Kasper Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 The fact that Fulham have apparently denied making any bids points towards this really being just a time wasting exercise from our part. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elliottman Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 The fact that Fulham have apparently denied making any bids points towards this really being just a time wasting exercise from our part. Have they? Where's that? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasper Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 The fact that Fulham have apparently denied making any bids points towards this really being just a time wasting exercise from our part. Have they? Where's that? Sorry. That was incorrect. Should've said "sources at Fulham" http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11681/11012423/fulham-in-talks-with-newcastle-to-sign-striker-dwight-gayle Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasy Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 Two bad games at the start of the campaign is enogh for whole lot of ya'll to say he isn't Premier League calibre. The thing is, I think he's actually a very good striker when played in a striking partnership. Even as a lone gun he proved to be very efficient in the Championship - first couple of games in PL were definitely not assuring, but come on, give the lad a chance, eh? Inconsistency of "tactical geniuses" among fellow Newcastle supporters is stunning. Majority of the fans said that playing Mitro as a lone striker doesn't work because of his physical abilities, and now all of a sudden - Joselu scored a tap in, Mitro scored as a sub when we already destroyed West Ham's confidence - and the only thing working in Rafa's system is a big man up front. And the little guy who scored 23 is a definite surplus. Whoa. As much as I love Rafa, and I get the fact that he's working in difficult conditions where he has to sell in order to (hopefully) replace, I think that his stubbornness about team formation may cost us options we desperately need. P.S. This is all coming from a guy who thinks Mitrović should be above Gayle in the pecking order. I've never thought Gayle, in the system we play, would work in this league. Nowt do to with the first two games. I'm not even sure it would work in any system with the players we have at our disposal. So if Benitez wants to sell him and bring in someone better suited no problem. But obviously it has to be his decision. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasy Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 Two bad games at the start of the campaign is enogh for whole lot of ya'll to say he isn't Premier League calibre. The thing is, I think he's actually a very good striker when played in a striking partnership. Even as a lone gun he proved to be very efficient in the Championship - first couple of games in PL were definitely not assuring, but come on, give the lad a chance, eh? Inconsistency of "tactical geniuses" among fellow Newcastle supporters is stunning. Majority of the fans said that playing Mitro as a lone striker doesn't work because of his physical abilities, and now all of a sudden - Joselu scored a tap in, Mitro scored as a sub when we already destroyed West Ham's confidence - and the only thing working in Rafa's system is a big man up front. And the little guy who scored 23 is a definite surplus. Whoa. As much as I love Rafa, and I get the fact that he's working in difficult conditions where he has to sell in order to (hopefully) replace, I think that his stubbornness about team formation may cost us options we desperately need. P.S. This is all coming from a guy who thinks Mitrović should be above Gayle in the pecking order. This is all coming from a guy who thinks he's played two premier league games To be fair those appearances come to a total of 30 full games in minutes on the pitch, and he scored 15 goals in those games, which is a excellent record. So he can certainly score in this league when given time on the pitch in the right setup. I just don't think he gives enough to the team to be our main striker. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serb Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 Two bad games at the start of the campaign is enogh for whole lot of ya'll to say he isn't Premier League calibre. The thing is, I think he's actually a very good striker when played in a striking partnership. Even as a lone gun he proved to be very efficient in the Championship - first couple of games in PL were definitely not assuring, but come on, give the lad a chance, eh? Inconsistency of "tactical geniuses" among fellow Newcastle supporters is stunning. Majority of the fans said that playing Mitro as a lone striker doesn't work because of his physical abilities, and now all of a sudden - Joselu scored a tap in, Mitro scored as a sub when we already destroyed West Ham's confidence - and the only thing working in Rafa's system is a big man up front. And the little guy who scored 23 is a definite surplus. Whoa. As much as I love Rafa, and I get the fact that he's working in difficult conditions where he has to sell in order to (hopefully) replace, I think that his stubbornness about team formation may cost us options we desperately need. P.S. This is all coming from a guy who thinks Mitrović should be above Gayle in the pecking order. This is all coming from a guy who thinks he's played two premier league games You must think you are very clever, even though you know exactly what my point was. Gayle clearly ain't a world beater, as those stats you posted say, but we won't bring in a world beater anyway. That being said, we definitely need more than one type of striker around. And giving up on one that we have, that scored 23 goals last year, is just a bad idea. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shearergol Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 He's going nowhere. This is the story to cover up our lack of signings. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mosstef Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 Like the summer after finishing 5th: the most important thing in this transfer window was to keep our key players. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parky Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 He's going nowhere. This is the story to cover up our lack of signings. Boom! