Simply Sooper - Phillips to join Magpies?

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It'll be nice to see the media spotlight taken off YKD and NUFC for a while at least. I think we should do another Venison/Bracewell and buy him. I'll happily stump up a few hundred if it helps to rub the chimps noses in it. Canny young english player too.

£15m Phillips wants move By Ian McGarry

Kevin Phillips, Sunderland's disillusioned £15million-rated striker, has demanded a transfer.

Sunderland are resigned to selling Phillips if the money is right and Arsenal, Leeds and Tottenham will head the queue for the 27-year-old who won Europe's Golden Boot for his 30 Premiership goals last season.

The England squad man has scored only 11 times in the current Premiership campaign and has been the target of abuse from fans.

He submitted his transfer request after being particularly upset by chanting during last weekend's drawn derby clash with Newcastle.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has never hidden his admiration for the former Watford player and failed prise him from the Stadium of Light before signing Sylvain Wiltord at the beginning of this season.

Similarly, Leeds manager David O'Leary tried to swap Darren Huckerby plus cash for Phillips - as Soccernet reported last November - only to find that neither the player nor Sunderland wanted the move.

Spurs, meanwhile, are searching Europe for a natural goalscorer to partner Sergei Rebrov and Phillips fits the bill.

Although Sunderland manager Peter Reid does not want to lose his star forward, the club accept that their most popular player for years is determined to leave and have already begun to make preparations to cope without him.

Everton have rejected Sunderland's £8m bid for Francis Jeffers but negotiations are far from over. Reid will discover this weekend if Bastia striker Pierre Yves Andre will choose the Premiership ahead of Rangers after both agreed to pay a £2.5m fee.

Andre, at 6ft 2in, is, however, seen more as a back-up to Niall Quinn while Jeffers is viewed as a like-for-like

Since his triumphant debut season in the Premiership, the Hertfordshire-born Phillips has struggled with niggling injuries and inconsistent form.

Soccernet understands his decision to move was taken for the sake of his family as well as for his career. His wife, Julie, is pregnant and it is believed that there is a desire to move back south before their second child is born.

-- Anonymous, April 26, 2001

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Obviously doesn't want his kid to be born a Mackem. Can't say I blame him.

-- Anonymous, April 26, 2001

Wow! I thought this was a wind up but it's true?

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2001

i was just about to post that same, big, juicy, report

ha ha ha ha

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2001


I particularly like the bit about chanting from the supporters leaves the fans disillusioned.

Phillips and Quinn have been a major factor in Sunlung's rise to prominence this season and now they're both finished with Sunderland.

Great timing from Phillips as well just before the team need to gather themselves for the Europena place push. Reid is a gritty man in these circumstances and even if Phillips was fit this weekend I couldn't see Reid picking him. How bad is the injury?! ;)

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2001


>>He submitted his transfer request after being particularly upset by chanting during last weekend's drawn derby clash with Newcastle.<<

I can barely look for the tears of laughter...makems eh! :-D

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2001



For those who missed the chant it went something like "He shagged your wife, he shagged your wife, he shagged your ..Makin shagged your wife" to the tune of footballs coming home.

I can see how this may upset him.

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2001

Oh right, i wonder what this story was....

So apparently Chris Makin has shagged Soopers Wife?? recently? is the kid kevs?

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2001


So, is Kev deffo off?

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2001

Nah, Newspaper bollocks. Apparebtly he's been into see Monkey Heed this morning to say he wouldn't go to the press with such a story and if he wanted to leave he'd tell Heed himself.

Fanning the burning embers by the press who are getting bored, especially the Daily Mail which I certainly won't be buying. They're supposed to be newspapers not speculative shite like Midas and teamtalk.

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2001


reid has denied it, íts not his baby, peter that is

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2001


Mrs Phillips is adamant that the baby is Kev's and not Peter's, "you can see just looking at the wee thing".



-- Anonymous, April 27, 2001


LOL Macbeth. Call me a cynic, but the bairn looks more like a monkey than a mini-munchkin to me!

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2001

Peyter has issued a statement saying the Munch is very happy at Mackemland, has not asked for a transfer, and is going nowhere.
Straight from the monkey's mouth!

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2001

So let's recap: she wants to go back down South to avoid the baby being a mackem, and he just hopes it isn't a Makin..."Love and Marriage" [tiddly tiddly pom]

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2001

ROTFL!
Isn't Ipswich closer to London, than to Makumland? Convenient.

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2001


Horrendously unfair.

Phillips does seem a nice enough guy. The treatment he is getting in hte press is exactly what we suffered with the "Shearer to leave" stories surfaced every time he was away on international duty. We should be more understanding, and he should try and ensure his wife stops sleeping around

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2001


Slight ammendment to Pete's posting: Obviously doesn't want his kid to be born a Mackem Makin. 80)

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2001

Munch is in The Journal this morning trying to defuse the stories, living 'up north' is wonderful, swearing his undying love to the great unwashed, blah, blah, blah.....

Has the same smell about it as Domi's similar hastily prepared statement.

-- Anonymous, April 28, 2001


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