tarie4

Great album that but it was 04. 03 was 50, Get rich or die trying. Both are some of my favourite albums.

Let's not do any business with the Sky 6 for our top players. Reject all offers from them. Do a Daniel Levy! Selling Isak or Gordon to Liverpool would be a disaster – then Tino's off to Man City and we're back to being a feeder club. Just say no to all Prem teams. I'd much rather see Isak in Barcelona than Liverpool, even if it means less money.

So many people are echoing Gabby Agbonlahor's take on it – that he would take less to play for Brentford than Newcastle. A player would only choose Chelsea over Newcastle for football reasons, nothing else. Chelsea’s got a great project, a young team, and long contracts. That whole "London's fancy nightlife etc" thing is just nonsense. Tonali left Milan for Newcastle with his Lass! If it was us and Crystal Palace/Fulham etc competing for JP, he'd pick us. Football reasons. We just need to offer him a good package and project, and he'll come here instead of Chelsea. Honestly, that whole London thing is overrated. Chelsea, Arsenal, and maybe Spurs are the hot teams in London right now, especially against Newcastle. Forget the nightlife etc.

£2.7 m

Yeah, 60m sounds about right if he's only got two years left and the club doesn't have an option for another year.

Yeah, let's offload the Longstaffs, Willocks, and Targetts first, before we even think about selling our best players.

Yeah. Eddie rotated well, and it helped us. They were both fresh and scoring goals. A backup striker needs to be versatile so he gets more playing time. Like City had to sell Alvarez because he only played striker. Marmoush can play striker, left wing, and CAM, so he'll get way more minutes than Alvarez did at City. Isak can't play every game, even if he's fit and healthy. He needs to be rotated. I don't see him starting 8 games in three weeks; probably 5 and 3 on the bench or else he'll burn out or get hurt, probably the latter.

Aye, he did, but mostly 'cause we didn't have anyone better on the bench. You saw the last ten games, right? Isak clearly needed a break; he was just going through the motions in most of them. You could argue he'd have been better at the end if we'd rotated properly.

I personally have zero sympathy for Villa, they were 1 of 18 clubs to vote in PSR. I will have sympathy for Forest as they weren't in the league at the time and I would like to think they would have voted against it. Villa can suffer, and should suffer.

Nah, mate, that ain't happening. Isak can't do that, he needs a rest if we want him fit. Play him all the time and he'll get injured. Every Toon fan knows this, it's not even up for debate. Rodri got injured, Saka and Haaland too, it's unsustainable. You cant overplay players.

Villa's in a right mess, and they'll probably offload Ramsey or Watkins. They'd prefer Barkley, but that's a no-go because of his age and wages, who will buy him? I totally disagree. Like I've said before, Villa's transfers aren't a good example to use on this forum. They made a killing on Duran, but still need to sell players. Their wage bill is crazy high. Over 90% to turnover So saying Barkley's not part of their financial problems is just plain wrong.

I think any striker we get knows they will be on the bench. However with CL and cup games. He will definitely start a game a week. I dont see Isak starting all games in a 9 game 21 day stretch. Will say the Same with the CM.

Okay, so if the money's there. The thing with these players is we're getting them as backups, probably on three-year deals. If the season bombs or they get hurt (like Barkley at Villa), it's a waste and we're stuck with them, meaning loans and paying half their wages. We should skip these deals right now, money's tight. Remember, we got Trippier and BDB as starters. Older players are fine if they're upgrades for the first 11, not backups. It'll end badly – we won't be able to shift them, and they'll just run down their contracts.

Agreed. Sell them both and get Ederson in along with JP makes sense, but if we are unable to move one or both, then another CM is a luxury we cant afford.

Villa want Barkley gone, by the way. I wonder who will help them there? I wonder who buys him at his wages of 3 million a year. Makes zero sense. Welbeck's at Brighton, supposedly on £60k a week. I'd rather get a high-potential player for that than a temporary fix. Doesn't make sense at this point in our project. Barkley and Welbeck because of their age are bad calls financially.