Mbiwa - £5m rated defender could arrive on Tyneside in January with Maiga

With Steven Taylor very unlikely to feature again in the 2011/12 Premier League campaign, Alan Pardew is set to up the ante in the January transfer window and sign a replacement. Frenchman Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa had been linked with Newcastle in recent weeks, however Pardew played down any supposed interest. As you would expect, since the injury to Tayls, we are being linked [Read more →]

Duo - Chance for Perch and Kádár to stake their claims in the NUFC first team

Fourteen games into the Premier League campaign and we’ve managed the same back five for all of it. A proud achievement. However, towards the very end of our encounter with Chelsea yesterday afternoon Steven Taylor happened to damage his achilles and is to undergo surgery on Monday. The inevitability about it all is that Taylor, who has been one of our best players of the season so far [Read more →]

Pardew - Has managed to coax Modibo Maiga to Tyneside depite summer failure

The fruitless long protracted talks with Sochaux over their prized forward Modibo Maiga in the summer may not have went down well on Tyneside, but news today from various sources including The Guardian claim that a deal has now been agreed between both parties and the Malian striker will pen a 4 and a half year deal at St.James’ Park on January 2nd. Graham Carr and his scouting [Read more →]

Maiga - Newcastle United still pressing hard to get a January transfer deal done

Despite landing their main target in the summer to partner Leon Best/ Demba Ba Newcastle United still remain very keen on Modibo Maiga of Sochaux. In fact; they’ve been out to watch him since the window has closed with a plan to lure him to St.James’ Park in January. The very fact that Carr & Pardew are so keen to land the striker must tell you something – the lad must have a lot of [Read more →]