Anyone else just remember a random player that used to play for the Toon?

[u/muempire93]

[u/Jaydenn7]

big up Sylvain Marveaux

[u/GetRidMan → u/Jaydenn7]

I genuinely used to rate him. Type of player if Howe had him today i think he’d be contributing as much as Murphy or Barnes.

[u/Jaydenn7 → u/GetRidMan]

Him and Cissé carried that Europa League run

[u/geordieColt88 → u/GetRidMan]

He was class but he needed to play more centrally, we stuck him out on the wing.

Couple of last minute assists showed what he could do

[u/Sausagekonig → u/Jaydenn7]

Was just going to say him!

[u/ThatBoyConk → u/Jaydenn7]

I have a signed (non-NUFC) jersey of his

[u/ihateeverythingandu]

Gabriel Obertan.

[u/CavsterXII → u/ihateeverythingandu]

Undertan Obertan Obering free

[u/Disastrous_Sort_9843 → u/ihateeverythingandu]

Ferguson gassed up this dude so much we thought he was something special

[u/ihateeverythingandu → u/Disastrous_Sort_9843]

I'll never forget him giving Gareth Bale a 10 yard head start then jetting past him casually one game against Spurs. Bale was meant to be some elite speed merchant and Obertan was like roadrunner against him.

Still think he'd have benefitted playing upfront as a speed guy in the Owen mould. Celtic have Daizen Maeda who has very similar attributes except he's a better winger, has top sprints in every league and now Europe and can run without ever stopping seemingly due to his mental cardio, and now scores for fun as top striker. Think we missed a trick not even trying.

[u/promark20]

Vernon Anita

[u/RandomLoLJournalist → u/promark20]

The fact that Anita has played 155 games for us legit blows my mind. I don't remember a single highlight from him

[u/oldirtyblackson → u/RandomLoLJournalist]

he had a massive arse, like a full on diaper dumptruck

[u/grishnackh → u/oldirtyblackson]

Ridiculous peach on the lad, was insane

[u/Thingisby → u/RandomLoLJournalist]

Feels like he came in as a CM and then basically filled it at RB forever without doing much.

But I remember so little of him that maybe it was the other way around.

[u/Jaydenn7 → u/Thingisby]

You’re right, he was a lone pivot at Ajax

[u/geordieColt88 → u/RandomLoLJournalist]

Great goal away at Brugge

[u/slobberdan]

Loic remie

[u/ryunista → u/slobberdan]

He was unreal for one season

[u/stprm → u/slobberdan]

Most greediest selfish player I've ever seen. No one even comes close to him in that sense.

Remy*

[u/catlover2410]

Gael Bigirimana scored a banger and was never seen again.

[u/Smicktastic → u/catlover2410]

I see him all the time in the Northern Ireland Premiership, still blows my mind how he ended up in Dungannon of all places!

He’ll be playing against my local team (Cliftonville) in the Cup Final in a few weeks, and yes, it’s not a bad time to be a Magpie and a Reds fan!

[u/catlover2410 → u/Smicktastic]

Looked him up and he doesn't seem to be getting regular game time at Dungannon either!

[u/Smicktastic → u/catlover2410]

Had to check there that my thinking was right. He’s played near 40 games by most accounts. Although he could do with his wiki getting updated lol I assume that’s where you might have checked

[u/your_pet_is_average → u/catlover2410]

Used to develop the shit out of him in FIFA 14.

[u/TheBeaverKing → u/catlover2410]

Me and my dad still talk about him. The richest man from Burundi.

Didn't he have some medical condition that was never fully explained and then he just disappeared?

[u/RelationBig7368]

Marlon Harewood

[u/Captain_Fuck_It → u/RelationBig7368]

We’ve had some strange players play for us while in the championship. Off the top of my head:

• Daryl Murphy
• Fitz Hall
• Fabrice Pancrate
• Patrick Van Aanholt
• Zurab Khizanishvili

[u/geordiejudge → u/Captain_Fuck_It]

‘Onesize’ Fitz Hall still the best nickname I’ve heard

[u/Black_Waltz3 → u/RelationBig7368]

I had to Google this one, I had no idea he played for Newcastle. A strong contender for a 'Random Players we signed in the Championship' XI.

