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This. The owners have a long term plan and spending a load of cash this year will only hamper our ability to build/spend in future windows. We’re well on the way and doing the right things, but shouldn’t spend hundreds of millions right now as we’ll be looking to spend those amounts in ‘top tier’ brackets of players in the next year or three. Spending now (which we could do) will prevent us from doing that in the future.

Wondering where Maldini is…

https://www.bbc.com/sport/africa/62049926.amp some second half drama in Sierra Leone…

Released by Liverpool when he was 11, then joined Everton, iirc

Unless we’ve been told the price they want is actually even much higher so the 35m IS a negotiation?

Ageing players? Barnes, Rush, Pearce spring to my mind.

They’re a third division team with somewhat less overheads, costs and ambitions than us I’m guessing…

Simply amazed that ‘CaptainRed’ and his lone voice of reason hasn’t been accused of ‘stinking of gravy’ yet.

Because they’ve managed to say a lot of their losses were because of covid, and they’ve also just gained £60m for Richarlison.

Like not drink booze or do drugs for example….?

Claudio Reyna too.

Tim Howard / Brad Friedel?

And the player wants CL if he was to leave. Already turned us down apparently. https://thelaziali.com/2022/06/10/milinkovic-savic-likely-stay-lazio/amp/

It’s undisclosed - most places just say it’s a “multi year” contract. However, this site https://www.totalsportal.com/money/newcastle-united-kit-contract-deal/amp/ says it’s in place until 2024

Still under investigation/on bail- hasn’t been charged as yet, so no court date.

Huh? The players they’re signing (and manager) have all played in European leagues where relegation was an annual event?

The club themselves publicly announced they were looking into extending- it’s no secret.

Wasn’t it that the sports scientists told Bruce to give the players days off? So the fat cunt said. edit- it was Agnew https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/steve-agnew-hits-back-row-22198023.amp

Have we actually signed McArthur and Hackett now? I haven’t seen anything official about either one?

Gahhhh…didn’t know.

35m? We won’t get Diaby for that, so i’ll say Brennan Johnson with cash left over.

I’m sure the manager would like him to stay- why not? Good player and if he goes there’s no guarantee that he’d get the cash to replace him. Bet the Reims owners would like to get that 30m though.

Gonna have to wait a while- he’s walking from Spain

Talk of budgets from ANYone other than Howe and the owners is all storytime. Downey might be getting told that’s the truth, he might be getting asked to put that figure out, he might be guessing, or he might even be right. It’s all pie in the sky until the window closes and we know for sure.

I think Mourinho actually tried to get the best out of him using both carrot and stick, but eventually realised he was a busted flush. Nuno and Conte did the same but the damage is now irreparable.