Pointless Weekend

Another Sunday, another Premiership game for Newcastle, another defeat and once again no goals. Not that many people will have been surprised by the result or even the 2:0 score line for that matter. The disappointing things were that barely troubled Van Der Sar apart from an overruled effort by Luque, we lost three midfielders to injury and the fact that both goals were down to defensive errors. Luque’s performance a mere 2 days into his Newcastle career did give some cause for cheer but not much else could be considered positive. Now only a wholly woeful Sunderland can ‘boast’ a worse record and things need to be addressed very quickly. Hopefully the next few days before the transfer window closing will see the arrival of at least a striker plus, hopefully, a left back and a centre back.

I’m not even close to panicking yet and still think we can qualify for Europe but only if we get a goalscorer. The word on the net is that Liverpool have lined up a deal that will take Cisse to France, take your pick from Marseille, Monaco or Lyon, thus opening the door for Michael Owen to step right through. The one stumbling block to this plan is that they are only prepared to offer the £8M they received last year from Real Madrid for the player. Owen still maintains Merseyside is his preferred destination. Dirk Kuit of Feyenoord, another potential target according to the rumour mongers, has expressed a wish to remain in Holland and Everton have allegedly had a bid of £10M rejected. All in all the options appear to be dwindling and time is running out; ask me on Thursday if I’m still not panicking.