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I like that... except I'm not sure how Chelsea get away scot free Surely they are part of the cartel - how else have they been allowed such ridiculous spending and other blatant disregard for the rules?

Here’s the irony of all ironies… Chris Wood is exactly the third striker we still needed to keep. More durable than Wilson and n more experienced than Wilson. Tireless worker. Would have been the perfect guy to replace Isak after 65 mins.

It could be argued Bruno was at his most effective when Shelvey was behind him. What about getting an athletic DM who can pass very well. Bruno and Tonali as number 8's. I agree a RW is needed, as is another striker. We need to use the loan market more effectively, and also to buy bargains where available. Chiesa is a good example of having another serviceable body - available for 10m. Even if it didn't work, you could sell him probably for profit. Chelsea will probably flip Tosin next summer for 25-30m. Need to get much more aggressive with free transfers or expiring ones. Fill out the squad.

I think being owned by the Saudi's complicates things because effectively. it's blocked off the one place who have big money, other than the PL. For optical reasons I presume, we don't seem to want to sell there because of the PR or how it will look - but the only other league with big money is the PL and they don't want to help us either. So we're buggered either way.

If we have 70M available (the Guehi money) I would go all out for Osimhen (who's at bloody Galatasary at the moment) - he's available for circa £60m at the moment. Isak could then even play number 10 - like the Joshua King role whilst Osimhen would be the Callum Wilson. It'll never happen of course. I do think the next striker move would be a Benjamin Sesko type as they've been linked with him for years.

I’d expect nothing less than the French Revolution January where we bought 5 first team starters….

Very interesting article: https://inews.co.uk/sport/football/newcastle-transfer-revolution-worth-millions-3322993

We don't have that many great options to be honest, we have a lopsided squad, genuine world class or top class talent in Bruno, Isak, Tonali, Botman, Trippier, Gordon, then a decent smattering of PL talent, Joelinton, Willock, WIlson, Schar, Barnes, Pope. Everyone beyond that are either a dependable veteran (e.g. Burn), promising youngster (Hall, Tino) or absolutely bang average (Longstaff, Kelly, Targett, Murphy) Looking at a Chelsea or a Villa, our main rivals - their squads seem more spread out for talent. Villa don't have anyone at Isak or Bruno level, but its more spread out across the squad.

Would love to see us do the 4-2-3-1 or 4-1-3-2 at some point Bruno / Tonali as the double pivot Gordon, Willock, Barnes (or could be Almiron, Gordon, Joelinton in those positions) Isak A 4-1-3-2 Bruno Tonali Willock Joelinton Gordon Isak

Last season we could score at will. This season it looks a struggle. It’s the same team largely. Why is this?

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Guehi

Gordon is not good up front never seen him have a good game there for NUFC only for England u21

That was more relevant in the Ashley era with Rafa playing Mr Fox with Ashley, Charnely and Justin Barnes/Keith Bishop (was struggling for a third as we had zero staff back then lol)

And Longstaff

I think the Saudi's are long term thinkers - in that there are barriers for NUFC to become number 1 and therefore for all football operations to run through it. But with them hosting the world cup in 2034, you'd think by then, they would want to have the biggest team in the world, just like Qatar had in mind with the PSG purchase for 2022, having Messi and Mbappe and Neymar at the club at the time. The Saudi league is a way for them to still get that thrill of building - which is probably a good thing otherwise NUFC would have 39 year old Ronaldo and other last pay-day mercenaries and it would be exactly like the media predicted. Instead, we've kept a cleaner image and they've still been able to do that with their own league - win win in my opinion.

poor you

This is a shame the thing you need after a loss is a game against lower opposition to get the confidence up and cobwebs out of your game would have been good runaround before Man City this weekend

this season for sure has been full of issues But last season for me was at a similar level to the CL season. We genuinely dominated games, we were exciting and pressed and blew teams away with goals. Last season was just that period decimated by injuries in the middle that wrecked things otherwise it was excellent. We were just extremely extremely unlucky, even to the point where Man U denied us Europe in the very end. this season has not even got going, there’s not been one good performance as yet. So it might be part of the slow start Eddie tends to have but with better points total or the stuff behind the scenes really is taking a toll

Bowen has the output of Barnes but is older Kudus is very good but less elite mentality

Could Livramento please just do a Gareth Bale and become an elite RW and solve all of our problems?

Why wouldn't this be on the level of Juventus (who were demoted two divisions I believe) or even Rangers (who had to start again from the bottom)?

We should play 4-2-3-1 Tonal Bruno as the two gordon rw barnes lw willock cam isak st would be very powerful as willock and isak have good chemistry already and he can both run and finish could be a game changer would like to try it at some point

This is probably unfair as last season everything did click on the pitch, except the extreme levels of bad luck. But we were blowing teams away regularly and the style was clear to see. He’s trying to transition into a less intensive explosive team perhaps with one eye on reducing injuries and impact but so far it’s not quite there. I’m sure it’ll get there as he does seem honest that it’s not working as opposed to hiding behind the result

How did Murphy play 90 mins