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Post by thepremierbanksy on Mar 28, 2008 12:26:18 GMT
" knowing Shola like I do, he'll be amazingly unfit as well. He takes a bit of getting fit"
This sentance is going to be haunting my sleep tonight, despite Rodent being a foul little bastard.
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Post by FullerMagic on Mar 28, 2008 12:31:09 GMT
Me too.
I can live with paying over-the-top, potentially obscene fees for players.
But not unfit ones.
We've just got to hope Pulis knows what he's doing, but he has been caught with his trousers down before re player fitness.
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Post by Stick It On Cort's Head on Mar 28, 2008 12:33:39 GMT
Ameobi is the sort of player who doesn't need to be fit, he can turn on the ball and wallop it or just be there to put the ball in the back of the net.
A complete striker, he has everything, BUT, he is obviously injury prone.
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Post by thepremierbanksy on Mar 28, 2008 12:36:15 GMT
It's all well and good gambling on player fitness if you're getting a cheap player like fuller or pericard, you can live with it if it doesn't work, but when you are actually prepared to pay the going extortionate rate it becomes a reckless gamble.
Then again we are top with 6 games to go, so if there is a time for reckless gambles with money then it's now, I don't really care if we have paid up to £200k a match for shola, I'm more concerned that he might be totally shit and keep someone who can actually run out of the side.
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Post by FullerMagic on Mar 28, 2008 12:52:54 GMT
Then again we are top with 6 games to go, so if there is a time for reckless gambles with money then it's now, I don't really care if we have paid up to £200k a match for shola, I'm more concerned that he might be totally shit and keep someone who can actually run out of the side. That's Beast and Periwinkle out of the equation then ;D
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Post by crashbandicoot on Mar 28, 2008 13:00:00 GMT
Hold on im all for pissing Glenn Roeder off
But 5 million seems a bit steep doesnt it??
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Post by The Toxic Avenger on Mar 28, 2008 13:02:30 GMT
The only one who says it will cost that is Rodent though.
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Post by Danstoke82 on Mar 28, 2008 13:11:21 GMT
Rodent clearly is a bitter and twisted cuntbag, nice to pull one over him.
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Post by Championship Potter on Mar 28, 2008 13:19:33 GMT
I think Wise just plucked that £5m figure out of the air to get that annoying cunt Roeder off the phone.
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Post by monkeycat on Mar 28, 2008 13:21:01 GMT
The Mirror this morning says we are signing Ameobi for £3M, but then it also says the deal for Pearson collapsed!!!
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Post by sirpineapple89 on Mar 28, 2008 13:30:11 GMT
£5million? No chance. He's talking out of his jacksie as per usual.
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Post by garyhackett on Mar 28, 2008 13:35:40 GMT
I cant believe some people on here saying it could be a reckless gamble, if we hadnt signed anyone they would be the first to slag off the club. Ameobi was the last option, we tried for Nugent, Kamara, Healy but neither were allowed to come. We desperately needed a striker and this was the only option left it was either Ameobi or nobody so to be honest i am glad we have taken the gamble.
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Post by knowles on Mar 28, 2008 13:37:16 GMT
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Post by CalgaryPotter on Mar 28, 2008 13:39:16 GMT
What a load of cock. This is utter bac-covering from Rodent because a player chose us instead of him Ask youself this all important question.....If Ameobi is that fucked, why was Roeder trying to get him? The man is a simpleton, pure an simple. ...... along with Magilton at Ipshit too I believe. Nowt but a sour faced twat who's trying to keep his fans on-side.
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Post by FullerMagic on Mar 28, 2008 14:04:26 GMT
Shola loan is his big chance - Kev
KEVIN Keegan says Shola Ameobi's move to Stoke City is a win-win situation for the striker and Newcastle United. Ameobi yesterday joined the promotion-chasing Championship club on loan until the end of the season.
And Keegan believes Ameobi - who still has another year on his St James's Park contract - was better off playing crucial games for Tony Pulis's side rather than wasting away in the reserves.
The 26-year-old - who has made just one start under Keegan - has gone straight into the Stoke side for tomorrow's game against Sheffield Wednesday at Hillsborough.
"For a while I was reluctant to let him go, but I think it's the right move for everybody," said Keegan.
