Newcastle Utd is the ultimate graveyard club.
Go there if you want your career to go into an unexplicable downhill spiral with injuries or loss of form the most common factors.
- Michael Owen
- Damien Duff
- Obafemi Martins
- Alan Smith
- Claudio Cacapa
- Albert Luque
- Jonas Gutierrez
- Geremi Nijtap
... all very good - excellent players in their own right before they went there and we stricken by 'the blight'.
pallix...check ur facts eh:
Owen - went down hill after leaving Liverpool and not sweating regular
Duff - went downhill under Mourinho after he switch from playing 2 wingers in his first season
Smith - Shite since Leeds and got worse when Fergie try to make him a midfielder
Geremi - ordinary player at boro and chelsea, get worse when he suddenly became a RB
Martins - still d same as when he was at Inter : brilliantly inconcistent, but not shite
Luque, Gutierrez, Coloccini and Cacapa - never get a chance to settle and the middle two looked good under Keegan
Blame my side for wasting money on ordinary players, but doh accuse us of ruining their careers.
well i was wondering how it take you so long to chime in..
at the most i could give yuh back Geremi and Smith but other than that yuh being subjective.
Duff didnt go no downhill under mourinho, being on the bench doesnt make a player a bad player. Even though Joe Cole and then the new formation was seeing him out of favor, he was still very highly rated when he left Chelsea for Newcastle.
Similarly, Owen wasn't no downhill when he arrived at Newcastle to much acclaim. He was still lethal in La Liga, except he was riding pine behind Raul. Why yuh think he was able to run allyuh pocket dry with that big salary?
Martins was much better at Inter, matter of fact he was showing the potential to be one of the top strikers out there which is why Arsenal was tracking him hard. He reach newcastle, and is only flashes, then next thing you know the medical staff forkin up he hernia injury diagnosis.. Then he riding pine behind a crock like owen.
As for the next four, "never get a chance to settle", is just ah nice way to shroud the fact that they reach newcastle and pop down.
Let me put it another way to you.
Name a player in recent times who went to your side and subsequently left with a higher value on the transfer market, or left as a better and more coveted player in the EPL.