kachina Posted June 15, 2008 Report Share Posted June 15, 2008 A good friend of mine who writes for the Daily Mail is out reporting on the Euro's at the moment and he was in a resturant on Friday afternoon. On a table near him Gary Johnson and Craig Brewster (Inverness Fc) were having lunch and chatting. He didn't say anything as if we were signing or they were signing and they could just be friends. But given Johnson has looked in Scotland before and Inverness have a player playing the Euro's it may be Johnson was looking into one of their players. As I said they could just be mates and all that, but just passing on what my friend saw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wybmadwity Posted June 15, 2008 Report Share Posted June 15, 2008 Marius Niculae of Romania and Inverness Caledonian Thistle F.C. DOB 16-May-1981 Born: Bucharest, Romania Height 6'2 Weight 12st 8lbs Position Forward Starts: 35 Goals: 10 Sporting Lisbon: 2001-2005 Standard Liege: 2005-2006 Mainz: 2006-2007 BBC April 2008 Inverness Caley Thistle's major shareholder David Sutherland has told BBC Scotland the club cannot afford to keep paying striker Marius Niculae. The Romanian international's wages had been covered by money made available by recently departed chairman Alan Savage. Niculae has a year to run on his contract and is earning in the region of £4000-a-week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DanC Posted June 15, 2008 Report Share Posted June 15, 2008 Someone did mention that Marius Niculae that plays for Inverness on here the other day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sargent Pepper Posted June 15, 2008 Report Share Posted June 15, 2008 Thats one signing down then, we'll have to brush up on our romanian as well as Portuguise ( ie for Basso). Was hoping we'd get to see him vs the Italians the other night, so hopefully he will play some part in romanias last game on tuesday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Posted June 15, 2008 Report Share Posted June 15, 2008 From BBC "Inverness Caledonian Thistle's Romanian striker Marius Niculae could be heading back to Sporting Lisbon after Euro 2008. (Sunday Mail)" Due to Caley's well known financial issues it seems he will be moving but you'd have to say Lisbon looks more appealing than us. But if the english leagues, a first team shot, not moving too far from his current base and a sniff at the prem appeals then he may go for us. Hoping he does, apparently a handful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
internetjef Posted June 15, 2008 Report Share Posted June 15, 2008 Looks like the talk about this player may have a bit of substance too it with garys meeting with ICT chairman, trip to the euros, habit from buying from scotland etc. aside from his goals scored record thats on wikipedia, does anyone know much about him. is he the pacey finisher we need, is he a target man like dele, or is he a bit of an all rounder. i don't think ive ever seen him play aside from off the bench for romania. anyone know much about him and his playing style? would he be a good signing for us? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BITW Posted June 15, 2008 Report Share Posted June 15, 2008 Thats one signing down then, we'll have to brush up on our romanian as well as Portuguise ( ie for Basso). Was hoping we'd get to see him vs the Italians the other night, so hopefully he will play some part in romanias last game on tuesday. I think he played against italy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sargent Pepper Posted June 15, 2008 Report Share Posted June 15, 2008 No there are two Nicoluae's in the squad. Ours (or sporting lisbons) is the bigger fella who came on in the 1st game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BITW Posted June 15, 2008 Report Share Posted June 15, 2008 No there are two Nicoluae's in the squad. Ours (or sporting lisbons) is the bigger fella who came on in the 1st game Oh Ok. The one who played seemed to have a quiet game. I like how you refer to him as ours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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bristolcity Posted June 15, 2008 Report Share Posted June 15, 2008 Looks like the talk about this player may have a bit of substance too it with garys meeting with ICT chairman, trip to the euros, habit from buying from scotland etc. aside from his goals scored record thats on wikipedia, does anyone know much about him. is he the pacey finisher we need, is he a target man like dele, or is he a bit of an all rounder. i don't think ive ever seen him play aside from off the bench for romania. anyone know much about him and his playing style? would he be a good signing for us? Just seen this on BBC Gossip "Inverness Caledonian Thistle's Romanian striker Marius Niculae could be heading back to Sporting Lisbon after Euro 2008. (Sunday Mail)" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kachina Posted June 15, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2008 Right I'm not sure if I'm allowed to put this, so if moderators think there is a problem please remove. I spoke to my friend at lunchtime and whilst he is out reporting on games for the Euro, he does work on transfer areas. He told me as Bristol City hadn't signed anyone and this player could be a big player (namewise) for us he was keen to chase it up. He got a no comment reply from Bristol City and was told they do not deal with the press regarding transfer issues. He then spoke to someone at Inverness and was told the following. Marius Niculae has been told we can not maintain his contract next season and is available if clubs are interested at the right price. We have received 4 offers for the player, all in the region of £2,000,000. One of these from a Scottish club has been rejected. An approach from a Portuguese team and two approaches from English teams have been accepted and the player has been given permission to speak to each clubs representative, when his Romanian coach feels it is okay to do so. He asked if they could reveal details on the clubs, the response was. We are not privy to pass on that information until the player has been approached and we feel his performance for Romania should not be interrupted with news of transfer details. He then asked has their been any approach from Bristol City or Sporting Lisbon The response again was, I'm afraid I will not pass on details of individual clubs. Finally he asked if they would try and keep him at Inverness; The response, we have offered the maximum contract to the player and also offered a fair compensation to refresh his old contract, on neither accounts were the terms agreeable and he has made it very clear he is looking for a move to a bigger club, in which we have granted him that option. We can't afford to match his current contract given the clubs financial position. This is what I have been told by a reliable source, but if mods feel this shouldn't be shown, please remove, I'm not sure where a form stands on press related articles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stroudy Posted June 15, 2008 Report Share Posted June 15, 2008 Blimey! Looks like something happening then! