Guest reefatoon Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 2 minutes ago, ManDoon said: I’m really enjoying this tbh Totally agree. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazarus Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 This season has relagation written all over it. Ashley will make some panic buys in January in an effort to stay up but it'll be for players that arnt needed (ala Joelinton) in positions that arnt priorities. And next season, we will still have a disjointed squad with at least half of it dead wood. Round and around we go. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fantail Breeze Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 Just now, Lazarus said: Yeah weve got that 6m or so for Armstrong in total. But no ones ever confirmed that it was up front or structered. AT least I havnt heard owt?? We’ve also saved £60k+ a week in wages after letting five players leave whilst only bringing Willock in (£3m+ over the year). Plus nominal fees for Lejeune and Longstaff on loan and the Armstrong fee. We’ve easily recouped more than the pittance we’ve spent on tick. Bet someone else leaves today too. Shame the media are too lazy/in bed with the club to report on it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 31 minutes ago, KaKa said: Ashley sick of Bruce now too. Brings in a PFM that just wants to sign British cloggers and then he gets mad at them Seems like the Kamara at Marseille and Cajuste at Midtjylland were likely who Nickson and his lot recommended when Bruce asked for a DM, but he's wanted Choudhury for ages now and thought he could convince Ashley with his sucking up and grovelling. Unlucky! So here we are yet again ... with another manager that does not want to sign the types of players Ashley prefers to bring in. Now we are left with a very shaky squad for the season AGAIN! Hopefully this leads to a huge blow up and Bruce gets flung out on his arse. At least let something good come of this please. This is probably quite close to the truth. We've always been told that NUFC's transfer policy is fluid, if the right player comes along at the right age, we would go for it. Hamza is only 23, so the only reason I can think of for us to be saying no, is because Ashley thinks he's shit, and people at the club don't trust Bruce's judgement. Bruce still won't walk, we are stuck with him unless Ashley pulls the trigger, and we already know he will just sit on it for as long as possible hoping we fluke enough wins to stay up. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 1 minute ago, Fantail Breeze said: We’ve also saved £60k+ a week in wages after letting five players leave whilst only bringing Willock in (£3m+ over the year). Plus nominal fees for Lejeune and Longstaff on loan and the Armstrong fee. We’ve easily recouped more than the pittance we’ve spent on tick. Bet someone else leaves today too. Shame the media are too lazy/in bed with the club to report on it. I bet its almost £200k a week saved in wages Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fantail Breeze Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 Just now, Ben said: I bet its almost £200k a week saved in wages Wouldn’t surprise me, I dramatically under guessed on purpose to show the bare minimum. Someone could probably work it out properly based on reported wages through FM which are usually fairly accurate. Either way, we’ve made a profit, again. Spent £26m if you listen to the media though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
et tu brute Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 2 minutes ago, Fantail Breeze said: We’ve also saved £60k+ a week in wages after letting five players leave whilst only bringing Willock in (£3m+ over the year). Plus nominal fees for Lejeune and Longstaff on loan and the Armstrong fee. We’ve easily recouped more than the pittance we’ve spent on tick. Bet someone else leaves today too. Shame the media are too lazy/in bed with the club to report on it. And the rest, I would say closer to £150k a week Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazarus Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 That transfer policy is bollocks though. Theres no point in buying the next Messi for a bargain fee if it means gayle (with his new contract) and Joelinton (with his big outlay) miss out or it pushes another player out of position. We need the right players in the right positions. We cant even do that with the existing playing staff never mind new ones. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NUFC_Chris Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 It’s criminal we haven’t made at least one decent loan signing, bearing in mind the savings made on wages already this summer. They’ll probably look to do something if we’re in the bottom 3 in January. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willow Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 Newcastle United Football Club Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanj Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 I only really like this club in video game form at this point. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdm Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 As if Bruce will walk. I doubt he’ll even complain. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaKa Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 1 minute ago, TRon said: This is probably quite close to the truth. We've always been told that NUFC's transfer policy is fluid, if the right player comes along at the right age, we would go for it. Hamza is only 23, so the only reason I can think of for us to be saying no, is because Ashley thinks he's shit, and people at the club don't trust Bruce's judgement. Bruce still won't walk, we are stuck with him unless Ashley pulls the trigger, and we already know he will just sit on it for as long as possible hoping we fluke enough wins to stay up. Every window we see the links to young players with pretty decent reputations in France/Belgium/Denmark/Netherlands in particular, and they are always in that 21-23 years old range and have good reputations, but seem the sorts to need to prove themselves at a higher level first, but could potentially then go on to be sold for much more. This is what Ashley has always wanted. The one manager we brought in that allowed the recruitment team to sign whoever was McLaren and that summer we did pretty decent business in hindsight, but the manager failed miserably and did not get the best out of the players at all. If McLaren had been anywhere near half decent we would have been doing okay by now, as I think the recruitment typically identified decent talent. That summer we signed Mbemba, Wijnaldum, Mitrovic, Thauvin and Toney. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 19 players shipped out since the end of the season Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dokko Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 Be great if Bruce calls Ashley out. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaKa Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 9 minutes ago, ManDoon said: Stand by the fact Carr was actually very decent for us I really liked Carr man. Thought he was class. The only times he seemingly recommended signings that were poor were in circumstances where they went for options much lower down his list where there was risk involved i.e. more of a gamble e.g. Riviere. If we had ever had a decent manager when he was here only God knows how good we could have potentially been. Even some of the players considered flops under him might have turned out much better and would have at least been decent squad players. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
christ Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 12 minutes ago, ManDoon said: Stand by the fact Carr was actually very decent for us His recommendations were generally quite good, it’s just we usually signed the ones at the bottom of the list. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest reefatoon Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 24 minutes ago, Willow said: Newcastle United Football Club That profile photo you have man Fucking awful viewing. You should just keep posting pictures of bacon, as that's the look he has staring at the frying pan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
et tu brute Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 6 minutes ago, KaKa said: I really liked Carr man. Thought he was class. The only times he seemingly recommended signings that were poor were in circumstances where they went for options much lower down his list where there was risk involved i.e. more of a gamble e.g. Riviere. If we had ever had a decent manager when he was here only God knows how good we could have potentially been. Even some of the players considered flops under him might have turned out much better and would have at least been decent squad players. We did Rafa and he was the one responsible for getting rid of Carr Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaKa Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 Just now, et tu brute said: We did Rafa and he was the one responsible for getting rid of Carr Yeah, as much as I like Rafa he was not the manager to bring in under Carr, as he wants his own signings. Ashley gave Carr a lot of power to recommend a pool of players to pick from, which Rafa was never going to go for, as he wanted to be the one directing the recruitment team and not vice versa. Just another mess of a situation by Mike Ashley. Getting rid of Carr only to then ultimately get rid of Rafa was just utterly ridiculous. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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AyeDubbleYoo Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 13 minutes ago, KaKa said: I really liked Carr man. Thought he was class. The only times he seemingly recommended signings that were poor were in circumstances where they went for options much lower down his list where there was risk involved i.e. more of a gamble e.g. Riviere. If we had ever had a decent manager when he was here only God knows how good we could have potentially been. Even some of the players considered flops under him might have turned out much better and would have at least been decent squad players. It’s still no way to run a club though. There needs to be a connection between the transfer strategy, the manager and the tactics/player types that the manager wants to use. All have to be working together. However good Carr was, having one bloke decide on who a club signs and doesn’t sign is a recipe for disaster. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaKa Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 Just now, HaydnNUFC said: All this fuss over Hamza Choudhury man. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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AyeDubbleYoo Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 Our shortlist is very short. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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