"With (Mark) Viduka back, (Obafemi) Martins and young Andy Carroll staking a claim, I think it's right for him play at a level we can't give him.
"He needs games, and I think Stoke - for their part - have got a fantastic acquisition.
"I think it's a win-win situation. I thought long and hard about it, but I think it's right.
"I talked to his agent, and I talked to Shola, and I think he is much better playing a massive game for Stoke City tomorrow.
"Would he rather playing against Manchester United reserves at Northwich Victoria (on Thursday night), or at Hillsborough in a game where one team is fighting for survival, and the other is fighting for the Premiership?
"It's a chance for him to show what he is about."
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Post by Block 26 on Mar 28, 2008 14:11:05 GMT
What a signing ey
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Post by mcf on Mar 28, 2008 14:23:56 GMT
Brilliant reading.
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Post by thepremierbanksy on Mar 28, 2008 14:34:14 GMT
I cant believe some people on here saying it could be a reckless gamble, if we hadnt signed anyone they would be the first to slag off the club. Ameobi was the last option, we tried for Nugent, Kamara, Healy but neither were allowed to come. We desperately needed a striker and this was the only option left it was either Ameobi or nobody so to be honest i am glad we have taken the gamble. Gary, I am the only person on this thread who has used either the word reckless or gamble, and I am not a reactionary poster who comes on to the oatcake to slag the club off at the slightest disapointments, i am not caught up in this rimmer/wankstain nonsense, so you can put your mind at ease on that one. My concerns are largely based around his fitness, which is only based on what roeder has said in his sour grapes outburst, in combination with these extortionate fees he's making up. I think there's every chance that he'll work out well for us regardless, after all the beast managed his goals in a similar situation last season. But at the same time there is the concern that he will be so far from being sharp as to be ineffective, in which case he is a gamble, that you cannot deny.
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Post by FullerMagic on Mar 28, 2008 16:27:35 GMT
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Post by garyhackett on Mar 28, 2008 16:39:23 GMT
I dont think Ameobi is a gamble at all thats my view however do think that Pearson is a gamble as he is carrying a hernia injury and to be blunt aint no left winger which was the postion Pulis signed him for.
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Post by FullerMagic on Mar 28, 2008 16:43:07 GMT
I never thought we could attract anyone like Ameobi in this league.
The niggles are the scale of the fee for a player out of contract next summer (even though it seems there's no compulsion on us to go ahead with it, which is a relief) and the slight doubts about him a.) being sharp enough to do the business and make his extra quality count over the next 6 games and b.) experiencing no long-term ill-effects from his serious hip injury.
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Post by garyhackett on Mar 28, 2008 16:46:29 GMT
Have no fear if we dont get promotion there is no way Coates will pay 5 million for him in the championship he will be straight back to Newcastle.
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Post by FullerMagic on Mar 28, 2008 16:49:45 GMT
Have no fear if we dont get promotion there is no way Coates will pay 5 million for him in the championship he will be straight back to Newcastle. I wouldn't have been holding my breath. The thought of Coatesy having to shell out 5m on a player for another C'ship campaign, without the truckload of Sky cash at his disposal, is enough to bring him out in a cold sweat. ;D Can't fault him this season though; he's gone above and beyond the call of duty in pursuit of the big time.
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Post by blackpoolred on Mar 28, 2008 17:17:33 GMT
Surely we cant be anything but ecstatic & grateful for our latest signings.. Only Pulis would try and pull off such signings
As for Coates, he didn't get where he is today without taking a gamble
Well done & thankyou Coates & Pulis - He who dares
Lets blow the bloody roof off like we did in the Newcastle match for our last couple of Home games.
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Post by mark71 on Mar 28, 2008 17:49:17 GMT
If the Rodent was a half decent manager he would still be managing Ameobi not trying to sign him for his half arsed club.
If Ameobi is such an injury prone unfit wreck why would the rodent want first dabs on any loan move for him? Bitter and twisted ;D
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2008 18:13:18 GMT
Acres quoting Scholes on P & G says that the figure of £5m is "wrong"
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Post by thepremierbanksy on Mar 28, 2008 18:14:19 GMT
Just listened to that rodent interview, at the end he manages to go from talking about bristol city and how good they are to dismissing these teams that smash the ball and take long throw ins.
Come on Shola!
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