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chowie Posted June 15, 2008 Report Share Posted June 15, 2008 Said middle of last week this rumor "felt good" it's looking even better now. The price quoted above is a little higher than expected though, was thinking 1 to 1.5m. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tin Posted June 15, 2008 Report Share Posted June 15, 2008 Very interesting. Presuming one of the English clubs is us and the Portugese club is Sporting, I wonder who the other English club are. Shows that he's got something about him if a club like Sporting are presumably in the hunt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nibor Posted June 15, 2008 Report Share Posted June 15, 2008 Niculae has a £400k release clause in his contract according to an ICT fan site last week. Their fans are definitely not expecting multi million pound offers because of this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JudgeRed Posted June 15, 2008 Report Share Posted June 15, 2008 I was watching out for Marius Niculae in the Romania v Italy game the other night. His playing number for Romania is 18. He never came on the pitch so was a little disapointed i never got a chance to see him play. Euro 2008 player profile - Marius Niculae (Romania) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chowie Posted June 15, 2008 Report Share Posted June 15, 2008 I was watching out for Marius Niculae in the Romania v Italy game the other night. His playing number for Romania is 18. He never came on the pitch so was a little disapointed i never got a chance to see him play. Euro 2008 player profile - Marius Niculae (Romania) Me to and confess for 60 minutes of the game I thought I was watching him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BITW Posted June 15, 2008 Report Share Posted June 15, 2008 Me to and confess for 60 minutes of the game I thought I was watching him. I made the same mistake I only found out today! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Zeppelin Posted June 15, 2008 Report Share Posted June 15, 2008 http://www.skysports.com/football/euro2008...3693946,00.html Seems happy if he stays, but has that typical 'who know's what the future holds' stance. EDIT: Try typing, 'Ratare Marius Niculae' into Youtube (because I don't know if direct link is allowed) and you'll see this guy's superb technique! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Born'n'Red Posted June 15, 2008 Report Share Posted June 15, 2008 I've got a friend that supports Standard Liege who Niculae used to play for so I asked him on facebook what he was like. This is what he had to say: Niculae was pretty decent and could do well in lower English divisions... he wasn't a first team regular but did a quite good job. Powerful, not too bad in the air and works a lot for the team. On the other hand, he's everything but Brazilian if you know what I mean.. not too skilled technically wise. Still, not a bad signing IMHO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikle291 Posted June 15, 2008 Report Share Posted June 15, 2008 this is all rubbish! johnson was in England on friday!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
internetjef Posted June 15, 2008 Report Share Posted June 15, 2008 this is all rubbish! johnson was in England on friday!!! did yo see him in england on friday? he was def back on saturday on sky sports news Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikle291 Posted June 15, 2008 Report Share Posted June 15, 2008 not myself but my dad was speaking to him on friday. all these rumours are silly the only one with and truth is the Emad Meteb story Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stroudy Posted June 15, 2008 Report Share Posted June 15, 2008 not myself but my dad was speaking to him on friday. all these rumours are silly the only one with and truth is the Emad Meteb story How can you be so sure that story isn't being made up by his agent or his current club to try and manufacture a move for him? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olé Posted June 15, 2008 Report Share Posted June 15, 2008 Oh dear, a dirty lagartos player from SCP (I say advisedly as a Benfica fan by birth) but having said this, if I recall correctly Niculae is a decent player, scored one and set one up against Newcastle in the UEFA Cup, from the same Superliga winning team that Rochemback went to Middlesbro from. Did get a lot of injuries though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Portishead Red Posted June 16, 2008 Report Share Posted June 16, 2008 I wonder how much truth is in this bearing in mind i was stood behind GJ in the que at waitrose portishead on saturday morning! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dynamite Red Posted June 16, 2008 Report Share Posted June 16, 2008 Do the entire City squad live in Portishead? Every time I hear about where certain players live or have interviews (at home) its always Portishead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tin Posted June 16, 2008 Report Share Posted June 16, 2008 Do the entire City squad live in Portishead? Every time I hear about where certain players live or have interviews (at home) its always Portishead. Near enough, yes. Alan Walsh, Gary Johnson, Orr, Fontaine, Elliott, Trundle are all down there with Skuse or Lee Johnson either recently moved down or in the process of doing so. I'm sure I've missed people out there too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete1975Legend Posted June 16, 2008 Report Share Posted June 16, 2008 Saw Orr in Bath Saturday and Sproule (Well it def. looked liked him) today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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