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Generally have believed this, but this sounds like a problem beyond the scope of normal: And then my read of this -- "Instead, during secret parallel negotiations while they made their bids to Wolves, Newcastle ramped up talks with Stuttgart for Woltemade." -- is that this was probably done on a very need to know basis. That's very similar to how we conducted the Tonali move, which we knew would be at risk if it leaked.

So basically every name that came out this summer was real in some way. Why do we have so many leaks?

Sporting Director Andy Howe reporting to Head Coach and Uncle Edward.

Bruno has become an even bigger legend this summer. He gets a total pass from me for Leeds, as does every player who gave their all on Monday night.

Apologies if someone posted these — I didn’t have 20 pages of this in me — but thought they were interesting from an outsider and reasonable.

I don’t know why anyone is worried about a third striker. The biggest drop off in our team is any game we don’t have Bruno and Tonali playing. An injury to either would crush us.

I see Palace mentioned and it’s from an idiot. Nothing about Fulham.

He’s going to love training the next couple weeks. No transfer nonsense and a settled team. Fresh start. It’s unfortunate but our season starts now.

For the last month no one has even counted him as a warm body for the striker position. I think we’ll survive.

Double the money in a year and insert a buyback. We’ve had to have our pants pulled down multiple times but now we’re acting like a big boy.

Wtf, surely we can get a midfielder through the door.

If Villa took Osula on loan it would make me so much happier.

We can always have a recall clause. A loan would do him good.

I think it’s possible to think he’s a good player, think it’s far too much money for a player of his age, realize we desperately needed another striker, believe this is terrible long term strategy unless there’s a wink wink future Saudi deal lined up, spot the difference between him and Isak, have confidence he’ll score 15+ goals, and think we got played by Brentford, all while still coming to terms with selling Isak for an amount that simultaneously feels low and deflating while also being one of the largest fees ever. My brain is a puddle.

If he’s on £100k a week, the fee is £55m and we give him a four year deal he’ll be our most expensive player annually. I’m hanging on the hope that will not be the case.

His wages are very low right now. He should come in at under £100k/wk (limited reporting is around £75k, which is tripling his current wage). But yeah, we need to know the actual fee and contract length.

I put this in the Isak thread last night: We’re left with about £91m profit, which I like to divide by three for a reasonable look at what it allows us to do in terms of annual cost. We also save approximately £6m in wages, plus Isak’s amortization cost. Woltemade costs = Isak roughly speaking. ———————————————————— Wissa is roughly £15m per year (wages are fairly low if reports are at all accurate). We could basically add another around the same price with the Isak money if we were fully compliant without the his sale. Skeptical that’s the case though.

Crazy fee based on age alone. If we were going to pay £55m then feels like he could have been here weeks ago and we’d probably have more than 2 points.

I said weeks ago I’d be annoyed if we went under £150m. I hate the fact we could have avoided all of this at multiple points in the last year. We’re left with about £91m profit, which I like to divide by three for a reasonable look at what it allows us to do in terms of annual cost. We also save approximately £6m in wages, plus Isak’s amortization cost. In essence Isak’s annual cost has turned into Woltemade. I can come around if we turn this into a second striker and a midfielder, but not holding my breath on that for tomorrow. Despite feeling low the transfer fee does need some context. I think this is the third highest upfront fee ever? And a top 5 fee including add ons? Mid-range fees have gone completely mad but the top end hasn’t had the same level of inflation because there just aren’t many clubs that can spend like that. Time will tell if Wirtz and Isak is the beginning of that ceiling going up, but if I’m betting the Isak fee will still be no worse than top 10 all time five years from now.

If we’re going to really overpay for someone I hope it’s for a player with an unknown ceiling and age on his side.

I think I’ve changed my mind actually. I’m going to be annoyed unless this results in a striker and a midfielder.

“Newcastle tried to hijack the Muani deal but it was considered too late. After last minute phone calls to Brentford and Wolves the Magpies were the club left standing in a frantic version of musical strikers.”

Solidarity has to do with a portion of a fee going to clubs that developed the player during their youth, and is usually when they are younger and change countries. Very confused how that results in what Ornstein said.

A lot of people thought £110m was ridiculous (as in too much) so I have a feeling the general reaction (admittedly from people who don’t matter) will be that we got a crazy fee for him. We’ve failed twice in this process but I can come to terms with it assuming Eddie said he had to go and we have a second striker tomorrow (ideally a midfielder too).

The only way this makes any sense at all is if Eddie has decided he’s a lost cause. But we cannot play this season with Gordon/Osula as our backup striker.