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I've just seen Serbia's squad. There are some really good names there, especially in the midfield. Could see Mitrovic scoring a goal against Brazil with this bunch and adding few mil. pounds to his price. Goalkeepers: Vladimir Stojkovic (FK Partizan Belgrade), Predrag Rajkovic (Maccabi Tel Aviv/ISR), Aleksandar Jovanovic (AGF/DEN), Marko Dmitrovic (Eibar/ESP); Defenders: Aleksandar Kolarov (Roma/ITA), Antonio Rukavina (Villarreal/ESP), Milan Rodic (Red Star Belgrade), Branislav Ivanovic (Zenit Saint Petersburg/RUS), Uros Spajic (Anderlecht/BEL), Milos Veljkovic (Werder Bremen/GER), Dusko Tosic (Besiktas/TUR), Matija Nastasic (Schalke/GER), Nikola Milenkovic (Fiorentina/ITA); Midfielders: Nemanja Matic (Manchester United/ENG), Luka Milivojevic (Crystal Palace/ENG), Marko Grujic (Cardiff City/WAL), Nemanja Maksimovic (Valencia/ESP), Dusan Tadic (Southampton/ENG), Andrija Zivkovic (Benfica/POR), Mijat Gacinovic (Eintracht/GER), Filip Kostic (Hamburger SV/GER), Nemanja Radonjic (Red Star Belgrade), Sergej Milinkovic-Savic (Lazio/ITA), Adem Ljajic (Torino/ITA); Forwards: Aleksandar Mitrovic (Fulham/ENG), Aleksandar Prijovic (PAOK Thessaloniki/GRE), Luka Jovic (Eintracht Frankfurt/GER).

Mitro Yeah, but in Panini's album, it says Fulham. Very average squad and 10th place in the PL.

Is it me or there are no Newcastle players at World Cup?

Mitrovic = Sky Bet MOTM He played really good tonight, absolutely outplayed Davies

Scored ahattrick against Arsenal at Emirates

I've just seen the goal. He scored that with his left foot. I thought he can use only his right foot and his head(for scoring goals and for nothing else). wtf

I was asking on the previous page if he'd become more clinical with his finishing or was he getting loads of chances. He's still missing open goals then? Preston defender intercepted cross and the ball hit Mitrovic accidentally and almost went into the goal. "Missed an open goal" is just a blatant comment

You know what, when Joselu does this, you'll be right, until then you're wrong, have a nice evening

What?! The guy said 'Picking a team by training statistics is not the way a manager should be doing it'. That's a very definite statement and an incredibly arrogant one since every top manager in world football picks their team that way. Disagree with Rafa's team selections and tactics by all means, but don't make definite statements that he's wrong. None of us are qualified to make statements like that, least of all GeordieJeans I clearly remember Brazil squad from WC 2002. Bunch of players that hated trainings and won WC. I hope that you understand that football players aren't factory workers so you can measure how much they contribute by purely output stats. Our team lacks winning mentality. Mitrovic won in his short career more than any player at the club. You think he waves his hands every time we miss a chance without reason? That's a player with winning mentality, agressive, hothead, cares when you are losing. Just go and see how much honours every player has in our club and how much Mitrovic has. Exclude last year Championship title from our players, including Mitrovic, for better data analysis.

This is idiotic, tbh. I was a goalkeeper for twelve years and I was always worse than other two goalkeepers when they compared our fitness, speed... mostly because I'm 6ft 7inches tall, but I always performed better at games because the other two were lacking decision making, determination, positioning, etc. If that's how the squad is picked, then it's poor man management. Benitez should know that manager at his level is mostly motivator, psychologist and tactician and not some professor from middle school who thinks that ones who know subject by heart are better than ones who truly understand it.

It's offical.

Easy 2:0

No, no, that's not my point. I'm talking about Rafa's 5 mil, 10mil, 20mil striker theory.

Mexican club, Club America also interested according to press. Swansea and Brighton, too. Club America, Fox Sports https://twitter.com/NewcastleFansTV/status/950396282161516545 Swansea, walesonline Brighton, Daily Mirror https://twitter.com/TransferCenLive/status/950384127127228418 So yeah, if we're asking 15 mil for him, I really don't understand why are we selling him.

My friend from Serbia says that Vladimir Stojkovic won best Serbian player award in 2017, ahead of Matic, Milinkovic-Savic, Tadic... I do remember Stojkovic from Forest and I can agree with you based on that.

