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Brentford won’t quote that price since they know we have that amount of money to bid for Guehi. 70m is more realistic

Pretty sure Guehi is going to replace Schar, so yes, that’s the area for improvement identified by Mitchell / Howe. We won’t start Schar / Guehi together, we also won’t keep our record signing on bench. Schar must be the one going to sit.

you can say so. I just think as the one who knows the squad best at this moment, Howe has the right to push for the deal and Mitchell gotta respect this. I ain’t blaming Howe for the pushing.

that’s why I said it’s Howe who is pushing the deal.

that’s what shadow puppet said, which I thought would means the end of this deal.

Soton double teamed Gordon the whole game. Of course he couldn’t have a good game.

Nah just offer 80m and get him. Couldn’t care less. It should be Howe’s problem to take since he forced the deal to go through. Why should the fans worry for that? Fully expect Almiron to start next game btw.

Personal opinion only but I don’t think it really matters that much to have a right footed CB playing as RCB. If that CB is gifted with football ability, he can still string the pass with his left

I don’t understand the negativity here. May be people expected us to crush Soton easily but I am very pleased we are able to execute pressing for once and steal a goal, and then able to grind it out till the end. You couldn’t ask for more given Schar being sent off unfairly. Krafth and Kelly both look reliable. Livra able to handle the pressure for 90 mins. Hall got a lesson but redeem himself with that goal line save. Pope back on form after a disastrous season. Joe in beast mode, finally looks fresh. Bruno didn’t lose his position like last season. I have lots of positives to take from this match. Probably the only negatives are the front three - Murphy a bit unlucky but he did fuck all within his limited playing time. But that’s not on Howe. May be last season was so disastrous (especially on the defence side) that my expectation is lower. I think Howe and the players did pretty well and shouldn’t get any stick, except Schar

Yea we won’t appeal. So Schar out for three games

It is not about “who we want”, it’s about “who is here during the process”. Of course I want Joe for yesterdays game when we need to grind it out with 10 players left. But the PSR issue force us to sell our players before they completely lose their market value, which means we should always see our favourite players left at their last prime years. That’s how shit the PSR limit is, but we have no choice. By keeping Joelinton, we will have a stronger team this season but weaker in the future, which puts further pressure on Howe and the team to achieve top 4 finish this season in order to cover the PSR hole and have extra funds for a new RW. I totally understand as a fan we should always hope for the best of the club, and that we should always target the highest possible league position and challenge for trophies. The problem is the PSR rules completely change the game, the squad building and the risk management model is totally different compare to the past. This actually leads to further conflict of interest between the sporting director (who should oversee the long term squad building) and the manager (who would always want to have the strongest team asap in order to keep his job). I won’t cover that here. Of course I want my favourite player to stay in our club till they are finished at the top level football. The days are gone.

Fuck. Not the fifth time.

Enzo again

enzo for 120m is a laughing stock

how about try to imagine the reaction here if today is Guehi first game for us after the 70m move? I guarantee it would be hundred times worse than this

Now I got a genuine question. Those strength you mentioned are correct, I did observe it in todays game. But why would that fit in our system? What you describe looks like a great LCB or RCB in a 3 centre back formation - just like Palace or Southgate’s national team. Howe didn’t use 343 or 3421 often. Did he ever look good in a 2 CB formation? Not good in air - I think at the very least he would be better than Schar so fine. I won’t reply the rest. You completely got it wrong. I was saying we, Newcastle, under the PSR limitation, is fucking idiotic to spend all our budget on someone that is close to the finish article but not dominating the league like VVD @ Soton, and doesn’t look like transforming our whole team like what VVD did. So we should revert back to our original way to be patient and find and develop another Botman. Ok?

how about just find other prospects that could become one of the best CB in a few years, like Botman, like what the other club did? Saliba just cost 27m FFS I really can’t get over it. I don’t expect you to say “ah no we can’t attract one of the best CB in the world, so just spend 70m+, breaking our record, on a defender that looks good” It’s 70m pounds FFS. We aren’t Man City. In fact even Man City’s CB didn’t cost that much. Dias, the most expensive one, cost 71m euro.

So you mean we are going to break our bank for a defender that is not one of the best CB in the world? Seriously? All those you mentioned, except VVD, cost the club way less than Guehi. WTF are we doing here? I was expecting you to really explain what’s his strength and why he can bring us to another level, by replacing Schar or Botman. I didn’t expect the answer is no he isn’t one of the best.

So what is his strength that makes him worth the 70m price tag? Other than “he is talented” “he has potential”, is there something more concrete that makes him one of the best CB in the world?

Just google “Joelinton” and “Ashworth” and you will get what you want. There were a lot of news reported back in around last December, that the club did not want to extend Joelintons contract. Then after Ashworth started his garden leave the club immediately started the extension talk with Joelinton. if you have been following the news you should know the above.

Other clubs who paid this amount could afford it even if it fails we are doing this when we are having PSR limit problem yea I know no more PSR boredom. Forget it. I am in the “fuck it just spend and enjoy” camp now. Ok?

I can only say I would pray for his health every Sunday during mass, if we really paid the 7th most expensive fees for a defender in history

That’s not a secret that Schar, Bruno and Joe are relatively easy to be triggered. It’s planned. Before the Schar incident I felt that they were trying to trigger Bruno. Would be a big miss. Fortunately looks like Kelly is quality.

Kinda. The are lots of reasons a transfer could be a failure. By spending over 70m pounds on Guehi, we are at the point of no return.

Exactly what I want to say, injury might happens. We got Woodgate at a very decent price, hence we are not royally fucked. Not this time. We simply can’t fail.