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Pick one. It's in a position we don't need to upgrade anywhere near as much as RW and ST, as Howe himself has said, as I'm saying. If Howe wants to play Maddison on the right in the way you're suggesting fair enough, but considering Diaby was the original choice, it very much suggests a different plan.

Howe himself has said that RW and ST are the priority and that resorting to other positions is the alternative, hardly controversial

Again, disclaimer that I like Maddison, but I just find it pretty hard to fathom how we can all be universal in thinking £35m-ish for Jack Harrison is ridiculous (which it is) in a position we desperately need, but £60m is the going rate for a player in a position we don't. Both 25, both English, and both with very similar minutes per goal (344 vs 304) Maddison is obviously the better player, but to that extreme an extent?

The going rate argument is fair enough, but I'll expect him to be truly exceptional if he comes in for £60m like.

Looking at other similar jobs across football clubs it looks like it's decent, which suggests to me that the job is either completely different and less intense when its at a football club, or as a sector they're paying insulting amounts. Marketing Manager jobs in the private sector start at £50k usually, my boss in the public sector is on more than what Newcastle are offering.

It doesn't sit right with me like, spending all of that money to bolster an already decent AM position and taking funds away from spending on positions where we're starting Almiron/Fraser, and are an injury away from starting Chris Wood up front. I'm sure it'll be down to things that we're not aware of (Diaby not wanting to come regardless of our offer, for example) - but it just feels a bit weird.

Maddison's really good like, but putting that amount of money down on him alone, in a position that isn't an immediate priority? Not for me Jeff, I'd be keeping Bruno in his influential role, going for a dedicated DM, and putting that money to use on Diaby or similar.

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That's not a great salary for a marketing manager in the private sector like. Should be starting around 50k. You'd get the wage they're offering as a team leader in the public sector.

Don't think it's anything to do with stirring up division really, it's more that people are far too willing to let these things become cop-out replacements for actual systemic change. No denying it's had a big impact and I have no issue with anyone taking the knee, but I do find it crazy how quickly it's gone from: Colin Kaepernick risking and losing a lot in a stand against racially motivated police brutality, on his own, largely against the establishment, and it being a huge talking point. to It being co-opted by inherently racist companies and an establishment that only want to use it for PR, it being expanded to 'all forms of discrimination', and it now being diluted to the point where it's becoming a solely symbolic gesture that's getting closer and closer to having about as much impact as Kick Racism out of Football. It's an obvious tactic to suppress any chance for actual change.

Yous are fucking nuts like, sorry. No problem at all with having the ambition to finish above Leicester, or it being a possibility, but a fucking expectation of it? And we wonder why we have a supposedly undeserved reputation for being deluded and entitled.

The 5 subs rule, but he'd displace Odegaard and Spurs need an AM

Not for a player approaching 26 who's good enough that he doesn't need to choose a ground floor option, no. He could go to 4 of the top 6 now and already be near the top floor.

It's similar to the Trippier situation in that I can't fully work out why he'd choose us at the moment. Leicester are a good few years ahead of us in terms of infrastructure and we're not really a step up at the moment in terms of what we know. My only guesses are that the acceleration of our ambition is actually much faster than we've been told, and/or Maddison thinks he has a better chance of getting in the England team because of the Southgate/Ashworth connection.

Cucarella's too good to be a rotation player for a top 6 team like. Strange signing, especially for the player himself.

I beg anyone who thinks Bailey is respectable or reliable to give this a watch. https://youtu.be/3cFS5dvN8PU

I'll tell you how arsed I am about missing out on Werner when I find out who next on our list is. Right now I'm not bothered

It's not really bogus, they had a takeover before the takeover that got them to mid-table and already had some decent players by then, most notably Kompany, but they also had Hart, Corluka, Richards, Elano, Michael Johnson, Wright-Phillips, Sturridge and Schmeichel.

FWIW, if Dubravka was part of the deal then we signed cyclopatter for a year that would do me

Controversial but I'm not sold on Maddison being a transformative signing for us. Great player, I'm just not sure what the thinking behind it is at the moment. RW and ST are obviously far more pressing and if we were going for that sort of player, Maddison at that price tag isn't the first thing that comes to mind. Said it before though, his numbers were almost KDB level last year, so hopefully he comes and it immediately all makes sense.

I don't know enough about Barnes. I feel like every time I've seen him he's been an impact sub, but I may have imagined it.

Pope was a good signing exactly because it put him and Dubravka in competition. Pope and Darlow isn't that much of an upgrade and leaves us with the same rubbish number 2.

Wouldn't be happy at all to lose Dubravka

We should really have kept Carr like, he was class. The criticism he got on here and the accusations of not being insightful were ridiculous.

Can only imagine that the sort of person that finds N-O toxic already lives on Planet Soft Cunt, but still has to listen to Dido in the bath at the end of every day to unwind.