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Yeo - Some of my good mates thought they’d us! Tripps was bang out of form and the number of times I heard in the build up about how Jack Clarke was going to torture him was mental! Did he even play? Ha ha!

If you're going to get stuck into SP at least do it about his insistence that Trippier's marriage was fine.

Yeah, but we are looking for players to improve the first xi. Buying relatively cheap players with potential for the youth team/to loan out (such as kinteh and corduroy) is fine and I'm sure we will continue to do that, but people seem to want us to buy first team ready players for pennies. In order to improve on our current first xi we are going to have to spend big, whether it's domestically or from Europe.

Not when the gulf in talent is that large Elanga is a speed merchant that's it, ability matters and that supersedes that every time (not to mention Kudus is no slouch either) Kudus is also far more versatile and can play across the line at a good level

Liverpool's 3 best players were linked with sales last season and 1 obviously left. Konate and Saliba are on the Madrid rumour list too

Kudus is two footed, has bags of pace, end product and decent work rate. And is more tactically flexible. If we are after both of them - it's because they share a lot of similar traits. Kudus was inconsistent last year. But his first season was better than Elanga's last season.,

As has been pointed out before, doubling his wages will technically cost us nothing because of the reduction in amortisation cost of his transfer fee. There would be the risk of potential inflationary effect on other player's wage demands, but we could easily afford to pay him £300k per week.

Just an attempt to unsettle innit.

Best player and best player for a Howe team are different things though

Shut up man you whopper.

Info here: https://www.newcastleunited.com/en/news/st-james-stack-awarded-a-five-year-extension

Kudus is the best player there by a mile NOL never fails to disappoint in its lack of ball knowledge

Who was the poster who used to be known as ITK on here, but then it was discovered they were just getting their stuff from a more credible ITK from another forum? It was quite the drama on here, as I recall.

He’ll be expecting us to do a lot of business this summer and push on next season, then after qualifying for the CL again and increasing sponsorship revenues, maybe we can pay big wages. Hard to feel too optimistic he’ll be here beyond next season though.

Saying there's no value in Europe when one of the best flips we've had in recent years being Minteh is...

Any young player is a gamble, the point being 6 good months increased the price exponentially. As I said, player value will always have many factors but across the board two identical players one with no premier League experience and one with the pl experience will command a premium. You may want to have a read/listen to how to win the premier League, it's a great book which dives into many aspect of this.

Weren’t we on a run of ten without a win going into that game and in the middle of an unprecedented injury crisis? I remember thinking at the time they might not ever get such favourable conditions to play us again.

Hate the fact we are now challenging for silverware, challenging for European football, and our best players are all linked with moves away. Why is Saka, Saliba, Odegaard never talked about moving to City or Liverpool.

Of course he was. He was an 18 year old defender that Juve didn’t see a future in. Maybe not super obscure but he was definitely a gamble and yes, that’s paid off. You’re using this (quite niche) successful example only with the benefit of hindsight.

He was contracted to Juve and on loan at Roma. He was anything but obscure.

That's if you're looking at a direct replacement for Murphy which Im not sure we are. Much like when folk thought Tonali was a direct upgrade for Longstaff, the plan is possibly not that simple. Given the supposed links to Pedro, the report that the pitch to Delap was that he'd play plenty with Isak and not as a winger, the success of the 3/5 at the back last season, I think we may be in for much more flexibility next season.

Huijsen was a gamble on an obscure talent though.

I honestly think this is the rationale behind most posts in this thread. I feel the same most of the time.

Feels like it's endemic on here.

Don't watch a great deal of West Ham but I did enjoy Kudus ripping Arsenal a new one at The Emirates this season