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We’re never signing anyone again then

The vast majority of baiting and wind up posts from Froggy are in response to people tagging him trying to wind him up when they lose or similar. People can’t have it both ways by winding him up and getting nothing back. It just so happens that he’s much better at winding people up than many on here.

Howe himself has confirmed we’ve bid big money for Guehi and Khusanov since the Anderson thing so there’s either money there to spend (and presumably more now since those bids) or the club genuinely don’t know what they’re doing. Based on the below quotes from the Summer, it sounds like we’re just being careful and waiting for the right deals/players. “Without going into the individual situation here, we've tried to sign several players,” Howe admitted when asked about putting sole focus on signing one player in Guehi. “It's never been about one player. It can never be about one player, because as soon as you're in that position, then your negotiation strength is over. "So, no, we've tried for several targets, but it still has to be the right player though. And there isn't an unlimited number of players. It's not like you can, well, we'll just go on to the next one, the next one, the next one. Because then the quality dilutes and then you have to question whether you're doing the right thing for the long-term future of the club. "There isn't a bottomless pit of money. We're not able to spend that way. Everything that we do has a long-term consequence. So you've got to be very sure whatever you do is right for the long-term future and short-term future of the club.” When asked what the ‘right player’ is for Newcastle, Howe added: “The right player is multi-factored, really. “It's the right age, the right deal as in transfer fee, the right wages, then the right player to actually come into your squad, the right positional need. “There's loads of things. If one of those things is not right, especially financially for us, it puts us in a difficult situation."

It's why we have to look overseas and try and find another Bruno, Botman type signing imo. Mbuemo at 60+m is too much for us imo. Guehi might also be as his salary demands I imagine will be high. We are in a tricky spot a lot of pressure on Paul Mitchell this summer.

I know but we need squad depth and it'd cost a helluva lot more to buy 3-4 players than loan them. I think the 3 "big" signings take our first XI to top 3/4 level. We need strength underneath that.

In case you aren't aware. Loans are really expensive. We'd be paying a fee plus the salary without gaining the benefit of an asset. Also loans really aren't suited to Eddie's methods of bedding people in slowly. Poor use of resources imo.

Trafford, Guehi, Mbuemo plus 3-4 loans & frees.

If Man Utd were to finish 17th, would it be fair to consider this, pound-for-pound, the worst league campaign in a major European league in living memory?

Thread unroll and hang it like the Bayeux Tapestry.

Spot on mush Going man to man in huge swathes of the game killed us further as it was easy as is piss for them to get the ball into said players one on one and with space around too. Watkins was class but Rodgers was superb. A bulky Willock whose ability to force the ball forward is amazing. He was really good at SJP too.

They are really not.

We have absolutely, we could be doing more. The items I've listed have been on the agenda for a long time things our rivals are doing which we aren't and it's putting us at a disadvantage.

He's alright Froggy once you get to know him ...

Surely we have to strike a balance between getting in quality and quantity. If we sign a current premier league baller for 50-60m, and that potentially leaves us with pennies, we're back to having a shit squad the next year.

His point is ........ actually we have made great progress.

What Isak/Tonali level singings are there possible for centre back?

An emergency PL meeting followed by a new rule banning the loan of players from the Saudi Pro League.

By paying out about half a mill a week to do so. Gamble hasn’t worked if they don’t make CL. *I will say that in the position they found themselves come January, it was probably a ‘sensible’ gamble, but doesn’t necessarily equate that we would be in a similar position. *And I’d also say that Emery’s coaching methods lend themselves much better to loaning players than Howe’s does. Emery tends to do a lot more trading of players, and swapping players in and out to suit particular games. Howe is more about coaching players to be able to do what he wants (probably generalising significantly in relation to both of them like).

The more I see Mbuemo the more clearly suited he is to our style. He’d be a monster here. Have him over Cunha every single time.

I wonder what would happen if you start getting Saudi Pro League players on loan

Still 2 wins and a draw for CL I think - as long as one of them occurs against Chelsea. One more win needed for Europa.

What's your point? I'm talking about fine margins. Our inaction particularly around sponsorships is one of the reasons why we have a thin squad which can't play 3 times in a week. If you think they aren't slow on these matters or couldn't do more that's total fine though.

Tbf we should have put Brighton away in the first half of the league game and although the cup game was much more even, having automated offsides rather than the lines, quite possibly did us over with the Schar goal. Understand the apprehension given our most recent performances down there but it’s not as tough a game as some seem to think IMO.

This has nothing to do with it. I've been keeping track of those 4 factors for long time. My post was actually triggered by the further delay to the new training ground which is inexplicable imo. 3 years to find a piece of grass is hilarious.

To those who think we should be getting Cunha and Mbuemo (both very good players) can you please keep future complaints about FFP, not having squad big enough and having to sell players to yourself please. Thanks.