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[Albion] Yankuba Minteh SINGS on 5 year contract







Springal

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His agent reckons it was a misunderstanding and not even a head injury so he’ll be fine and available again next week
 




Simster

"the man's an arse"
Jul 7, 2003
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Surrey
Not sure why Newcastle are moaNing.
They got top dollar for someone who never played in their first team and had arrived a year ago for peanuts.
He has made a promising start but there’s a way to go before we get the better end of the deal.
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Newcastle aren't moaning but some of their fans are, and it's understandable. He's a quality player who their club planned to bring into the fold before getting an offer they considered too good to refuse given their financial situation. I mean it's frustrating when that happens.

Similar to Gykores when he was here I suppose, except he HAD been given a chance and didn't pull up any trees. At least Newcastle got a good price for their man though!
 


Frankie

Put him in the curry
May 23, 2016
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The injury was a strange one,I thought he was winded as he was holding his stomach then for whatever reason the medical team signalled a sub to the bench, Hurzeler was going absolutely mental trying to figure out what was happening,Minteh himself seemed very very annoyed he was being subbed for a head injury.
On the bright side should be raring to go v Utd.
 




Hugo Rune

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Feb 23, 2012
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Newcastle aren't moaning but some of their fans are, and it's understandable. He's a quality player who their club planned to bring into the fold before getting an offer they considered too good to refuse given their financial situation. I mean it's frustrating when that happens.

Similar to Gykores when he was here I suppose, except he HAD been given a chance and didn't pull up any trees. At least Newcastle got a good price for their man though!
I think Eddie Howe struggles to integrate young players. I don’t think he trusts them and is probably too hard on them when they make mistakes.

Minteh is much better off here.
 


Bakero

Languidly clinical
Oct 9, 2010
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Almería
The injury was a strange one,I thought he was winded as he was holding his stomach then for whatever reason the medical team signalled a sub to the bench, Hurzeler was going absolutely mental trying to figure out what was happening,Minteh himself seemed very very annoyed he was being subbed for a head injury.
On the bright side should be raring to go v Utd.

He was rolling around holding his head TBF to the medical staff.
 






Simster

"the man's an arse"
Jul 7, 2003
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Surrey
I think Eddie Howe struggles to integrate young players. I don’t think he trusts them and is probably too hard on them when they make mistakes.

Minteh is much better off here.
I won't argue and stopped short of saying that myself because I have no idea of his track record on younger players.

One thing we're excellent at is bringing through our younger players at the right time.
 


Springal

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The impression I got was that he was doing a bit of "game management" (time wasting to run down the clock to half time) that's why he was so pissed off to be pulled. They should agree a code/safeword so that they can make it clear when they're not in actual pain.
Not sure that’ll work with the referee though 😂
 






Springal

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Flounce

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Nov 15, 2006
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That he faked/exaggerated a head injury ?
He may have faked the head injury but I confess to wincing when he made that tackle, very brave and it looked like it hurt. I doubt he’ll do it again, looked to be fuming when he was subbed.
 










DJ NOBO

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Jul 18, 2004
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Wiltshire
Newcastle aren't moaning but some of their fans are, and it's understandable. He's a quality player who their club planned to bring into the fold before getting an offer they considered too good to refuse given their financial situation. I mean it's frustrating when that happens.

Similar to Gykores when he was here I suppose, except he HAD been given a chance and didn't pull up any trees. At least Newcastle got a good price for their man
They may have intended to bring him through but he had no premier league track record at point of sale . We have taken on a lot of risk . They have been compensated for what minteh could become . He could get a hamstring injury in higher intensity football , or struggle at higher level , who knows. They’ve done a good negotiation imo.

In hindsight we probably mugged ourselves off with gyokeres but you can’t win them all . Sometimes they develop BECAUSE they leave . Whenever I saw him I thought he was crap . Fair play to him
 


Hiheidi

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Dec 27, 2022
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This is a nice touch.

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Munkfish

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May 1, 2006
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Newcastle aren't moaning but some of their fans are, and it's understandable. He's a quality player who their club planned to bring into the fold before getting an offer they considered too good to refuse given their financial situation. I mean it's frustrating when that happens.

Similar to Gykores when he was here I suppose, except he HAD been given a chance and didn't pull up any trees. At least Newcastle got a good price for their man though!

So nothing like Gykores then.
 


jcdenton08

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Oct 17, 2008
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He was furiously pointing at his head and saying he was fine, there wasn’t any impact with his head that I can see on multiple rewatches. As poster above says, I think he got winded that a collision in his abdomen.

It all worked out perfectly in the end, but I think there may have been a miscommunication. I thought Adingra did brilliantly too. But their fullbacks were atrocious.
 


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