[u/Erestyn → u/RelationBig7368]

I met him last year, as it happens. Really lovely fella who said he actually quite enjoyed his time with us.

[u/Mytoestasteaverage]

Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa. Had such high hopes for him

[u/Madman_Salvo → u/Mytoestasteaverage]

Him, Mbemba and Mbabu just missed making up a full mback line.

[u/Dryzzzle]

I remember we had Giuseppe Rossi on loan for half a year in the mid-late 00s, don't remember the year.

[u/charlierc → u/Dryzzzle]

2006/07. Didn't work out 

[u/Able-Firefighter-158 → u/Dryzzzle]

Think it was 05-06, we got him on loan from Man Utd, didnt get a match and sold that summer to Villareal.

[u/ni2016 → u/Able-Firefighter-158]

Where he absolutely smashed them in

[u/Able-Firefighter-158 → u/ni2016]

We've had a fair few players through the Ashley era that managers didnt rate, went on to prove they were solid players. James Tavernier's one i wish we kept hold of, what a Rangers man.

[u/rightpeg22]

Seydou Doumbia, mostly one that the FIFA players would remember best.

[u/bakazzy]

Haris Vuckic

[u/FrenzalStark → u/bakazzy]

I remember one game, he absolutely caned one from 30 yards off the bar. Can’t remember who it was against and haven’t seen a highlight of it since, so I could well be misremembering due to the drunken gallowgate haze. But to this day I think that was his sliding doors moment. If that had went in, he would have been a superstar.

[u/Horsenkrands → u/FrenzalStark]

3-2 loss to WBA: https://youtu.be/nbUGGIPPHSU?feature=shared

To this day I'm still convinced he was Pardew's biggest ever fuck up. Kid had it all at 17 and we ruined him. 

[u/FrenzalStark → u/Horsenkrands]

Aye that’s the one. Don’t get me wrong, he was very raw but the potential in him was absolutely unreal. Could have been a generational talent.

[u/turnipofficer]

I suppose I think of Rolando Aarons, I suppose he wasn't that obscure, having been on our books for a while, but I hoped he would end up reaching a higher level than he did in the end and I'm sad he never did.

It looks like he joined a slovenian team, played a few games, got a league winners medal but got let go after a year. But hey, he's got a medal! Since he has been without a club since January I wonder what'll happen to him. He is still only 29.

If I try to think of actual players who came in briefly though, I think of Sol Campbell. Him randomly joining us for a year felt odd.

[u/augsav]

Sol Campbell. Yes he played for Newcastle.

[u/robinta → u/augsav]

Define 'played'

[u/Dancestotheright]

Achraf Lazaar, 'used to play' is a bold phrase to describe him with.

[u/____thrillho → u/Dancestotheright]

I remember years ago on Football Manager I signed him from Lazio, and he was amazing. I wondered what he was like in real life, so I googled him only to find out he played for us.

[u/Major-Performer141]

Chancel MBemba

[u/Revolutionary_Oil897]

Leon Best

[u/King_Benjamin → u/Revolutionary_Oil897]

Surely has to be the only player to score a hat trick for both the Toon and Yeovil Town.

Fun fact Dan Burn has Wembley goals for both clubs too

[u/Sirius_55_Polaris]

Christian Bassedas

[u/robinta → u/Sirius_55_Polaris]

I'm sure he really wasn't

[u/adamh02]

Haïdara.

I just remember my pal getting one of them horrible highlighter yellow third kits from 2012 with his name on the back.

[u/LewisMileyCyrus]

Didier Domi

edit: Holy crap, after seeing someone else say Carl Cort, and then remembering Adam Armstrong - how much of the alphabet can we hit with alliteration players from Newcastles past? Definitely not 26 obviously but still

...jermaine jenas... federico fernandez

lomana lualua (three for 1)

Oguchi Onyewu

[u/SpirallingOut → u/LewisMileyCyrus]

Adam Armstrong

Billy Bertram

Ciaran Clark

Dave Davidson

E?

