Malbranque

[Kristoffer]

Om det som kan virke meget sannsynlig dessverre, at Luque og Milner forsvinner, så JA!
Ellers, kanskje ikke nei. Men tanken på Malbranque er meget fristende alikevel, det har den vært i flere år da!

[Rolfern]

Malbranque er god, meget god til Fulham-spiller å være. Men så dukker det opp et lite problem. Skal Steed inn må noen ut. Allsidig spiller, men skal man kvitte seg med Nobby eller Milner for å gjøre plass til nok en offensiv spiller?

£ 3,5M for Malbranque ser i alle fall ut som en fin handel på papiret. På høyrevingen har jeg fortsatt tro på at Nobby har en sesong eller to på godt nivå i beina. Milner har jeg fortsatt tro på kan slå ut i full blomst. Malbranque fungerer forøvrig også fint som link mellom midtbane og angrep. Med varslede avganger, så er et utlegg på £3,5M for Malbranque langt i fra det verste.

[HÃ¥vard]

Helt eing med deg Rolfern. Ingen vits i å kjøpe Malbranque. Han er en god spiller, men både Parker og Emre er bedre sentralt og han vil nok ikke være fornøyd med benken heller. Og nå skal jo milner også.

[Kesse]

Boro har fått tilslag på sitt bud?

http://www.nettavisen.no/sport/pl/article669539.ece

[geordie-olav]

Jeg tror det budet der blir akseptert. Om budet i det hele tatt eksisterer. Det er jo tross alt the sun som står bak nyheten.

[Romance]

Teamtalk melder også at et bud på £5m er lagt inn.. Alt for mye spør du meg..

[Kristoffer]

Isolert sett nei, med tanke på kvaliteten på spilleren, men med tanke på at han har et år igjen av kontrakten er det endel ja.

[Asbjørn]

Såpeoperaen fortsetter:


Toon pull out of Steed dealJul 12 2006
 
By Alan Oliver, The Evening Chronicle
 
 
Newcastle United have pulled out of the race to sign Fulham's French international Steed Malbranque leaving the way free for Middlesbrough to snap up the attacking midfielder.

But Glenn Roeder is beavering away in his attempt to bring some much-needed new blood to St James' Park before the start of the season.

Indeed, when I spoke to the United boss at 9pm last night he was still at the training ground with his assistant Kevin Bond making non-stop phone calls as the new season edges closer and closer.

Ironically, one of Roeder's early targets, Chelsea's Robert Huth, has failed a medical at Middlesbrough and will now not be heading to Teesside, and it remains to be seen whether new boss Gareth Southgate will succeed in signing Malbranque.

Fulham have seen West Ham and now United drop out of the race for Malbranque and find themselves in a difficult position after manager Chris Coleman ordered his Belgium-born midfielder to train with his youth team this week after he refused to sign a new contract.

A Craven Cottage insider told me today: "It is accepted at Fulham that Steed Malbranque will not be joining Newcastle United as was first thought."

Freddy Shepherd has always come up with money for his managers, but Roeder must know deep down that he has absolutely no chance of getting anywhere near the £50m his predecessor Graeme Souness spent in his 17 months at St James' Park.

He must also know that, unlike most of his predecessors, he cannot afford to make any mistakes in the transfer market in the next couple of weeks.

Now that the Malbranque deal has fallen through I would love to see United to have a go for Shaun Wright-Phillips who could be prised away from Chelsea on a loan deal.

But one of the problems here is that Chelsea do not report back for training until July 27 and because he has such a huge squad Jose Mourinho is under no pressure to make any decisions about any of his players.

The loss of Michael Owen just a couple of months after Alan Shearer retired cannot be under-estimated, and there is no answer to how United can replace the England striker who cost them £17m less than 12 months ago.

United would like Darren Bent from Charlton Athletic, but there is no chance of the England international arriving at St James' Park as he now has a £15m price tag around his neck.

United's five targets were listed in a leading national newspaper today as David Beckham, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Steed Malbranque, Miroslav Klose and Dirk Kuyt.

But I don't expect any of these five will be looking for a peg in the St James' Park dressing room in the coming season.

[Joakim]

For faen. Kan vi ikke få noe KONKRET å forholde oss til for en gangs skyld?

[Journalisten]

For faen. Kan vi ikke få noe KONKRET å forholde oss til for en gangs skyld?

Steed Malbranque er nå klar for Tottenham. På en måte litt synd, for dette er en svært god spiller, som vi virkelig kunne hatt god bruk for i Newcastle, til tross for at det allerede florerer av brukbare midtbanespillere på Tyneside.

Dette styrker i hvert fall garantert Tottenham, og kan være en viktig del av Tottenhams kamp mot Newcastle og andre Europa-kandidater denne sesongen. La oss inderlig håpe at Glenn Roeder signerer en spiller til innen to timer og trettisyv minutter.