Rykten dementeras
Under dagen har tidningsuppgifter om att Manchester Citys mittfältare Joey Barton skulle vara på väg till Newcastle. Men Glenn Roeder dementerar att så skulle vara fallet.
“EXCLUSIVE Newcastle snatch £5.5M midfield star from City” fluorerade friskt i engelska tidningar under dagen. Det sades också att som finansiering så skulle Emre vara på väg åt motsatthåll, dvs på väg bort, och främst kopplades han till Bayern München. Men inget av det här stämmer alltså inte.
Roeder: "We are looking in other areas.
The one area where we have numbers is in midfield. We don't have numbers in defence and with Michael Owen and Shola Ameobi out for the season we are short of a striker, with Giuseppe Rossi also returning to Manchester United after this game.
There are priorities in the team and the priorities at the moment wouldn't include central midfield.”
Peter Crouch som det pratats mycket om de senaste veckorna att han skulle vara på väg till oss i en £12m deal ser inte heller ut att gå vägen. I alla fall så mörkar Roeder för tillfället att det i nuläget skulle vara fallet.
Roeder: "It's just speculation.
We're going to have to get used to it over the next four weeks. It will not just be Newcastle United, every Premiership club will be linked with all different sorts of players.
I would be on the phone to other managers if they started talking about my players who I had under contract, so it would be unfair of me to go into depth about Peter Crouch other than to say he's a very good player and worthy of his England place.
But as far as a transfer up to Newcastle, that's just speculation as far as I'm concerned and I don't know where that's come from.”
