HaydnNUFC

Bruno and Targett came out of the blue in January iirc, the first we heard about them was a bid being made. All this 'weighing up', 'monitoring', 'preparing bid' is all nonsense to get emotional football fans like us clicking and reading about it. I doubt any journos whether that's Wilson, Edwards insisting on a budget, Hope or anyone like that have a clue. It's no coincidence to me that the Athletic journos have been really quiet this window. But to entertain that horseshit for a second longer that it needs to be, insisting on not paying over £25m will get you nowhere in the PL and will likely not upgrade what you have unless you find an absolute gem.

Go abroad, then. Never getting any deals in the PL for that. He seems a shocking journo btw. Sensationalist tripe is mostly what I've seen.

The fuck, man.

15:28 onwards, he wanted Bruce out before we sacked him. my fucking GOAT

But in Willock's 14 games he literally matched one of our PL goalscoring records for consecutive games scored in and nigh on singlehandedly kept us up with it. Longstaff since getting injured away at West Ham in March 2019 has shown absolutely nothing to me so I can be optimistic about him being a part of a midfield that runs PL matches, even against the so called lesser sides. He's played well in 4 games imo this season; Man Utd (h), Leeds (a), Arsenal (h), Burnley (a). Willock matched one of our goal scoring records. There's much more to be optimistic about with Willock than Longstaff.

Aye. People will be clinging onto those 8 games Longstaff had in 2018-19 when he's like 29.

Under Howe he's been as motivated as ever and has played his most consistent football at NUFC without being sparkling iyam. He never was like but I still think he'll have parts to play this season. If he can hit the form of the latter part of 17-18 with the consistency of last season I'm sure he will but from this coming season moving forward, especially next season, he should be a rotational cup player at best if not moved on.

Unsure about trying him in CM. Bruce tried him there earlier last season in that brainless 5-3-1-1. Obviously Howe is lightyears clear but unless we play him as a #10 I can't see where he fits in. His pressing ability, workrate, fitness and pace are all assets but his contributions on the park, certainly over the last 2 seasons, don't warrant him being involved in the first XI too often imo.

Convinced one of these new posters that joined or started posting a lot more from after the takeover is the second coming of Penn/IMTTS, like.

I see you're being a blatant WUM again. Put up these tragic posts about Howe back in January, Then stopped posting after Howe turned it around and only started to post again after the season had ended to spout how we are apparently skint a la your posts today as well as how our signings and reported targets are all naff.

Their new winger went off injured today so it'll probably be over £35m. Which to me is over market value.

Don't think Lewis will be sold. He was coming into his own a bit in December before his injury.

Fernandez, Darlow or Gillespie and one of the wingers? Murphy maybe?

And given how much we're struggling to bring just one in (and a striker) I wouldn't have much faith that they'd both be upgrades on ASM or whose already here. But it won't happen. I hope.

We need another winger alongside ASM. If he is sold and if we replace him with someone who is hopefully as influential for us as he is we're still going to have Fraser, Almiron or Murphy on the other side. And Wood up front when Wilson inevitably gets injured.

He's got 4 years left on his contract and one of our only 2 decent attackers when we're struggling to sign more which we need. The club'll demand what they want and rightly so, providing this is true. Which it probably isn't given Scott Wilson's articles this window.

Selling him would be brainless at this point. Wilson would be the only decent attacker left at the club and he won't see more than 25 games.

If we were to sell him that would leave us with 1 decent attacker who is a perma crock. Nope.

I just saw Eddie Howe in the town, I asked if an attacker was coming soon. He laughed and winked at me, then grabbed me by the hair and dragged me into a toilet and fingered me repeatedly while whispering 'Eddie Howe's black and white army' over and over in my ear. Make of that what you will.

Great servant to the club, did well for us in his first two years here, especially the Championship season. Wish him nowt but the best.

Same amount of goal involvements as Almirón last season. In 38 appearances.

90min is a shite source, is it not?

Arsenal fans in the replies filling me with indubitable excitement for this one.