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Yes, shortcomings notwithstanding (frankly I don't know either of them well enough to assess), both of them are objectively a thousand times more qualified than 74 year old Kevin Keegan.

He knows football as it existed twenty years ago (more like thirty, really) inside out. He's not qualified to be working for a professional club in 2025 in anything other than an informal ambassador capacity. I don't think Joao Pedro knows who Kevin Keegan is, but I'm also not sure Kevin Keegan knows who Joao Pedro is.

It was also a different era where it was still just about possible for the same person to be in charge of both coaching and transfers. Both jobs have become infinitely more complex now. Nobody should have to do both.

He's 74 years old and he's been away from football basically since most of the players we'd be interested in signing were in diapers. Let the man enjoy his well-deserved retirement.

Weird how it's seem to have become standard practice for every transfer now to go ahead and negotiate personal terms first, and then only submit an official bid once that's sorted.

If your expectation for next season was that we're going to add 3-4 stars and storm our way to a title challenge, we clearly can't do that. If your expectation was that we'll strengthen a problem position or two and then get in enough bodies so we can perform at a similar or slightly better level despite the extra CL fixtures, that still seems eminently achievable.

This would be a good idea, to be honest. We should mostly be looking to supplement the squad at this point.

Seems to me that he'd be well suited to get information from the one source most likely to want to talk about agreeing personal terms: the player.

In theory at least it's not a bad idea to look for squad depth this way, good players from PSR-constrained teams that are on the verge of exiting their primes and losing resale value. Would get good value for our money now, and the hope would be that in 2-3 years when they're no longer useful we won't mind losing money on them because our revenue will have grown to accommodate.

It appears we’ve managed to be linked to a player who’s somehow both underwhelming and unattainable.

I wouldn’t recognize him if he walked by me on the street, but who cares. Sign him.

Just waiting for Man United to surprise sack Amorim and approach Howe so we can delete the forum shoot ourselves in the face.

Look I really don’t care at this point just sign someone so the forum can regain an ounce of sanity.

All we have to do is keep forcing the cartel to hijack deals until they all run out of money.

To be fair, I can’t think of a single player signed by any club outside of the top 6 that I would have liked us to sign. (this is probably because I haven’t been watching much football and I know maybe a grand total of 10 players that don’t play for NUFC, but still.)

I just really, really hope there’s a file cabinet somewhere at the club labeled “list of less ambitious targets that we’ve scouted before and are comfortable signing if we have to.”

I mean yes we should have a DOF and it’s ridiculous that we don’t. I just think the targeting issues were going to happen this summer regardless. Hard to be the guy in the room pouring cold water on everything when we’ve just won a cup, qualified for the champions league, and can spend actual money for the first time in ages.

I am in the “fuck it just pay Brentford the 40m” stage of my emotional roller coaster, and what terrifies me is that people at the club probably feel the same way, only worse.

But of course they’re outliers. There’s not a single other team in the league that’s even attempting to compete with the top six for players without being one of them. Maybe we should have been less ambitious from the start, but I don’t necessarily think a DOF would have been able to make that decision either given the excitement around the club prior to this window.

Bring on the worse players now please. I’m desperate to see some lack of ambition for once.

Never rated him anyway

Shola's getting himself back into game shape right now.

These fuckers are going to build a time machine and go to 1996 to beat us to Shearer next.

https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-08-05/sports/football/Exclusive-Newcastle-new-boy-Park-Seungsoo-wants-to-be-better-than-Son-Heungmin/2369019 Well, he's got the right mentality.

Let's be fair to them, it's all economics. There are probably something like a hundreds times more Man United fans than us, more Liverpool fans than us, more Arsenal fans than us etc. etc. You make them happy then more people watch your show, click on your article, retweet your tweets etc. The way to change it is to make it so those clubs no longer have 100x the fans that we have.