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I don't think spending a key period in his development being "coached" by Steve Bruce would have helped. See also; Longstaff, S. I'm sure he wouldn't have set the world alight but he'd have been a serviceable backup.

Just an opinion but I think it's a perfectly sensible one. Lack of movement on players etc can be put down to PSR, sponsorship is complicated by the various rules put in place to stifle us. The one thing we can spend on is infrastructure and the main source of income from that is going to be the stadium. Especially with those quotes about only writing the cheque once. It will 100% be PIF showing their true hand.

I've been working on the assumption that the plan is to get Gordon-Isak-Barnes working as a front three so it wasn't a case of "better than Almiron/Murphy". Having said that I have no evidence for this and I do tend to lean towards the eternal optimist side of the argument...

I don't think that's exclusive to us mind. Everton are still in the shit. Palace have sold some excellent players and their owner is looking to sell up to potentially buy Everton. Chelsea have a squad of about 45 and their manager has very publicly said half of them are of no interest to him. Man Utd were actively (and very publicly) seeking a new manager a matter of months ago before deciding they'd just stick with who they've got. Brentford have just sold their star striker for about £20m less than they'd wanted after sticking by him throughout his 8-month ban. There's probably more but that's all that springs to mind.

I think a combination of Howe having a very specific idea of who/what he wants and Mitchell being convinced that he could do the "big" deal for Guehi (either due to stubbornness or just wanting to make a bold first impression) is what has led us here. Really, we should have been much quicker in walking away from Guehi and we should have had a better list of alternatives. My hope is that as Mitchell starts to properly get to work we will, in future windows, be able to present a considerably wider range of options for Howe to approve. That will allow us to be much more flexible and pivot to alternative targets as and when we need to.

Seems like a strange move to put Brad Miller out to do press duties the other week if there wasn't something imminent? That's why I'm assuming there's an announcement of some kind very soon.

I'll be glad to just be able to focus on the football again tbh. We've still got some excellent players, we've had a decent start points-wise and we're barely out of second gear. I'm going to try and enjoy watching this group. It feels to me that the most likely outcome is that we miss out on CL qualification again, two of the "big three" move on for substantial fees and we start building post-takeover NUFC V2.0 which could be an incredibly exciting time. Realistically we need a substantial number of first-team players in the near future to replace those either the wrong side of 30 (Trips, Schar, Burn, Wilson) and those not good enough (Miggy, Lascelles, Murphy, Longstaff). To do that we can only spend what we bring in - with no sign of the associated party rules being thrown out and any movement on a new/renovated stadium still years away there is only one way to increase turnover by a nine figure sum and that's selling one or more quality players. So we'll do that, hit the reset button and go again.

I quite like him but not at £30m+ which presumably is what Forest will be asking for this late on. Good player, but not transformative and doesn't "solve" the RW position long term imo.

Is he not just seeing the video of Jenrick at SJP and getting himself confused?

Do all three If he's lied about his intentions on producing the video, he's not got a leg to stand on.

It does feel a little bit like this could be the last season before a reset of sorts. I said the same about this summer but it feels quite possible that we make a big sale next summer, in that £80m-£120m range. You've got the likes of Trippier, Burn & Schar comfortably past 30. Others with contracts expiring. If we did have £60-70m to spend in this window, are we thinking if we can't get our top targets now, let's just add it to the budget for the following summer?

Obviously we can only go off reports, but either; Howe has said (essentially) Guehi or nothing, and Mitchell has had to go back and forth with Palace while also working within our own financial constraints due to PSR Howe is/was open to alternative options but Mitchell has pursued Guehi to the point that we now seem to be running out of time to find an alternative Obviously if it's the former then Howe is heaping pressure on himself. There is/was always the possibility that the Guehi deal couldn't be completed and if he's made the decision that he'd rather sign nobody rather than an alternative option then he's either going to look like a genius or he might end up paying the price for it. If it's the latter then that's a bad start for our new team of Directors and it would appear from the outside that they are hanging Eddie out to dry. The problem is, we'll probably never really know what's gone on behind the scenes so all we've got is speculation and press briefings.

Well I'm only in my 30s so I'm not going to say it's anything to do with getting older (!) but I don't get annoyed about things anywhere near as much as I used to, especially not transfers (or lack of). Obviously I'd rather we make a couple of quality additions but I'm still going to get to watch Bruno, Tonali, Isak, Gordon etc play for NUFC. I see us win more than we lose. We might actually, finally, have a chance to win something, or at least attempt to make an effort in the cups. As far as I see it, I'm well up on where I was as a fan in 2019/20, anything more than what we have now is just a bonus. I'm certainly not saying those who are pissed off with how this window has played out aren't intitled to react however they like, but it's not how I see things. The 20-year-old me would have been writing to the club offering to fill in as DOF!

Seems a bit late in the day for a name to come out of nowhere so presumably it'll be Guehi, Disasi, Chalobah, someone like that. Haven't been linked with many RWs aside from Madueke, I'm taking all the reports from Spain about Torres with a handful of salt.

Absolute bollocks isn't it? It'll just be a fine anyway I imagine.

It says in the article that any punishment will be applied from next season

Newcastle 3 (Isak 12, 44 Willock 26) Forest 4 (Wood 47, 55, 89, 90+8)

Frankfurt? That's only...(checks Google Maps)...4hrs away from Leipzig!

It's more than £10m less than the £70m we've been quoted for Guehi, at current exchange rates. That could be the difference maker in our pursuit of a RW either in transfer funds or allowing us to offer a more competitive wage to one of our targets.

So we've lost our (at best) 5th choice CM, two players who initiated meltdowns whenever they were announced in the starting XI and a youngster (admittedly a talented one) who's never played for us? Osula is an unknown quantity but you'd hope is a better 3rd CF than nobody at all (which is what we had last year) and Kelly is clearly an upgrade on Dummett.

This is no place for nuance, pick a side and fight

FAO @Mike et al - can everybody be assigned a flair, either "Bed-wetter" or "Happy-clapper" so we know where each person stands? These are the only two options, THERE IS NOTHING IN BETWEEN

Does wanting to wait until the transfer window has concluded before deciding whether to piss my knickers make me a happy clapper?

We have alternatives to Murphy and Miggy. Barnes - Isak - Gordon Joelinton/Willock - Isak - Barnes/Gordon Isak - Wilson/Osula - Barnes/Gordon Whether Howe thinks any of these could work I don't know, but it doesn't have to be Murphy and Almiron as the only options on the right side.

It's what @SteV is suggesting. It'll be 30% to Peterborough (either £15m or £13.2m depending on whether its a percentage of the fee or just the profit) then we'll get a share of that. It'll be £4.5m at the most.