Would Weiss would be a wise move for Newcastle?
Posted on June 16th, 2010 | 142 Comments |
Kind of as a result of that, over the last few weeks we have been linked with some of the brightest talent around in English football, not to be signed on permanent deals by us, but to make a temporary switch to Tyneside to help us beef up our squad with the numbers required for a tough and demanding Premier League season. The latest in the line of young-guns linked with a move to us is Vladimir Weiss of Manchester City, the Slovakian who is currently away on World Cup duty, and in fact played yesterday against New Zealand. But would a move like this be beneficial to us?
In short, yes. Personally I don’t really care if a player costs £10 million, or whether we pick him up on a free, or whether we loan him from another club in all honesty. All that matters is that any player brought in could a job for us when it is needed to be done.
But the problem with loaning players in that are held in high regard at their parent clubs is that they will more than likely be required to feature in a number of games. Anyone remember that time we loaned Giuseppi Rossi? Then does anyone remember how unhappy Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson was as we just weren’t giving him enough games? Well in his opinion anyway, and what would he know eh?
Weiss spent the back end of last season on loan at Bolton Wanderers, although Manchester City appear unhappy that he was only given a handful of substitute appearances in his time at The Reebok, which should drop a massive hint towards the role he would be expected to play for us if he did end up at St James’ Park – a major one.
So given that Weiss will be required to play a more important role in terms of minutes on the pitch, surely that would mean that one of our current wingers would have to make way. But is Weiss better than Jonas Gutierrez or Wayne Routledge? Can we justify dropping either of those two players for a young lad who has hardly featured in the Premier League?
I don’t know enough about Weiss to comment on that accurately, but the same situation would apply with any of the loan possibilities that have been linked with us previously such as Jack Wilshere or Tom Cleverley. The fact that all of these players will need games makes trying to keep the current squad happy whilst trying to bulk up that same squad with highly rated young players that little bit more difficult. I guess it’s all about the balance between the two, and I hope Chris Hughton can get that right.
Still, there is no concrete development yet so I guess we’ll just have to wait this one out… again.
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If they really want games they should be asking to go out on loan to a CC club where they will start every match. I think he looks decent but he’d need to compete with the current wingers and earn his spot and this minimum appearance thing is a joke. What if he is playing and or training like crap? That being said I wish we had Rossi now. He is exactly the sort of player we need.