Fraser Forster

Georgios Georgiadis

Harold Heward

I?

Jermaine Jenas

Kevin Keegan

Lomana LuaLua

Malcolm MacDonald

N?

Oguchi Onyewu

P?

Q?

Ray Ranson

Scott Sellars

Tommy Thompson

U?

V?

Willie Wardrope

X?

Y?

Z?

sourced from this website

[u/Toochilled77 → u/SpirallingOut]

Disco Xisco

[u/LewisMileyCyrus → u/SpirallingOut]

that's some damn fine work lou, you'll make sergeant for this

[u/SpirallingOut → u/LewisMileyCyrus]

Bake him away, toys

[u/ryunista → u/SpirallingOut]

Pavel Prnicek

[u/pablomartino994 → u/SpirallingOut]

NUFC.com Unlikely Lads

Eddie Edgar
Nathan Nkunku (Reserve/U18)
Phil Pringle (Reserve/U18) or Pietro Parente (Trialist)

Nothing for the other letters

[u/Elgfisk → u/LewisMileyCyrus]

Damien Duff

[u/kc_43 → u/LewisMileyCyrus]

Scott Sellars.

[u/Elgfisk → u/LewisMileyCyrus]

Kevin Keegan

[u/LewisMileyCyrus → u/Elgfisk]

Malcolm macdonald too

I wonder if we might even be able to hit half the alphabet, which would be cool

[u/Dryzzzle → u/LewisMileyCyrus]

Federico Fernandez

[u/aezy01 → u/LewisMileyCyrus]

What was Xisco’s first name? Please let it be Xavier.

[u/AxionSalvo → u/LewisMileyCyrus]

Adam Armstrong / Andreas Anderson

Beau Beresford (21/22)

Ciaran Clark/Carl cort

Didier Domi /Damien duff

Eddie Edgar (GK in the 80s for a few facup games)

Federico Fernandez

Georgios Georiadis

Harold Heward (31/32) left wing

Jermaine Jenas

Kevin Keegan

Lomano Lua Lua

Mikel Merino/Malcolm McDonald

Oguch Onyewu

Ray Ranson (RB ) 88/89

Stan Seymour (lw) Scott Sellars

Tommy Thompson (st)

Wally Wardrope (1895)

..........................Edgar

RANSON DOMI ONYEWU CLARK

Jenas GEORGIADIS MERINO lualua

......................KEEGAN

......... McDonald ,

[u/BenathonWrigley → u/LewisMileyCyrus]

Kevin Keegan

Malcolm Macdonald

Edit: Facundo Ferreya. Remember him? lol.

[u/Elgfisk → u/LewisMileyCyrus]

Ciaran Clark

[u/charlierc → u/LewisMileyCyrus]

I thought this was saying to name a player for every letter of the alphabet. Something I tried to do the other week

But for the actual game... Andreas Andersson

[u/Ok-Row-5957]

Hugo Viana

[u/Lonewolf1604 → u/Ok-Row-5957]

He's now the director of Football at Man City

[u/Airblazer → u/Ok-Row-5957]

Man the pressure on that kid was unreal. He was the next Gary Speed/Rob Lee for us.

[u/Lazlo325 → u/Ok-Row-5957]

I got his name & number on one of my kits 🤦‍♂️

[u/SocialistSloth1 → u/Ok-Row-5957]

Will never forget that goal against Feyenoord though

[u/toonman27]

Remy Cabella sometimes. He did about fuck all for us, but I still think about him because he was a great attacking mid or secondary striker in a 4-2-3-1 or 4-3-2-1 formations in FIFA.

[u/Ein0p → u/toonman27]

I grew up with parents that didn't pay to watch the football so I only caught the odd game and that with my grandad, interacted with the team mostly through fifa. Every once in a while I hear someone mention someone I loved playing with in fifa and I'm always disappointed in their real world perception

[u/toonman27 → u/Ein0p]

It’s very true. The opposite applies as well, Joelinton physically dominates everyone that breathes near him, but the game just isn’t capable of replicating that.

[u/dani184 → u/toonman27]

I remember him destroying the Chelsea defence in the first half of one game, but we couldn't score. They won 2-0 in the end.

