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Sounds about right tbh. They'll probably get it as well, this will flush the Arsenals out of the shadows.

Looks like an AM/playmaker type there, but he steals a lot of balls. Didn't see a lot of finishing there, but you could see why the top clubs might be interested.

Well it probably isn't tbf

Me too, just based on the sexy swerve of the hips in the that OP photo. There's now way he's not a fantastic footballer.

This thread has laughing stock written all over it.

Works every time.

Yeah...and then Pardew got our defenders and goalkeeper to launch the ball 70 yards over their heads.

The Colback/Anita midfield still wakes me up at night in a cold sweat.

The midfield's been a bugbear of mine going back to the days we had Nicky Butt tbh, I know where he's coming from.

That would be pretty fucking galling like.

This one died a bit of a death today. Yesterday we were discussing which would be better, Lingard or Alli, today he's fighting allegations of racism, and Dele's on his way to Paris.

I'm still convinced he's Monchi, signed up here to jack up the price.

We don't HAVE to, we could always pony up the £45m and just get the deal done. yes we are getting screwed, just depends if we think Phillips on loan will be good enough to do the job. No point in going for Tarkowski in my view, as Burnley will be looking to screw us as well.

Not that surprising considering our chief scout is still that Nickson fella.

Ugh.

Hard to take that seriously given the choice of avatar.

We've been hearing for the last couple of weeks that we are about to make an offer which their board is rushing to discuss, then the next day Monchi pulls down his pants, bends over and says "kiss this!" I think it's happened about 5 times now.

So Hope has joined Edwards in criticising the transfer strategy so far. I guess we will see over the next few days. Yesterday there seemed to be a consensus we'd see at least on signing in tomorrow or Thursday, if that hasn't happened, then you would have to wonder if they are making much progress.

Exactly. Howe isn't an imbecile, he'll be wanting to upgrade to paying astronomical salaries at some point, probably wants to do it organically over a year or two though.

That's fair enough, end of the day he is your player you don't have to sell him, whether he is happy or not. If you want to keep the player we have to respect that, and find some other 29 year old to spend £40m on. I just hope you are firm in this, Newcastle need to move on, the last thing we want is on deadline day Monchi comes back and says, "actually we would like to take the money after all".

Pretty much what ManDoon was saying about almost being more important to get a proper DM in ahead of a CB.

They actually played fantastic football as well, that was always my issue with those who argued it was Nigel Pearson who should get the credit.

It's basically the same shit as with Carlos and Zapata. We've agreed terms with the player, then the club will tell us to do one.

Supposedly, but both them and Sevilla are telling us to take our money and stick it where the sun don't shine. The UK basically.

Too right. Shelvey is only capable of bossing an area the size of the centre circle.