I can bet with you that if you play Mitrovic you will get the same amount of goals. After all, he scored 9 in his first season. Deeney isn't better than Mitrovic and we need someone else. Well it's a hypothetical bet because it's never going to happen. We're not going to spend what's needed to get a better player than Deeney, like. But spending 20mil on a player like Deeney? Come on, that's same as Andy Carroll to Liverpool for 35mil. Waste of money. It's not though. Unfortunately in 2018 that's what £20m gets you. Look at all of the other £20m transfer fees for attacking players in the last couple of windows and tell me which ones you'd consider to be worth it. I'd probably fail to pick a single player using the pre-TV deal transfer scale. That's what media wants you to think. You have a lot of good strikers for 8-13 mil that could easily score 10-15 goals. It's just everyone is saying that we need ''proven PL''. We don't. ''Proven PL'' striker will only cost more money than any other and probably won't score as many goals as we want. At this point we are in a situation where our scouting system is terrible. You can easily do the research too and find striker that will score 10-15 goals and cost less than Deeney. Well you need proven PL strikers because we are playing in the PL. Anything else would be a risk at this stage, and we aren't in a position to gamble. No, you don't. That's my point. All proven PL striker are playing in PL, right? So, we are buying not needed strikers, so that means that they aren't worthy of playing in PL. Do you understand? No one will sell you their primary striker, everyone sells their 3rd of 4th striker, which isn't good for us. I don't play FIFA, just FM. You are just being facetious, by proven PL, we generally mean of sufficient quality which means spending money. Who would you buy for this £8-13m you are suggesting is enough? Without any doubts, Michael Krmecnik. https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/michael-krmencik/profil/spieler/178469 A player in their mid twenties averaging 1 in 3 in under 100 appearances in the Czech league would "easily score 10-15 goals" in the Premier League now? That's not how you want to look at his stats. He started playing regulary for Victoria this season and was on a lot of loans, just like Harry Kane. He has 14 games this season, 11 goals and 6 assists in league, 4 games 3 goals and 1 assists in Europa League and 2 goals in 2 games in Champions League qualifications, which makes total of 20 games 16 goals and 7 assists this season. Further more, scored 6 goals in 10 games for Czech national team. Is that bad? Mitrovic was scoring for fun in the Belgian league and Stephane Guivarc'h was the top scorer in France when we signed him. A couple of weeks ago you suggested we sign some kid from the Israeli league and rely on him as our first choice keeper. It's easy to use Google and find a player with great stats and claim he'll be great in the PL. It's not that easy though. That kid from Israeli league is better than all our keepers and it's not google, I watched him against VillaReal, and it was madness. He won FIFA U-20 World Cup 2015 Golden Glove, selected for 2013 UEFA European Under-19 Championship Team of the Tournament. And if you ask me, 166 senior games at the age of 22 is a serious number, even in leagues such as Israeli. I'm not saying he's a bad player, I'm sure he's good. Just saying it can be hard to translate success in a minor league, or even the French or Dutch, to success in the PL. I understand what you're saying.

