Kiko has signed

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HOWAY Swifty (there is that better Rik?) According to a calciomercato.com headline we have signed the Spaniard Kiko. What's the story if any from Spain, Swifty?

-- Anonymous, July 10, 2001

Answers

And from Tribal football:-

"Spaniard Kiko is Newcastle bound

English Football 10/7/01

Newcastle United are set to land Spanish striker Kiko after the popular striker decided that he couldn't contemplate two seasons in the Spanish second division with Atletico Madrid. Kiko decided to stay with Atletico when it was relegated at the end of the 1999-2000 season in the hope of helping the club return to the Primera Liga, but the failed promotion attempt last season was the final straw.

Bobby Robson's Magpies is the new destination for 28-year-old Kiko, who is looking forward to linking up with Alan Shearer in attack."

-- Anonymous, July 10, 2001


nada.nothing.i'm looking though...

-- Anonymous, July 10, 2001

seems like sterling work done there cliff mate

-- Anonymous, July 10, 2001

clifffootball.com

its on there :-)

-- Anonymous, July 10, 2001


As for the guess the fee competition

I go for £4.7 million

-- Anonymous, July 10, 2001



.COM reckon its $13M. 'kinnel, that's aboot 9M squid. Surely not?? Other thread said he was available on a free. When??

-- Anonymous, July 10, 2001

Just did a search in Google for KIKO. Came up with some right dodgy sites. Mostly about, well, er Korean wimmin and hmmm, goats. Crikey - should make Tino look a saint ;-)

-- Anonymous, July 10, 2001

Not a hint in the chronic early edition on Kiko, nor on any billboard for the late edition. Definitely one to be believed when it's seen, I'd say.

Does anybody else think this Robert guy has a distinct look of Kieron Dyer ? They're probably both the same bloke and we're having the urine extracted once again.

Robert is 'pondering Toon offer after 10M deal is agreed with PSG'. Here's the clincher, but. 'There are still some loose ends to tie up with PSG, but we don't think they'll produce a stumbling block'.

Very clever freddy, keeping an escape route open for when it falls through. Unless it just means somebody at PSG also is into bondage.

-- Anonymous, July 10, 2001


French Polishing?

Bill, your logic escapes me, don't believe anything till it's in the Chron?

-- Anonymous, July 10, 2001


"Bobby Robson's Magpies is the new destination for 28-year-old Kiko, who is looking forward to linking up with Alan Shearer in the pensioners' enclosure."

-- Anonymous, July 10, 2001


Ah well forget it. Teamtwaddle are now carrying the storyline so it just can't be true.

-- Anonymous, July 10, 2001

Certainly nowt about it on on the ever informative, helpful and up-to- date Ceefax p 390 (NE and Cumbria) which is still going in about the Intertoto ticket allocation.

Mind you that page always, but always, leads with a Boro story as if anyone could give a flying one. (In my hypersentitive way I've noticed NE Ceefax's pro-Boro shenanigans going on for over a year now - since well before the Smogs began their paddle-less sojourn in sh!t creek/influx of managers and therefore may, just may, have warranted some media interest.)

-- Anonymous, July 10, 2001


If we pay £9mm for Kiko it provides the final confirmation that S&H have totally and utterly flipped their lids.
I also thought I'd read he was available on a FT - in which case he might prove to be a half-decent gamble.

-- Anonymous, July 10, 2001

He is on a free, isn't he?

-- Anonymous, July 10, 2001

BBC Sports are quoting Spanish Radio sources as saying the Toon are on the verge of signing Kiko for £7mm!
What can I say? £7mm for a blerk who can't get a game for a Spanish 2nd Division Club - just bizarre!

-- Anonymous, July 10, 2001


Didn't Kiko play for Bobby at Barca? If so, it's a player he knows well, knows what he's capable of etc.

-- Anonymous, July 10, 2001

No, I don't believe he played for Barca min - he's certainly been at Athletico Madrid for several years.

