Toon In For Tom
Sunday, 15 June 08, 03:32 PM · Comments (105)
Newcastle United Football Club want to sign Thomas Cuddlestones. No figure is touted as yet, just an initial sniff about availability at this stage.
This will be an emotive move should it happen. Opinion is divided. The Hudd has a loyal following who seem happy enough to potter along talking about potential, his young age and his sweet sweet touch.
Unfortunately, he's failed to make the grade and time has probably run out, at Tottenham, anyway.
The excess weight was lost but the mobility as it has been called wasn't really found as a result. The bottom line is with Ramos and my feeling is that he wants an an end to the players that aren't delivering. And tommy isn't. 'Meaning well' is all very nice, but we have genuine expectations of top four football. That is not going to come about hanging around forever hoping for players to either come good or turn in the odd blinder.
Patience and appreciation. No one could fail to appreciate what a potentially amazing footballer Tommy could be. He can be a fantasic and very 'Tottenham' player, but my patience would be wearing thin if I were Juande. He demands only what any top flight manager survives on: consistancy from great players. If he were to migrate north then and The News Of The Screws is anything to go by, he may well enjoy sampling a whole new world of ageing slappers. Urrgh.
This 'there's interest from Toon' infromation does indeed come from Dragon1 but also rather strangely from a pal of mine we'll call Slimboy Fat, lifelong Toon fan and ladies man. Slimboy has never had any inside info on Toon or anything else for that matter before and should this happen I will a) fall over b) never hear the end of it.
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Dragon1? Really? Are we supposed to believe anything that little scrote can muster?
I've been far from satisfied with Huddlestone's general level of performance over the last 18 months. He's shown that he has real class but has very, very rarely shown it (I'm sure we've said this about anotehr of out CMs before...)
We're going to need to pair Modric with somebody that's really physical and can impose themselves on the game aswell as opponents ankles. This just isn't Tom Huddlestone's game.
To be honest, though, I'd rather see Jenas sold than Huddlestone.
I like the Hudd, but it's getting better by the hour...Chimbonda, Gardner and Hudd for £30m and we'll even throw in a spare Tanio or 2!
Seriously though we might get a decent amount of cash, like we did when we sold those other 3 to Portsmouth. What were they called again, and are they first team players down there?
total waste of talent if we let him go. Best passer of the ball in our squad and is let down by players around him. (with Modric creating the space he does, expect a different hudd) Name a better passer of the ball in the premiership? Also look at his impact in european games when he gets time. against seville. yes Hudd's mobility is poor, what do you expect after about 6 months of being at a reasonable wheight (he can also get fitter). You dont become mobile over 6 months when you have not been for your WHOLE LIFE. There is a reason that his passing is so good because he has had to rely on it his whole career. Now you want to get rid of him because he hasnt learnt to be mobile in 6 months? If we got rid now to the likes of Everton of Newcastle, watch keegan or Moyes batter him into shape and it will come back to haunt us.
'Name a better passer of the ball in the premiership?'
Unfortunately mate, going by assist stats there seem to be 'loads'. And they all naturally enough make their first team on a regular basis...'
Completely agree with Mill. Best passer in our squad and he is let down by the others around him who have no idea what to do with the ball. He's the heir apparent to Carrick and he'll become class in a few years. What I love is how people write off a player even if he's 20-21 and doesn't do it in his first season. The guy's young. Give him a break. Personally I reckon we won't let him go because Ramos can see that he has the potential to become a class act.
"What I love is how people write off a player even if he's 20-21 and doesn't do it in his first season."
I wasn't writing him off, just saying he has yet to 'expolde' and how long
do you wait? How long can you afford to wait? And is this his first season? Lennon is a fans fave too, but another one
who'll be down the road if he cannot deliver an end product on demand.
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Toms an Ok player, but he's not Champions League, if he does go, i will wish him well.
Hit the nail on the head. I love Hudd and love the moments of briliance he pulls of from time to time. But it's true he doesn't deliver. I mean I'd be much happier to see Zoko leave, but in truth, if we needed a man to do some running and see a game out you'd have to pick Zoko over Hudd. He's a luxury player that creates goal every couple of games. However we now have Jenas to do the running, and Luka to create. I fear his time is up. I guess I'd sooner see him at Boro, possibly get Adam Johnson or Wheater out of it who knows. Maybe even to Rovers and dare I say it Bentley. Would be pretty gutted to lose him for a piffling £3-5m to Newcastle for nothing.