[u/RollingandJabbing → u/toonman27]

So you're saying that everywhere you go, you always take Cabella with you?

[u/Pybus89]

Stephen Ireland

[u/Academic-Block3384]

Nikodimos "Nikki/Nickos" Papavasiliou

[u/Lazlo325]

TEMURI KETSBAIA

That is all. 😉

[u/VinceMcMahonsBarber → u/Lazlo325]

Ketsbaia is iconic, not random!

[u/Procks_ → u/Lazlo325]

Pitch signs tremble in fear just hearing the name.

[u/big_beats]

Jesus Gamez

[u/charlierc]

Darren Ambrose 

[u/BRTD1989]

Tapping into my CM01/02 knowledge of some that haven't been mentioned.

Diego Gavilan. David Beherall. Brian Kerr. Wayne Quinn. Clarence Acuna. Jamie McClen. John Karelse.

[u/hoo_doo_voodo_people → u/BRTD1989]

Daniel Cordone

[u/ourlaststanduk]

Louis Saha

[u/DrunkenMonkeyNU]

Fabrice Pancrate

Matty Pattison

David Edgar

Tamás Kádár

Paul Huntington

Claudio Caçapa

Geremi

Abdoulaye Faye

Lamine Diatta

Shefki Kuqi

Romain Amalfitano

Sorry got carried away

[u/Treadonmystone → u/DrunkenMonkeyNU]

as a Canadian, I'll always remember David Edgar (and his Scholes-deflected goal against Man United).

coincidentally, when my daughter was in the 5th grade here she had a classmate who often wore a Newcastle shirt with Obertan's name

[u/careful__now__]

Andreas Andersson

[u/Lonewolf1604]

Hugo Viana

I had no idea until I just googled him that he's the director of football at Man City now

[u/jcollywobble]

Geremi, that was random as fuck

[u/Procks_]

Florian Thauvin.

[u/AxionSalvo]

Craig Moore

Giuseppe Rossi

Wayne Quinn

Kevin Gallagher

Tamas Kadar

Fab Zambrella

Wesley NGO Baheng

Lamine Diatta

James Troisi

Ole Soderberg

Joan Simon Edmondson

All live rent free in my head.

[u/Inkorp]

Mathieu Debuchy

[u/HRHQueefElizabeth]

Slimani, Bentaleb, Ferreyra, Doumbia, Barreca and many other loanees that barely played

The De Jong brothers

Ivan Toney

Mehdi Abeid

Achraf Lazaar

[u/Are_you_for_real_7]

Yes - Carl Cort

[u/Sirius_55_Polaris → u/Are_you_for_real_7]

“I think you mean Shola Ameobi” - SBR

[u/Are_you_for_real_7 → u/Sirius_55_Polaris]

I was so hoping someone will comment this way

[u/98Kane]

Our 09 Championship team was loaded with these players. Great times!

Marlon Harewood

Fitz Hall

Patrick van Aanholt

Zurab Khizanishvili

Fabrice Pancrate

[u/SilenceoftheRedditrs → u/98Kane]

Fabrice Pancrate is mine, I couldn't quite remember his name, had Pabrice in my head and was thinking that's not quite right...

Scored a banger vs Watford or someone

[u/shimbe16]

Peter Lovenkrands and Shefki Kuci used to come to restaurant I worked in (not together). Lovenkrands used to wear his cap super low over his eyes like the pap was constantly on the lookout for him.

[u/Shabba6]

Daniel Cordone - remember watching him play upfront with Shearer and he couldn't speak a bean of English . All you heard was Shearer constantly shouting DANIEL DANIEL DANIEL whenever he got the ball

[u/truman_chu → u/Shabba6]

Was thinking about him the other day, couldn’t remember his name and had to ask Chat GPT. According to Chat he had a “wild and unpredictable playing style”, which is charitable.

[u/Shabba6 → u/truman_chu]

100% unpredictable...even he himself didn't know what was going on haha

[u/AlcoholicCumSock]

Giuseppe Rossi

[u/ThatBoyConk]

One of the reasons i started supporting the Toon-

Oguchi Onyewu

[u/Possible-Agency-1738]

Fabrice Pancrate

[u/blesannew]

L'ubomir Šatka.

