Bunk Moreland

Build this man a statue

He probably thought he was the only one the club gave the £20m figure to, without realising they were straight on the blower to Hope as well

Gençlerbirligi General Manager Ali Ekber Düzgün has released a statement to reveal Baran Yıldız is on the verge of signing for Newcastle United. The 18-year-old has been linked with a move to the Magpies in recent days following reports they’d reached an agreement for his arrival. Hurriyet have covered comments Düzgün has made to the Turkish media when discussing the youngster’s situation with Newcastle United. Düzgün said Yıldız is close to a transfer to St James’ Park and if there are no complications he will be signing a contract with the Premier League side. “In the case of Baran’s transfer, the work is down to the official signature. It has not yet been officially concluded. But as long as there are no surprises, our young football player is on his way to England,” said Düzgün. https://sportwitness.co.uk/down-to-the-official-signature-manager-reveals-player-close-to-signing-for-newcastle-united/

Exactly. I remember Mitchell talking about 'clearing the decks' when he came in at Moncao. Moving on Almiron and potentially Kelly and Trippier for reasonable fees would represent a step in that direction for us. It's exactly what we need.

That's about £4.2m plus would get his wages off the books and mean one less sale to worry about come summer. Sell imo

Villa apparently covering Asensio's whole salary of over 200k/w

In the PSR era where £15m pure profit is huge for us, we should be building a statue of the lad for what he's done for the club

I feel like he sometimes ambiguously words it like that cos he doesn't actually know. Let's hope its £15m base cos we probably could have got that from a PL club in the summer.

Think they've got bad injuries in defence, although terrible planning to sell Huijsen then buy Kelly for a similar amount six months later

https://gianlucadimarzio.com/kelly-juventus-newcastle-calciomercato-news-1-febbraio-2025/ Juventus are close to Lloyd Kelly, Newcastle's central defenderNewcastle. Contacts between the two clubs are now underway, but the player is getting closer and closer. The British demand is a loan with a redemption obligation between 15 and 18 million.

Aye, Juve seem to love paying them. Remember seeing a Top 10 highest loan fees ever table and they featured more than anyone else

Hopefully we are also rejecting loan proposals unless they come with a hefty obligation attached

Now they have no choice but to splash that 25m on Lloyd Kelly

If we were the first ones doing it as some kind of Chelsea-like innovation in rule flexing then I'd probably feel bad about us doing it, but literally every cunt else is adopting a multi-club model at this point so craic on and buy us a nice Belgian or Brazilian club I say.

Be surprised if anyone matches that like

I'd put him a few levels above them (I'd put reading tea leaves a few levels above Bailey tbh ). Been about average realiability-wise since takeover, moreso than Jacobs and Ryder imo, but maybe not as much as Douglas and Hope (all of whom are of course a few levels below actually good sources like Ornstein)

Wilson still more reliable than anyone who has rubbished this so far, and he seemed pretty certain. Wonder what the Leeds-specific journos are saying

Good to get his 750k a week wages off the books at long last

Quite surprising that Liverpool don't want to cash in on him