I can bet with you that if you play Mitrovic you will get the same amount of goals. After all, he scored 9 in his first season. Deeney isn't better than Mitrovic and we need someone else. Well it's a hypothetical bet because it's never going to happen. We're not going to spend what's needed to get a better player than Deeney, like. But spending 20mil on a player like Deeney? Come on, that's same as Andy Carroll to Liverpool for 35mil. Waste of money. It's not though. Unfortunately in 2018 that's what £20m gets you. Look at all of the other £20m transfer fees for attacking players in the last couple of windows and tell me which ones you'd consider to be worth it. I'd probably fail to pick a single player using the pre-TV deal transfer scale. That's what media wants you to think. You have a lot of good strikers for 8-13 mil that could easily score 10-15 goals. It's just everyone is saying that we need ''proven PL''. We don't. ''Proven PL'' striker will only cost more money than any other and probably won't score as many goals as we want. At this point we are in a situation where our scouting system is terrible. You can easily do the research too and find striker that will score 10-15 goals and cost less than Deeney. Well you need proven PL strikers because we are playing in the PL. Anything else would be a risk at this stage, and we aren't in a position to gamble. No, you don't. That's my point. All proven PL striker are playing in PL, right? So, we are buying not needed strikers, so that means that they aren't worthy of playing in PL. Do you understand? No one will sell you their primary striker, everyone sells their 3rd of 4th striker, which isn't good for us. I don't play FIFA, just FM. You are just being facetious, by proven PL, we generally mean of sufficient quality which means spending money. Who would you buy for this £8-13m you are suggesting is enough? Without any doubts, Michael Krmecnik. https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/michael-krmencik/profil/spieler/178469 A player in their mid twenties averaging 1 in 3 in under 100 appearances in the Czech league would "easily score 10-15 goals" in the Premier League now? That's not how you want to look at his stats. He started playing regulary for Victoria this season and was on a lot of loans, just like Harry Kane. He has 14 games this season, 11 goals and 6 assists in league, 4 games 3 goals and 1 assists in Europa League and 2 goals in 2 games in Champions League qualifications, which makes total of 20 games 16 goals and 7 assists this season. Further more, scored 6 goals in 10 games for Czech national team. Is that bad? Mitrovic was scoring for fun in the Belgian league and Stephane Guivarc'h was the top scorer in France when we signed him. A couple of weeks ago you suggested we sign some kid from the Israeli league and rely on him as our first choice keeper. It's easy to use Google and find a player with great stats and claim he'll be great in the PL. It's not that easy though. That kid from Israeli league is better than all our keepers and it's not google, I watched him against VillaReal, and it was madness. He won FIFA U-20 World Cup 2015 Golden Glove, selected for 2013 UEFA European Under-19 Championship Team of the Tournament. And if you ask me, 166 senior games at the age of 22 is a serious number, even in leagues such as Israeli. Considering Freddie Woodman's our third choice 'keeper, this seems like an odd suggestion when we clearly need more experience, either for the league, or for Rafa to pick them to play, which is just as important. It is an odd suggestion, but I think that he'll play 2 or 3 seasons for us if we buy him, and then sold for a larger amount of money and then the position of goalkeeper will open up for Woodman. Arsenal wanted him this summer and I wouldn't be suprised if they buy him in the near future as a replacement for Cech. Just look up some of his highlights on Youtube. I know, it's not the best way to see what he can do, but anyway, just take a look. His name is Predrag Rajkovic.

I can bet with you that if you play Mitrovic you will get the same amount of goals. After all, he scored 9 in his first season. Deeney isn't better than Mitrovic and we need someone else. Well it's a hypothetical bet because it's never going to happen. We're not going to spend what's needed to get a better player than Deeney, like. But spending 20mil on a player like Deeney? Come on, that's same as Andy Carroll to Liverpool for 35mil. Waste of money. It's not though. Unfortunately in 2018 that's what £20m gets you. Look at all of the other £20m transfer fees for attacking players in the last couple of windows and tell me which ones you'd consider to be worth it. I'd probably fail to pick a single player using the pre-TV deal transfer scale. That's what media wants you to think. You have a lot of good strikers for 8-13 mil that could easily score 10-15 goals. It's just everyone is saying that we need ''proven PL''. We don't. ''Proven PL'' striker will only cost more money than any other and probably won't score as many goals as we want. At this point we are in a situation where our scouting system is terrible. You can easily do the research too and find striker that will score 10-15 goals and cost less than Deeney. Well you need proven PL strikers because we are playing in the PL. Anything else would be a risk at this stage, and we aren't in a position to gamble. No, you don't. That's my point. All proven PL striker are playing in PL, right? So, we are buying not needed strikers, so that means that they aren't worthy of playing in PL. Do you understand? No one will sell you their primary striker, everyone sells their 3rd of 4th striker, which isn't good for us. I don't play FIFA, just FM. You are just being facetious, by proven PL, we generally mean of sufficient quality which means spending money. Who would you buy for this £8-13m you are suggesting is enough? Without any doubts, Michael Krmecnik. https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/michael-krmencik/profil/spieler/178469 A player in their mid twenties averaging 1 in 3 in under 100 appearances in the Czech league would "easily score 10-15 goals" in the Premier League now? That's not how you want to look at his stats. He started playing regulary for Victoria this season and was on a lot of loans, just like Harry Kane. He has 14 games this season, 11 goals and 6 assists in league, 4 games 3 goals and 1 assists in Europa League and 2 goals in 2 games in Champions League qualifications, which makes total of 20 games 16 goals and 7 assists this season. Further more, scored 6 goals in 10 games for Czech national team. Is that bad? Mitrovic was scoring for fun in the Belgian league and Stephane Guivarc'h was the top scorer in France when we signed him. A couple of weeks ago you suggested we sign some kid from the Israeli league and rely on him as our first choice keeper. It's easy to use Google and find a player with great stats and claim he'll be great in the PL. It's not that easy though. That kid from Israeli league is better than all our keepers and it's not google, I watched him against VillaReal, and it was madness. He won FIFA U-20 World Cup 2015 Golden Glove, selected for 2013 UEFA European Under-19 Championship Team of the Tournament. And if you ask me, 166 senior games at the age of 22 is a serious number, even in leagues such as Israeli.

