Vaj

I agree, my team was more what I think he will go with. Has Howe ever played either Joelinton or Willock RCM? If so, it must be rare!

I get what you are saying but IF we were to sell Isak now we would want at least double what we paid now so it doesn't really matter that he isn't Isak level of class.

-----------------Pope----------------- Tino------ Schar-------Burn-------Hall ---Longstaff-----Bruno----Joelinton-- -----Murphy------Isak------Gordon--- High energy performance and a comfortable win for me, said it many times but I think we will surprise a lot of people this season!

I don't fully know the new rules but are West Ham and Brighton's spending this year due to a change in rules going forward? Maxing out their spending capabilities from selling Rice/Caicedo now whilst we are doing the three year cycle because they are changing it to a one year costs as a percentage of revenue test. Or have I made that up?

I would be very shocked if he doesn't start against Nottingham Forest in the cup, feels like the perfect opportunity to get as many minutes on board so he is ready quicker.

https://www.newcastleunited.com/en/news/sandro-tonali-ban-confirmed From 27th August and our game will be 28th August

Hopefully we take that seriously. One of the hardest draws we could get, standard!

Might have been strong on you and I apologise for that. Just seems to be all doom and gloom from a few people when in reality you look at our starting eleven and bench and there is a lot of quality in there. I do agree that we need one or two signings, but I’m sure they will come and if not our team is good enough for CL already IMO

Yeah and we won 5-1 against the team that finished fourth and Tonali is back after two games this season and Willock is streets ahead of Anderson. This bed wetting needs to stop, there are still two weeks left of the window and either way we have at the very least stood still from the start of last season and injuries aside it would have been a very successful season as I am sure it will this season

Maybe not to the same level, but Jacob Murphy has definitely had a lot of shit off fans over the years as well.

Is he a better player than Murphy at the moment though? I know it is only pre-season but he is consistently scoring now and at the end of last season was consistently scoring and/or assisting when given a run in the team. I know which one I would prefer (albeit either of them as back up to a better option).

Obviously he is well within his rights to do this but at the same time that is going to really piss fans off, especially if we don't get another right winger in now as a result of keeping him. Any mention in the article of the original agreed price?

Perfect game to bring Tonali back for is this, can count as his pre-season friendly to get him up to speed for the PL games. Hardest draw we can get is likely to be Everton (A) presumably? Or maybe a Wolves depending on how the north/south divide works out. Either way, we are going to get a nicer looking draw on paper than last season!

Man United 1-1 Fulham Ipswich 0-2 Liverpool Arsenal 2-1 Wolves Everton 0-2 Brighton Newcastle 3-0 Southampton Forest 1-1 Bournemouth West Ham 2-2 Villa Brentford 0-0 Palace Chelsea 2-3 Man City Leicester 0-2 Spurs

Yeah I agree with that, but there are always transfers you look at on paper at the start of the season as impressive that ultimately fail and there will be teams again that fail. My main worry is that you should always freshen things up each season. So even one new big signing now would at least freshen things up a bit,

Ideally you want them in at the start of the transfer window but so many factors are in play here. Our main problem has been that we haven't been able to shift anyone, I imagine the club wanted to get a few out by now so they know how much they can spend on the few players they want to buy, remember it is quality not quantity this year and we wouldn't want to settle on a weaker RW and then manage to raise some funds and free up wages that meant we could maybe go for someone that we perhaps wanted more. There are plenty of other teams that have either not done much or are just starting to do more now, I am sure we will see some activity at Newcastle over the next two weeks and we will all end up happy come two weeks or so time.

Even if this is the case, I am confident we still have enough to potentially challenge for top five which is hopefully CL. If we can get a CB and a RW in then of course we will look even better for it, but lets not dismiss how good our team is already.

My main issue with Almiron is that we should have sold him last summer when his stock was at its highest, we need to shift players before the decline and I think most fans knew that last season was unlikely to be as good as the season before. Clearly we aren't trying to push our luck with transfers to Saudi teams, which is very frustrating, but if we did we could have sold him to to Saudi league last summer for £25m and no questions would have been asked after the season he had. Now we could be stuck with him and Murphy for another year when every other position at the club has been strengthened significantly since the takeover.

Sounds to me like we have put a ‘final’ bid in and he’s not happy that we are short of the valuation so is putting public pressure on. Now a case of either who blinks first or do we get pissed off and just move on to other targets

Surely they won't sell Guehi and Andersen either. Can see Fulham's next bid for Andersen being accepted.

Yeah, if it happened you would assume it would be Guehi LCB and Schar RCB for now. Then slowly Botman would replace Shar and it would be Botman LCB and Guehi RCB

We definitely need a new right winger. However, we scored enough goals last season to get Champions League, it was the defence that let us down. If we can score similar to last year and with Pope returning and a potentially top signing like Guehi comes in then there is no reason why we can't get CL, so I think this is the best move.

Having him and Romana on tweet alert is amusing, Romana usually tweets the exact same thing within 5 minutes.

Well that blows away the theory that we have no money, they will want at least £50m you would imagine.

So nice having some exciting players that could come in to the squad and make a difference. Add Sanusi, Hernes and the many Miley's to this list and we might actually start to see some benefits in the long term.