Transfer Conjecture (was Durante + Phillips)

From the Newcastle Herald



Doesn't sound like he's signed... sounds more like an agent beat up.

wheres benjamin when you need him and to a lesser extent lunatic a lot lesser extent

Kevin Phillips Personal information Full name Kevin Mark Phillips Date of birth July 25, 1973 (1973-07-25) (age 34) Place of birth    Hitchin, England Height 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) Playing position Striker Club information Current club West Bromwich Albion Number 21 Youth clubs 1991 Southampton Senior clubs1 Years Club App (Gls)* 1992�1994
1994�1997
1997�2003
2003�2005
2005�2006
2006� Baldock Town
Watford
Sunderland
Southampton
Aston Villa
West Bromwich Albion 00? 00(?)
059 0(24)
209 (115)
064 0(23)
023 00(4)
053 0(31)    National team2 1998
1999�2000 England B
England 001 00(0)
008 00(0)

Personal information Full name Andrew Durante Date of birth May 3, 1982 (1982-05-03) (age 25) Place of birth    Sydney, Australia Height 1.82 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in) Playing position Centre Back, Right Back Club information Current club Newcastle Jets Number 6 Senior clubs1 Years Club App (Gls)* 2001-2003
2003-2004
2004
2005-present Sydney Olympic FC
Parramatta Power
Balestier Khalsa FC
Newcastle Jets 53 (1)
05 (0)
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33 (0) 

http://www.wba.premiumtv.co.uk/page/News/0,,10366~1209085,00.html

So the Jets are our Feeder Club then?

Oh crap... you're back...

Or are you still in Aus ?

If the story in the front page is true then well done to Ricki and the staff - great signings.

Negative!

And I nearly got a slap from a twelve year old in Noocastle when I questioned Joel Griffiths' sexuality!!! C-Diddy2008-01-08 16:08:57

Kevin Phillips. This guy would add 5000 to the gate, but............It was reported on West Brom Official site that Phillips contract expires in the summer and that he wants to stay with them, but they havent offered to renew yet. That was mid December and he has scored 5 goals in 3 games since. He is quoted as saying that he wants to stay but if he doesnt get a contract then someone else will offer him one. Perhaps at 34 he might be lured to a better part of the world to bring up his kids... Would certainly be worth throwing big money at if we could get him on a 2 year deal. We could then play Scouser 24, Longunman and me in the midfield to block out the sun so that he feels at home. Look at the money we would save.

Kevin Phillips...he would be ridiculously good but sounds like the kind of guy who any other championship clubs hear is on the market will go in for him...bit like Robbie Fowler.

Rather have Phillips than Fowler any day. This could be a decent thing. 34 and a 2 year deal. I mean Covs can still keep up, Phillips would wreak havoc on opoosition defences down here.

This isn't about Phillips v Fowler. What I am saying is that as soon as other Championship cubs hear he is available, if he doesn't re-sign for W Brom, they will be in for him, just like Cardiff did as soon a Sydney made an offer to Fowler.

Looks to me like Durante would be an excellent signing.

I can't really see Kevin Phillips coming here, sounds like he's still in the goals in the UK and his salary demands would be huge. Still it will be interesting to see who Terry and Ricki come up with for a Marquee signing next year. (As long as its not Elrich)

lol Durante would be good, Bring in Benny Sigmund and hopefully someone on the right and look out.
hmm and as for marquee i think Elrich was just something convientient in terms of his calibre (in terms of record) and the time that he  became available, although i'm extremely optimistic if we even made an offer for this dude then it shows our ambition and that Terry is willing to throw some money around

so if we signed durante and we plan 2 sign sigmund some defenders will be out??

That was exactly the reason people on SFC's forum didn't want Phillips. Because of his name not ability. Where Fowler would certainly have put bums on seats he would not have made the same impact on the field.
Juninho is capable of both.

But has achieved neither...there's always a hint of the gamble in picking a marquee. But one thing is certain, if they score goals, the crowd will love them.

Whoever did the one ahmed midfielder joke, that was gold.