I can bet with you that if you play Mitrovic you will get the same amount of goals. After all, he scored 9 in his first season. Deeney isn't better than Mitrovic and we need someone else. Well it's a hypothetical bet because it's never going to happen. We're not going to spend what's needed to get a better player than Deeney, like. But spending 20mil on a player like Deeney? Come on, that's same as Andy Carroll to Liverpool for 35mil. Waste of money. It's not though. Unfortunately in 2018 that's what £20m gets you. Look at all of the other £20m transfer fees for attacking players in the last couple of windows and tell me which ones you'd consider to be worth it. I'd probably fail to pick a single player using the pre-TV deal transfer scale. That's what media wants you to think. You have a lot of good strikers for 8-13 mil that could easily score 10-15 goals. It's just everyone is saying that we need ''proven PL''. We don't. ''Proven PL'' striker will only cost more money than any other and probably won't score as many goals as we want. At this point we are in a situation where our scouting system is terrible. You can easily do the research too and find striker that will score 10-15 goals and cost less than Deeney. Well you need proven PL strikers because we are playing in the PL. Anything else would be a risk at this stage, and we aren't in a position to gamble. No, you don't. That's my point. All proven PL striker are playing in PL, right? So, we are buying not needed strikers, so that means that they aren't worthy of playing in PL. Do you understand? No one will sell you their primary striker, everyone sells their 3rd of 4th striker, which isn't good for us. I don't play FIFA, just FM. You are just being facetious, by proven PL, we generally mean of sufficient quality which means spending money. Who would you buy for this £8-13m you are suggesting is enough? Without any doubts, Michael Krmecnik. https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/michael-krmencik/profil/spieler/178469 A player in their mid twenties averaging 1 in 3 in under 100 appearances in the Czech league would "easily score 10-15 goals" in the Premier League now? That's not how you want to look at his stats. He started playing regulary for Victoria this season and was on a lot of loans, just like Harry Kane. He has 14 games this season, 11 goals and 6 assists in league, 4 games 3 goals and 1 assists in Europa League and 2 goals in 2 games in Champions League qualifications, which makes total of 20 games 16 goals and 7 assists this season. Further more, scored 6 goals in 10 games for Czech national team. Is that bad? Not bad at all, but hardly the cast iron guarantee for the 10-15 goals per season at this level, the goals we need to keep us up. That's the same thing you could say about Vardy 5 years ago. We are really lacking pragmatism.

I can bet with you that if you play Mitrovic you will get the same amount of goals. After all, he scored 9 in his first season. Deeney isn't better than Mitrovic and we need someone else. Well it's a hypothetical bet because it's never going to happen. We're not going to spend what's needed to get a better player than Deeney, like. But spending 20mil on a player like Deeney? Come on, that's same as Andy Carroll to Liverpool for 35mil. Waste of money. It's not though. Unfortunately in 2018 that's what £20m gets you. Look at all of the other £20m transfer fees for attacking players in the last couple of windows and tell me which ones you'd consider to be worth it. I'd probably fail to pick a single player using the pre-TV deal transfer scale. That's what media wants you to think. You have a lot of good strikers for 8-13 mil that could easily score 10-15 goals. It's just everyone is saying that we need ''proven PL''. We don't. ''Proven PL'' striker will only cost more money than any other and probably won't score as many goals as we want. At this point we are in a situation where our scouting system is terrible. You can easily do the research too and find striker that will score 10-15 goals and cost less than Deeney. Well you need proven PL strikers because we are playing in the PL. Anything else would be a risk at this stage, and we aren't in a position to gamble. No, you don't. That's my point. All proven PL striker are playing in PL, right? So, we are buying not needed strikers, so that means that they aren't worthy of playing in PL. Do you understand? No one will sell you their primary striker, everyone sells their 3rd of 4th striker, which isn't good for us. I don't play FIFA, just FM. You are just being facetious, by proven PL, we generally mean of sufficient quality which means spending money. Who would you buy for this £8-13m you are suggesting is enough? Without any doubts, Michael Krmecnik. https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/michael-krmencik/profil/spieler/178469 A player in their mid twenties averaging 1 in 3 in under 100 appearances in the Czech league would "easily score 10-15 goals" in the Premier League now? That's not how you want to look at his stats. He started playing regulary for Victoria this season and was on a lot of loans, just like Harry Kane. He has 14 games this season, 11 goals and 6 assists in league, 4 games 3 goals and 1 assists in Europa League and 2 goals in 2 games in Champions League qualifications, which makes total of 20 games 16 goals and 7 assists this season. Further more, scored 6 goals in 10 games for Czech national team. Is that bad?

