Why A Move For David N’Gog Would Be Foolish
With Loic Remy having rejected Newcastle for Queen’s Park Rangers, it appears that Pardew and Mike Ashley are running out of options.
It was never going to be easy to replace Ba’s production, but with a shortage of affordable strikers available on the market, it looks like David N’Gog is a sign of a growing desperation.
N’Gog, as many Premier League fans will remember is a former Liverpool player who arrived from Paris Saint-Germain with big expectations.
N’Gog showed great potential as a teenager scoring at a prolific level for the French junior squads. He was signed by Liverpool in 2008 with the expectation of supporting Fernando Torres in the short term and eventually evolve into a prolific goal scorer.
But he never lived up to expectations at the senior level. N’Gog scored only 19 goals in 94 total matches for Liverpool, in all competitions.
Eventually he was sold to Bolton in 2011 for £4million. Bolton was relegated to the Championship this season. They are currently languishing in the bottom half of the English second division and it appears that N’Gog wants out.
N’Gog’s performances have not improved while at Bolton, scoring only 4 goals in the Championship this season. At 23-years-old, N’Gog has never come close to the expectations people had of him.
So, why does Pardew want to take on N’Gog? One reason could be that he is unlikely to pay very much for him. Estimates in the media seem to point to a £2million price tag. Perhaps N’Gog does not come with a lot of risk and given his age it is not exactly ludicrous.
Another possible reason is that Pardew may feel that N’Gog’s attributes make him better suited for the wing. The Newcastle manager might use him as a wide player, with the hope that he could help Papiss Cissé or newly acquired Yoan Gouffran score goals.
But given the club’s recent struggles, fans of the Magpies are looking to find someone who would step in and save them from relegation. It is difficult to see N’Gog making the immediate impact Newcastle desperately need.
What do you think?
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Don’t do it, he’s poor.
A Bolton fan
Wow talk about censorship, where did my previous comment go?
There were a number of comments criticising the quality of journalism, where did they go?
Bad journalism? If you are not sure about a story, you attribute it to its original source. That’s why I started the article, “The Daily Mail is reporting …” You would know that if you studied journalism like I have. Plus, this is an opinion piece rather than a news story.
The N’Gog story was made up by a university student as part of a project.
He opened a Twitter account started the rumour and waited for lazy journalists to write about it without checking the source.
Seems like you were one of the mugs who fell for it.
Okay, that’s fair. There’s alot of wrong information out there. I’m not sure where you’re getting your information but there are alot of rumours that don’t end up being confirmed that’s why we use ‘attribution’.
And it really seems like you are taking this way too seriously. Football is suppose to be fun, when people take it too far than they are not real fans. Just people with egos who want to start trouble. If you don’t like the website fine. But ‘don’t keep coming on and saying negative things. Plenty of people like this website. If you have a blog, I would love to take a look at it and critique it as well.