Ghandis Flip-Flop

Not sure, just the Newcastle NewsNow page is full of articles which reference it

Funnily enough Gary Neville made a similar quip

people like you are the reason the club is hampered by FFP ? ps: expect I'll be PMing Matt1892 post launch too, us NHS nurses are paid a pittance you know #GiveNursesFootballersWages ?

Probably get pelters for this, but I think this describes Carragher for me too, only he did continually get away with using his hands in the days before VAR

I think I can, and it started with playing through that serious hip injury which ruined the mobility he did have. He never would’ve been a world beater, but I think it robbed him of the career he could’ve had. Go back and watch the young Shola playing alongside Shearer, he has something about him. It was that desire to seize his chance post Alan's injury and cement his place, that ironically robbed him of the opportunity to do just that.

The Alan Pardew of Comedians, if he were a lollipop he’d lick himself to death. His stand up is truly horrific too

I think every Kid released from an academy up here plying their trade in the Northern League, genuinely asked what is Jack Colback actually good at?

We didn’t though, we spent £35-40M on Barnes, £35M on Livramento and £30M on an obligation to buy on Hall? Not to mention £8M on Minteh and a lot of nominal fees on players for the academy. You’re literally arguing about something that didn’t happen ??‍♂️ all because the main signing we made got banned, not because we didn’t need another midfielder last summer

We also didn't sign Tonali for £65M so what's your point? You're using the fee in Euro's which works out somewhere between £50-55M so close to Diaby's fee. And yes we do have scout's who didnt fancy either Diaby or Kudus at the fee's mentioned.

Diaby was on a similar fee to Tonali and reportedly significantly higher wages Kudus, was over £40 million with add ons and given the league he signed from represented a significant risk. Reported wages In line if not higher than our biggest earners too. I don't think either would've saved us any money, lets be honest it's not that we couldnt afford Tonali. Its that we couldn't afford to have him banned for 10 months.

What do you think an upgrade at RW would have cost exactly?

Id imagine it means the fairly serious stress fracture of his back is healing. I mean there are people out there who lose the ability to walk etc after an injury like this, never mind get back to playing professional football

Never suggested we wouldn't, was more of a reason why we'd demand a premium to sell him above and beyond what may be his perceived market value

Its not just them though, there was also RIce going for £100M+ as a proven PL midfielder. Man Utd have also spent £75-80 million on far inferior players to Bruno in recent windows. Its also not necesarily just his market value to consider but his worth to us, which I'd argue is massive given we havent won a league game without him for 18 months.

More than I think any of us expected tbf

Seen some quotes that we get 30% of the sell on fee that goes to Peterborough as that was part of how they got him from us for such a relatively low fee. Explains it here apparently https://onefootball.com/en/news/ivan-toney-sale-made-public-what-newcastle-united-share-of-transfer-fee-will-be-ifwhen-sold-38891137

that’s apparently the lower end of what Chelsea want for Gallagher and roughly what Man Utd wanted for McTominay ?

Or Caicedo, Rice or Fernandez money, he's more of a sure thing than any of those

He should've rotated in the Man Utd league cup game? FFS you come out with some nonsense at times, but this takes the biscuit like. Reaquaint yourself with the team that started that match, after you’ve flagelated the hell out of yourself, come back into this thread and profusely apologise for the bollocks that you spout ??

I think you’re massively underselling the fees they could fetch, but then you’re also conflating the fees brought in with the amount it would free up in FFP terms too. £50m profit, potentially allows us to buy 3 or more £50m rated players on 5 year contracts as long as we're confident of being able to increase our commercial revenue.

Then go back and watch the interview again. He mentions that we’ll have to trade players, at no point did he mention having to sell one of our better players though.

Which as has been described in great detail by people more knowledgeable than me, is going to significantly less of an issue for us from this summer onwards.

Probably, but it’s the kind of thing that can be addressed in a single window if done cleverly.

They’ve got to be getting close to their ffp limit, even if they sell Gallagher and a few more academy products in the next few windows. I think Bruno is clever enough to see the two clubs respective trajectories too. They are a long way away from being a coherent club

Am I being naive or just being influenced by my previous background. But I struggle to conceive a world whereby Saudi ownership allows their Crown Jewels to be taken from them by a Qatari entity. Unless you’ve spent time in that part of the world or worked with people from there, I think it’s difficult to understand the mutual hatred that exists between them. The naive RAF Junior officers and Civil servants who thought they’d be fine to share a training Squadron for training their Typhoon pilots and engineers, became quickly and acutely aware of what the two nations thought of each other.