TRon

Is there any truth to the rumours he's got a release clause of around £10m?

Quite ironic considering brummie Agbonlahor was questioning who would come to Newcastle.

All quiet on the Bruno front can only be a good thing. He's the one that counts, as I'm pretty sure the Burn deal will get done if we really want him.

The Glazers are taking money out of Man U, not ploughing it in.

They won't. It's a bizarre story, we could probably offer £80m and they'd still tell us to do one.

Got a feeling if Burn comes in, it will be Fernandez leaving. Not sure if Burn would actually be an upgrade on Fede, but guess that might depend on whether the club feel Fede's declining due to age.

It's not hate, just don't want a midfielder who can't compete in an area which is high energy in the modern game. Just look at the heat map comparison between Bruno and Shelvey posted above.

Zapata is better. Would be delicious if he scored two against them and denied them a CL place if they missed out by 1 point.

This is the big league now, better get used to it. Don't crack like Keegan. Plenty more of this shit coming our way until we crush them all with sheer force of £££s

Just pay what it takes to bring Zapata from Atalanta. Fuck this.

Just look at the threads flying around at the moment man. BEST. TRANSFER RUMOURS DAY. EVER.

This one died a few days ago, must have still been in the morgue awaiting ressurection. Hope is not lost yet!

Burn's been described more as a LB from what people are saying here, although there does seem to be some opinion that he's been a left sided CB as part of a 3 man defence.

I really like him, but if he doesn't come this window I think that's his big chance gone. He'll have to see out his days on a slightly improved contract at Sevilla, that Monchi fella seems too stubborn to drop the price until he's too old to be of value anyway.

Why would they buy Burn and Bakker? Looks like Burn will be put on the Bakker burner for now.

Zapata would be the killer signing for me if we are just talking beating relegation. He not only scores goals, he gets loads of assists too. Would look great in any CL side. Longer term impact is Bruno. What he can do in midfield, we've not had that in a long time.

i said this an hour ago.

Vickery clearly hasn't seen our midfielders if he thinks Bruno struggles against a high press. Ours couldn't handle a low or middling press. Or even a fucking garlic press for that matter.

It's crackers like, we have a day when nothing happens, and everyone starts showing furniture in the air, followed by a few hours of madness where we are bidding for every player in Europe and we are getting circuit failures all over Tyneside.

Sounds like it will still go through at around £10m then. As you were, people.

it is like.

I didn't say it made any sense. Maybe it's tied to French culture or something. Soften the blow with some indignant lying.

This might be just to placate their own fans then. "Hold on! Who says we've agreed all of this?" Subtext being they've agreed to 95% of it. Hopefully.

Actually all he (and Lyons) are really saying is that some details have yet to be ironed out if I'm reading that right. Maybe the actual price has been agreed.