Jimbo 133 Posted July 16, 2008 Share Posted July 16, 2008 Newcastle United's faltering summer recruitment drive was knocked back once again yesterday when Anton Ferdinand pulled out of transfer negotiations with the club. The West Ham defender was one of a group of players the club's London-based transfer team had hoped to sign. Although West Ham were prepared to part with the former England Under-21 international, Ferdinand himself was understood to be less than keen on moving to the North-east. It leaves Newcastle in a predicament, with their only two signings in the transfer window the Argentine winger Jonas Gutierrez from Real Mallorca and Danny Guthrie, the Liverpool midfielder who was on loan at Bolton Wanderers last season. While Ferdinand, 23, was hardly likely to change the club's fortunes single-handedly, Newcastle are badly short of cover in central defence. They had counted on signing the Manchester City captain, Richard Dunne, but that deal has come to nothing with the new manager Mark Hughes' arrival at Eastlands. Given that this was intended to be a summer of rebuilding at St James', the job still looks far from done. In terms of defenders, David Rozenhal, Stephen Carr and Peter Ramage have all left this summer. Newcastle's transfer business is conducted from London by the three-man team of Dennis Wise, Tony Jimenez and Jeff Vetere. Their views on transfers have not always chimed with those of the club's manager, Kevin Keegan, although they were in agreement over Peter Crouch, who also turned down Newcastle. At this rate, it would appear that they are being forced to look a long way down their list of potential targets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Offshore Toon 0 Posted July 16, 2008 Share Posted July 16, 2008 Thank God for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acrossthepond 751 Posted July 16, 2008 Share Posted July 16, 2008 " " So now the Independent have unilaterally decided that our transfers are indeed conducted by Wise and co? Again, this reeks of a media who have no bleeding idea what is going on inside our club. p.s. Anton Ferdinand = no thanks. Championship defender at best whose career limps on because of his association with Rio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sima 0 Posted July 16, 2008 Share Posted July 16, 2008 Thank fuck for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toontoasey 0 Posted July 16, 2008 Share Posted July 16, 2008 Big name my arse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JawD 48 Posted July 16, 2008 Share Posted July 16, 2008 Big name my arse. Depends how you say it Feeeerrrr-dinaaaaand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckyluke 1 Posted July 16, 2008 Share Posted July 16, 2008 Big name my arse. He's just that, his name is famous because of Rio, but in footballing terms he's a nobody. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SloopJohn 0 Posted July 16, 2008 Share Posted July 16, 2008 thank fuck. average average player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fop 1 Posted July 16, 2008 Share Posted July 16, 2008 (edited) Thank God for that. Anton Ferdinand = no thanks. Championship defender at best whose career limps on because of his association with Rio. Thank fuck for that. Big name my arse. thank fuck. average average player. Although if it turns out that Antoninand and Crouch have both genuinely turned us down, that could be a bit concerning in other ways. Edited July 16, 2008 by Fop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 71 Posted July 16, 2008 Share Posted July 16, 2008 " " So now the Independent have unilaterally decided that our transfers are indeed conducted by Wise and co? Again, this reeks of a media who have no bleeding idea what is going on inside our club. p.s. Anton Ferdinand = no thanks. Championship defender at best whose career limps on because of his association with Rio. What did KK say on the matter himself on the telly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayatollah Hermione 13004 Posted July 16, 2008 Share Posted July 16, 2008 I'm crushed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMoog 0 Posted July 16, 2008 Share Posted July 16, 2008 Is there any actual proof that either player turned us down? That we actually made a bid? Or is it just the usual paper speculation? In which case I heard that Ronaldo turned down a move to Hartlepool... or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howay 12496 Posted July 16, 2008 Share Posted July 16, 2008 Hopefully we weren't ever in for him but even if this is true it doesn't worry me Anton's one of the brapp brapp lads so leaving London would be devastating for him he's welcome to stay there useless bugger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 71 Posted July 16, 2008 Share Posted July 16, 2008 Is there any actual proof that either player turned us down? That we actually made a bid? Or is it just the usual paper speculation? In which case I heard that Ronaldo turned down a move to Hartlepool... or not. Nearly every post in every player transfer thread on N.O. is like this now. Takes some of the fun out of it really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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