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Linked with Racing Santander LB Jorge Salinas. Barca and Atletico also keen apparently, so seems an unlikely one. https://as.com/futbol/segunda/pelea-de-champions-por-jorge-salinas-f202606-n/

Same thing is being reported in the Udine local paper, so this person/Twitter bot has probably just nicked it from there. “The market is in the spotlight on Arthur Atta. The French midfielder has many admirers. Naples and Galatasaray are joined by three Premier clubs. The Messaggero Veneto identifies them in Bournemouth, Brighton and Newcastle who seem willing to pay 30 million pounds, about 35 in euros, where Udinese would like at least 40.” https://www.udineseblog.it/udinese/rassegna-stampa/messaggero-veneto-tre-club-della-premier-allassalto-di-atta/

Good fee. It's all been a lot less ugly than the Isak situation and just generally easier to swallow. Hard to label losing a 17-goal forward (albeit with a lot of penalties) a positive, but from a purely business sense it's a good start to the window.

"Sources in France suggest Reims goalkeeper Ewen Jaouen is close to agreeing a deal while Newcastle have held talks with Monaco over a move for Senegal midfielder Lamine Camara."

Bid submitted for Viery, according to this Gremio journalist. No idea how reliable.

Win, salvage a top-half finish, move on.

Howe was never likely to answer that question any other way. It doesn't help him to come out and say that we're definitely looking to sign a striker, especially when there's no guarantee that managing to sign a good one will be straightforward. At least two of who we've got up front will likely be staying anyway, so there's no point publicly saying anything that might not go down well with those players.

He's the best finisher on team. Would be madness to even consider selling him in a summer where Gordon is almost certainly leaving. Don't really care how old he is, we have very few consistent goalscorers.

The game went how I expected it to go really. We played pretty well, and no surprise we dominated most of the play with them only needing a point and being very injured/tired. Thought Botman had his best game in ages and Joelinton was impressive too. Osula should have scored at least one. Weird game for Bruno, at the heart of a lot of our good moments as always but poor defensively for the goal and sloppy in possession at times. Hall at RB was odd but felt he played OK there. Could have been better on their goal as well. Woltemade just looks like a player bereft of confidence. The effort is there as we saw in his tracking back, he got into some nice little pockets and should have had an assist for Osula in the first half. However, there’s still a glaring hesitancy to his play in the final third. I’d stick with him, but I understand why people feel otherwise. Didn’t think this was on Howe, as much as you could poke holes in the team selection. We were the better team and the first two subs he made led to us taking the lead. Between Osula hitting the bar and the Bruno missed chances, I felt we were unlucky. I’m also astonished Milenkovic on Wissa wasn’t a penalty. Ultimately, our problems are quite simple. We need a better goalkeeper and we need somebody who is going to take chances consistently. They’re not easy problems to fix necessarily, but in reality I think we’re only a couple of smart signings in those areas away from being a very good team again next season. Europe a very long shot now. Try to win these last two, finish in the top half and move on. Expectations have understandably changed, but we all know we’ve seen a hell of a lot worse in years gone by.

Eighth very much on if we win tomorrow. Brentford's goal difference took a nice hit today too.

Think this will be one where Forest are much like Palace were last week at Bournemouth. They'll be running on empty and have a quite a few injuries. 2-0 Newcastle.

Verbruggen seems like another Pope to me. Makes some really good saves, but has far too many howlers in his locker for my liking. Have seen precisely nothing of Risser, but it might behove us to take a punt on the slightly cheaper option and gamble on the lack of PL experience. It's worked for Man United and Sunderland.

Top half should be the minimum really. If we're lucky enough that Europe goes down to 9th, if that's still possible, then great.

I don’t know if I’d read too much into him not playing today. We were basically playing deliberately on the counter. Osula and Wissa, for as much as his miss was bad, are better fits for that as central strikers. I would have quite liked to see him playing as a 10, but we all know that isn’t likely to happen. I’d be more concerned if we don’t see him across the next three games, where we’re more likely to dominate possession.