Froggy

Either way you'd be downgrading Isak to Sesko and you've already downgraded Murphy to Elanga so I'm not too concerned.

Hojlund scored a peach of a header last night. Not sure Sesko has that in his locker. Rather keep Hojlund and put the money towards a midfielder.

No I wouldn't think so.

Given what you paid for Elanga, I think it's plausible that you would have paid what Brentford wanted for Mbeumo, and definitely would have offered him the same wage we did given you have multiple players in your squad on the same wage. Same for Ekitike, same for Cunha, same for Sesko etc. Do we even know what your budget is? Some huge fees being talked about on top of the £55m already spent on Elanga, especially with the likes of Sesko/Ekitike and I'm sure they were independent of Trafford etc. Sounds like you've plenty to spend, but just haven't convinced the player to join.

Why do you lads listen to Romano when he says who Sesko would prefer to go to, but whenever he suggests that Newcastle are prepared to match the financials you act like it's total rubbish. This is the problem lads.

I've just watched the video and he's basically said you are willing to pay the price Leipzig want and meet the player demands as well. It's nothing to do with money man. You will match what we offer.

Where did you see that?

£70m

Because I said from the beginning that wasn't what I wanted. I thought you were implying that I'm only saying I didn't want that now because it didn't happen.

Feel free to go back and check my posts. Unless by Man United fans you mean Mark Goldbridge and lads on Twitter. We got the lesser of two evils.

Very incorrect.

1) We didn't know that at the start of the season. 2) Casemiro and Martinez have not been a disaster. 3) The point is that without PSR, we'd have just spent big on getting more reinforcements in. Not like the Glazer's would have cared about more debt.

You're missing the point.

You're right, but I'm meaning them as well. PSR obviously doesn't work right with all the loopholes. Do prefer the German model.

Certainly impacted us when we were fighting on all four fronts and all we could afford was Wout Weghorst on loan.

It would have been a sportswashing circus without PSR. In 20 years time you've have had 20 teams all owned by the middle east just firing money between each other as if it's some sort of plaything. As it stands, your owners are free to pump billions into a new stadium, new training ground, new youth facilities etc. and you will suffer no PSR consequence. In time your youth products will improve and you will be selling them for large amounts similar to Man City. You can compete just fine, it's just going to take time for you to become title challengers and start attracting the very best players. Do any of you truly believe you won't be at or near the top in the next 15 years? If the shoe was on the other foot, and PIF had bought us, I believe you'd be counting your blessings that PSR exists.

Also worth noting I think the fee is ridiculous and I'm not convinced by him at all, but then I thought Isak's fee was big too.

It's not really my thing. I just don't like when people try and suggest we've no pull and that if it wasn't for money, there's no reason for a player to choose us over Newcastle. That's just absurd. What I also disagree with is the suggestion that you don't have money and can't compete with the "cartel." Mbeumo has the same base wage as Anthony Gordon. I've no doubt you'd have offered him the same wage we did.

Weren't you in for Trafford at £27m and Ekitike at £80m though? Would have taken your spending to £162m and third on the list.

Hasn't Fernandes ran more than any midfielder in the last 5 years? Who needs a midfield anyway when you've Fernandes, Amad, Cunha, Mbeumo and Isak. Need to stop thinking about it.

We'd win the league with Isak tbf.

Isak to Liverpool sickens me almost as much as it sickens you.

Sounds like him and Flick have been talking for ages. Seem to love each other.

There's fuck all loyalty in football anymore. It's so shit.