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Obviously we should never sell a player like Isak but he has almost become too good for us. Top 3 striker in the world should be playing in a team challenging for the CL trophy every season and earn much more than we could ever pay in the near future. I'm absolutely certain that he isn't going anywhere this summer but it's a different story next summer. There are maybe five teams in the world who could sign him and those clubs have massive pull even when Isak loves NUFC and Newcastle. Not really worried about PL teams buying him but Barca especially must be looking at him with Lewa's age, hope their finances are still a mess. PSG and Bayern are a bit scary too, PSG don't really have a striker and Kane is getting older too.

Assist and a decent freekick attempt.

IMO we need a RW no matter what Osula is seen as.

Subbed on at 55 minutes against Finland. Edit. Seems to play as RW.

Wouldn't surprise me if Saudi Arabia had an agreement with FIFA to help with the looming CWC if needed when they were given the WC.

Why was Eales a shit hire?

Nah, there's a big difference in scoring 20 with no penalties and 20 with half of them being penalties.

Went to check Palmeiras' team ahead of the Porto match and got excited when I saw an 18 year old RW valued at 60m. Then I noticed Chelsea have already bought him.

Also the time of day, midday game on a scorching hot sun on an open stadium is basically non-existent in Europe.

Strong flashbacks to WC94 which is the first major tournament I can remember from watching this.

It's certainly something that should exist but there's really no room for it in the calendar. Can't blame FIFA for trying as if it had the prestige and tradition it could be a really big event not that far below World Cup or Euros as a summer tournament. The Inter Miami debacle really didn't help either, makes mockery of this being a serious tournament. Will probably watch some games but if it was cancelled tomorrow it would be a real moment.

Not a single sprint though.

Depends a lot on where we sign them from, Isak was that but impossible with players from PL.

Inter played the last league games with basically a second team out there despite being in the hunt for the title. They might have ran out of legs but that wasn't due to lack of rotating as they were using their super deep squad in the league games.

It goes in cycles and all the players were U-21 when the qualifiers started. Surely it makes more sense to do it like this than having to drop off players from a major tournament after their birthdays?

Moving our great RB to LB so we can move our great LB to our great midfield is peak N-O.

Perfect for the right wingers and all (one?) incels.

Would probably still win a sprint against wor Bruno.

Yeah, would really help with the second choices too to have that calming experienced player there along with two of Miley/Willock/Longstaff in early cup games.

Aye, a Jorginho 2023 equivalent would be nice if we could get decent fees for Longstaff and/or Willock. Still think there would be room for Miley too to not go out on loan and be that 4th/5th option depending on who is out of the starters.

That's +48 matches in four months, seems a bit high? Think the more honest way would be saying we play twice a week as it is the reality.

Seems like he went from £75k a week in Milan to £120k a week here according to 'sources'. Well inside our pay structure and way below the £200-250k Mbeumo seems to ask.

I’m expecting the opposite actually, older players are more actively looking to run down their contracts as the transfer demand has gone down and their wages end up going up due to free transfers. It’s such a backwards result of these sustainability rules that clubs are forced to sell young homegrown talent as a) pure profit and b) the pool of teams that can afford to take the risk and sign expensive 27-30 year olds is really small and even they seem hesitant to do it.

Old, expensive and contracted until 2030, ticks those boxes?