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Callum Wilson: offered 'incentive-based' contract extension (Ornstein)

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thomas

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21 minutes ago, mighty__mag said:

 

Come on, most were saying since last season a striker is necessary. I'm not bothered if we do nothing, but it won't help us. If we lose him for a few periods over the season or for most of it, then I genuinely dont think Wood will offer much at all.

Just my opinion, dont get me wrong though, if it was a minor injury and he misses 4 games and we look again in January, I could live with that, but if he doesn't make enough appearances due to injury, I feel we need more.

 

Call it overreaching, but his history particular with us, has shown he gets injured a fair bit.

It looks like a ready made stand-in replacement for Wilson was never a top priority. Maybe they (Howe and co) thought they could keep him healthy (unlikely). Or maybe they thought they could get by with Wood in any case (more probable). We'll likely never know the rationale. After Botman, it did look like their priority was getting in attacking options up front for whoever they decided to play there, but none have materialized.

 

TBH I understand frustrations overall with their slower, conservative growth strategy especially after we get told we're "the richest club in the world" and our strong finish last season + good start to this one. It'd be nice to go hog wild, pedal to the metal and just see where we can go. But, my joke post above aside, I don't think failing to do so is malicious or incompetent - a place where a lot of vented frustrations eventually wind down to accusing them of. And I think it pays off in the long run.

 

 

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@thomas I guess people who managed to have conversation with Howe, have managed to uncover that we are active in the market, but he wasn't giving anything away, claiming Pedro was not accurate, and that decisions are going on in the background that he's not involved in.

 

You have to take what you can from that.

 

I'd assume we will still be looking to bring one or two in still ??

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4 hours ago, SUPERTOON said:

Not sure we have the finances to go out and get a lead number 9 now tbh. When the likes of Pedro are going for 30 then a proven player is likely to cost double.

 

In my opinion this guy is looking like a lead striker that is ready to go. Don't really see him as a backup guy anymore, I think he's too good. Hard to believe he's 21 years old really. He plays like a senior experienced striker, and he's available for £30 million.

 

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1 hour ago, Kid Icarus said:

His record shows he has like, as hard to believe as that may be :lol:

 

Not the way we play though.

 

I was getting at, from now onwards, of course most strikers have found double figures once or twice in their careers, but utter shite if they hadn't [emoji38]

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42 minutes ago, Conjo said:

So how long does this scan take before we have any results?

I kind of think he has a bad injury, the club are not disclosing it so that we are not held to ransom (even more than present) on a striker purchase.

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Hope it's not the case. Maybe I was naive, but I genuinely thought he would have a fairly injury free season with all the focus from him moving here partly to improve his post match restitution. Fingers crossed it's a very minor thing and he's fit to play against Wolves. Breaking down 2 games into the season wouldn't be very encouraging to say the least.

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11 hours ago, KaKa said:

 

In my opinion this guy is looking like a lead striker that is ready to go. Don't really see him as a backup guy anymore, I think he's too good. Hard to believe he's 21 years old really. He plays like a senior experienced striker, and he's available for £30 million.

 

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I find it strange that Benfica would be willing to sell him for £30m? Is that really true, or just rumours? I'd imagine a lot of clubs would've looked into him given his performances in the last few months. 

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11 hours ago, KaKa said:

 

In my opinion this guy is looking like a lead striker that is ready to go. Don't really see him as a backup guy anymore, I think he's too good. Hard to believe he's 21 years old really. He plays like a senior experienced striker, and he's available for £30 million.

 

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If they are willing to sell and if he would come to us, I think Ramos is the obvious affordable choice (Osimhen and Isak are I fear just not affordable for us) at this point. In terms of team harmony, Wilson can’t grumble too much if he is out for a while. 

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2 hours ago, Flip said:

 

I find it strange that Benfica would be willing to sell him for £30m? Is that really true, or just rumours? I'd imagine a lot of clubs would've looked into him given his performances in the last few months. 

 

Apparently his manager doesn't fancy him that much, he's had a great start to this season, but not done so well in prior campaigns.

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Just now, La Parka said:

The fact we've heard fuck all makes me think it's not nothing.

 

 

 

 

 


Or it’s worse than imagined but don’t want to be pressured into paying higher fees for players.

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21 hours ago, jack j said:

Deserve everything we get is a bit dramatic like. We've signed over half a team in less than 9 months. One of them has turned out to be shite

Ffp is obviously holding us back so we can hardly just go and throw 100 million to sign a couple like isak and maddison which I'm sure they'd love to do

 

Ok then

 

 

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Callum Wilson is confident he can play himself into Gareth Southgate's England squad for this year's World Cup.

Newcastle's number nine has only made four senior England appearances so far, scoring once.

On which four strikers Southgate should take to Qatar, Wilson told the Footballer's Football podcast: "You’re taking Harry Kane. Behind Harry Kane, you’re taking myself, Tammy Abraham is also doing well. You’ve got Ollie Watkins and Danny Ings, who are also doing well.

"I’m on the plane, Harry Kane’s on the plane. There’s going to be players travelling to the World Cup that don’t make the September squad. There’s always one or two players who come from nowhere.

"For me, you’re going Kane, myself, Tammy Abraham, who’s a different kind of striker, and then you’re probably taking Danny Ings. That would probably be my four, form dependant.

"I’m trying to do my talking on the pitch. I always say, I don’t want to talk my way into a squad. I want the football to do the talking for me."


 

This is from his podcast yesterday - doesn’t sound like someone who thinks they are injured. 
 

Think we are just being ultra cautious with him for his and our sake.

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