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It's on muthafucka.

We'd have just bulk bought Dairylea cheese triangles from Aldi.

If I was putting money on one of them to get a hattrick it wouldn't be Chris Wood,

Yeah he was such a class player in his day, and even if he was allegedly a Greggs pastie fiend, he still scored a couple of absolutely memorable goals in his time here. Just a shame he had that bell end Souness in charge at the time.

Unless he can't shoot for shit.

I think most of us had a problem with Charnley because he wasn't really a football professional. Wasn't he promoted from some sort of admin role initially?

Although he has since said if PSG weren't in for him he would have come here.

Many said the same about paying £60m for Maddison. But in essence I agree, if we have decided our target players are only a very select group of quality players, then we really will need to be prepared to pay the fees it will take to release them - within reason.

Yeah that sounds more like it.

€40m?!? NEXT! Although tbh, if he's any good he probably could command something close to it. I just don't see us going that high.

40M€+? Ok that's took a bit of steam out of the transfer frenzy. I was thinking it was going to be around €25m for some reason, I don't know where I got that figure from.

I would seriously consider bidding MORE than the asking price at this stage. Go nuclear or go home.

I believe in Romano, and so does Rich quite clearly. Let's give the credit where it's due. If it goes tits up then obviously Rich has to take some responsibility.

Yeah, I'm all in. He looked decent against us, and for a 21 yr old he seems quite polished.

That's a shame. I did like his all round game,, he looks quite powerful, but the last thing we need is another striker who can't hit the ball cleanly. Time to go all in on Ramos.

The thread needed a newsboy in a flat cap tbf, now do some extra, extra shouting about transfers please, the thread's picking up pace again with some new and spicy names being thrown into the mix.

You don't know the half of it mate. I'm pretty sure he was trying to whip up a sackkaka.com campaign on one of those moderator forums back in the day.They printed A4 posters, t-shirts...the lot before running out of money (£24.40).

I don't know man. I think if we wanted him we could have got him, so if we don't then we must think we can do better.

I think that was just @Disco constantly urging members to vote for Kaka as worst poster of the year. Every year.

Looked like he just needed to slide in and get his right foot on it from where I was sat but wanted it to come on his left foot instead and the chance was gone.

Only thing which makes me a bit dubious about this Paqueta news is that we haven't made an official bid, so it must have been leaked from Lyon's end. Why would we suddenly brief journalists we are about to pitch in with a bid for him? Seems like we have probably made tentative moves, and Lyon have leaked it in the hope of drawing in bids from other clubs.

Didn't the Arsenal DoF deny their interest in Paqueta? Something along the lines of they liked him but wouldn't be pursuing him. That could mean the price was too high, or I'm hoping his agent has told them he's only got eyes for Tyneside to reunite with his great friend Bruno!

I would. I really rate Madison, he'd be great for us, but I just think an all Brazilian midfield is something you can't look past. It would be the sexiest midfield in Britain.

Howe wouldn't start Paqueta on Saturday, would probably wait at least 3 games if Bruno's arrival was anything to go by.

Not convinced on his finishing, but he's only 22. What I liked was that he looks very strong, puts his foot in defensively as well, and looks like he can play others in as well. He does look like someone who could play wide and through the middle.