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I’d want Guler this summer, Kvara I feel would become ASMs replacement so can wait another year or two

Szobolai or Maddison Guler LB RCB back up CF would be perfect window

Tbh Joelintons journey is the universe saying sorry to us and righting the wrongs for Alan Smith, who had the reverse arc, a good and highly rated forward when we signed him and then became a crap ineffective joke CM

Lewis was rated before he came here, he’s pacy and has similar qualities why didn’t Howe focus on him

This is useful reading for the CM role - done for Liverpool but we have the same need https://theathletic.com/4621666/2023/06/20/liverpool-transfers-u21-euro-2023/ In terms of what we need, would like two of: Lavia, Thuram, Veiga, Kone, Gravenburch (in that order)

Lol he was terrible (although wasn't he supposed to be highly rated, Eng U-21 international etc?) The worst of the lot was Des Hamilton

Arsenal are serious Perhaps the new Liverpool as in the main threat to City going forward.

I liked Emre when he played for us, thought he was quality

Tbh with Veiga, Guler and Szo or Maddison for 100m it’s our CM and RW depth options fully sorted for the next few years even. Their youth will complement the experience we have and make it very competitive. Then getting Lodi on loan to buy and a cheap ish RCB and back up CF can complete the window, for around 50m all in. jobs a good un

Ok I’ve decided what I really want. If 70m was the budget for Szobolai or 50m for Maddison I’d rather get Maddison for 50m PLUS Arda Guler for 20m. Szobolai is good and all that but that’s a way better deal and gives us more ‘door openers’ for the same budget

I’d rather stay with Castore until we’re a bona fide big deal and then get bespoke kits like the big boys Adidas when Keegan was around were desperate to win the deal and remember they did some new stuff that hadn’t been done before with kits which changed the game etc. This was a good article harking back to that time https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/newcastle-united-adidas-grandad-kit-18586343.amp

Maddison last summer was the peak of what we thought was possible, now it’s the bare minimum if that ain’t progress I don’t know what is

Interestingly out of all of his permanent signings Fabian Schar - HIT Martin Dubravka - HIT Florian Lejeune - HIT Matt Ritchie - HIT Isaac Hayden - HIT Dwight Gayle - HIT Miguel Almiron - HIT Ciaran Clark - DECENT Mohammed Diame - DECENT DeAndre Yedlin - DECENT Federico Fernandez - HIT Mikel Merino - HIT Daryl Murphy - DECENT Christian Atsu - DECENT Joselu - DECENT Ki Sung-yeung - DECENT Javier Manquillo - HIT Grant Hanley - FLOP Jesus Gamez - FLOP Matz Sels - FLOP Achraf Lazaar - FLOP Yoshinori Muto - FLOP Jacob Murphy - HIT That's around 80% of his signings that were decent or a hit. Only 5 outright flops that haven't shown anything since Very good hit rate - not many are on that level especially when buying at that lower level

4, 1, 3, 2

At that price you could get him plus szo for £100m and between them two and Almiron and Murphy wingers fully sorted with Kuol Minteh to come in, with ASM, Gordon, Anderson, Joelinton and Isak on the other side. Decent

Yes I’d defo take him

Been linked with Villa actually wouldn’t mind him as think Howe can definitely get him back to his best and there’s a lot of quality there

The last thing they need is a number 10 man How did Arsenal get their mojo back so quickly, imagine a year ago thinking that Rice would be choosing them as his next step up?

A weird one but could Mbappe be THE poster boy for Saudi-backed NUFC back in the Champions League? As a one off megastar and the face of the new revolution? I know he may be too big right now etc but as a vanity project I can see this one move, being sanctioned especially as a one-off? And then the extra commercial/marketing opportunities, PL visibility on the marketing spin, Haaland vs Mbappe etc all goes through the roof and it puts NUFC finally on the map as a title-chasing outfit

One guy I was hoping for was the LB Guerriero from Dortmund, he had a Trippier-esque season and was also in the European team of the season alongside Trippier Would have been cool to have two top class fullbacks for the total sum of £12m! But he's signed for Bayern now

Crazy salaries never worked in China, USA, Russia or anywhere else. I don’t know what the objective is, it’ll never achieves the original aims, then they scrap it a few years later. Rinse and repeat.

What size did you get sent if you haven’t sent it back yet perhaps it’d be easier / quicker to sell it here if its xl let me know

If we got this dream window Pope Dub Karius Trippier Ashby Manqillo (sell Krafth as Manq can play both sides) Min-Jae / other RCB Schar Lascelles Botman Burn Dummett Tierney Targett (sell Lewis) Joelinton Longstaff Bruno Anderson Willock Veiga Szobalai Guler Almiron Kuol Isak Wilson Roque ASM Gordon Minteh Now that's an awesome young, hungry, pressing team, all interchangeable and can cover the two first XI's that Howe mentioned

The problem will be Maddison, Guler and Szobolai are all similar players so can see 2 but not 3. Veiga is a Willock type I believe.

NUFC need to sign: In priority order Tierney - 33M Veiga - 35M Guler - 15M Szobalai - 60M Min-Jae - 51M Around 200M and it really sorts out the team fully for next year. Possibly 1 striker short, get a young Brazilian as cover. Whatever happened to the Vitor Roque rumours? He would be amazing also - 25-30M? A young South American DM (who was that Argentinian Man City beat us to) - with a view to finding the next Caicedo would be good. I could live without the CB, as there's probably others cheaper who could do a decent job. We could save 20M going with Maddison over Szobalai - don't mind either. The others are musts for our team in my opinion in terms of what we're looking for.