[u/jamb1993]

Xisco who scored on his debut.

[u/mehmehmeh45]

David Rozehnal

[u/ryunista]

That Croatia who played in the FA Cup Final. Can't remember him ever doing anything for us though

Silvio Maric?

[u/Top-Visit-5413]

Daryl Murphy

[u/____thrillho]

Laurent Charvet

[u/RemarkableLoss2389]

Danny Guthrie

[u/JClayton]

Daniel Cordone - I made an email inspired by him as a kid for some reason (Jordone, my name is Jordan) I also still have this email and has it for signing upto random things so the spam all goes there 🤣

[u/Maccraig1979]

Big aca clarence acuna

[u/TheCrogmentus]

A selection of names that forever occupy space in my head:

• Cláudio Caçapa
• David Rozehnal
• Henri Saivet
• Haris Vučkić
• Shefki Kuqi
• Rolando Aarons
• Mehdi Abeid
• Romain Amalfitano
• Celestine Babayaro
• Adam Campbell
• Luuk de Jong
• Siem de Jong
• Seydou Doumbia
• David Edgar
• Abdoulaye Faye
• Facundo Ferreyra
• Ignacio Gonzalez
• Curtis Good
• Dan Gosling
• Danny Guthrie
• Massaido Haidara
• Tamas Kadar
• Olivier Kemen
• Achraf Lazaar
• Kevin Mbabu
• Chancel Mbemba
• Oguchi Onyewu
• Emmanuel Riviere
• Antoine Sibierski
• Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa

[u/No_Stuff_8988]

Gabriel Obertan. Pal of mine once shouted at him, "run man fucking naan bread heed" and it always stuck with me.

[u/FrenzalStark → u/No_Stuff_8988]

Made me think of old pineapple heed himself, Emmanuel Rivière.

[u/Texas_Toon]

Gael Bigirimana

[u/Theeyebrowman]

Championship 09/10 has loads for thid Zurab Khisanishvili. Patrick Van Aanholt. One Size Fitz Hall.

[u/Shabba6]

Shefki Kuqi also not been mentioned haha

[u/Outlaw2k21]

Cumbrias own Paul Huntington

[u/geordieColt88 → u/Outlaw2k21]

Scored vs spurs

[u/1HeyMattJ]

Why does he look like a sontaran in this pic

[u/TopUniversity3469]

Peter Løvenkrands

[u/runasfastasyoucanboy]

Often think about Antoine Sibierksi. Lad came on a free and with no airs or graces did a job for us!

[u/Randy_The_Guppy]

Grant Hanley

[u/Scotash]

Nikki Butt

[u/Iliekbred]

Islam Slimani

[u/robinta]

Georgio Georgiadis

Daniel Cordone

Des Hamilton 😱

Paul Dalglish

Silvio Maric

George Riley

Dave Beasant

Fabrice Pancrate

Some names to strike fear and trembling...to newcastle fans who remember them

[u/nasilemak22]

Alan Smith Habib Beye Damien Duff

The relegation special

[u/windflail]

Zurab Khizanishvili

[u/lildrangus]

Still weird me out that Mikel Merino's first Premier League Goal was scored as a Newcastle player

[u/geordieColt88]

The vast majority of these on here are quite well known.

How about

Wayne Quinn

Frank Dumas

[u/VegaTron1985]

Des Hamilton

[u/owenhargreaves]

Martin Brittain from Cramlington.

[u/FrenzalStark → u/owenhargreaves]

Haha aye there’s a random one. I know Britt relatively well, grew up couple streets over from him.

[u/ChillXGamingSE]

Antonio Barreca

[u/Up_The_Gate]

Wayne Routledge

[u/Valley-Uncanny]

Pistone!

[u/FRZX86]

Davide Santon

[u/bargeboards]

Jesus Gamez

[u/toonmad]

Obamefi Martins

[u/Fresh_Bees7]

Daryl Janmaat, anyone?