The later editions of The Ronnie are now carrying this story - but suggesting that he is indeed a free agent, having had his Contract terminated "by mutual consent".
This was certainly what was stated earlier, and certainly if we could pick him up for nowt he is probably worth a punt.

-- Anonymous, July 10, 2001


Read somewhere (icNowt?) that while Bobby was at Barcelona he tried to sign Kiko.

-- Anonymous, July 10, 2001

KIKO RUMOURED TO HAVE COMPLETED MAGPIES MOVE by Nic Evans

ATLETICO MADRID ace Kiko is reported to have agreed to a transfer to Newcastle United, despite The Magpies being in talks with Laurent Robert and Boudewijn Zenden.

Newcastle manager Bobby Robson has a massive amount of European contacts and having coached in Spain with Barcelona, Kiko is not an unknown quantity to him.

Indeed planetfootball.com have linked Kiko with a move to the North East in the past, the 29-year-old Spanish international would certainly add the creative dimension The Magpies seemed to have lacked at times.

Torino were also interested in the player, but it would seem that Kiko has turned down the move to Italy, leading to mass speculation that he has completed a move to Newcastle.

Reports are rife in both Italy and Spain that the transfer has been completed, although a Newcastle United spokeswoman did not confirm this.

It was believed that Newcastle were concentrating on their talks with Robert and Zenden, although Robson admitted getting the Dutchman would be difficult, saying: "If he (Zenden) had wanted to join Newcastle, he would have been here by now."

Robert on the other hand is waiting with his agent Pape Diouf for a firm offer from Newcastle. With Atletico languishing in La Segunda for another season, Kiko has admitted it is time to leave, with The Premiership a top option for the player.

Kiko is understood to have turned down a massive offer from Mexican side America, whilst last year he was again linked to Newcastle, but eventually failed a medical with Milan, having agreed terms with the Italian giants.

Luis Aragones, the new Atletico coach has stated his desire to have a leaner, meaner squad of 22, which will see major changes given that there are 39 professionals on the books.

A minimum of 15 players including Kiko, Toni Munoz and Lopez will leave, Lawal, Gaspar and Mario will be given frees whilst the likes of Toni Jimenez, Mena and Hugo Leal face uncertain futures given that they have been told they are not in Aragones's plans.

Click below for a list of stories relating to Kiko:

-- Anonymous, July 11, 2001


".....but eventually failed a medical with Milan..."

That frequently used phrase naturally caught my attention!

In The Journal this morning Mr Shepherd denies any attempt is being made to sign Kiko.

-- Anonymous, July 11, 2001


its all a load of not happening

-- Anonymous, July 11, 2001

“Two weeks ago I signed an agreement to leave as a free agent. I don't know where I will be going, but Newcastle is a very likely destination. If any offers come from Spain I will consider staying here but I would like to play for such a famous club as Newcastle United.”

-- Anonymous, July 11, 2001

From where Rik?

-- Anonymous, July 11, 2001

touting

-- Anonymous, July 11, 2001

It's on the Athletico Madrid page of Servifutbol In Spanish though.

-- Anonymous, July 11, 2001

For some strange reason Rik......I don't believe you

-- Anonymous, July 11, 2001

Swifty
Just caught up with this. The logic was that if anybody was going to report on a rumour that might have a chance of becoming fact, it would be the chronic. If there were no hints in the chronic, then it ain't even a proper rumour.

Other sources are automatically disregarded out of hand.

-- Anonymous, July 11, 2001


Perhaps Swifty can offer a better translation than the alta vista Babbell fish thingy.

-- Anonymous, July 11, 2001

P B, The Ronnie are going to get NO info from NUFU, after the way they reported on Waddsworth. I'm sure before the incident they were fed with scraps from the NUFC Spokeswoman.

-- Anonymous, July 11, 2001

Good point Rik, hadn't thought of that. So from that point of view, the chronic is the last place to look for anything worthwhile.

-- Anonymous, July 11, 2001

"Newcastle is a likely destination..."

He's just been to visit for the love parade, obviously...

;-)

-- Anonymous, July 11, 2001


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