Sinclair to City!..Really?

Scott Sinclair is closing in on a deal to join Manchester City this summer, in a move that has taken me by massive surprise. Sinclair started his career at Bristol Rovers, but quickly got snapped up by Chelsea as a young player with huge talent. He spent 5 years at Chelsea in which he played 5 games and went on loan to 6 different clubs within the 5 years, while at the 6 clubs he didn’t really live up to the potential that rested on his young shoulders. Brendan Rogers took a chance on Sinclair and signed him on a permanent deal for Swansea City, a move that gave Sinclair the much needed game time he required. He was one of the stand out players for Swansea in there Championship winning side and over achieving Premiership side of last year, but is he a player of Manchester City quality?
At 5.5 million raising to a potential 8 million its a good deal for Manchester City, fills in a gap in the squad, can play in a numerous of positions and has the potential to be a good player. Where it might be a good move for Man City I don’t think its such a good move for Sinclair. He’s found a team were he’s a key player in that team, he’s getting regular football and the full 90 minutes of most games. Was he to leave Swansea to Man City he will find himself sitting on the bench most games coming on for the last 10 to 15 minutes of games, as he is not good enough to be getting in the team otherwise ahead of David Silva or Samir Nasri. If Sinclair is the player he could be he would be best like a lot of young players would be and sticking with the club they are at and improving your game there, and if the player backs his own potential and ability then there is no doubt that the likes of Manchester City, Chelsea, Manchester United will still be wanting to sign you in a year or 2 years time, when you can guarantee yourself more establish role in that team. Perhaps he should talk to Adam Johnson before he moves…

Mike Cashley

The 8th August 2012 has brought news of NUFC chairman Mike Ashley is interested in buying a 10% stake in Rangers Newco. (the new name for Rangers FC) While this may annoy some NUFC fans as during the summer NUFC have not been the biggest spenders in the Premiership this summer, but this deal for Rangers should really have no affect on NUFC, as Mike and Derek have already stated on numerous occasions NUFC is a club that will be run on its own accord, with money gained in profits from TV deals, sponsorship and player sales used to run the club. What this news does show is what a great business man Mike Ashley is. He is using this deal to buy a stake in one of the most famous clubs in the world, when they are at the lowest points in its history like what Ashley has done with his other businesses over many years. What Ashley will gain from the deal is exclusive rights to selling all Ranger merchandise in his Sports Direct shops for the next 10 years, and with Rangers guaranteed to be back in the Scottish Premier League within the next 5 years, down to the poor standard of football in the lower Scottish leagues and Rangers appeal to get players who would tend to drop down a league means high profits for Ashley if he decides to sell in a few years time…..and maybe he might use that money on NUFC!! Doubt it tho

Deja Debuchy

Why waiting for Debuchy, could be more costly for NUFC than getting the deal done and dusted!
Negotiations apparently started between NUFC and Lille before the Euro Championships kick off for Mathieu Debuchy. A fee believed to be around 4.5 million to get the French right back to NUFC was mooted, but down to the injury of Bacary Sagna of Arsenal, Debuchy was thrust in to become France's first choice right back for the Euro Championship. Hence Lille’s reluctance to push the deal on knowing the player’s market price could rocket if the player’s performances at the Euro Championship were to impress, which in reality is what happened. The Euro Championships happen and NUFC hope to push through a deal but Lille up the fee they want for Debuchy to around 7.5 million, a fee NUFC are unwilling to meet. NUFC have decided Debuchy is the right back they want for the coming season and placed a new 6 million bid, only for that to be rejected and for Lille’s chairman Michel Seydoux coming out and saying they have had enough and Debuchy is staying and are not willing to enter into negotiations with the NUFC anymore. NUFC are in need of a new right back as Danny Simpson is heading towards the end of his contract and every day that goes by his value is dropping in the transfer market. So with NUFC not getting the deal done and not offering another 1 million for Debuchy they could now potentially lose a potential 2 to 4 million altogether, as the later NUFC take to offload Danny Simpson. His value is dropping from what should be 2/3 million as the summer started dropping to around 1 million in the later days of the transfer window. Whatever happens this transfer window in NUFC search for a right back, it is a battle NUFC have lost, but may win the war in actually getting the man in Mathieu Debuchy.

You do the crime, you serve the time!

Potential transfer news that Joey Barton is to join League 2 new boys Fleetwood Town on loan for 6 months from Premiership side QPR. A great move by a ambitious Fleetwood Town, a Premiership player at your club for half of a new season in a new league. Shame is he’s suspended for 12 matches. Was Barton to stop at QPR he would be out of action till about November, but with League 2 playing more games at a faster rate, by going to Fleetwood Town he can get the 12 match ban out of the way by mid October. This is clearly cheating the system, something that the FA should straight away look to ban. Joey Barton has done wrong, and it wasn’t a minor incident, what he did should not take place on a football field or off a football field, hence him getting a 12 match ban. Barton should serve his ban at the club the ban was committed at and shouldn’t be able to transfer clubs to help him get back to football quicker. The other shameful act that will take place when Barton has passed his 12 match ban he will be instantly recalled back to QPR, without playing 1 game or Fleetwood Town, which makes the 6 month loan deal just a farce.

Will He, Wont He?

So tonight Lille president Michel Seydoux has told Newcastle to forget about signing Mathieu Debuchy after a second bid for the player was rejected. Is that the deal over with, do NUFC move on, do they try with a new offer, does Debuchy hand in a transfer request.....with all these options who knows. I believe Debuchy is the man NUFC want, and will be willing to wait as long as it takes to get him, in the same circumstances they waited for Papiss Cisse. NUFC don’t really need to worry as Danny Simpson is a good right back, he lacks a final ball, but he shows heart and that makes up for a lot in football. Newcastle would rather have there players in by now, like they did last season as it gives time to gel, but with this season the transfer policy is about fine tuning and not major overhaul so that may not be as big a issues, but with 29 days to go until the transfer window slams shut, I believe this deal isn’t dead, and one day Mathieu Debuchy will become a NUFC player.

Your Taking The Papiss.....Two Dembas

Newcastle United are closing in on their first transfer of the January transfer window, but how has the transfer of Papiss 'Demba' Cisse of Freiburg for the fee believed to be £7.5 million.

Talk and rumours flew about that Newcastle wanted their man back in August, but Freiburg were commanding a fee in the region of £14 million and stuck their heels in that they needed adequate time to find a replacement, something Newcastle did not do.

Fast forward 5 months and Papiss Cisse move to Newcastle is a done deal, at half the price but why?

Freiburg are bottom of the German Bundesliga, 5 points of safety, and their main striker missing for the next 5 or 6 games potentially due to the African Nations Cup, with a maximum of 18 points to play for. By the time Cisse returns from the African Nation Cup survival in the Bundesliga could be almost gone. So instead of waiting Freiburg have seemed to have taken action and Newcastle United have taken advantage of their lofty Premier League standing and money in their back pocket.

Freiburg have sold before the players value sinks after potential relegation, and that they have already brought in Cisse's replacement in Sebastian Freis from Cologne. So come the evening of 17th January Newcastle have their 2 Senegalese, Dembas upfront and to continue to challenge for a European place.