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I wonder what price they are to get under 10 points this season?

Hard to believe that Hearts haven’t spent at least a couple of million on a player.

That was my first thought too. Injury trouble, coming off a less productive season, potential gambling addiction - if we could find someone with all three they'd be perfect for us. Really though, you are right. We're going to struggle going head-to-head with the established "top" clubs for players so we have to move when they hesitate.

37min mark for those interested in EH signing players.

But I'm not sure he pretends to be an expert in high performance, does he? That's also why he has the other bloke on the show. He just asks the questions. As I said though, I do find it a but insufferable at times, tends to be the way in the self improvement area.

I wouldn't be at all happy to see him leave, but I agree with the sentiment. Funny how all of our players become 'irreplaceable' and should be with us for the next decade, yet somehow we bought them in the first place - most from a much, much weaker position than the one we now find ourselves in.

I only really know Scalvini from FM where hes basically a legend. He looks like a skiding tackle monster in those youtube vids If we can get him for the right price and if we can manage his workload so that his chance of injury is reduced - get him on a plane.

Feels there’s enough noise coming out from Italy that one of our signings will come from Seria A.

I do get up at 5am, but I wouldn't listen to Humphrey's podcast when I'm walking the dogs at that time - the man is a complete weapon. 'High performance' from a bloke whose day job was to read out other people's questions to bored-looking ex-footballers - he can fuck right off.

Yeah, he was great at the Euros. Against Man Utd in the Europa League he was extremely disappointing though. If they had played him less in that tie, I think they would have put Man Utd out.

Yeah, that's the Brighton model - not the Newcastle one where we outspend everyone in the division. Shame that last season's top spenders were Brighton, and we were 18th highest in the division. But you know, who needs facts.

“We don’t demand a team that wins… We demand a club that tries…” Funny how everyone gets it wrong 😆

He is a professional with no links to the club prior to his signing. The way the financing is structured some clubs will be able to pay much more in wages, often the clubs that have the best chance of winning things. Funny that,eh? Were I him I would probably be off for double the money, if he does I hope he goes abroad. I have enough faith in our manager that he will have ideas about a replacement and make the right choices, Isak wasn't a lucky guess. I certainly won't be devastated if he left, we are way off being a one trick pony.

I appreciated Humphreys sometimes he did that, but also there was a time on bt sport champions league coverage where he got confused about (AC) Milan and Inter and I was wondering how you do that on that stage...also I can't stand the concept of the high performance podcast....I get it, sometimes, but some of us don't want to wake up at 5am, some of us are quite content with mediocre peformance to be honest

Happy to read the rumours this morning! Would fit our style of buying elite talent when others won't take the risk

I do find the podcast annoying, but that reaction seemed a bit more than that

That podcast in general is pretty nauseating, Jake Humphreys basically just blows smoke up the arse of whoever is on there for an hour. It reminds me of those Inside The Actors Studio interviews from years ago that were kind of the same. That said, Humphreys used to stick up for us on BT Sport when you had idiots like Rio Ferdinand saying Rafa should spend his own money. There was probably him, Colin Murray and maybe one or two select others who weren't Newcastle fans but really seemed to understand and get the Ashley thing and put it forwards properly.

What’s he done to you?

Why?

Fuck Jake Humphrey. Sorry, Dan.

You're all forgetting we have Fab to come in if he does get injured.

Was very good in the Euros last summer.

I did, and the guy said something about him being bald. I was more interested in talking about Giorgi Kinkladze Couldn't be arsed to mention Zurab Khizanishvili