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Logged into NO. This is the first comment I see. Chuckled. Great start to the day, cheers

Aye, but that was my secondary point. Us worrying about resale value is what just seems daft.

All this talk of "resale value" is baffling. Who are we hoping to sell any good player to? The only folks who could buy one of our better players are the sky 6 and the likes of Real Madrid, the former of which we don't want to strengthen. Just buy who will do a job for us in the here and now, just not for really stupid prices.

Wouldn't that have a knock on effect on the lower leagues that would make those teams play even more fixtures?

I do think if we were to get Jackson then it would be as a Wilson replacement. Here are my workings out: Wilson: Many games lost to injury Jackson: Many games lost to AFCON Jackson = Wilson replacement

Love it. Still two days tops.

Oh fuck off with your "work to do" bollocks. Here's how it works; Bid from X Y rejects due to amount X and Y barter Player X agrees to transfer Agent sorts out contract with club Bam! Two days work, tops. Three at a stretch.

I agree with 13 but not 12. The (usually outfield) two subs back in the day were 12 and 14 (before squad numbers). When a GK was added, it was 13. Hate outfield players using it (yes yes rudy voller blah blah). For literally no reason though, any of my 3rd choice keepers on football manager are 30. I only ever have three keepers as I'm not as good as Eddie who has like seven of them.

I do love coming onto NO for a fresh mystery in the form of a cryptic comment. Come Watson, the game is afoot! EDIT: Mystery over. I simply read a few comments higher.

Oh you dick! I was just about to make that joke

I reckon jacobs is just doing a romano and getting paid for putting out bollox. Maybe chelsea or jackson's agent paid him? Something about this doesn't ring true. If chelsea desperately want rid of a player whose made considerable appearances for them, then give us him on the cheap. 30 million is acceptable.

We are then informed by David Hirst that no bid was ever made.

Can we just rename the thread "Abandon all hope ye who enter here" please? It'll give me a chuckle if nothing else. Obviously not serious

I snorted tea out of my nose at this. Somewhat because of the funniness of the comment, some of it because I'd just had to explain this exact thing to a colleague.

Pointless going for a player when that daft twitter bloke comes out with his stupid "only wants" catchphrase. I remember after the gutting disappointment of hiring mcclaren, he then decided to focus solely on players who made it clear they didn't want to come here (the French winger lads, can't remember their names). micheal effing owen is another one. They clearly don't want to come to enrich the club or do well. I am beginning to think that it's a bit weird that everything looks designed to stifle us. First all the anti-Newcastle rules aimed at us (even down to the Eddie/Mad Dog on the touchline rule) and now this thing of if we want a player, some cartel club then just buys them. Literally no-one in the media pushes for "look at Newcastle and what Howe could do for your career", it's all "only wants liverpool/chelsea/man u" etc. It's fucking weird man. Sod tinfoil hats, but it's hard to not see what's happening and extrapolate that the powers in football do not want us disrupting thier little shithouse party.

I honestly think this is the plan. Eventually we will have enough evidence to show this and the PL will have to take action or we fetch the legals in.

I'd only want him if he dropped half of his surname, or even if he only had one name, in the Brazilian style. Calvert sounds kinda cool if pronounced without the T.

Some of them possibly do.

Arsehole dear, we're British not American... ...except for the Americans. Sorry @Mike et al.

Guess he's got free time since he retired from Deep Space Nine. Has the baseball season finished?

Relax, it's all a work. Think about it; Liverpool and Chelsea keep signing out targets so it makes sense to have them focus on Isak for the rest of the window to give us a chance to actually sign some players. Plus, all of this "I don't wanna play second fiddle to Isak" bullshit disappears too.

I bet they sell it to themselves.

I really don't get why anyone would choose chelsea over anyone as it stands. Money aside (players can get good wages at many clubs), you would have to battle with 20 gazillion other players they've bought that play in your position, which will only increase season on season. If I were gifted with the ability to play top flight football I would want to actually, you know, play top flight football. All players going there are doing is getting paid to maybe make their bench. The u21's can only field a certain number of players over that age (unless they've change the rules) so all they are doing is getting paid to train, and their manager pretty much split the players so he only had to work with a hundred or so of their players and the rest would have to train somewhere else didn't he? Yeah, the money is nice, but there's a certain point where it just becomes meaningless.

Yeah, once I'm tuned into them then I do a bit of stats scouting.

I think I've worked out why this happens. I'm not excited about him, but I worked out that it's just because he hasn't been hyped at me since before last season ended like Mbuemo. If he had been then I'd likely have been swept away in the hysteria around him. I very rarely voice my opinions because I know very little of players we haven't really been linked with before and, as you say, my opinion carries no weight at all. Mainly because of my lack of knowledge of a player so I can contribute little to a well constructed discussion. I reserve the right to be super critical of us signing double barrelled wankers though, regardless of knowledge