Haidara Undergoes Medical – Signs for NUFC

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Massadio Haidara, a 20 year old French fullback today signed for Newcastle United on a 4 and a half year deal. The French under 21 international and former Nancy player is highly rated in France, and is known for his pace. He will wear the Number 19 shirt. Haidara makes it three signings (and three [...]

Coloccini Representatives in Newcastle

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As if things couldn’t get any worse, representatives of Newcastle captain Fabricio Coloccini are in Newcastle to discuss buying out Colo’s contract. They apparently have backers who are prepared to pay full-whack for his contract. Unfortunately for fans of Newcastle, it means that instead of needing just one central defender in the winter transfer market, [...]

St. James’s Park to be Sports Direct Arena

Newcastle United are third in the league, were even in second place for a couple of hours, and all is well on the football field. Fear not Toon fans, Mike Ashley and cohort Derek Llambias are always here to bring us crashing back down to earth. Sure enough, they are going to rename St James’s [...]

Newcastle’s Summer Transfer Activity

When Andy Carroll left Newcastle United back in January the fans were told that all of the £35 million would be invested in players. Here are the players we’ve signed since then: Yohann Cabaye (around £5 mil) Demba Ba (Free transfer) Silvain Marveaux (Free transfer) Mehdi Abeid (Free transfer) Davide Santon (Undisclosed – thought to [...]

Carver and Tiote Sign New NUFC Contracts

John Carver and Cheick Tiote both committed their long term future to Newcastle United as they both signed contracts today. Tiote, who Newcastle signed from FC Twente last summer has been a revelation in midfield alongside Kevin Nolan. Tiote goes from an £8,000 p/week deal to a £50,000 p/week deal according to the Sun (we [...]

Newcastle United Accept Bid for Andy Carroll

It’s official. Newcastle United have accepted a bid from Liverpool for Andy Carroll with the fee believed to be about £35 million with add-ons. This is devastating news for Newcastle fans, just after the Newcastle number 9 confessed his love for the club and that he wanted to stay. The events leading up to the [...]

Toon Prepared to Sell Barton

When you have players who are playing well, and who make up the core nucleus of a team, the last thing you would do is sell them, right? But guess what? This is Newcastle United and apparently anything and everything out of the ordinary is capable of happening. According to this article on Sky, the [...]