Kinnear Talks Budgets & Fighting Clubs For Players

Joe Kinnear has just 15 days until Newcastle United kick off their 2013/14 season against Manchester City and he is still yet to secure the signing of a single senior player.  Joe however is unconcerned about the lack of transfers so far over the summer and is confident that he will bring players in before the season starts. He told reporters earlier today that he was being wise with his spending but fighting for players. 

Kinnear said;

“I’m being sensible about the budget I’ve got and I’m going to spend it as wisely as I can while keeping Alan well informed.

I have regular meetings with Alan and we sit down to talk about the best type of players for Newcastle and the fans.

At the moment I’m waiting for the nod – but the goalposts have moved on numerous occasions – to bring in a couple of strikers.

The Gomis deal was agreed on numerous occasions but it’s a very difficult situation because there’s always extra add-ons, extra things, another problem.

Then there’s always the problem of competition from the other teams. Whatever I offer more or less goes public which alerts others that are interested who of course add more. It comes back to me and so on.

We’re fighting hard. There’s two or three of us who all seem to be wrapped around the same players and as I said to Mike this is a serious battle that we need to win. We’re very close to achieving that.”