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Thought these 2 didn't like each other at all? West Ham Chelsea should be lively as fuck, no? West Ham just really passive and poor in every area

West Ham are utterly awful, not even doing the basics now. I'll give Potter 6 more games before he's out, they're just not playing for him at all, he's fucked

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He's going to be expensive though just because of the timing of it all. I'd agree it's way more than I think he's worth but that's where we are and what we're up against - I'm trying to think of it as paying £40m for the player and an extra £10-15m for passing the inconvenience parcel on to Wolves. It's now a Wolves problem and not a Newcastle one. If/when they go looking to replace him they'll be charged more for their replacement too, they've now got a bit more to play with

Aye, but you used the laces

Depends who's asking. £45m for Spurs, £60m for us

Does seem to be a common theme that current PL teams (Forest and Villa are the exception funnily enough ) just don't want to sell us (m)any of their players, get the distinct impression that we're a bit of a pariah ourselves within the PL. Recently relegated clubs are happy to sell, clubs on the continent are happy to sell but there's only really Hall, Burn and Wood that I think we've managed to sign from rival PL clubs - could be wrong. Elanga (Forest) Ramsdale (Soton) Thiaw (Milan) Ramsey (Villa) Hall (Chelsea) Vlak (Forest) Osula (S. Utd) Kelly (out of contract) Tonali (Milan) Barnes (Leicester) Livramento (Soton) Bruno (Lyon) Botman (Lille) Wood (Burnley) Burn (Brighton) Gentleman's agreement that no-one sells to the Saudis? No favour given? I know it's a bit tin-foil hatty but you pair it with all the rejections and the Guehi shit and the impromptu meeting to change the rules mid-season and it starts to kind of connect a bit? Or am I just massively paranoid? I never expected us to be popular, not really bothered about being liked but when a collective of clubs are all seemingly acting against you despite sticking to every rule in the book then it starts to play on my mind a bit...

I think they're hoping rather than expecting tbh

Pretty sure all EL and ConfL teams get their games shifted to the Sunday (normally 2pm iirc). That doesn't mean the CL teams are all definitely playing on Saturday, but all the teams playing Thursday night play again on Sunday. That's my understanding I think

Think it's only the EL and ConfL teams that get shifted as they play on the Thursday?

Problems now are that it's clearly a sellers market with only 10 days left of the window. The idea of haggling a fee is a bit far gone now, we either meet their price or it doesn't get done. We wouldn't even dream of haggling over the isak fee and why should Brentford do is any favours? They'll stick to their guns and I don't blame them tbh. Second problem from 'just move on' is who exactly do we move on to? Moving on is fine when there's 6 weeks of the window left but it's starting to get a bit tight. We've all seen how long it takes us to get shit done most of the time, Wissa the supposed to be the formality signing, the one tied up and ready to go as soon as Brentford got one in - clearly not. The more I think about it the more I think we might just have to bite the bullet and give them what they're asking for. It'll sting but it'll sting a lot more for a lot longer if we don't get a striker. It's definitely an overpay but I honestly think I'd be tempted to just do it at this stage. Get him in and spend the last few days getting one more in on loan to cover, Gordon goes back to LW, Barnes as cover and a proper CF leading the line and a fully functioning unit for the next 24 games until January. For the sake of maybe 10m extra?

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I just need 4 reducers, that's all. 4 absolutely horrendous tackles on their most valuable players, serve their 3 match bans and I'll be cool with a 0-12 loss. Knee-high, violent, career-enders aimed at snapping as many bones, ligaments and tendons you can shake your fucking fist at. Fucking despise these cunts man *in over 25 years of posting dogshit online I've never posted a message close to that, I'm a bit of a piece of shit for doing so right now but that's exactly where I'm at. Liverpool and Isak are fucking scum. I mean every single fucking word*

Fantastic response if Hope's correct. It's a huge blow to not be able to play him and we'll suffer in the short term but a line needs to be drawn at some point. Sincerely hope he never kicks a ball for the next 35 months the little cunt

Alexander Isak remains a Newcastle player until June 2028. The club will continue to honour his contract as per all stipulations and clauses contained within. Isak is not for sale unless a fee is agreed and the club expect him to fulfil his obligations according to his legally binding contract. The club will make no further comment on this matter. The fucking end I'm paraphrasing

Brentford, by the way, are fucking loving this development They'll be like a dog with 2 dicks and I don't blame them tbh

Only statement I want or need from the club is a number. The exact amount of money (cumulatively) he's being fined for each breach of his contract. Updated weekly please on a Monday morning to help warm the cockles of my heart before another week of graft

Waits until about 10 minutes after he's named in the Team of the Season then drops that heap of fucking pigshit. Hope NUFC's heel have just dug in another half a mile as a result of that. Jack his price up and if no cunt pays it then he fucking rots for 3 years, fuck him, he's an utter piece of shit

The only new thing is that he's finally had the bollocks to say it himself. People can stop blaming his (cunt) agent and saying it's all down to him. Isak has been calling the shots all summer

Stick an extra £30m on his tag, the snidey cunt. Promises were broken but refuses to honour his own contract? Fucking snake

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Fully aware of that Trying to sign strikers is great, failing to land a single one of them doesn't help us though. I appreciate they got led on and let down but the fact remains they haven't replaced Wilson yet, let alone got a solution to the Isak issue. Not everything has been in their control, I appreciate that, but they've still failed to get one as of 19th August. We have another 25 games to play before the January window opens again

This is exactly why all the fucking about in June and July was so frustrating at the time, the consequences of not getting a striker earlier in the window (even if we did have to play more than we would have liked) are being felt now. The prices were always going to go through the roof the longer we held off. We're now between a rock and a hard place and there's a genuine risk of not having a single adequate striker at the club after the window has closed. I can understand not being held over a barrel and paying too much - I completely get it. Once you overpay for one player then you're going to see every other club do the same - it's sound logic. Problem is, what are the consequences of not paying it and being forced to play about 30 games without one? Pick your poison Getting Thiaw and Ramsey went some way towards saving the window but not sorting the striker problem would send it back into failure. It was the priority position

Tight this one, could give either tbh