Ellis H

He talks about it a bit at 8:45 here

Goalkeeper passes last season.

It’s cut off but he played a 5 yard pass to the scorer.

And a goal.

Got an assist.

Howe did tbf.

A man who was physically forced to celebrate a cup win and a man who danced because his team scored a goal in a final.

Sometimes you need to pay the price because the benefits of owning that thing now can far outweigh the benefits of saving some money but then possibly not getting that thing. Howe’s heavy insistence on speed of action has me rather spooked, I’ll admit.

“We bid £6” ”No, it’s £6.50” ”We refuse to pay this “Saudi Tax” fee!”

Straight swap for Pope so we can try and not spend any money for another window.

He’d be twice the price if he had a year or two’s more experience in the PL which is why we need him now, not later. Best case scenario is he’s really good this season, gets in ahead of Pickford for England at the World Cup and we have the best “young” keeper in the world. He’s absolutely worth any kind of gamble for that price since we’d probably get it back, if not more, if he cant get to the level we need.

The night we fell in love.

“Howe continued: “Speed is key for us and I have reiterated that many times internally. Speed is key because we have to be dynamic, we have to be ready to conclude things very quickly because good players don’t hang around for long. That’s always been my thought and my message on recruitment really because you can have a period when you think you have time - but then you look around quickly and you see that time has elapsed and you missed opportunities you won’t get again. That’s what we will be trying but the reality of that is it’s not always in your hands - but we will do our best to do things early.” He couldn’t be clearer though he also said this just before the above which is quite revealing… “As I said, we have to get the financials right, we have to get the other aspects of trying to sign a player right. Hopefully, we can do that.” https://www.shieldsgazette.com/sport/football/newcastle-united/eddie-howe-transfer-newcastle-united-champions-league-5145955

Gordon, Pedro, Grealish and Bruno in the team and we’re trying to hire a set piece coach. Lovely stuff.