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I'm just struggling to get used to these new fees and judging by how crazy they are that's pretty understandable

Also there is nothing reasonable about 16 million pounds for diafra sakho!!

So accepting about 7m for thauvin who has contributed zero to us is that ridiculous and hard to grasp is it? Especially when that would pay for the majority of the fee for knockaert, who if he is as good as he's made out to be would probably mean we go up. If you bought a car for 12,000 pound and it didn't function as you wanted and though It would and it was proven to not be worth that much money you wouldn't expect someone else to pay the same price for it

How much did West Ham get him for? He hasn't exactly been great for them either. Don't half make some stupid buys some clubs

Strang one for lazio surely they can buy better than him for decent money

A case of fans wanting local players to go well. We have seen it loads of times before with players who aren't good enough. Adam Campbell was the next Michael Owen

Silly lad Townsend awful move deserves all he gets. Come January when we are top and palace are battlin relegation it will look even more stupid. Fancy leaving Newcastle to go to palace! And as for wanting to be in the premiership for his England ambitions if I was him that would be the last thing on my mind after they dumped him in June

Maybe 2005 then. Fact is us and Spurs were round the same level if not us ahead of them in 2005. We had been in the top 5 the last few seasons and like I say other than manure Chelsea and Arsenal maybe Liverpool we were a more attractive club to go too than the rest of the league and a real chance to push on. Then like you say we signed a load of dross the year after and Spurs got a load of great players and we have been on oppisote paths ever since.

Regarding our near misses, 2007 and Ashleys takeover came at the wrong time for us. Around 2004-06 us and Spurs were the main attraction to players after Arsenal Chelsea manure Liverpool. In the past we would of been in for and got the likes of Modric and bale. Criminal how we fell from being in the top 6 clubs to 2 relegations not long later due to lack of ambition and bad transfer mistakes

Yep... And chill... Rafas got this

Seen this online Early thoughts: Gayle runs like Bellamy. Ritchie's balls in will be invaluable. Hayden looks great and wants the ball. Hanley is a Monster.

Actually, hes not. Yeah, he is. Anyone who puts on a mackem shirt and scores against Newcastle at st James park and takes great delight in it and mocks the crowd is a mackem for me. If you think otherwise then ok.

Don't know about that. He is a mackem

I do agree, but cast your mind back to this time in 2009, we all thought similar about that squad. Nobody expected us to p*ss the championship that year. Yeah but we had players like Enrique and colocinni who were a different class of defender then too. Colocinni played with a cigar every game.

Dogback ??? Was just thinking the same as well. That midfield man

For today and Fulham assuming there are no more signings by then I would go Darlow Jaanmat The chancellor Lascelles Dummett Shelvey Anita Ritchie Perez Aarons Gayle

He would be class in the championship to be fair if he's back on his game. Would work out well, have a class season help us back up in his final season then can have his move to wherever on a free next summer when we are back up.

Fair point yeah. That's what I was mainly getting at that there will definitely be better value elsewhere. If you sell a decent player for a over inflated fee such as 30m then there will be two 15m players out there who will be even better. I like Ranieris attitude to transfers it's basically that, if he loses someone he says it's no big deal as they can be replaced and the game goes on.

Yeah fair dos I get some stick for wanting us to take a reasonable fee for players who I don't rate that much and haven't contributed a great deal for us but you can't tell me you couldn't get at least 3 better players than them with the 97m which they have reportedly rejected.

Crazy that Everton turned down about 90m for stones and lukaku and could end up getting 120m for the pair! A defender who isn't great at defending and a striker who is good but with a dodgy touch and worth nowhere near that. Can certainly get 2 better players than them for 100m. Or even 4 25m players for that

Just average ones with a year left on there contract

3m would be a fair deal

Exactly that yeah. Just focus on getting a quality championship team then can build on that next summer with the extra money. A United Newcastle with Benitez as manager and back in the premiership would be the biggest draw in the league other than the usual top 5 or so to a lot of players

Wouldn't worry about next season too much just make sure we are good enough for this season first. Plus the money if we do get promoted plus Rafa in charge and our status as a club will allow us to sign quality if we get promoted

That's what we need a couple of players who are seen amongst the best in the championship and have proved it