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12 minutes ago, KaKa said:

This is all the same sort of chat people had when they were clowning Arsenal for signing Ramsdale last summer, who wasn't even as highly rated as Henderson. Ramsdale is now pushing Pickford for the number one spot for England. Ironically, it was Howe that bought Ramsdale through at Bournemouth after getting him as a kid for less than £1 million.

 

People are so short sighted man. I hope we manage to get Henderson in. We need a long term solution at that position and he is plenty good enough and young enough to be just that. 

 

 

Absolutely. If we sign Henderson and he plays regularly (and assuming his arms haven't turned to jelly after being sat on the bench for a year), he & Ramsdale between them should relegate Pickford to third choice for England. 

8 minutes ago, Geordie Ahmed said:

I think Man-U are the best at it, got a strategic sponsor for almost everything, including an official global mattress and pillow partner 

Man U have an official noodle partner. 

I think a lot of peoples view of the Henderson/Dubravka issue is clouded by their feelings towards Dubravka. It's only natural to feel a certain level of bias/affection/full on man love for a goalie who has had such a huge hand in keeping us in the division for the past few season. I'm in the same boat. 

However, looking at it objectively, I'd say as a shot stopper there isn't much separating he and Henderson, which is Dubs main strength. Henderson is so much better with his feet, and only 25. If you look at in unemotionally it's an easy decision. Especially if he does end up costing under 20m.

It's also important to keep in mind that we don't know if the figure they have heard is accounting for amortization. 

The three north east teams all being in different leagues makes this a bit of pointless exercise. Surely it should just be the most regular Newcastle 11. 

Made more sense when we were all in the PL.

I know people don't like Edwards on here, but he clearly has some connections. When I saw the Diaby stuff yesterday I didn't give it much thought, became way more real to me when Luke stuck his neck out about him today. Wasn't the first to mention him, but (so far as I'm aware) was the first north east journo to mark him as one to watch. 

2 minutes ago, HTT II said:

He’s also Ryan Giggs

Hide your lasses!

Just now, Joey47 said:

 

The real version of him knows his stuff 

Yeah, everyone's heart was in the right place. If the real account had posted that you know it's happening. 

Just now, LFEE said:

 

That's a fake Ornstein account. 

1 minute ago, Dr.Spaceman said:

The three of Botman, Renan Lodi and Diaby would improve us immeasurably.

 

So fucking exciting, man.

To be honest, outside of City, Liverpool and Chelsea they'd improve any starting 11 in the league. Would be a huge statement of intent. The existing team with those guys slotted in would surely be targeting top 8/6.

I want a live reaction shot of Max when Conte starts to explain to him how he is going to be a wing back. 

Based on links that are starting to firm up, looks like it could be:

Henderson (GK)

Botman (CB)

Lodi (LB)

Diaby (RW or LW)

Which would be some window. Still could do with backup for Wilson

1 minute ago, KDT said:

Botman & Diaby would take it beyond £75m you would have to think.

Comfortably. I know Scott Wilson mentions in his tweet we will go close to our transfer record for Diaby, but in reality we will need to break it to get him. £50m at least. 

1 minute ago, NWMag said:

Where’s that Botman thread gone…

Believe the Commissioner Gordon thread turned around to make some melancholic remark about the Joker's latest rampage, and when it turned back the Botman thread had vanished. 

3 minutes ago, JonBez comesock said:

That’s a story in the athletic 

 

I know exactly what he will be doing 

 

he done the exact same at Brighton 

 

he is the head of everything and gets alot of credit for their recruitment 

 

it’s not actually him who suggests the players 

 

he is the guy (who is the best around) as he had contacts / employees around him that he relies upon to source / scout / research players 

 

His team will have suggestions , and Bo doubt we will employ some of his trusted team in the future 

 

Believe the athletic though as it’s geeet reliable n that 

Totally agree that that will be his role going forward. But much in the same way Howe had to step up and play a much more direct role in recruitment in Jan than he is normally used to, I imagine that will also be the case with Ashworth this Summer.

He isn't going to come in and immediately have everything in place. And to get everything in place during a transfer window is going to be very tricky. As Chris' tweet suggests, whilst he won't be involved in identifying players, I imagine he will have a large hand in direct negotiations with other clubs. After the Summer is when he can start his job proper.

Just now, ponsaelius said:

Would be a good solution if we could use Darlow to knock a few quid off. I do wonder if Darlow is happy to be a backup though. Would have thought he wanted to play.

Imagine he wouldn't mind being backup at Man Utd. Genuinely pretty shocked they want him.

3 minutes ago, SUPERTOON said:

Based of Howe’s comments in January, Ashworth will definitely be involved in transfers 

Definitely. Don't think that will actually be his long term role. Read a very interesting piece on him (The Athletic I believe) where he has mentioned rather than having any one job, he sees himself as the centre of a wheel, with multiple different departments that branch off and report to him. Scouting, recruitment, data analysts, academy, first team coach etc. 

But think this Summer he will be in a similar position to the one Howe was in in January in pitching in very directly with transfers.

3 minutes ago, thorin said:

 

True, but any offside traps we've tried setting has not worked.

Can you give me an example? I am genuinely struggling to recall a moment this season where we have tried to set an offside trap and been caught out. 

1 minute ago, SUPERTOON said:

I’m just as excited to get Ashworth confirmed as I am regarding any signing tbh, really hope we can push that through soon.

Same. Really hoping we get him (and a chief exec) sorted ASAP, ideally before the window opens on 10/6.

3 minutes ago, HUGZ said:

who do people think our first signing will be?

Think the Lodi links have been around the longest, so I'm betting it's him.

7 minutes ago, thorin said:

Do we have better targets in mind or did the consortium go vacation this time a year?

This Villa activity makes me...

I don't know if we have better targets. But I'm pretty confident Carlos wasn't a target, otherwise we would have been far more heavily linked this week/would've got him. The price only being 31m Euro's suggests there was no one else in for him.

7 minutes ago, The Prophet said:

I see Villa are heavily linked with Diego Carlos. Would anyone want us to go back in for him? I'm still not convinced:

 

 

Would rather go back in for Botman. That being said, you can tell we're no longer in for Carlos, asking price has magically dropped 10m Euros.

It's (slow) days like today that really make me feel like this Summer will feel like it's taking forever. Still two weeks till the window even opens man.

41 minutes ago, FloydianMag said:

And Gorilla Mits at BEIN, remember him saying “‘anyone but Newcastle”

When the mask slipped for a second and he admitted he hated that it was us this was happening to. 

1 minute ago, SUPERTOON said:

Here we go:

 

 

If you want to get conspiratorial, lines up with the private jet activity yesterday.