Toon after £9m-rated Crouch? Pull the other one!
Posted on July 26th, 2011 | 32 Comments |
Newcastle have allegedly ‘approached’ Spurs about the prospect of signing Crouch but I’d very much like to see some sort of quote to back that up, otherwise I simply don’t believe it.
All that Pardew has said from the States is:
“We are waiting on two decisions and that will determined where we go next and what we do.
“We are waiting for those to come in. We are still pursuing one or two players.”
Sorry, but Crouch is 30, on a decent wage and Spurs are asking £9m for him. It’s just not the profile for the sort of player Ashley seems to like to recruit, even if we knocked a couple of million off Spurs’ estimate of the player’s value.
For the last seven seasons on the trot, Crouch has been good for 10-15 goals a season but Harry Redknapp is hunting a new striker himself and it is thought that Crouch’s chances for first-team action at Spurs will diminish.
Stoke and QPR are also said to be interested in the player but unless I see some sort of solid confirmation by way of a genuine, verifiable quote, I won’t believe he’s ever been of interest to us this summer.
I suspect that one of the ‘two decisions’ Pardew mentioned he’s waiting on is probably Mevlüt Erdinç and the other might be Shane Long, although I’m just speculating there. It’s always possible that we’ve been pursuing some players on the quiet.
With such a dismissive title as I put on this article I could easily end up with egg on my face if it turns out we are actually after Crouch, but I’ll take the risk.
Speaking of egg, I seem to have missed breakfast, so I’m off to rectify that now.
I would be gutted if we signed Crouch