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPL Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 Two bad games at the start of the campaign is enogh for whole lot of ya'll to say he isn't Premier League calibre. The thing is, I think he's actually a very good striker when played in a striking partnership. Even as a lone gun he proved to be very efficient in the Championship - first couple of games in PL were definitely not assuring, but come on, give the lad a chance, eh? Inconsistency of "tactical geniuses" among fellow Newcastle supporters is stunning. Majority of the fans said that playing Mitro as a lone striker doesn't work because of his physical abilities, and now all of a sudden - Joselu scored a tap in, Mitro scored as a sub when we already destroyed West Ham's confidence - and the only thing working in Rafa's system is a big man up front. And the little guy who scored 23 is a definite surplus. Whoa. As much as I love Rafa, and I get the fact that he's working in difficult conditions where he has to sell in order to (hopefully) replace, I think that his stubbornness about team formation may cost us options we desperately need. P.S. This is all coming from a guy who thinks Mitrović should be above Gayle in the pecking order. I've never thought Gayle, in the system we play, would work in this league. Nowt do to with the first two games. I'm not even sure it would work in any system with the players we have at our disposal. So if Benitez wants to sell him and bring in someone better suited no problem. But obviously it has to be his decision. Agree with this, if he insists on playing one up front, Gayle wouldn't suit our formation at all. Maybe he's an inferior version of Owen, he will get you goals but will contribute little else. How many times did Owen play up front on his own? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paully Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 Two bad games at the start of the campaign is enogh for whole lot of ya'll to say he isn't Premier League calibre. The thing is, I think he's actually a very good striker when played in a striking partnership. Even as a lone gun he proved to be very efficient in the Championship - first couple of games in PL were definitely not assuring, but come on, give the lad a chance, eh? Inconsistency of "tactical geniuses" among fellow Newcastle supporters is stunning. Majority of the fans said that playing Mitro as a lone striker doesn't work because of his physical abilities, and now all of a sudden - Joselu scored a tap in, Mitro scored as a sub when we already destroyed West Ham's confidence - and the only thing working in Rafa's system is a big man up front. And the little guy who scored 23 is a definite surplus. Whoa. As much as I love Rafa, and I get the fact that he's working in difficult conditions where he has to sell in order to (hopefully) replace, I think that his stubbornness about team formation may cost us options we desperately need. P.S. This is all coming from a guy who thinks Mitrović should be above Gayle in the pecking order. This is all coming from a guy who thinks he's played two premier league games He averages a goal every 180 minutes in the Premier League and I'm sure it was a goal every 90 minutes last season Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HaydnNUFC Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 Don't know how to feel about this. We got Perez, or Origi or Michy on loan then maybe, but I dunno. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nufc4eva Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 Don't know how to feel about this. We got Perez, or Origi or Michy on loan then maybe, but I dunno. Just Feel suspicious, it's for the best Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
astraguy Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 Gayle had some awful managers while at Palace tbh deserves a chance Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 Like the summer after finishing 5th: the most important thing in this transfer window was to keep our key players. Do you think? I think most fans would say the most important thing was better-quality signings. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUPERTOON Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 Like the summer after finishing 5th: the most important thing in this transfer window was to keep our key players. Do you think? I think most fans would say the most important thing was better-quality signings. Considering we don't really have any quality players, it wasn't important to keep hold of any of them. We literally could have afforded to let any one of our players go, if we where willing to spend the money, quality players would have come in. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interpolic Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 Think he was taking the piss, saying that'll be the narrative from Sky/Ashley Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 Think he was taking the piss, saying that'll be the narrative from Sky/Ashley Oh. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mosstef Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 Like the summer after finishing 5th: the most important thing in this transfer window was to keep our key players. Do you think? I think most fans would say the most important thing was better-quality signings. Nah, I just think that's the line they will peddle to the fans like Pardew did that summer. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BONTEMPI Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 I guess the incoming faxes are working correctly. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
relámpago blanco Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 Considering - They will have already pressed the Accept button No need to press accept, it will just be set to automatically accept all transfer bids. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 If the bid's genuine then he's probably off. I can't think of any other reason Rafa would have left him out of the squad on Saturday. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 I wanted to give him a shot this season but the sale is OK provided we have a Rafa-approved signing lined up. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Consortium of one Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 There HAS to be another signing lined up. Joselu and Redcardovic won't be enough up front. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEMTEX Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 I think we have concerns over his fitness. Or at least his faith in his own fitness. I could be behind Gayle leaving if it actually meant we did something positive signing wise. But it won't happen. Not that this transfer will happen either. Just a convenient story to smokescreen people as per usual. He'll be like a new signing once the window closes and we've valiantly fought off the advances of the sovereign state of Fulham. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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