Jonas Gutierrez Joins Norwich!

Good signing for them IMO:-

Norwich City have completed the loan signing of Newcastle United midfielder Jonas Gutierrez until 30 June.
The £3m-rated Argentine, 30, wrote on Twitter at the weekend that he would be leaving St James' Park imminently.
Gutierrez was a key man in the Magpies squad that Chris Hughton, now Canaries manager, led to promotion from the Championship in 2010.

Gutierrez has celebrated scoring goals by wearing a Spiderman mask. It relates to a cinema trip during his time at Real Mallorca, when a boy asked if Gutierrez could score for him and the Argentine said he would put a Spiderman mask on if he did so as that was the boy's favourite film.

Hughton said: "Jonas can play on either flank and in a central position, so he's a very welcome addition."
Gutierrez, who has played just twice for Newcastle this season, said: "I'm happy to be here. It's an opportunity for me to get back in the game and try and do my best for the team."
The former Velez Sarsfield player has made 163 league appearances for the Magpies since he joined from Mallorca in July 2008, scoring 10 goals.
"He's somebody that will certainly bring experience - he's played close to 200 games for Newcastle so he knows the Premier League very well," said Hughton.
"He's been in England for five years, so there won't be that settling-in period that you would have with some other players. That's important, particularly in January when you need players that can go straight into the squad."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25712859

Haven't seen him play in yonks. Did he come on v us in the home fixture?

Haven't seen him play in yonks. Did he come on v us in the home fixture?

Yes, http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24350213, he's not been getting much game time of late at Newcastle, but he's good in possession, decent pace from what I've seen of him, can cover at full back and midfield, he's very experienced, just what we could have done with in my opinion!

Poor player. Will give it his all but he just doesn't have a lot of quality to hurt teams.

Poor player. Will give it his all but he just doesn't have a lot of quality to hurt teams.

I agree that he's not going to hurt many teams in this league and I know that Wiki says he's a winger, but over the past few seasons (possibly due to his age catching up with him), he's covered the full back position on umpteen occasions and when played wide, has performed more like a Tommy Smith type winger (Our Tommy Smith, not Liverpool's old player), but as I said he's good in possession, good defensively and IMO, would make a good squad player for us, given that we are desperately short of Premier League experience!

Poor player. Will give it his all but he just doesn't have a lot of quality to hurt teams.

I agree that he's not going to hurt many teams in this league and I know that Wiki says he's a winger, but over the past few seasons (possibly due to his age catching up with him), he's covered the full back position on umpteen occasions and when played wide, has performed more like a Tommy Smith type winger (Our Tommy Smith, not Liverpool's old player), but as I said he's good in possession, good defensively and IMO, would make a good squad player for us, given that we are desperately short of Premier League experience!

He was one of the best player in that Newcastle side two years ago, when they nearly finished fourth. Of course, they didn't do anything like as well last season, but he seems to have fallen away particularly badly.