Charlie offered on the cheap?

The following comes from a West Ham rag, so may or may not have credibility:

Charlie Austin offered on the cheap on deadline day

Filed: Monday, 7th September 2015
By: Staff Writer

Queens Park Rangers striker Charlie Austin was offered to Newcastle United on transfer deadline day at a reduced fee, it has been revealed.

The 26-year-old forward - who was known to be available for £15million - was overlooked by West Ham due to his history of injuries, including having failed a medical at Hull City two years ago.

And fresh claims this morning suggest that the former Burnley forward was offered to Newcastle in the final few hours of the transfer window, in a swap deal that would have valued Austin at around £11million.

The Evening Chronicle have revealed that the Magpies were offered Austin in exchange for teenage striker Rolando Aarons plus £10million - a deal rejected instantly by Newcastle.

Austin, whose current contract expires next summer claimed at the weekend that he was happy to remain with Rangers in the Championship.

And he once again hit out at comments made by West Ham co-owner David Sullivan in a recent KUMB Podcast that suggested to sign him would be a gamble, given his injury history.

"I was disappointed when it got brought to me," he said. "I was hurt. It was an attack on me. We move on now. Someone of his status apologising is not heard of, so I didn’t expect an apology."


Read more at http://www.kumb.com/story.php?id=128988#kFCvuYxI2IfvsE1d.99

 

I suggest this is bollocks for a number of reasons.

1) Austin was at the Reading festival the day before the deadline. Hardly ready to up and go for a lengthy medical at the other end of the country if a deal was agreed

2) Newcastle would have bitten our hands off at that price

3) West Ham are clearly interested in the player themselves but looking to get him at a reduced price. If they were so concerned about players' injury records, they'd have gone nowhere near Carroll or Demba Ba.

4) Not as relevant but 99% of West Ham fans are from Essex but put on a faux cockney accent and a flat cap for games.

 

Another attempt from West Ham to drive the price down.

And what injury problems? We're talking about a player who's averaged 36 games a season over the past 5 seasons ffs!

 

don't believe a word of it. Bitter wham fans.

 

Hmmmm... written by 'Staff Writer'

If someone is unwilling to put their name to a story - it's pretty much certain it's just speculation If it was a 'real' scoop the journalist would be desperate to have their name on it.

 

I saw another report that put the shoe on the other foot and suggested Toon made that offer but the Rs rebuffed them.

 

Much more likely scenario

 

I heard Leeds were trying to bag him for a substantial amount of trinkets and some coloured beads

 

Mike Ashley would have been God on Tyneside if he'd pulled that off...

 

What Watford says 'What a load of b@llocks'.
I won't waste my time with this. Spam fans are p'd with their chairman re comments. Newcastle fans are two-faced re Ashley.

 

I wouldn't be surprised if it came from a Newcastle fan (after the window had closed) taking a pop at Ashley for not buying Charlie "when he had the chance" OR even Ashleyites making out that QPR offered Charlie but that Newcastle were not prepared to let go of Rolando Aarons which the fans would have hated.

It's all internal politics and dumb journos who will print anything fed to them by anyone.

 

Who gives a flying monkey's are?! Only relevant FACT is that Charlie is a Ranger.

 

Here is the original article http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/spor.../newcastle-united-turned-down-charlie-9998872

 

"Charlie offered on the cheap"?

No thanks, I'll use my usual supplier.