jonny1403

And yet as I said, nobody was complaining when the COVID games were cancelled last year, when we had an injury crisis and were in the middle of a relegation battle. Funny that.

I'm not sure why people are annoyed tbh, it's definitely a good thing for NUFC as we'll likely have Wilson, ASM and Bruno all back in our team for the next game. Everyone was happy when we postponed games last year due to COVID

Well if nothing happens now I know Ando is a fraud. All or nothing now

We've essentially replaced: Ciaran Clark with Sven Botman Dwight Gayle with Isak Dubravka with Pope That's an insane strengthening of the spine of the team in one window. Don't see how anyone can be unhappy with that.

Looks like the loan has an obligation to buy once a number of appearances have been met.

Newcastle United may already be part of elite in England, data suggests - BBC Sport https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/62665269

Strongly disagree but there's no point arguing the toss. Schar made several big mistakes last year.

100% this. Schar makes just as much if not more mistakes than Burn.

Completely agree. I just think that sadly Bruno's trajectory is steeper than ours (not our fault, he's just clearly a top four player) and no club could develop quickly enough before he'll want to leave.

If Real Madrid come in for him it's completely irrelevant if we make the Conference League, he'll still want to go.

We still need to sell at least two players (plus one for every person we sign) to make a 25 man squad. Yet there seems to be next to no talk of further outgoings atm. Fernandez and Darlow have to go surely.

I find these sort of arguments funny. Let's face it, have you ever seen Ekitike play in a full game outside of Youtube highlights? Have you ever seen Joao Pedro play outside of Newcastle v Watford? I highly doubt 99% of our fans have. Maybe there's more to it then what fans on the internet think from Youtube clips?

https://www.theguardian.com/football/who-scored-blog/2022/aug/10/newcastle-europe-joelinton-bruno-guimaraes-midfield-eddie-howe

Not necessarily, if he goes on loan we could cover 50% of his wages and Chelsea cover the remainder.

Nailed it

Done. FYI there shouldn't be an apostrophe in your title:

We have one of the highest homegrown percentages in the league - we don't really need to worry about it. The UEFA requirement is harder I agree. 12ft | Explained: How the Premier League’s homegrown rule is impacting your club’s transfers - The Athletic

Four times? Bruno, Wood, Botman and who else?

Might be missing something but why have you sent that? I'm a lawyer myself, I know what a general counsel does.

He wont' really be doing anything like that. A general counsel is just another name for in-house lawyer. He'll be negotiating the legals on any club contracts but he won't actually be negotiating anything commercially.

Imagine quoting Barca as an example of how to run a football club

Everton clearly do, they've lost their best player because of FFP.

Certainly doable. But West Ham aren't a top 6 team.

It may not be a pipe dream but it's certainly not "more than realistic". We are behind West Ham as it stands let alone the top 6.

Our form in the second half of last season was almost perfect. It's not sustainable or realistic to suggest we will maintain top 3 form throughout an entire season. We are competing against Man U and Arsenal for top 6, not West Ham and Leicester. That's a huge gap to bridge in one transfer window.