ExiledGeordie

Money and locality talks and good luck to him I guess. He didn’t want to come here, others will. It is a recruitment blow however as they were obviously keen on him.

How much is the new top likely to cost?

There was discussion on talksport yesterday morning as I was driving to the lakes about the new rules that were brought in - all 3 agreed in issuing the (Stefan someone) that they’ve been out in place as barrier to us. Interestingly I didn’t realise that any new sponsorahip deal not only has to be ratified be an independent body but the potential sponsor itself has to argue reasons for the sponsorship and why it’s fair market value. Like wtf?? Even the guy Stefan someone who was on the show to talk about the regulations said this was ridiculous.

Seems like everything is going to go nuts in terms of premier league transfers from July 1st

He’ll be absolutely raging 😂

Yeah it’s a farce then isn’t it, the top six cartel have it locked down. I don’t think the club banked on hard line rule changes like this when the takeover happened.

What’s this I keep hearing about the PSR rules will changed in our favour by next summer? I haven’t seen anything concrete anywhere. I did see an article suggesting the premier league could adjust things because they were starting to worry their ‘product’ might be effected by as teams couldn’t afford wages so players might move abroad.

Disappointing as we clearly rated him but locality and wages have likely swayed his decision making. He didn’t want to come here at the end of the day and im sure there’s other options.

I guess the one positive of not being in Europe is we’re finally getting rid of some dead wood. I wonder with the less demands on squad depth needed with less games we’ll focus more on quality.

😂😂 absolute horseshit

Still cannot fathom that he’d have been given a 100k per week contract. Can’t be true. Trippier is on about 120 ffs. Where’s this come from?

I could see the Trippier thing happening though I’d rather he stayed. Away from the limelight in Saudi might be what he looks for plus barrel loads of cash.

Money is obviously going to come into it, but there’s other factors like moving regions, family comes into it I guess. I’m still confident this might happen, he’ll have been told he’ll be a key signing and will be getting game time. There’s plenty about the club including playing at St James and that atmosphere which is appealing together with the ‘project’ being sold.

Assuming we don’t have ludicrous injuries again next year and there’s no reason we should the players will be able to rest and recover fully and prepare more for each league game. We have to make that factor count and I think Howe will. Wiht Tonali coming back and hopefully some key signings I think the team will look really strong next year.

There will be pressure to finish in the top four and win a cup and rightly so to a point. I think we have a strong chance to finish in the top four next year and that would really help us consolidate the club and squad again in next summers transfer window towards being a regular top 4-6 team.

I think Krafth is fine to come in for a few games not if Tino was out for a long time. Again this is another position where it’ll be interesting to see what happens this summer.

Wouldn’t surprise me at all to be honest. Fitness issues aside recently his head seems to have been wayward at various points this year too relating to possible ‘off field issues’. Still has a role to offer here for sure but could well be away particularly as we have no European football so less pressure on the players regarding number of games and therefore Tino could play a lot.

Wonder if Leeds go up the Longstaff link might get stronger

Definitely ?

FFS was meant to comment that at least a few contracts are running out this summer at least.

Need to be backed better in the transfer window this summer.

There could be something in this I agree. That being said Schar probably only has next season with us and there’s always going to be injuries so I’m still fairly confident he’ll sign.

The players and Howe have probably learnt more this season than the others, I think they’ll use it to kick on.

I want us to be less of a soft touch again away from home and I want to see us being more ruthless both in mentality and clinically. The Liverpool home game was a prime example. Not really knowing how to close it out and floundering then getting nervous. But that also comes down to personnel with someone like Miggy fluffing his lines with finishing or failing to put in the killer pass (from memory) to finish Liverpool off.