Its a very unlikely situation isn't it. All the signs seem to be that West Brom want him to stay, Kevin Phillips wants Kevin Phillips to stay...

But if we don't get him, theres always Gareth Ainsworth if we're really desperate for a 34 year old championship player, aye lonegunman?

not necissarily.. u have to remember, because of the time constraints of signing a full squad as quickly as ricki had to, we didnt end up with as many defenders as we needed, with Rees replacing clebo we stil only have 5, it i likely we will let go either old or o'dor, so if we sign Durante, sigmund, and maybe a right back, then we will have 6-7 competent defenders, much better. remember SIgmund won't cost much coming from the NZFC

A couple of things after reading his whole post from start to now.

yes we could spend what we want - and it would have to be a crap load to get him here (then again he may have just heard of the Fever)

Phillips and Durante fine, both class for sure. Good point made on World of Football about Australia perhaps not footing it in the Asian Confederation because they play too much of an English style game in the A-league. Nothing wrong with that as such, as I see it, but could we perhaps be looking in Asia or elsewhere if Phillips fell through? There are plenty of footballers of a very high calibre in the world. The point was that in many other parts of the world, the football is more about close skills, ball control and retention, and controlling the tempo, and not such a hectic, full-on, hard tackling game. What would players such as Phillips and Durante provide? The immediate answer is, 'another goalscorer and a good solid defender to shore up the leaky defence.' 

More rumours I reckon.

If the Jets do well, I doubt if they'll let Durante go.

Phillips looks good but I cant seriously see us/ Terry getting someone as high up as that. The chequebook would lose a couple of pages for sure!!. Anyone know what sort of money he would be on now??hepatitis2008-01-08 20:18:19

Wikipedia - �700,000

lol @ calling dwight "pretty sharp" the man was 1 half of one of the most devastating club strike partnerships that club football has ever seen, and helped united to the treble, the man is god, and i managed to get face to face with him after his sydney game against the knights in a-league year 1 at albany.

but still, no matter how good Phillips is, he aint got nothing on Dwight, that said, BRING HIM HERE!

It would, however, push Costa further down the pecking order unfortunatelty, and the stats say he only had 24mins on the field this season. In saying that, whats the duration on Covenys contract? He's surely getting on a bit...

i'm fairly sure that covs in on a 2-year deal, with an option of coaching in the 2nd year, thus he could keep going but will probably play in less games. He could be a player coach to use when we need him, or if we play a style that reflects his height, pace and strangth(bloody good for his age) or just as a coach, especially with the young guns

Off topic but re Bridges departure from Sydney:
He also revealed he had hoped to make the squad to play against Wellington last week, just so he would get his boots cleaned for him.

Bridges explained: "The day before we travelled last time, I was cleaning my boots after training and a couple of the lads said, 'Leave the mud on, don't bother. You'll get stopped at customs, they'll take your boots off you, clean them and give you them back'.

"I thought it was a wind-up, but sure enough, when I got them back from customs they were brand new!"


http://au.fourfourtwo.com/news/67647,clubs-queue-up-for-bridges.aspx

Not unusual considering how racist Aussies are ...

With an exchange rate of .40 against Stg that equates to NZ$1,750,000 per year!!

just to go back to gareth ainsworth (sorry yes i know) - to be fair i havent seen him play for years so cant comment on that side of things, completely off topic but he was at the same school as me! same one david dunn (at blackburn) went to (called st. augustines which is near blackburn) they were the only two lads that made it to the premier league that i know of (ainsworth with wimbledon) - sorry to be off topic!!

Terry is a very very focussed and determined man in everything that he does - I'm sure after his first taste of it (and I know he's addicted to the great club he owns) he will splash the cash to bring a top level player of Kevin Phillips caliber here, and one that scores goals.

I have no doubt we will all be very surprised at the quality of our next marquee....

well we wont have to pay 700,000 if he's off contract that makes it easier, its purely a wage deal after that

Ignore the 700k, that's nothing to do with what we'd have to pay...