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Hello Mr Oguchi Onyewu

Posted by Luke on January 30, 2007 10:45 AM | 

The months of waiting are over, Newcastle United have finally managed to sign someone in the transfer window, an American international who was not deemed to be good enough by Middlesbrough

But no, that is unfair and judgemental and, unlike certain white trash former occupants of the Celebrity Big Brother house, I am not like that.

Talking of Celebrity Big Brother, there was something fantastic about seeing that fraud Jade Goody committing career suicide wasn't there? You can take the girl out of Bermondsey, but you can't take Bermondsey out the girl!

As for Danielle whatever her name is, anyone who thinks that Teddy Sheringham is sexy, deserves everything they get. Oh and Big Brothers bosses, when you were thinking of getting a member of S Club 7 on the show, you should have gone for Rachel Stevens, she's fit and I bet she's not racist either!

Anyway, back to Mr Onyewu...

As I've said before, Glenn Roeder deserves some credit for his brave decision not to spend money - if there actually is any - this month on players he doesn't think will be good enough in the long term. What it means for the rest of the season I don't know, only time will tell.

It has been a long and agonising wait for him and the club's supporters, but it finally looks as though they are going to get a new centre back and, perhaps, a striker in the shape of Frederic Piquionne.

A cynic might suggest, what is the point of signing two foreign players who could need six months - the length of their loan deals - to settle into English football, but the real point is that United needed to get somebody in.

The pair have international experience and, in Piquionne's case at least, have admirers across Europe. They are not mugs and even if they are, Newcastle have not been mugged in the market place.

Whatever anybody thinks about this month's transfer policy, for the sake of the club as a whole, I'm sure they will hope the pair - presuming they actually sign - are a success during their time on Tyneside.

And just think, we're going to have another four months of speculation to look forward to in the summer! So to get things started, I reckon they will sign Peter Crouch or Darren Bent, Anton Ferdinand, Shaun Wright Phillips and Wayne Bridge.

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Comments (2)

Commulus wrote...

'Ho-hum! Ugly wine cooler.'

What is the point of it? Signing a loan players that is, when it’s obvious to the crew and the ships cat that we are neither going to win anything this season, nor are we going to be relegated. This is a management exercise in media manipulation and crowd control, an appeasement to show they are doing something as opposed to nothing, the bonus it costs absolutely nothing.

Good publicity is worth a fortune, Keegan was the king when it came to PR, he took his highly paid pampered pet player down to Swan Hunters to meet the workers, and he and Johnny Hall took the kids to meet Santa somewhere in the cold. When Keegan left we lost more than a manager, we lost our way, with the rudderless titanic Shepherd.

There has to be a reason for it! A club, a monolith, a comatose giant, without any giving, constantly taking, they have put a price of £21 on the next EUFA home game, I would have given blocks of free tickets to Schools, and to charity organisations for the level 7 seats. It would have generated and stimulated enquiry for the remaining tickets, just think of the Kudos for Shepherd, but no, captain clueless strikes again, they will walk out in front of a half full ground again. Shepherd does himself no favours; you would thing he relishes wallowing in loathing.

Subjected to torture from a fellow poster by ’the anagram generator’, I decided to run your headlines through the mechanism, and your number is up Luke, I’d long suspected that you were sending subliminal satanic messages. A wrongful inelastic valour, an ignominy for the incurably bored, as you can see I’ve decoded some, 'Alas! Bump off huge flair.' I think that really speaks for itself, doesn’t it? Constable, I have your man!


Posted by: Commulus  | January 31, 2007 1:51 PM

True Mag wrote...

Don't worry, we know me mucked up in the summer and we will put it right in the tranfer window. That was what we were told by our beloved chairman and manager. What a joke, conned and lied to again.

According to Freddie Shepherd, there has never been a quiet transfer window at Newcastle United - apart from this one and the last one you mean Fred.

We might be in the top half of the table but as Luke has argued, I doubt very much whether we have the squad to qualify for Europe and that Freddie, by your own measure, means this season will have been a failure!

Posted by: True Mag  | February 3, 2007 3:25 PM

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