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“At times there have been frustrations and dark days,” Eddie Howe told reporters on Saturday, describing Newcastle’s strange summer of recruitment. After the elation of brokering a £52m deal for Sandro Tonali from AC Milan, the Rolls Royce midfielder Howe craved, Newcastle have seen targets James Maddison and Dominik Szoboszlaijoin top four rivals Spurs and Liverpool respectively.

Twitter is full of people moaning at how unfair it is ASM is linked to a Saudi move. It’s beginning to really annoy me how half the league can do business with the Saudi clubs yet we are rumoured to be and it’s suddenly unfair and cheating. Just shut the fuck up

Strong words

I’m sure if we brought in an elite player to replace him, the standard of isak, bruno, tonali then most people would be on board with it.

Aye decent. Tho that Julian guy does a really good job on the midweek shows i wonder why he didn’t get it

what? I was clearly replying to the brown bottle about his specific point. It’s not what ifs or anything to do with Barnes

Maybe not last season as he missed a fair chunk and then tried to adapt his game for how EH wanted him to But the seasons under Bruce it was absolutely the case.

Not even Saudi clubs would expect him to go there at age of 22. The story is likely just made bollocks rather than any translation error

What? If he puts the ball in 6 yard box 4 times, Wilson puts one over, keeper makes a great save and say Almiron hits one wide or at the keeper then finally Wilson puts one in. How is that a) his fault and b) not smart play when he’s created 4 clear chances

Off loading the deadwood will come. Probably on loan

Don’t need to apologise but the point I was making is personally and other people don’t think Barnes is a better or much of a better player than ASM so it’s not really about resisting change. If the upgrade made sense I’d be all in. Just my own personal opinion of the two players

Missed the point but ok

Not everyone is of the opinion Barnes is better than ASM. It’s nothing to do with resisting change. If it was Almiron or Murphy I’d be all for it

Just put isak on the left then

Definition of cringe

Well aye fitness is an issue

Maxi has laid chances on a plate time and time again which but for poor finishing would have been assists thats not really his fault. Even yesterday he should have about 4 assists but ended up with 1 because of poor finishing. Could add more goals but he hasn’t been terrible in front of goal. He also gets us up the pitch in seconds

Disagree but that’s fine and if he is it’s not by much. I’d be on board if we were selling him to fund a Chiesa or partly towards the Napoli boy but selling him just to bring in Barnes is meh to me would rather just keep maxi

We need an upgrade on the right side unless Gordon will play on the right. Can’t see Almiron repeating last season’s form and Murphy has hit his ceiling

Just shows what a mockery sports journalism is these days

Yeah I agree it makes sense from a business perspective.

Selling maxi to be able to buy Barnes

I didn’t say we shouldn’t sign him. Shite patter. I understand why howe would like him.

Of course. Didn’t say you couldn’t. Point is everything points to Dubravka leaving so far