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I mean the past 8 months to decide if he wants to stay at Everton, must surely have been enough time like Something very odd about this one.

Only the sale of the club between now and May will keep Rafa here, regardless of what happens in January. The damage has been done and will be unrepairable.

According to Sky sources, Ross Barkley's move to Chelsea for around £30m was all on the table; the midfielder travelled to London and began his medical, but during the medical changed his mind! He is expected to return to Everton. Wow!

One of their better pieces, that is.

I woke up this morning thinking that if we somehow manage to sign a GK, LB and #10 we may salvage this window slightly and make it only slightly unacceptable. The fact that we've lost a GK and LB and bought absolutely nobody, I don't even know how to describe it. This is probably the worst window we've ever had under Ashley and probably the most important one.

Simple answer is no. There is no contractual gain of buying a ticket other than seeing a football match, if Ashley can provide that, then he's met his obligations. Your own reasoning for buying a ticket is nothing more than that, personal to you and influenced by nothing other than yourself. Ashley has also not made any direct promises of how much money will be available for transfers and exactly when that money will be spent.

Just when I thought I couldn't dislike Callum McManaman anymore, he goes and joins the mackems What a perfect pair they are like.

Aye, Sky announced that about 7pm and then buggered off to the mackems to report on them

Good news lads, we can have an extra 2 hours after the deadline to finalise any transfers if we are struggling to get it done before 11pm.

Charnley's coming over. Just as soon as he finds a Tiramisu that is worthy of the occasion. He found one this morning, but the sell by date was only 3 days away. Charnley wants one that has a 6 day sell by date. So he hasn't bought one and he isn't going.

Those who are berating fans for going to matches, will you be cancelling your Sky/BT subscriptions? After all, that puts money into the pot which goes to the club, which goes to Ashley.

Don't understand this "how does he sleep at night" viewpoint. Charnley and Barnes are not Newcastle fans or even football men, they couldn't give a fuck about us. They are employed by Mike Ashley and paid obscene amounts of money for the pleasure. Of course they are going to be "yes men", if they weren't, then they wouldn't have a job (or a salary) anywhere near what they do.

That sounds familiar.

Media starting to turn on the club, Douglas with a scathing piece and this... Not hugely, but it's a start.

We tried lads, we tried...

Lucas Perez has joined Deportivo on loan. Shock.

There will be plenty of clubs willing to pay that for him.

Not a chance he stays if the window ends like this, not a fucking chance.

Tbf, he's really not very good from what I've seen of him. I'd much rather have Mbemba there. I agree, but we're one CB injury away (if Lejuene is still out) from having to play Mbemba in his normal position and be without a LB.

How the fuck wasn't he guaranteed regular game time here? He'd be our only fucking LB until Dummett returns.

So it begins...

Craigy now saying the Fulham bid was £12m, we went back and asked for a swap with Cairney and Fulham told us to fuck off.

We must have another LB coming in from somewhere. Surely. Even we cant go into the season with an injured Dummett and a usually injured and unwanted Haidara as our only options. Not even sure why I doubt it, of course we're going to.

We just cant spend the same amount of money as tycoons like Wolverhampton Wanderers, Bournemouth, Birmingham City, Brighton, Huddersfield. We're just not in the same ballpark as those massively wealthy clubs.

Kenedy and Targett deals both off... yet we allow Lazaar to move on? Utterly incredible.