STM

It's like the, "Rafa has quit!", article has already been written and the press are just ready to press the button. Just fuck off will yous. Newcastle won't get Rafa. Rafa won't stay in the championship Rafa will quit in January Rafa will quit in the Summer.

Gallowgate Fags.

If it helps kick homophobia out of football then it's a good idea. Politics is everywhere and everyone, I don't get this idea that football and politics shouldn't mix.

What a fucking sorry state they are

Presume Borini's wages needed to be off the books. You would think they were get a decent loan fee for him, otherwise what would be the point? One of their better players, gone for nowt.

Kinnear, Sports direct arena, Gouffrans new contract.

We've obviously offered him a smaller wage as a bit part player and he's seeing whats out there. Hardly surprising.

Trying to pay in instalments to avoid VAT. How small time. Still he's expected to join in the next few days of the Spanish are to be believed.

They are getting in early before they flog Lukaku and Barkley. They are doing some good business but if they don't replace Roms goals they won't progress much further than where they are IMO.

Pickford might be the difference.

I imagine in 99 percent of all transfers, a club has spoken to a player through various channels. Agent talk to agents etc. Impossible to stop this happening IMO.

By the same news outlet that said we were interested in Samaris and Semedo. I think someone is telling porkies. It's either O jogo or it's Benfica/Sporting trying to get higher prices for their players.

That operation being the guy who cleans the bogs out?

Yes they did scoot. A broken clock and all that...

I'd hazard a guess and say it's almost a certainty that we will have signed 6 by August 31st It's the standard. Are they all going to be release clauses, loans, last year of contracts, foreign potential or are we actually going to grow some balls? I suspect a mixture of the above and a couple of real quality players.

Keeping himself well hidden like Dazzler?

Steve Parish is incredibly unlikable. On the other hand, he sacked Pardew.

And GeordieDazzler takes a gamble, by tommorow he'll either be a man in the know or more likely a WUM. To be continued...

I choose to believe that Rafa is frustrated with progress but not that he "leaked" stuff through the press. It's more likely that someone close to him has said something to the media and they have chosen to dramatize it.

80-120m is a restricted transfer budget? And that's why we can't sign 8.7m Florian Lejeune? Fuck off man. Swear these journalists just talk absolute shite like. They know fuck all IMO.

Tbh, we're kidding ourselves if we don't accept that these negotiation tactics and internal politics aren't prevalent at 95% of clubs. Ignoring the large fee, Everton just paid 30m for Pickford, a fee most said was too much. They didnt quibble over the fee because they wanted the player. We never seem to stump up the money to get key targets.

It annoys me that we never bid the asking price. We constantly seem to undervalue the players we are attempting to sign. There's a time and a place. First season back, when we have a squad full of championship players, is neither the time not the place to be haggling over fees. Get it done and let Rafa get on.

Rafa frustrated at transfers does not equate to him quitting.

IF Rafa has been frustrated, it's more than likely that it was before Carr left. The two fit nicely together IMO.

Needless scaremongering with the thread title.