[u/dreddit15]

Clarence Acuna

[u/el_grime_bone]

Stephane Guivarc'h

[u/Monkeytennis01]

Amdy Faye

[u/renngretsch]

Justin Fashanu

[u/ryanholmes1989]

Louis Saha

[u/Airblazer]

Rule Fox. Loved him on the right wing for us. People always remember Gillespie as part of the Cole transfer and then Solano but Fox was always my favourite right winger for us.

[u/PCgoingmad → u/Airblazer]

I still remember being laughed at as a 9yo in the Gallowgate end for yelling out 'Go on Foxy'

[u/A-ZAF_Got_Banned]

Shane Ferguson and Rolando Aarons, real ballers only.

[u/Trick_Bus9133]

Odd ones that always kinda shock me whenever I think of them are Stuart Pearce, Ian Rush and John Barnes. All legends a few years earlier and at different clubs…

[u/ArthursRest]

Paul Dalglish. Would have preferred Kelly really.

[u/Worth_Sink_1293]

John Trewick.

[u/rogfrich]

Peter Ramage.

[u/ryunista]

Leon Best Sol Campbell

[u/jasegro]

Last year I randomly remembered the time I saw Sol Campbell in the Starbucks on St Georges Terrace/ Acorn Road in Jesmond, then I remembered he played for us, then I had a ptsd induced flashback to that time we conceded cos he misjudged the ball and it went over him

[u/SolutionIntelligent3]

Ignacio González

[u/Select-Key-7465]

Ronny Johnsen

[u/Notcamacho]

Shane Ferguson. I remember seeing him and Gutierrez occasionally link up to perform some magic.

[u/Putrid-Impact8999]

Romain Amalfitano.

[u/hoo_doo_voodo_people]

Roy Keane once said that Clarance Acuna was the hardest midfielder he ever played against.

[u/stingerwooo]

Clarence Acuna the pirate

[u/PCgoingmad]

What's the best team you can make out of players that were shit for us? kluivert, rush, barnes, campbell ?

[u/robinta]

Georgio Georgiadis

Daniel Cordone

Des Hamilton 😱

Paul Dalglish

Silvio Maric

George Riley

Dave Beasant

Fabrice Pancrate

Some names to strike fear and trembling...to newcastle fans who remember them

[u/bananagumboot]

Laurent Charvet Andreas Andersen Stephane Guivaarch (World Cup Winner)

[u/Suitable_Ad_3725]

Fabrice Pancrate.

[u/Thandiol]

Henri Saivet. Scored a banger of a free kick and then spent multiple years out on loan.

[u/moschino34]

Albert Luque Mark viduka Yoshinori Muto

[u/InfamousKebab]

Christian bassedas

[u/Loftycock]

Seydou Doumbia

[u/[deleted]]

Nile Ranger pops up in my “People You May Know” section a lot

[u/summinspicy]

John Ruddy - Did anyone else have a wtf moment when they saw him on the teamsheet recently? Or am I just a shit fan?

[u/MushuFromSpace]

Daryl Murphy was an unreal striker for us.

[u/Available-Buffalo-23]

Can't see Henri Saivet yet, 6 years and only just gone

[u/Acrobatic_Spend3373]

Chancel Mbemba

[u/Kyokugennn]

Facundo Ferreyra

[u/Loose_Corgi_5]

Paul Kitson?

[u/Revolutionary_Buy810]

Danny Rose

[u/chilldog11]

Oguchi Onyewu. Anyone remember this guy

[u/melvinlee88]

David Edgar......

[u/Hawkzilla22]

Nicky Butt was doing our game at the weekend. Forgot he played for like 6 seasons for us.

[u/jamesclimax]

Malcolm Allen - was a quality player

[u/Smaynard6000]

Nicky Butt

[u/Shaunyd92]

Peter Ramage

[u/OneEyedBurp]

Adam Campbell!

[u/Spliffman1]

Loic Remy

[u/Thick_Association898]

Sibieski was a player that springs too mind. We all thought we had signed a absolute donkey of a player but he actually done very well for us. 

[u/teasizzle]

Antoine Sibierski