Steven Taylor on the move? The statement says no!
Posted on May 11th, 2010 | 115 Comments |
After sailing along relatively smoothly, along came said statement to ruffle a few feathers. It was a move that was supposed to ensure clarity between boardroom and everyone else, yet backfired spectacularly leaving fans with more questions than answers whilst managing to poke the press into action at the same time by having a sly dig at them and using words that could mean a variety of things. We seem to have finally reached an understanding as to what capital outlay is at last, but the sly dig at the press is a different matter and could run for a while yet. It could lead to problems in the future, as the press now have a licence to print what they want as they know the club are not going to deny it with their new ‘no comment’ on anything strategy. So it’s not surprising to see the fun has already begun today with yet more rumours surrounding Steven Taylor and a possible departure from the club.
Yet another reference to the statement, but it did basically say to not believe any speculation you read in the newspaper. That is fair enough when you put into the context that this is approximately the 16,000th rumour this season regarding the future of Taylor, who I personally think is unlikely to leave Tyneside and will sign a new contract in the summer. Although at the quoted £7 million price, it could be worth flogging him.
Enough of that paper rubbish as it’s nonsense, Mike told us so you know! I’m sure the recently crowned LMA Championship Manager of the Year, Chris Hughton, wouldn’t want to lose any players before next season, especially when they have Premier League experience under their belt. We need as many players as we can get as it looks unlikely there will be many, if any, coming into St James’ Park, and Taylor did form the basis of our Championship side. That should mean he stays, right? It’s what the statement says.
You see, this is what happens when you rile the media and tell them you’re already unavailable for comment. You get unsubstantiated rumours as the press know they will get away with it and not have to answer to anyone. It’s also a consequence of playing the poverty card, which invites this sort of press immediately and breeds rumours that we must well everyone now or go bust or something like that. The journo’s haven’t disappointed!
At the end of the day, we will have to wait to see if there is any official statement regarding Taylor as we wont find out until he is gone, that’s if he is going. I suspect there will be no such statement, but then nothing surprises with Newcastle United at this moment in time. Perhaps the swap for Puyol is on after all?
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The statement says that NUFC will only deal with agents under privacy clauses. So we can dismiss rumours in the media about transfers in and out. As soon as an agent leaks news, the deal will be off.
It seems in his nature for Ashley to play that sort of hard-faced bastard type game.
The problem for us supporters, though, is that we love the speculation. We just love reading and talking about Newcastle United. Even if most of it is crapola.