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.
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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?
we should buy or try to get a quality midfielder like taarabt from qpr,an amazingly talented player who is valued less than he is worth,also we need 2 centre halves ,1 i would go for would be lescott from man city and also hangeland from fulham,williamson in my opinion is nothing more than an average amatuer player and is being touted as great by Pardew .what a joke and if pardew believes in his statements is a disgrace.
as a season ticket holder iam becoming more and more demoralised with the board and heirarchy in charge as they should never have been in the problems they are in right now,tooo many loyal fans have carried this club for far too long and alex ferguson is right in saying we are a wee club because we have wee minded people in charge.
The fans @ |WHU don’t want to lose Tomkins but 5 million plus Simpson sounds about right. I think a realistic value is about 8 million. Not sure how long Collins is out for but I think it’s just a tweek.
why would tomkins go to newcastle
52000 every week , big money and to get away from a yoyo club like west ham who are admittedly over acheiving this season
Mate seriously?? What have Newcastle achieved other than proving last season was a one off! The league don’t lie my friend, wise up, he ain’t coming and if he was to leave it would be for a bigger club than you northern minnow wannabe’s!!
No doubt. What a joke 52k every week, West Ham will beat that consistently with the Olympic Stadium. Will be funny watching you do the yo yo over the coming years. I can see you guys signing someone more like Matty Upson, he wouldn’t mind a good relegation battle with Pardew.
Swap? Are you mental? Simpson is at best a squad player and, despite being unable to get a game at the mo, Tomkins is very, very good. I’d value Tomkins at £10-£12m so it would be £10m + Simpson. And I still wouldn’t sell…
Tompkins would be far too good for the second division next season so easy stay put!
Tompkins is far too good for the second division so stay put!
collins will make a great championship centre half as well as half your side,dunno where the delusions of grandeur are coming from!! beaten 3 nil at sunderland who are also dire so prepare yourselves for your slip down the table
Have a look at the league table, it’s just to the right! You’ll notice both west ham and Sunderland a few places and points above your lot? Tompkins won’t leave why would he, he loves the club and Newcastle are nothing more than an average team. Over achieved last season now back where you belong.
Well said
Why would he want to come to newcastle ? How’s about playing in front of twice as many fans than your lot for a start !!!!!
Nah, your team is junk. Pretty easy win at your place. Chicken dance!
You get 70,000?
No of course not,your. Roads are well down so don’t start banging on about how good you are and when we move to Stratford we will blow you lot pit of the water!
Maybe he’d sign for whoever could spell his name.
TOMKINS not TOMPKINS.
That was a plant 😉 everyone keeps telling me you lot are thck so I put a plant in!
Really, how are we to know that???
All you have done by posting this is make yourself look stupid!
Swap Tomkins for the soon to be out of contract Simpson, bwahahahahahahahahaha
Newcastle are struggling due to injures, but now that they are getting key players back from injury and quality they will bring in during this transfer window they will have a squad strong enough to compete for at least 5 place next season!
I’m not sure you’ll make the top 5 in the Championship next season!
Let’s swap Collins for Simpson and 3mill , lm happy with that
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 ???
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
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
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
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
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.
What are you lot talking about ?? Tomkins is a class act and is worth 10m plus to replace him..
dream on fella
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.
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.
says the losers in there 1st season back lol little team with crap ground west ham