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There's a reason he might go to Turkey and that is because he is on the decline, they love a signing of a player on the decline. 12 league goals over the last three seasons.

Much prefer a derisory bid.

Who you raised it with?

I thought it was just to spread the cost of the signing over a longer period. But I don't actually know.

Was just thinking last night and have a feeling you’d know the answer… Do you reckon the Chelsea’s idea with these 7 + year deals for young players the plan is if they work out and stay at the club for 5 years they are still at a good age to then sell in the 6th year at pure profit whilst having 2yrs minimum left on contract and therefore still hopefully get a decent chunk of money back due to fees always slowly rising with inflation? I dare it would it apply if they just loan them out for 5 years for fees to various club also. The only risk is demotivation or career ending injury early into contract. The upside is less power for the agent to renegotiate and what I stated above.

This is the kind of out-of-the-box thinking we need.

If we really want him, just put in a 50m bid.

Tonali was untouchable and never going to happen until it did. Serie A sides don’t have much of a choice once the offer gets to a certain size.

City hoard via Multi-club ownership but it's not to the degree Chelsea do. This Chelsea stuff is unparalleled. They've always done it uner Roman but not to this extent.

Aye. I guess its similar to us with Isak, he isn't for sale, but if an insane offer came in we'd have to look at it.

Besiktas interested in Tammy Abraham. "We should be all over that!"

I got this as that they accept that our bid is fair given the recent injuries and unlikely to get more for him from anyone else this summer. BUT they think his real value to them is higher so long as he maintains fitness. therefore he isn’t a player that they can sell

This is what the transfer window is all about. These are the bits that are enjoyable.

The amount of made up lies in that thread has even exceeded their usual showing. What a bunch of sad cunts they are. As said by Wallsendmag above, the fuckers are absolutely broken since the takeover, and that's increasing rapidly

Caniggia at Dundee.

Why did I waste my time watching his highlight video?

NUFC: €40m for Scalvini Atalanta: fuck off and die, you absolute cunts. NUFC: €41m Atalanta:

So just to get this straight there's something wrong with people turning up at Newcastle Airport wearing a Newcastle top but if someone rocks up there in a Sunderland top then that's "classy"? They are utterly deranged. An absolute parody of a fanbase. Any slight rhyme, reason or ability to have any sort of rational thought with that lot disappeared on 7th October 2021 and it's never to return. They are too far gone now. Whilst it's funny for us and gives people a good laugh, and offers plenty of content for that Deluded World of RTG site on X, it's also pretty tragic really. Basically living their football supporting lives through another club. Whether it's a concert at SJP, seeing another human out and about in a NUFC top, worrying about Mags taking over areas that they believe more Sunderland fans should live in etc, it literally consumes their lives amd in such a negative way. Honestly if football made me feel like that I'd genuinely wrap it all in. There's just zero enjoyment in getting yourself so worked up about such trivial things. Football is supposed to be enjoyable, a bit of relief from everyday pressures. For them it just sends their blood pressure soaring further.

Nobody is unsellable realistically. Everyone has their price, this has been true in football since forever and I doubt that has changed. The question more is a team willing to pay what they want? If a club is saying a player is unsellable I'm gonna assume more often than not that it's just posturing.

our bid was so desultory they pulled him off the market completely

Who exactly are we talking about here? Haaland, Wirtz that level? No we can't afford the wages of those players but that's not to do with their ability, as much as their valuation, which aren't always the same thing. For example we signed Isak, who's at the very least comparable to Haaland. We've signed Tonali who id bracket as being an elite midfielder. Liverpool have won loads in the last 6/7 years and they didn't sign "the cream of the crop", they paid boatloads for VVD from... Southampton which quite a few scoffed at. They signed Allison and Salah from Italy and neither would be classed as entirely unattainable to us now. They also built their squad with some really smart signings: Robertson, Firmino, Wijnaldum, Henderson, Milner to name a few. In short, my point is that you dont need to sign known superstars, you need to sign unknown superstars. Which isn't easy but do-able.

As a gamer, Digitiser was always my first port of call upon waking. Then, as a teenager, I managed to 'hook up' via a teletext chat page. I think it was 50p a message but worth every penny.

“‘It's great that the window opens on June 1,’ he said. ‘The challenge is for us to sign players in early June. But it doesn't always work like that. I hope in reality it does, but it rarely works like that.“

Weren’t there rumours that Scalvini has a release clause?