duo

Good luck all

7 minutes ago, Big River said:

THE MOMENT WE HAVE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR...
 

Dan looks so confused  'What is going on?' ha

Am sure it'll have been posted already but....

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/newcastle-leeds-united-raphinha-transfer-27341282

Imagine 

3 minutes ago, Scoot said:

 

35 minutes ago, 54 said:

 

Looks thrilled  

He looks solid like - he's totally our VvD 

7 minutes ago, Ste said:

He is sort of dressed as though he’s landed in Newcastle and took the clothes from the first bloke he’s seen. 

53 minutes ago, The Prophet said:

 

Not really. VvD and Dias aren't the the fastest, but they read the game really well. I do think it helps to have recovery speed somewhere in the back line though.

Agreed - need good positional awareness which negates the need for the being super quick.  Something VvD has.

Sounds like Ekitike's entourage want a bigger pay day than we're offering

1 minute ago, The Prophet said:

I don't know much about him, but there's obviously a reason we're so keen and PSG, along with Dortmund hold an interest.

 

In an ideal world we sign all of out first choice targets, but I'm sure the back ups will be decent too.

Exactly - the effort the club have put into sign the lad tells me he'd be a massive coup.

36 minutes ago, Fantail Breeze said:

 

To be fair, Bruce was a fantastic defender and he was still absolutely clueless.

Bruce was no Maldini tbf

9 hours ago, AyeDubbleYoo said:

I don’t get why anyone thinks this window will be significantly affected by FFP. We haven’t spent anything for years. 
 

Even if we did slightly overspend we could easily bring more money in next season or the one after. 

Agreed - and I bet we will be spreading the fees over several years which will lessen the impact, and is probably why the deals are taking a while to negotiate. 

1 hour ago, Kid Icarus said:

What I've seen of Botman looks impressive, but similar to Dortmund being after Ekitike, the best defender I've ever seen rating him and trying to take him to AC Milan is a big indicator for me.

I was thinking that - Maldini will know a good defender when he sees one.

Ship has sailed for Lingard now - move on.

Buy Jesus instead

1 hour ago, 54 said:

 

Shame - would have loved him at the toon.

1 minute ago, bobbydazzla said:

Top European talent hasn’t signed yet, but he already wants a plan for when he leaves and we’d only be left with a paltry £70m transfer fee. 

 

Worrying. 

Don't worry - when he sees the calibre of player we'll be bringing in over the next two years, Milan will be a distant memory.

1 minute ago, The Prophet said:

We've gone from:

 

Murphy - Lascelles - Clark - Ritchie 

 

To...

 

Trippier - Schar - Botman - Targett

 

In two transfers windows.

You can add Pope to that as well.

Get agent Bruno on the case to have a word with Raphinha

We pretty much nailed it in January - am confident we will do it again this summer.

1 hour ago, Ben said:

 

Who on earth could afford him ? 

Or want him.

18 minutes ago, The College Dropout said:

These are crap stats in the main to judge a gk.

In what way?  Saves, punches, High Claims, catches - they all seem fair enough to me.  Sweeper clearances is key one as well as it shows Pope comes out his box to make clearances twice as often as Dubs.

2 minutes ago, madras said:

To add in as well, I'd rather Pope than Henderaon.

Same

3 hours ago, Menace said:

Modern journalism.