Barnes23

Good is no longer the benchmark. He's earned the right to be a contributor, if he wants to keep his place in the first XI and keep up with our ambitions he needs to demonstrate excellent form on a consistent basis. For me, his limitations are going to limit our potential as a team and he will need to be upgraded. But it doesn't necessarily need to be in this window, especially if we sign a young prospect in CM to gradually bed in over time.

Gold and Sullivan up to their old tricks

Think so, could be wrong but I seem to remember them also being the outlet who first ran with the story of us looking to explore the Brazilian market too

35 million euro bid rejected? https://ge.globo.com/futebol/futebol-internacional/noticia/2022/06/27/porto-recusa-proposta-do-newcastle-por-pepe.ghtml

Adam P finding his way into the tail end of that 8 second clip

I'm hoping we will sign a higher quality RW this summer, but more than happy to have Almiron as back-up and as part of the squad. His energy and pressing is unbelievable sometimes, can't see anyone above him in our squad in that respect. Very well suited to the style Howe is trying to move us towards.

Looks like Andy Carroll could be on his way to Club Brugge

Decent signing for the fee, not convinced he is better than Dubravka but leaves us with two good keepers to choose from

Jay Spearing back to Liverpool

Real genius, this guy.

Why signs backups when you can sign upgrades? O goals and 1 assist last season from McNeil. Can't imagine why people are unwilling to put him in the same bracket as Raphinha and Kalvin Phillips.

We should be targeting players capable of playing in a side challenging for the top six. Raphinha and Phillips would be excellent signings on that basis. Dwight McNeil is nowhere near that level. Ward-Prowse is more like a top 10 level player, ditto Pope.

Don't know why anyone would want us to waste our time looking at lower mid table PL level players. Mcneil may not even be that good.

Rather Pope than Henderson by a long way, but still highly debatable that he represents an upgrade on Dubravka at all.

By all accounts a really promising keeper, possibly the kind of profile we should be looking at rather than someone to come in as a number one?

Very good signing for a championship team, wish him all the best.

Aye, and lost his spot due to looking decidedly unconvincing. His ceiling is around probably around the same as Pickford's, we should be aiming higher.

Think Talksport has actually established some (limited) degree of credibility for breaking football news in the last year or so, but will put this in here for now in any case:

They need to rethink the stadium decision though, imagine the scenes:

Greenland applying for admission to Concacaf, stop the press https://beta.bold.dk/fodbold/nyheder/groenland-soeger-om-optagelse-i-concacaf

Express is literally a worthless source, don't think there is a paper with a worse track record for transfer reporting out there.

It would have been nice to have seen Thauvin within a proper setup, not the clown show we were running at the time. Talented player. Could say the same about a number of others from that era.