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I think he's on our list. We were linked last summer as Romano mentioned we enquired. Think not being in the Champions League then, lessened our chances.

Okay. We'll catch up at the end of the window.

I can see us getting Xavi Simons

Ultimately I think and hope you are right. I accept that they may be waiting for prices to come down, but I also accept the clock ticks each day

I don’t, we stayed on Guehi when other clubs signed better/near as good centre backs for half price or less. Seems we don’t have near broad enough scouting or place too much weight on whether they’ve played premiership football. Love Eddie but if any aspect of his management is open to question it’s transfers…arguments to be made either way, but modern Bournemouth are spending money far more effectively than Howe Bournemouth

Yeah one above is fake, yesterday's was the real one (with crest on the black background).

Lets atleast push the price up for them. Not that it matters though, they'll spent 400 mill, finish 4th and end up with more PSR headroom than before.

RTG has been DDOS’d all day apparently?

I think it's a DH gate special as all the adidas details are horrendously placed and sized.

Can’t wait until we get to the ‘it looks better on’ phase.

Howe now has the people he trusts the most in charge of transfer negotiations. It will be up to him to let them know when to pivot to other options, if things are at a point of no return. I think it will be fine.

You said it far better than me mate. 👏

How much are your pears?

So Friday 3pm?

Just sell the cunt, then fold the club. Can't take much more of this. I expected at least 8 signings before July, yet here we are. I thought the club would give us updates every few hours on our business, but no. Who the fuck runs a football club like this? Newcastle United, that's who!

His son can feed him so fine

I’m not sure the comparison works, it’s too simple. The club has had a long time to identify targets and to do the research necessary to consider whether they’d be interested in joining and at what wages, and it has been open to the club to ask agents about asking prices. As soon as an expensive target (apple) is off the table, you move to the next one. You don’t really need that degree of research, discussion and strategy about your apples. You also don’t buy apples to complement the pre-existing set of apples you already have at home, you normally buy them because you want / need new apples. Im ok with price haggling at this stage but my concern is that it continues so far into pre season that we’re deprived of the impact of new players in the squad because it takes Howe a while to trust and involve new players. It doesn’t help that we’re seeing a second consecutive summer of boardroom uncertainty and confusion as to who is in charge of getting players through the door. Coupled with what seems to me to be a bit of drift (eales still in post, Mitchell still in post where doesn’t appear to be a reason for it, no replacements for star key and ghodoussi) at boardroom level and there’s plenty room for chin scratching now.

Yep. Yet again, I am truly baffled by some of our fans and their inability to understand the build-up phase (it was practically a start-up) when Amanda came in literally every major decision they made paid off to what has happened on the pitch. Everyone who continues to jab at the PSR issue are ignoring that RB, PIF, a CFO and Eales were also all here and well aware of what was going on. Further, what has always been our strongest asset was tieing into the emotion of the fans and rowing in 1 direction and Amanda 100% got that and knew how important the happiness of the fans was to the overall plan. No Amanda, none of this. Languishing in some shit lower division with Baconator still managing the club.

He’ll be fine. Would have him here as a coach personally. Always thought it would be a role best suited to him.

Thought we signed him for a minute there 😂

The equation is pretty simple, especially for non-European players who don't have any emotional attachment to any place in England. I don't blame them. I would do the same. VVD and Salah re-signed because we offered the best wages and the chances of winning trophies in the next two years but mainly because we offered the best wages.

We’ve some but can’t overspend to get all our targets. If you’ve only £4 and you need 3 apples and they are £2 each because in season and it’s a busy start of the day with lots of shoppers out who have £6 and more. You need for their price to drop at the end of the day hoping their will be three unbruised apples left or just buy two apples knowing ultimately that’s insufficient.

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/lee-clark-bankrupt-newcastle-sunderland-35427255 Clarky sadly bankrupt

I did say its not felt the same behind the scenes. Everything you've said above is testament to the time she was here, the players, the manager that made those achievements were recruited on her watch.

I've already said we need to essentially drop the domestic cups. We've broke the trophy drought. Top 5 is now more important, and we'll certainly not achieve that if our purples have to cope with the League and FA Cup as well.