Nicolás Tagliafico

[Ragatino]

Agent is in England to hash out details with NUFC officials apparently.

We need a proper left back. Could do a lot worse.

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/newcastle-united-considering-move-left-13535999

[Zippity]

We definitely need a proper LB (think most would agree Dummett isn't a proper LB)

....mind, thought Lazaar was a proper one too....:?

[Davearmy]

Honestly never heard of him but like hopefully he's decent

[Ragatino]

Honestly never heard of him but like hopefully he's decent


A few minutes of footage from Independiente - Banging tackle @ 2:51 :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxJ4epBBKHg

Making his Debut for Argentina - Willian gives him a hard time / gets a couple of crosses off but he's a lot closer to Willian that Dummy ever gets.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OQyiqZm48Y

The lad seems to have bags of potential and that appears to be what we are buying. Like Merino, he may take a game or two to get the timing of the Prem but Rafa can defo bring the kid on.

Here's hoping we can seal this one quickly - Price being touted is around £4million.

[Nephy]

As with so many of our signings, he's an unproven gamble. Highly rated prospect, but has never played in Europe. Lazaar's reputation was higher than this guy's before he came here, and look what happened to his career here. My prediction? It could go either way; he could turn out to be awesome, in which case we'll probably get a tidy profit for him a few years from now, or he'll barely play for us and he'll eventually be sold off at a small loss to reduce the wage bill. That's our business model, for better or worse. Hard to get excited about, guess we'll just have to wait and see if this is a punt that turns out to be a winner or not!

[Ragatino]

A few minutes of footage from Independiente - Banging tackle @ 2:51 :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxJ4epBBKHg

Making his Debut for Argentina - Willian gives him a hard time / gets a couple of crosses off but he's a lot closer to Willian that Dummy ever gets.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OQyiqZm48Y

The lad seems to have bags of potential and that appears to be what we are buying. Like Merino, he may take a game or two to get the timing of the Prem but Rafa can defo bring the kid on.

Here's hoping we can seal this one quickly - Price being touted is around £4million.


https://newcastletoons.com/2017/08/29/newcastle-united-aiming-sign-pair-south-american-fullbacks/

Another report this time also including a bit about Cristian Ramirez an Ecuadorian youth how's been likened to the great Roberto Carlos.

Nicolás Tagliafico has been dubbed 'The New Javier Zanetti' in Argentina - High praise indeed.

Ramirez only moved recently however he's priced at around £2.2 million. A remarkable bit of business would be to bring them both in, pie in the sky like!

[Nephy]

'The new Roberto Carlos', 'The New Javier Zanetti'... eh... it's all hype. Yasin Ben El-Mhanni is our very own 'new Riyadh Mahrez', but he's nowhere near our first team squad. If Ramirez is so great, why would Krasnodar be actively offering him for sale to us? Sounds like made up bull to me, just like that Icelandic striker. We'll see!

[zoggs]

Agent is in England to hash out details with NUFC officials apparently.

We need a proper left back. Could do a lot worse.

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/newcastle-united-considering-move-left-13535999

Been confirmed as a lie this evening

[MidsMagpie]

And Gibbs is off to west brom for 7m :(

[Jammy89]

And Gibbs is off to west brom for 7m :(

We'd have never have paid wages Gibbs wants, it's why his Watford moved fell through. They weren't willing to go above £80k and he wanted £100K - something baggies can afford with their chinese owners now.

[waalsendmick]

if this kid is any good, then he won't be joining us.

if we sign him, it is one of two things.

either.

a) he is gash or
b) we are doing his agent a favour.


hope I'm wrong.....