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Rightfully so The more he pushes the price up, the more everyone else that's trying to get bullied for their players can do the same by pointing to the ridiculous fees other clubs got off of the despicable cartel. In the meantime waste their time as much as possible and take them right to the end of the window too if possible.

Reminded me of the good old days at Newcastle. Ball forward to him early in space to run at people. Liverpool would have recycled the ball to death under Slot till he was being marked closely in the box by two defenders. Hence the 2 touches per game or whatever it was He's potentially going to be a terror under Iraola. Hope we get some good signings in this summer and get back to being good or it's REALLY going to suck if he gets going at Liverpool.

I'm almost certain we are going to move this guy on man Thought he was clumsy, careless and defensively his effort is so minimal. I cannot imagine they will go into next season with this guy leading the line. Even if it means sending him out on loan late on if no one is interested in bidding for him, they will cut their losses.

Osula on at half time, playing on the left.

No one watching Wissa against Denmark then? Osula on the bench for Denmark too.

Think the move this summer will be to deny all bids and deny any significant progress, which is probably the way to go Far less embarrassing if we get gazumped, and I guess it might also allow the club to convince others we aren't really progressing things till we're much further along

He's only 19 as well and all! Can't be true surely Hopefully the boy wants to have a good chance of playing. Ironically he'll have the least bit of resistance at NUFC. Even Brighton will have Minteh ahead of him most likely

Chelsea man ... Quenda hasn't even arrived from Sporting yet

Ah, right. No chance we go full Brighton and the CEO is talking about the goals he does regardless of how soon they can get there. It's more the squad depth that has been a mess, and where they need to find options for better value so that can be built up.

Not sure I understand. We used to be what?

It's going to be a mix of players across different brackets depending on whether they're looking for a first team player or squad player I imagine.

We're not a team of just these sorts of signings though, we're mixing them into a team that already has established players for squad depth. Rather than relying on the likes of Murphy and Willock going forward. This is not what the likes of Brighton do at all.

The club ran off Man City when they were showing interest in Tino last summer. Think they were quoted £70 million if I recall correctly Genuinely amazed by all this Lewis Hall to Man United chat.

It's one young player to add to the squad man Unfortunately Newcastle don't have the luxury of bringing through the likes of a Saka, Foden, Mainoo or Reece James from their youth setup, and so buying some of these sorts of talents for the squad is necessary. All those other clubs have talented youngsters that they have brought through that contribute to their teams. Brighton are ridiculous. All they do is just sign young payers and then move them on before they mature. I don't see any senior top players there like Bruno etc.

They saw what some Newcastle fans were saying after he wasn't selected by Tuchel, and made up this whole narrative and have even convinced themselves he's joining them for £50 million off the back of it There's all these awful Man Utd accounts just talking nonsense and getting their delusional fans all giddy

He's no Messi or Neymar like that title says Stylistically more of an Olise type I think.

Considering the fee, he's probably being seen as a viable option on the right side that eventually takes Murphy's squad place (as Murphy is getting on now), depending on how quickly he settles. This does likely mean that Elanga is going to start the season as first choice with Murphy as insurance still

Last year of his contract, but £10 million is unbelievable man. Rough for Boro.

Last season we got shown up by the despicable cartel. If we lose out to Brighton man ... urgh

Check out the "Other clubs' transfers" thread.

@Nobody @Menace Look what we may have here!

Oooof ... disagree strongly!

Likely to be a Hall type loan with an obligation if they loan him. Makes me wonder if we might be doing that because they're looking at a Newcastle player, and two transfers each way are now considered swap deals and are subject to scrutiny.

That's what's being reported. Dowman's emergence playing in the same positions. Now further down the pecking order. Wants more first team opportunities than they can give him and is open to leaving. Arsenal getting pure profit to counter the spending they've been doing and intend to continue doing this summer.