Bunk Moreland

Scalvini is from Brescia which is closer to Verona... (although it's also still close to Milan-Bergamo as well)

Tbf they're due a bonus for binning the old interviewer off

Some media or marketing manager probably has a bonus based on number of app downloads

Sad indictment of the state of the club's media when I'm having to watch this on some shitty twitter account because it's not on the official Youtube and the site's media player doesn't work in any browser for me

Logical: Hardy retweeted because the article contained Elanga news, Douglas retweeted to keep the recent article at the top of his profile so it gets more clicks What I'm actually choosing to believe: Bid accepted and contract agreed, will travel to Tyneside soon for medical

Heard the hold-up was because of that kid's agent demanding more for image rights

Sounds like it's about Martin Mark

Hopefully being in the Conference League stretches their squad to the extent that they get relegated from the PL

Apparently he was high up the pecking order when Atleti were playing a three-man midfield, but they've switched to 4-4-2 and he's been forced to play wider left which doesn't suit him. Could mean he'd be higher up the pecking order here. I can imagine games where Eddie would start him for tactical reasons rather than just giving our other three a rest too. This is what I read anyway, I have no first hand knowledge.

Thought Gallagher was a main man at Atleti, didn't realise he was more of a rotation player. Would love him here.

Aye, same applies when thinking about the fact that Brentford are quoting £50m for Wissa, who is good and proven in the PL but almost 29.

Elanga was an absolute bargain

My browser's translation extension is struggling with it too

All done it seems, that was a quick one. Imagine the serotonin hit from a transfer going that quickly

£60m release clause with 10% sell-on to Wolves? That's rough for Forest like

People were saying we should have sold Kelly when some Turkish club was offering something like £6m-8m early in Jan. The club will have a sense for the market for the player and play the sale accordingly.

Gabri Veiga all over again

Fabrice Hawkins, who as far as I can see is variously listed as a Tier 1 or Tier 2 source for French players, linking us to Ekitike along with Saudi clubs today: https://rmcsport.bfmtv.com/football/transferts/mercato-newcastle-et-les-saoudiens-d-al-qadsiah-et-al-hilal-interesses-par-ekitike_AV-202507090629.html https://sportwitness.co.uk/newcastle-united-presented-as-one-of-3-in-mix-for-e80m-signing-huge-magpies-claim/

Apparently Romano said in one of his YT videos that Frankfurt had lowered it to between £68-74m or something because Ekitike wasn't happy with them giving a fuck off price, can't find a tweet where he said that though just the link to the whole long YT vid

Answering my own question since I was curious enough to research it: Interestingly, he played in a striking partnership with Marmoush in the first half of the season.

Definitely. West Ham fans seem delighted to see the back of him, huge contrast with Forest fans' reaction to losing Elanga for the same price.

Where else can Ekitike play? I vaguely remember mentions of him potentially being able to play second striker/10/CAM the first time we were interested, but he's barely ever played anywhere other than up front according to his stats.