Holmesy

If that’s what you’ve taken from watching him for the past 5 years you’re a terrible judge. He loves the game and battle more than anyone else in the squad. He’ll fucking hate every minute on the bench

There’s no guarantee he’s staying. Let’s see where we are at the end of the window. Ritchie won’t want another season of no first team football

Guaranteed starter and they reckon £200k per week ??‍♂️

This lad looks similar to Paqueta in terms of style, technique and position, but at a fraction of the cost.

Let's confine that term to the bin along with everything else Ashley-related

Let's be honest, none of the signings we've made so far have been sexy - a keeper, a loan player we already know and another CB. The ones we all get excited about are offensive players and we haven't seen any yet, after 6 months of anticipation or 12 years depending on how you want to look at it. I imagine the frustration would've been tempered if the world cup was on, but there's so little decent sport on that it's difficult not to obsess a bit.

I also think we'd have wanted a loan to buy, to keep it within our 'budget'

I think we're more likely to sign a #10 than a proper CM. Eddie seems to rate S Longstaff, loves Shelvey and has Bruno and Joe to chose from as well. Unless someone like Willock leaves I think we'll go with what we've got in that area.

I think you're underestimating the value of a striker who would virtually guarantee you 25 goals in the championship and a decent shot at promotion, 33 or not. £10-12m is probably a bit rich but £6-8m should be realistic

Seems pretty reasonable all things considered. He's shown he can play at this level, he's young and in today's market £30m is not a lot for a striker

Tielemans/Paqueta Broja Diaby or similar That would be some transfer window! Top 6 challengers.

I think that's bollocks! If we want him, I reckon he'll choose us over most other clubs. He wants to play with his besty and knows he'll be worshiped by the Toon Army.

I love it! Fuck the haters, it's a great looking kit. I understand why people are up in arms but the game is full of hypocrites (fans, pundits and players) who'll happily ignore controversial partnerships elsewhere in the league but slam us for our Saudi links. The media has been fan-girling over Roman Abramovich for over a decade and he's a criminal Russian oligarch FFS. Fuck em all, i'm buying it.

We absolutely should, but I imagine his wages would shatter our structure so we won’t ☹️

We cannot go into this season with Fraser being a guaranteed starter - i'm not even sure he's PL quality. And Wilson with Wood backup is frightening.

These two words do not belong in the same sentence, regardless of context. 'Wood will be our sub and prolific misser of easy headed chances' is more like it.

We’ll have to agree to disagree on that. We have young, hungry players bang in form in practically every position and enough variety on the squad to play however we want - defensive, controlling, attacking, different formations etc. And yet, same formation, same style, same players every time. I can’t think of another time we had this much depth in my lifetime, with the exception of up front.

We got to a Euros final, scored first, then had no shots for 70 minutes and Bottlejob did fuck all about it, just stood there and watched us lose. That final was there for the taking but a guy with a loser’s mentality lost it for us. Maybe we were destined to lose it but at least try to fucking win it!! If this was an average or shit group of England players (and we have had them) I’d celebrate a final, but it’s one of the best groups of players we’ve had in generations. It’s not good enough

It fucking should be. He’s clueless, crap and wasting one of the best groups of players we’ve had for decades. ”But he’s the most successful managers we’ve ever had”. Really?! What’s he fucking won? He bottled the semi against Croatia and he double-bottled the final against Italy.

Is Bottlejob going to change his wank approach now after this?! Plan A - 2 holding CMs + Harry Kane Plan B - 2 holding CMs + Harry Kane Plan C - 2 different holding CMs + Harry Kane Boring, predictable coward

Depends how thorough we want to be with his medical I suppose

That’s class!

I’m sure he’d do a job in the championship and there will be plenty of clubs looking for a striker. Even if we can’t sell him, send him out on loan and maybe he’ll do well enough that we can sell him next year. It can’t be doing his confidence any good playing like he has been for the past few months and I can’t see him improving.

Question for 10 - what’s the easiest way to generate clicks during the transfer window?

The conga fits his name perfectly: Du du du, Hugo Ekitike! Du du du Ekitike scores (or something less shit than that)