Post by sheikhmomo on Jun 9, 2008 12:27:37 GMT
He may come good, its a bit harsh to completely write him off based on his spell here but it's an insanely expensive gamble.
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Post by Danstoke82 on Jun 9, 2008 12:27:48 GMT
Heheheheheheheh - Ipswich probably think they are putting one over their local rivals.... In time Norwich will be delighted that they didn't have the money to compete. Is Shameobi Rodent's love child or something?! he's been tracking him for yonks. Given his performances for us (to say that loosely), you would of thought Rodent would of legged it.
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Post by **** Pulling Himself Off on Jun 9, 2008 12:28:13 GMT
I do recall saying what a fucking waste of space he is before he even kicked a ball for us.
Usually I say 'give players a chance' but he isn't even league 1 standard.
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Post by **** Pulling Himself Off on Jun 9, 2008 12:28:52 GMT
How dare you steal 'Shameobi'.
I invented that!
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Jun 9, 2008 12:30:32 GMT
Despite what I posted above I wouldn't write him off as he was clearly not fit when he was with us. But even when fit I doubt if he is worth more than a £1.5 million gamble.
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Post by PONTAFCE on Jun 9, 2008 12:31:46 GMT
Good luck to ipswich hes wank and i carnt see him improving much.
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Post by **** Pulling Himself Off on Jun 9, 2008 12:35:57 GMT
I'd rather have the Beast & Pericard any day of the week.
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Post by sheikhmomo on Jun 9, 2008 12:39:08 GMT
I'd rather have the Beast & Pericard any day of the week. I like a lunchtime pint as much as the next man but come on, slowdown a bit!
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Post by serpico on Jun 9, 2008 12:39:10 GMT
When fully fit he could be an asset at championship level, that said, almost 4m is a hell of a gamble, especially in light of his injury record, he was never fit when he was with us so it would be harsh to judge him on his brief spell with us, one good thing did come out of his loan spell, it seemed to give Mama a little bit of a kick up the arse just when we needed it.
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Post by FullerMagic on Jun 9, 2008 12:40:11 GMT
I'll be interested to see how he does if he does move. Rodent was raving about his potential goalscoring ability in the Championship, and he worked with him for a couple of years and knows what he's capable of.
He was obviously way out of shape when he was here - which, to be fair, Rodent correctly called.
Maybe the mistake was us spending 750,000 on an out-of-fit player who was in no physical shape to have any impact?
“Shola Ameobi is a player that I like,” he said. “Whether Shola Ameobi is prepared to drop into the Championship I don't know. I believe he is a Premiership player - I don't believe, I know he is. He would blitz the Championship. If I was Shola Ameobi I would only want to play in the Premiership. But who knows? Let's just wait and see.”
"He's had a really nasty hip operation and to be gambling £5 million - and I don't know the deal exactly - but if that's a guaranteed £5 million, that's some gamble that Pulis has taken on someone who has seemed to have recovered from major surgery on his hip.
"And it hasn't really yet been tested because he's wasted a year. The two managers that Newcastle have had this year have chosen not to use him. So knowing Shola like I do, he'll be amazingly unfit as well. He takes a bit of getting fit.
"So Stoke have got a short period of time to get the best out of him; out of a Shola Ameobi that will be nowhere near match-fit. And if Dennis is telling the truth, you'd be shocked at how much they're paying."
“Newcastle are up to their necks in it,” said Roeder today ahead of the trip to Sheffield United on Saturday. “He hasn't had any match practice and he hasn't played this year.
“Knowing Shola like I do he would probably take a month to get match fit, and that's too late.
“But I like him a lot. He would be an unbelievable goal scorer in the Championship.”
When asked whether he might consider a move for the Nigerian forward at a later date, Roeder replied: “Who knows.
“But I just opened my hands there - I think he's a fantastic player, certainly rated much more highly by me than lots of other people who tend to like headless chickens running round the place who don't score.
“He scores goals.”
4m does seem sheer lunacy though.
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Post by PONTAFCE on Jun 9, 2008 12:40:18 GMT
Tate and lyle behave
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Post by bobafett on Jun 9, 2008 12:50:10 GMT
IMO a fit Ameobi would be a cracking signing for us . He was clearly unfit when he was with us on loan but as Roeder say's there he is definately a premiership player .
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Post by **** Pulling Himself Off on Jun 9, 2008 12:51:16 GMT
He DEFINITELY isn't a Prem player.
If he was, wouldn't he be regularly playing in it?
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Post by Stokie86 on Jun 9, 2008 13:01:57 GMT
On SSN now, had a bid accepted
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Post by serpico on Jun 9, 2008 13:02:06 GMT
Breaking on SSN, Newcastle accept offer.
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Post by serpico on Jun 9, 2008 13:02:49 GMT
On SSN now, had a bid accepted your quick on the draw ;D
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Post by bobafett on Jun 9, 2008 13:14:39 GMT
Tate and Lyle . Peter crouch , Ryan Giggs , Shaun Wright-Phillips don't play regular . Are they not Premiership players ? Don't get me wrong I don't see Ameobi in that bracket of player just that I think a club like stoke would benefit from a fringe player like Ameobi .
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Post by glouscesterstokie on Jun 9, 2008 13:34:03 GMT
GET IN! thankgod we didnt waste money on him and ipswich are!
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Post by Northy on Jun 9, 2008 13:48:36 GMT
Ipswich should be made to repay the £55m they owed when going into admin before splashing out on big money transfers, they should be down with leeds and Leicester the other admin swindlers
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