So, its transfer time and as ever Newcastle are linked with every Tom, Dick and Harry. However, firm bids have supposedly been made for Yannick Djalo of Sporting Lisbon and Mevlut Erdinc of Paris Saint-Germain. Whether these bids really happened is another question as media can't always be trusted. If the reports are true and Newcastle have bid for the pair, then it at least show that we have a bit of money floating around for transfers.
About the two players mentioned above then. Yannick Djalo is 24 years of age and is a striker but can also double up as a winger. He has a record of 74 games and 16 goals for his club Sporting. He also recently got a call up to the Portugal first team squad by manager Carlos Queiros. His agent claims that us and Tottenham Hostpur have bid in the region of £4.2 million for the player but Sporting are holding out for closer to £6 or £7 million. For me that is too much for a striker that hasn't really proved himself in the Portuguese league.
Mevlut Erdinc is a Turkish striker who plays for Paris Saint-Germain. Mevlut is 23 years old and would fit in with the policy of going for youthful players. His one season at PSG ended with him scoring 15 goals in 31 outings, not a bad record. Before joining PSG he played for Sochaux for 4 years where he notched 24 times in 78 appearances. He has 10 caps for his country and has scored 1 goal in them games. He only joined his current club at the beginning of last season so looks unlikely to leave them below the amount that he was purchased for which was £7.5 million. Again for me this represents too much of a risk and the fee would be quite a large one.
For me, there is one striker who could play up alongside Andy Carroll successfully. He is Ghanaian striker Asamoah Gyan who impressed hugely at the recent World Cup bagging 3 goals in Ghana's run to the Quarter Finals. He is 24 years old and at 6ft 1 does pose a threat in the air as well as being pacy and a good finisher. His goal tally at club level isn't too special scoring 14 in 47 games for his current club Stade-Rennais. However his tally and strike rate at international level is exceptional, scoring once every 2 games with a record of 22 in 44. The downside to bidding for Gyan would be that many Premier League clubs being interested, including local rivals Sunderland. The fee would be around £7 million but this is a good price for the striker as he is proved at the highest level of international football.
Comments welcome,
Cheers, Daniel.
i think gyan is just as much of a risk as djalo or erding all of them will cost around £7m also apparently gyan hasnt taken his penalty miss too well and broke down, i dont think he'll be the same player now.
ReplyDeleteI'd prefer us to go for someone with prem experience if we're going to bid £7m, someone like eduardo from arsenal, bellamy from city or doyle from wolves
i hope gyan can return to the player he was in the world cup, because he was outstanding. aslong as Sunderland don't get him.
ReplyDeleteAll 3 of the players you suggested would be good mate, especially Eduardo, as I think Wenger would let him leave. Cheers for the comment mate
Eduardo is a good shout; he's available, not too expensive and will be out to prove himself. Gyan looked a class act aside from the penalty miss... Hope he doesn't go to Sunderland, but looks like they're going to sign Utaka.
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