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Happy with this. Seems to have every attribute to succeed as a striker in the prem. He’s big, quick and can finish (youth level). Just needs some time and coaching to transfer that to senior level but playing for a team like us that creates a lot of chances compared to 10-20 minutes per game for one of the worst ever PL teams should hopefully help him develop.

We have got where we are today by being ‘perfectionists’. One mistake in the transfer window can be catastrophic for us, we need pretty much all our transfers to be perfect if we want to compete thanks to PSR.

Would rather sign nobody

If he was available on loan I would be happy with that. There doesn't seem to be many obvious players available that could come in on the right wing for us so may be best to get someone in temporarily now and look again next season when there could be better options available permanently.

Obviously never going to happen but would people take him on a straight loan as our main man for RW? Fill the gap for a year and then look again next summer?

Chelsea bought them all

I was just disagreeing with the world class part, of course at £50M you should be getting a 'real player', but at the same time Chelsea have spent ridiculous money on three central midfielders who you wouldn't say are anywhere near world class (Enzo, Caicedo and Lavia), then you have the likes of Ugarte, Onana, Fred, Keita, Ndombele and Nunes that all went for similar fees over the years which shows that, at times, £50m doesn't get you much.

Of course the jury is still out but £55m doesn't buy world class anymore, it buys very good players that have the potential to be world class. I think he showed his capabilities in the Villa game and glimpses in some other games. He has trained with the team for over a year now, looks to be in great shape and doesn't have the burden of his addiction hanging over him now, I am confident he will have a great season.

Just seen that Keith Downie replied to someone on twitter stating that "The constant message is there isn't a huge amount of money to spend" and that he thinks we will sign two players (RW & CB).

Gakpo is a risk in terms of will he play much and where will he play. Petrovic is out of favour at Chelsea, Sanchez is first choice but they are signing some young lad for £20m so he may well become first choice.

Who is going to buy Wilson on the wages he is on and actually give us a decent fee? He is injured again and missing the start of the season.

I quite like my midfield but think I will have to squeeze him in somewhere.

We have improved from last season massively already. Tonali, Joelinton, Barnes, Pope etc. all being available (yes of course injuries could happen again). Add to that players like Hall and Tino who are now more established and Isak hopefully being available for the majority of the season. Kelly is a fairly solid signing that will improve our depth and we have over a month to get a couple more in. My guess is that there is money to spend (see Olise bid) but if we sell Almiron as hoped then we want to add that to the cost for a right winger instead of panicking now and getting someone that we maybe don't particularly want further down the line. Trust the club, they have done nothing since coming in to not warrant the fans trust. We would have probably got CL last year if we had less injuries and they are rightly after quality not quantity this window and that can take time.

Thought his cross for Isak's header was pretty good and he did really well as part of a team move that saw Isak have a blocked shot early in the second half. Highly doubt he will do anything at Newcastle but if he continues hopefully someone took notice and it might mean we can actually get him a move this summer.

Not only did Hall play really well, he also looked a lot fitter and stronger as well and almost did the full 90. Excited for him this season!

Sanusi hasn’t touched the ball yet. Bless him

At the end of the day you would argue that he has a lot of champions league experience, won the Portuguese league twice and has over 40 international caps. Age doesn’t matter, keepers can play until they’re almost 40 so I can’t see how they can sanction us even though it is obvious because you’re just opening a can of worms

I imagine we will make a lot of changes but I would love us to give it 15 minutes or so with just a couple of them on to give them chance to play alongside some of our senior stars. The likes of Harrison and Sanusi who appear to be very highly rated before bringing the rest on

Doesn’t look out of place at all, been tidy on the ball and got into good positions. Got an assist for Murphy’s rocket

Decent half that. Pope showing what we have missed, so commanding. Back four solid, Lewis putting himself in the window. Hall running the show, could replace Bruno there if he’s ever unavailable whilst being first choice left back. Front three are very lively

Also some saying it was 3-0 Newcastle. They did some weird two games at the same time last year against Burnley. So maybe we lost 1-0 And won 3-0. The 9-1 has to be bollocks surely!

I think the negativity is more that fans are only expecting one more defensive signing and he would be a bit underwhelming and not the long term RCB people want/hope for. If Trippier was going and we had the scope to sign Chalobah as CB/RB cover and a top centre back for the future, then I don’t think people would be as negative

It is probably ftbl joe’s other account

Completely agree with all of this. Also think having him behind Gordon will be massively beneficial to AG as well, just having that option on the overlap will give him more space to come inside. Although I would love some exciting transfer news, I am still really looking forward to this season and think we can do great things!

They’re good signings for depth and to cope with CL and PL at the same time but I don’t think they’re any stronger in terms of their first eleven. Douglas Luiz is better than Onana (in my opinion). Maatsen is probably an upgrade at left back but if they can keep him fit, Alex Moreno is a great left back anyway. We had horrendous injuries last season and finished just 8 points from them. Just having Pope all season could well have given us an extra 8 points to finish above them so with no Europe, hopefully a smaller injury list and with a couple of quality signings (hopefully), I see no reason why we shouldn’t finish above them this season.