Joey47

Who are your top 10 Italian CBs? Also as others have said, hope you stick around. Really enjoy your posts.

Interesting stats here

We know that Milan, the Serie A champions, can't compete financially with Newcastle United

Last season Pope saved 73.6% of the shots he faced placing him 5th best in the league last season. Dubravka saved 67.9% of the shots he faced placing him in 14th. As a shot stoppers there's no question Pope is a (probably significant) upgrade on Dubravka. Also, it's not like Dubravka is some wizard when it comes to playing it out the back. Obviously you can dig even deeper on those stats and look at the quality of shots faced, but I don't think you'd see a significant difference considering Pope played for a horrific Burnley side last season.

Shots faced is a very important factor to look at when you compare GK's. Pretty sure Pope has a higher save percentage than Ederson and Alisson.

If we were going to push the boat out for anyone this window I think Raphinha would be the perfect choice. Proven to be one of the best players in the premier league and a big role in the very strong Brazilian national side.

Wow, Graeme Bailey pretty reliable in Jan wasn't he?

Is he the striker you were comparing to Osimhen?

I'm starting to get impatient in this transfer window. Not because I'm worried they're gonna fuck it up, but because I just wanna know who we're gonna sign already

How so? Was Fraser's best form last season not when he played LW when St maximin was out?

His purple patch was playing on the left when Maxi was out.

West Ham wanted him back in Jan and their striker situation is quite dire relying on an aging/out of form Antonio.

I do think Pope is better than Dubs, although definitely not by much. I think his signing might bit in a similar thought process to Targett's signing. Get a solid premier league player in for a good price and forget about that position for at least a season. Even if not a glamorous pep guardiola system type signing. Remember what happened at the start of the season when Dubs was out and Woodman and Darlow were costing us points pretty often iirc.

Worrying. I'm starting to think Agbonlawhore was right.

It's a tough one, I'd personally be happy with either that or James right CB and Trent right wing back in a back 5.

Walker is not done, he's perfect as a right sided CB in a back 3. Especially for tournament football, his recovery pace bails England out so so often.

Just because AC Milan has a bigger pull than us right now doesn't mean we should believe every word coming from shite Italian Journalists with an agenda. As people have said it is very possible Botman prefers moving to Milan over Newcastle, however it is also a possibility that he would prefer to join Newcastle during these exciting times. We don't really know what is going on behind the scenes in these negotiations and all these "journalists" love to use that to their advantage for farming clicks.

Exactly this. Especially La Repubblica who are well known for bullshiting. It is possible that he prefers Milan over Newcastle (underrstandable) but he's not going to refuse to sign for us if Milan can't afford him. Also are people forgetting Botman was so ready to join us back in Jan he was liking transfer stuff on instagram about him moving to Newcastle. That's literally 1 step before handing in a transfer request.

Slightly disappointed to still have Fun88 for next year. I've seen that an early exit of the Fun88 deal has been negotiated, so this is the last season we will have it. A positive spin is that if we have a really good season and maybe even get Europe, that would significantly boost the fair value of our next sponsor compared to what the fair value would be currently.

Yeah, interesting that all these Italian Journalists are saying that Botman ONLY wants to join Milan and it's the new owners that will decide if they want Botman or not. Part of me thinks is that line is the Italians covering their backs so it doesn't look like little old Newcastle pipped the mighty AC Milan to signing Botman. Notice how it's only the Italian journalists that have reported Botman prefers Milan.

My mother is mexican so I would also love to see him involved Wasn't it just a 1 year loan with an option to buy for Muñoz though?

Botman seemed very up for joining us in January considering he was liking instagram posts about NUFC. I wonder what changed since then. Not that it's inexplicable that he would choose AC Milan over us but still.

The reason I joined this forum was for takeover news, which I was completely obssessed with. I even retweeted all of Keiths letters to the Boris Johnson and Richard masters before I realised he was a whopper Before I knew about this place I used to browse the mag and nufcblog.com. Haven't really been back on either of those since joing this forum.

The only thing I can remember him not getting 100% right was when he said something along the lines of expect a surprise in the coming days. I think that was supposed to be about Jesse Lingard signing but Man Utd scuppered that deal on deadline day.