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It’s pretty clear from recent articles that if we do get loans in that they’ll have to be players that will at least consider making their moves permanent or that Eddie is 100% convinced that they will give it their all while they are here.

Loved Sib

I can’t see that anywhere on the Athletic mind

Probably chat to the player and his agent a bit more. Agree personal terms, show him a slideshow of the bridges etc

Ok, so this is a (slightly) better source

He’s so charismatically shy

Newcastle United target Goncalo Ramos has reportedly turned his nose up at a potential move to Premier League rivals Nottingham Forest. According to Record, (via SportsWitness), Steve Cooper's side made a bid in the region of £27million for the Benfica striker earlier this month.

Nottingham Forest have bid for him.

What a terribly written article.

Please bear in mind there are no concrete reports that we even want to bid for him. Concerned a few are going to be really upset when a target they’ve convinced themselves we are going for doesn’t materialise.

Think some local Portuguese journo before him. But it was all pretty vague things like ‘Newcastle may bid for him’

No bid made though? Seems a bit premature this..

There’s a good mixture of accents in there. Scottish, Irish, Manchester, London

Always looks pretty calm to me.

I love how him and big jow operate as a bit of a unit. Joelinton pressuring and breaking up play and Bruno hoovering it up and distributing it away

Has he even started? I thought he’d only just said farewell to Atlanta

Our very survival in the premier league was at risk then and we had like 3 people trying to source a striker. This has surely been done to death now. Yes he was overpriced. But he was all we could find when we needed a striker and was someone we had at least scouted.

A good point made in that article that we signed a whole new back 5 (Trippier, Botman, Burn, Targett and Pope) for the price of 1 Harry Maguire

Hopefully bollocks

I’ve also yet to hear two Brazilians agree on the pronunciation of Guimarães

I’ve still got the original of the black one. Love it

Snakzz man

Ok, thanks for the clarification. I definitely found it hard to follow but that’s more to do with me being a fuckwit with numbers than the article itself. Do wages also come out of that £41m figure?

Not sure it’s self imposed as such. According to that Swiss Ramble report the figure of £40m is what we have left to spend without falling foul of FFP, given our lack of commercial income/ sponsorship money

It does seem a bit vague and all ifs, buts and maybes.