4. Bafetimbi Gomis
They say it's only over when the fat lady sings and if I'm not mistaken, she's barely started warming up her vocal cords. In any other business, you might take announcements that a
deal is dead in the water at face value. Yet this is football, where people lie and uncertainly reigns supreme. So just because Gomis appears to have not received a satisfactory thus far, it doesn't mean that he won't in the next few hours. I suppose you might be underestimating just how desperate Joe Kinnear could get all gaffes and bad publicity aside, the director of football is desperate to prove himself to the fanbase and if that means sucking it up and throwing more money at the French international, then so be it. After all, the Geordie faithful are hardly strangers to the club paying exorbitant fees, but a lack of any meaningful activity altogether may not sit well with them. So if Kinnear is looking to silence his critics (if only for a couple of seconds), performing a Lazarus-esque feat on this deal might just be the way forward.