Could Newcastle tempt West Ham with swap deal?
As Newcastle United look to strengthen the centre of their defence this month, would the Magpies be able to tempt West Ham into letting James Tomkins leave if they were to receive Danny Simpson in return?
Newcastle manager Alan Pardew is a long-time admirer of James Tomkins, who was in the youth team at West Ham when Pardew was in charge in East London.
The 23-year-old has played at all youth levels for England and was rewarded for his fine form in West Ham’s promotion last season with a place in the Great Britain team for the Olympics earlier this year.
Pardew would like to bring Tomkins to the north-east, especially as the future of his captain Fabricio Coloccini remains uncertain, but could be put off by the Hammers’ £10 million of their young centre back.
You can’t see Newcastle forking out that much and that sort of price shows just why the Magpies are doing most of their shopping across the Channel.
The valuation shows how highly the Hammers the youngster and an injury to James Collins will make them even less willing to let him go.
However, West Ham are reported to be interested in Newcastle right back Danny Simpson, whose future in a black and white shirt looks bleak following the arrival of Mathieu Debuchy.
With Simpson’s contract running down, Newcastle would do well to get some value from him and using him as a make-weight in the deal for Tomkins would do just that.
Maybe £5m plus Simpson wouldn’t be the worst deal for Tomkins?
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January 13th, 2013
Let’s swap Collins for Simpson and 3mill , lm happy with that
January 14th, 2013
Newcastle are better than west ham you got 2 of are old players come good now we got are top players bk and new players in whats your excuse ???
January 14th, 2013
Good players back, top players in and you’re still below us in the table.
Send West Hams best wishes to Millwall when you play them next season
January 15th, 2013
Hello there Newcastle 1983, can you do me a favour and check your spelling and grammer. It is hurting my eyes!!
You should be banned from all forums until you improve your English.lol
January 14th, 2013
lol was on there blog the other day and 9 out of 10 of them said they would be happy with 5 million and you also want to give them simpson lmao
January 14th, 2013
simpson and 2 million is closer to the mark, no way on earth is he worth 10 mil like some of these shandy drinking londoners are trying to make out nice try though
January 14th, 2013
Simpson is an accomplished defender, but lacks attacking flair – that can be ok if you have great attacking midfielders and strikers but not if they get injured and you suddenly rely on goals from across the board. Simpson looked fine last year when he only had to defend. He should have left then, now people will have noted his weaknesses and his value will drop. Still, he is of almost no value to NUFC now.
Yet Tomkins isn’t that much better. He really hasn’t done a great deal – shown potential (about 4 yrs younger than Simpson) and occasionally shone (hence all the expectation) but a rare and inconsistent flash rather than a strong steady glow – he too is only a squad defender. If Simpson is worth 3.5M then Tomkins is worth 4.5M.
NUFC will be recruiting one or even two top line CBs, so woule only see Tomkins as squad support – a swap for the now redundant Simpson may be a good deal for NUFC, but I can’t see them putting any cash in the deal and I can’t see why the Hammers would agree either. Could happen if Tomkins were as unsettled as Simpson so a win all round – very unlikely in the circumstances.
January 14th, 2013
What are you lot talking about ?? Tomkins is a class act and is worth 10m plus to replace him..
January 14th, 2013
dream on fella
January 14th, 2013
Peter,good post mate,I’ve no idea about Simpson but we need defenders as Saturday at yhe Mackems proved but Tomkins IMO will be a far better player with better players around him and no disrespect but if he goes it will be to Chelsea or the like,I hope he stays because we are on the up slowly but surely and when we move to Stratford we will fill the potential of the club at last as for too long we have been run by idiots.
January 14th, 2013
Tomkins is pretty poor but far too good for those northern dreamers . Write posts like they talk .The league tables dont lie . Newcastle are sh1te.
January 14th, 2013
says the losers in there 1st season back lol little team with crap ground west ham