Kid Icarus

Because bemoaning PSR and attempting to spend £70m on one defender aren't incompatible but they're about as close as it gets.

I absolutely love Howe but the reasons he's given for potentially getting no one in don't make any sense like.

* we're owned by the Saudis klaxon *

The wages will be different but Osimhen for £10m than the refused offer for Guehi is outrageous

Can he play right wing hehehehehehe

Agree to disagree then I think because Hope's conjecture that he's 'refused alternatives' and Downie's 'only target/ doesn't want alternatives' is a distinction without a difference imo.

2:40 and then alluded to throughout as: - Howe's 'main and only target' - 'Eddie's done this before with Botman, Isak, Gordon, Tonali' - 'Eddie's said time and again that a player has to improve the XI, that they're looking at a very small pool of players' - 'I get the feeling he doesn't want to do that (bring in an alternative), he doesn't want to waste much needed funds that he can use in January on a player that isn't the one that he wants' - 'time will tell whether they look for someone else' - 'I think they need to look at someone else, to choose to go into the season with those centre backs is pretty poor management' - 'it feels like tomorrow will be a very quiet day for Newcastle apart from a couple of outgoings' Whether he knows something, he's guessing or he's shit stirring, you can fit a fag paper of semantics between what Hope and him have said.

What a day

That's all well and good but there's literally no difference between what Hope's saying (Howe saying it's Gueye or no one) and what Downie's saying. No difference whatsoever

They tend to be very bipolar (not unlike a lot of us) depending on whether we've won or lost and come out with daft things at times imo, but they're right to be annoyed at the moment like.

He has, I just watched him say it on his YouTube channel today. Reiterating that the pool is small and it's very likely to be no alternatives because Howe doesn't want to buy for the sake of it.

It's Downie and others.

No? It was players like James Ward Prowse

I'm the same except I can't see because of the tears that are in my eyes

With all due respect, do you? Beyond knowing that a player wants the move and the club are confident?

They're not two seperate statements. The transfer window has been poor and we're weaker.

Nee offense but you're in the minority now SP. Dunno why you're having a go at people for rightly acknowledging that the window has been a shitshow.

I understand the whole 'this is the one we want' factor with certain players. VVD was that for Liverpool, but are you honestly telling me that Marc Guehi is the only player that does what we need of him to the extent that we'll just not bother getting anyone else that ticks 99/100 boxes? I don't buy that for a second like.

Out: Anderson Minteh Ritchie Karius Dummett In: Kelly Osula Ruddy Vlachodimos I don't see how we've improved our depth through our actions in the market there. Lost a MF, RW, Utility, GK and a DF, brought in a DF, ST and 2 GKs. It's absolutely piss poor even by that metric, let alone us making the starting XI better.

No, I just also think we haven't raised the floor.

There is no word on him, or anyone. All we know is that Guehi is looking very unlikely now. Something that shouldn't come as any surprise to anyone, but seems to be to the club for some reason.

This is admittedly getting into brattishness tbf, but with hindsight I can't believe this transfer window compared to how excited I was for it.

Squad depth would be raising the floor, improving the starting XI would be raising the ceiling. We haven't improved our depth significantly either, we're actually 2 players down on last year and 2 of the 4 squad players we've brought in are 'keepers.

You're still thinking about the bad news aren't you?

It's directly, he's the CEO. I'm not saying he needs to be micromanaging, but he's ultimately responsible for how the entire club operates.