jonny1403

3 minutes ago, andycap said:

You and others try and say eddie doesn't target English based players for high fees. Yet Guehi olise dcl Trafford and that's just this window. 

Again, more baseless assumptions. Why are Guehi and Olise Howe targets but Isak, Tonali and Bruno G not?

6 minutes ago, andycap said:

Eddie himself bangs on about a small pool of players only to improve us. We have then bid for majority of the list so it seems to me that was the players we were interested in. 

I don’t think Eddie has ever commented on a single one of those players on the list. Where are you getting this from 

Just now, andycap said:

We bid for majority of the list. 

So can't be far off. 

I don't believe Mitchell would recommend Guehi if the price is what it is. 

He looks for bargains not huge fee players. 

We did. By no means does that mean that was the only range of players we were interested in.

You don’t believe Mitchell wants Guehi? Fair enough. There’s zero actual evidence of that though so it’s very odd to present it as fact.

Just now, andycap said:

What part? 

The bit where you said the players above are the only pool of players we are interested in.

The bit where you said Mbuemo is part of that pool despite there being absolutely zero credible reports indicating that other than people on this forum saying they like him.

The bit where you said Howe has told Mitchell to get Guehi 

4 minutes ago, andycap said:

Howe doesn't believe in loans so we could be stumped. 

I lay no blame on Mitchell he's obviously been told to get Guehi which he's tried to do but the price is far too much. 

The small pool of players probably consisted of

Guehi

Olise

Mbuemo

Tosin

Kelly

Dcl

Trafford

And other than the free transfers the rest aren't gonna be value for money. 

No offence to you but why have people consistently come with opinions in this thread they present as fact with next to no evidence suggesting their claim. It’s mental 

15 minutes ago, Zero said:

 

Why would the other club want to sign our dog dirt players in the first place? And at what price? And alternatives in the market?

2 hours ago, TheBrownBottle said:

The club’s value has been pinned at £1bn already.  They’re definitely not running a loss vs club value

Fair play I didn’t know it was that high. 

And how much have they invested so far? It must be close to that figure right? 

15 hours ago, The Prophet said:

It is bizarre that so many think success and failure is defined by the transfer market.

 

More important to PIF, their investment has trebled in value in just a couple of years.

 

 

 

I'm not sure how you've worked out that PIF's investment has trebled in value. They'll be at a large net loss at this stage.

53 minutes ago, Kanji said:

People really forget what the fuck we were falling into before Mandy refused to take no for an answer, Eddie spending 20 hours a day trying to make NUFC relevant and our owners trying their absolute best to sign as many players as possible to progress us on the field. It’s Iike people think we have executives at the club just sitting around scrolling the internet and not trying to make this club better every single day. 

Absolutely nailed it. Some of the posters on here are genuinely embarrassing. 

9 minutes ago, ponsaelius said:

 

Even the club website announced it as 2025 when he signed his new deal. Unless he had a trigger for an extra year or we've done it on the sly then it's up next year.

8 hours ago, ponsaelius said:

 

2025 according to transfermarkt and .com

 

.com have it wrong, it’s definitely two.

6 minutes ago, ponsaelius said:

 

Wouldn't work as he's out of contract next year.

Nope, 2026

3 minutes ago, Zero said:

exactly, 25m pounds is very affordable, we should have gone for him, but we didn’t. Hence why I think we don’t have that 2-30m extra I.E. Douglas is bullshiting. Happy to be proven wrong.

What a mental take 

Just now, The Prophet said:

 

Makes sense, he’s currently fourth choice LB. Hopefully he can have a good 6 months and we get some money for him. 

1 hour ago, SUPERTOON said:

Link ?

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5706622/2024/08/17/newcastle-united-southampton-result-analysis/?source=user_shared_article

The Athletic is quoting unconfirmed reports saying we’ve pulled out. 

The Athletic is quoting unconfirmed reports saying we’ve pulled out. 

Some people whinging about paying this lad the same as Bruno a few months ago 

30 minutes ago, gdm said:

I didn’t tho so they weren’t part of my point    Villa I forgot about and Liverpool granted they haven’t done any business which is why I didn’t mention them

 

Villa have made so many signings that it’s impossible to compare them to last season so you’ve kinda made my point mentioning them 

 

 

 

Of course it's possible to suggest that Villa won't do as well as last season when they have 8 extra CL games to contend with. We are literally an example of that from last season 

10 minutes ago, gdm said:

 
Chelsea are a basket case but they have signed some good players. It’s up in the air how they’ll be but the fact Chelsea are only one u could pick up it proves my point. People always make the point that we’ll be fine next season referring back to last season and the injuries but completely ignore the fact other teams have strengthened from last season 

Eh? I mentioned Chelsea, Liverpool and Villa in my post  

6 minutes ago, gdm said:

I love when people say this and totally disregard the injuries other teams had last season and also the fact every other team is building and improving their squads. Man Utd, Chelsea (at an insane level) West Ham, Spurs & Brighton have all improved their squads massively 

How on earth you can say Chelsea have improved when they've arguably worsened their manager and become even more of a trainwreck than last season is beyond me. There's an argument that Liverpool, Villa and Chelsea will be worse off even if Man U, Spurs and Brighton improve.

8 minutes ago, Ikon said:

Easy to say. But it depends on injuries. Guehi added makes a big difference to the overall quality/depth. How it makes us much less vulnerable in this area if we suffer injuries at CB. Even more than we already have there. Also takes us up a level. Not just defensively but also in the build up when in possession. 

 

 

 

Even with zero signings we have added a top class CM (Tonali), have at least 6 less European fixtures to deal with and would have to be insanely unlucky to have anywhere near the same level of injuries we had last year. I'd be shocked if we didn't finish in Europe as it stands, let alone with more signings to come in.

10 minutes ago, Dr.Spaceman said:

It felt less competitive in the 90's if I'm being honest, maybe that was just because I was a child, but you always felt Man Utd were going to win it (particularly 99-01). I think the dilution of the cup competitions has contributed to the feeling that there's fuck all for 18 teams to play for. Nobody cares about the League Cup (unless you're in it) and the FA cup is nowhere near what it was. Who won either cup the year Leicester won the league? Not a fucking clue without googling it.

To be fair I think most people couldn't tell you who won the CL the year Leicester won the league without googling it. You'd have to have a pretty good memory 

Quote

Latest from Sky Sports News' Keith Downie:

Newcastle are undeterred by comments of Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish and defender Marc Guehi to Sky Sports News this week. 

The England international remains the club’s number one centre-back target, and they will be trying to bring him in while the transfer window is open. 

It is understood there have been three offers made by Newcastle for the 24-year-old so far as negotiations continue over a deal.

3 hours ago, johnny36 said:

If we turned down 8.5 million for Almiron then I dont want Eales or Howe to mention PSR affecting us ever again..We had a chance to move on players (Trippier in Jan) and now Almiron and refused both..Cant have it both ways

This makes literally no sense. He is worth a lot more than £8.5 million and selling off players for way under market value in no way helps us for PSR purposes.