GeordieDazzler

did he knock it in with his hand?

The RB Leipzig x American National team Collab continues

Gonna make a wild guess he was at that club that Brighton own

watched one of his old Everton interviews and he came across pretty well tbh

WELCOME TO NEWCASTLE HARRISON ASHBY

Looking at the Grand Old team thread it seems he’s really suffered this season from being played out of position, esp up front centrally. Ashworth has always made a thing of buying players for specific needs. I expect we have a much more define position for him and will look to play to his strengths.

He has a lot of the same raw ingredients as Miggy (compares quite favourably on a number of metrics - esp defensive ones). He’ll be playing in front of a defence that will actually allow him to go forward. That alone will make him look a lot better.

We can still amortise it across the contract for FFP accounting though I think

https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/1727224/Newcastle-James-Maddison-concrete-offer-transfer-news (it’s mainly guesswork unfortunately)

FFP has more than one thing we have to balance. At the moment we could pay a big fee but big wages are what we will struggle to accommodate at this exact moment. Esp if we are giving Bruno improved terms.

Maddison will want significantly better wages than Gordon which it where we are close to FFP limits. The transfer fee is almost secondary here. If we want Maddison we will have much better scope to get him in the summer.

Main issue is our wage to turnover though isn’t it? Until we get new commercial deals like front of shirt in the summer we remain at like 95%, we could probably buy say a Maddison transfer fee wise but we probably couldn’t offer him a great financial package. Gordon will be on a lot less wage wise so he’s the sort of transfer we can do with falling foul of the rules.

You feel certain incentive may include CL qualification final league position etc so if we achieve that it’s fair enough.

Howay man Clearly talking about Everton.

I think they’ve made the right appointment here, although I still expect them to go down. They don’t score goals, which is ultimately what did for Burnley last year.

I still don’t see where their goals come from

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/jan/16/police-say-they-did-not-receive-reports-of-threats-to-everton-directors It’s worth noting the police have disputed the ‘threats’ narrative from the Everton board. If I was a player I would feel like they threw me to the wolves with that decision. With no board members there basically out of cowardice the players became the proxy for a number of fans. Absolutely sympathise with the lad if he feels like he doesn’t want to play for a team like that.

We’ve got Malcom in the Middle… (I know he’s a winger)

Is he the lad who briefly played for Barca?

Comes over pretty well in this interview, all the comments section from the summer from Everton fans about how incredible he is

We’re winning the cup marra

Everton can either sell to us at our price or risk losing him in the summer when they go down at an even cheaper price. Whether they are smart enough to see this is another thing. Gordon sale is big for them in FFP.

I also love that thing Joe does when he points to his head when he’s kicking off like he’s saying ‘you are out of your mind if you think this ends well for you’

I thought on Tuesday that lad who got sent off looked ready to get into it with Bruno and few others but when Big Joe jumped in to calm things down you could see he realised it wouldn’t end well for him and walked away