I can bet with you that if you play Mitrovic you will get the same amount of goals. After all, he scored 9 in his first season. Deeney isn't better than Mitrovic and we need someone else. Well it's a hypothetical bet because it's never going to happen. We're not going to spend what's needed to get a better player than Deeney, like. But spending 20mil on a player like Deeney? Come on, that's same as Andy Carroll to Liverpool for 35mil. Waste of money. It's not though. Unfortunately in 2018 that's what £20m gets you. Look at all of the other £20m transfer fees for attacking players in the last couple of windows and tell me which ones you'd consider to be worth it. I'd probably fail to pick a single player using the pre-TV deal transfer scale. That's what media wants you to think. You have a lot of good strikers for 8-13 mil that could easily score 10-15 goals. It's just everyone is saying that we need ''proven PL''. We don't. ''Proven PL'' striker will only cost more money than any other and probably won't score as many goals as we want. At this point we are in a situation where our scouting system is terrible. You can easily do the research too and find striker that will score 10-15 goals and cost less than Deeney. Well you need proven PL strikers because we are playing in the PL. Anything else would be a risk at this stage, and we aren't in a position to gamble. No, you don't. That's my point. All proven PL striker are playing in PL, right? So, we are buying not needed strikers, so that means that they aren't worthy of playing in PL. Do you understand? No one will sell you their primary striker, everyone sells their 3rd of 4th striker, which isn't good for us. I don't play FIFA, just FM. You are just being facetious, by proven PL, we generally mean of sufficient quality which means spending money. Who would you buy for this £8-13m you are suggesting is enough? Without any doubts, Michael Krmecnik. https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/michael-krmencik/profil/spieler/178469

I can bet with you that if you play Mitrovic you will get the same amount of goals. After all, he scored 9 in his first season. Deeney isn't better than Mitrovic and we need someone else. Well it's a hypothetical bet because it's never going to happen. We're not going to spend what's needed to get a better player than Deeney, like. But spending 20mil on a player like Deeney? Come on, that's same as Andy Carroll to Liverpool for 35mil. Waste of money. It's not though. Unfortunately in 2018 that's what £20m gets you. Look at all of the other £20m transfer fees for attacking players in the last couple of windows and tell me which ones you'd consider to be worth it. I'd probably fail to pick a single player using the pre-TV deal transfer scale. That's what media wants you to think. You have a lot of good strikers for 8-13 mil that could easily score 10-15 goals. It's just everyone is saying that we need ''proven PL''. We don't. ''Proven PL'' striker will only cost more money than any other and probably won't score as many goals as we want. At this point we are in a situation where our scouting system is terrible. You can easily do the research too and find striker that will score 10-15 goals and cost less than Deeney. Well you need proven PL strikers because we are playing in the PL. Anything else would be a risk at this stage, and we aren't in a position to gamble. No, you don't. That's my point. All proven PL striker are playing in PL, right? So, we are buying not needed strikers, so that means that they aren't worthy of playing in PL. Do you understand? No one will sell you their primary striker, everyone sells their 3rd of 4th striker, which isn't good for us. I don't play FIFA, just FM.

I can bet with you that if you play Mitrovic you will get the same amount of goals. After all, he scored 9 in his first season. Deeney isn't better than Mitrovic and we need someone else. Well it's a hypothetical bet because it's never going to happen. We're not going to spend what's needed to get a better player than Deeney, like. But spending 20mil on a player like Deeney? Come on, that's same as Andy Carroll to Liverpool for 35mil. Waste of money. It's not though. Unfortunately in 2018 that's what £20m gets you. Look at all of the other £20m transfer fees for attacking players in the last couple of windows and tell me which ones you'd consider to be worth it. I'd probably fail to pick a single player using the pre-TV deal transfer scale. That's what media wants you to think. You have a lot of good strikers for 8-13 mil that could easily score 10-15 goals. It's just everyone is saying that we need ''proven PL''. We don't. ''Proven PL'' striker will only cost more money than any other and probably won't score as many goals as we want. At this point we are in a situation where our scouting system is terrible. You can easily do the research too and find striker that will score 10-15 goals and cost less than Deeney.

I can bet with you that if you play Mitrovic you will get the same amount of goals. After all, he scored 9 in his first season. Deeney isn't better than Mitrovic and we need someone else. Well it's a hypothetical bet because it's never going to happen. We're not going to spend what's needed to get a better player than Deeney, like. But spending 20mil on a player like Deeney? Come on, that's same as Andy Carroll to Liverpool for 35mil. Waste of money.