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8 hours ago, Tsunami said:

A friend of mine, who likes a tale but usually fesses up, was on a Newcastle to Heathrow flight today. He swears blind that Lewandowski was on it. No sly photos or anything to back it but he’s not backing down.

 

I don’t even know why I’m posting this. So if it is windup and you’re reading this - cheers, done me up. I really don’t like posting anything I can’t at least try and validate. He may also just be bad with faces.


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2 minutes ago, xLiaaamx said:

What do people expect this summer then? 3 or 4 including Targett? 

 

Yeah, will be exciting but I don’t expect Nunez or anyone of his ilk. We’ll get a centre forward, a creative midfielder of some kind, another winger and a centre back. 
 

I think the biggest thing will be outgoings. Be very interesting to see who goes as a lot of the fringe players have exceeded expectations since Christmas.

 

As likeable as Almiron is, I wouldn’t have mind seeing the back of him until recently. Now I think he’d be pretty decent deputy to any new signing we get (along with Fraser).

 

 

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We will sign at least one "Bruno" signing, by that i mean someone better than we thought we would get. Most of our star signings will come from abroad.

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Think the following will leave:

 

Gayle

Ritchie

Fernandez

Clark

Lewis

Manquillo

M Longstaff

Darlow

Woodman

 

Wouldn’t be surprised to see Miggy and/or Murphy go either.

 

Leaves us with a squad of:

Dubravka, Gillespie

 

Trippier, Schar, Lascelles, Burn, Dummett, Krafth

 

Joelinton, Shelvey, Willock, Bruno, Longstaff

 

Fraser, ASM, Wood, Wilson, Miggy/Murphy,

 

To add to that I’d imagine we’ll sign 6 players. Along the lines of a keeper, CB, LB, CM, RW and ST, plus maybe one or two up come coming players.

 

If I was going to take a punt on signings I’d say Dean Henderson, Targett, Paqueta, Lingard, Botman and Toney.

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If Pickford was good enough I'd be happy to have him, it's kind of cute when a player goes from getting dog's abuse to playing for you - and it'd be funny to see the mackems. I don't watch him that much but he doesn't seem great - but then maybe I just see him when he's being talked about for a mistake, or v us when his head's gone.

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Personally not expecting a midfielder. They made a big point about Hayden only missing out on the squad because of injury and with Longstaff staying on as well I think they'll leave that area now. 

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We will sign 5 high quality players for the first team, and I include Targett In that and a few players for the squad, 7 max I’d say. 

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Just now, The Butcher said:

We don't need more squad players.

 

We need 4-5 quality starters.

We will likely lose a lot of the current squad players so they will essentially need replaced…

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2 minutes ago, The Butcher said:

We don't need more squad players.

 

We need 4-5 quality starters.

By ‘squad player’, I’d say that also means young high potential players like Ekitike who won’t be playing every game, but could fill an automatic first team position in 2-3 years all going well.

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7 minutes ago, HTT II said:

We will likely lose a lot of the current squad players so they will essentially need replaced…

Presumably, should we get those mythical 4-5 star players, the current starters will slip down the pecking order into "squad player" status?

I could re-energise my "straw man/tongue in cheek" comment that some people seem to think we'll have 25 galaticos by christmas but it'll be a more controlled, gradual process. Imho, obvs

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4 minutes ago, Groundhog63 said:

Presumably, should we get those mythical 4-5 star players, the current starters will slip down the pecking order into "squad player" status?

I could re-energise my "straw man/tongue in cheek" comment that some people seem to think we'll have 25 galaticos by christmas but it'll be a more controlled, gradual process. Imho, obvs

We will see maybe 6-8 or more current squad players leave this season, sold, out on loan or released, again we will sign ready made first-teamers and squad players.

 

 

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Just now, HTT II said:

We will see maybe 6-8 or more current squad players leave this season, sold, out on loan or released, again we will sign ready made first-teasers and squad players.

I've no idea what players contract status' are or salaries but moving them on isn't simple these days. Esp given the lack of funds further down the pyramid. Interesting shuffling to be done.

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4 minutes ago, Groundhog63 said:

Presumably, should we get those mythical 4-5 star players, the current starters will slip down the pecking order into "squad player" status?

I could re-energise my "straw man/tongue in cheek" comment that some people seem to think we'll have 25 galaticos by christmas but it'll be a more controlled, gradual process. Imho, obvs

I can see PIF wanting one marquee signing, but the rest will be more Bruno’s, maybe a few freebies and more development players for the under 23s and academy. I do think, with sales, we will be the biggest spending club in the world in the summer, 200m maybe.

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Be interesting to see how much we bring in from sales. We have very backup players fee we could command a decent fee for. The likes of Clark, Hendrick, Gayle, Murphy, Lewis and Hayden are on PL wages, but no club is going to offer them that now. Reckon we'll let most of them go for nowt if we can save their wages.

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Just now, HTT II said:

I can see PIF wanting one marquee signing, but the rest will be more Bruno’s, maybe a few freebies and more development players for the under 23s and academy. I do think, with sales, we will be the biggest spending club in the world in the summer, 200m maybe.

I've gone from sacking off 3 season tickets

Watching the toon but no other football play on the box, with anticipation, but not giving a fuck when we lose

Detesting football and what it's become

Having a political/moral aversion to our owners TO

Watching L2, L1, any football at all really and back to eating, drinking and sleeping all things NUFC

 

£200m will give me a boner all summer

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I think it'll be 4-6. 

 

Striker, CB, LB and a CM would be the four, another CM and a RW would be the six. 

 

I also think we might not go crazy with the striker - if we are being ruled out by the likes of Nunez, Isak etc. because we aren't in Europe, I think there's a chance we'll go for someone like Ekitike to challenge/rotate with Wilson, rather than a full "marquee" style signing that will relegate Wilson to essentially a backup. Then, if we can get into Europe with those improvements, we'll revisit the big centre forward signing next summer.


Edit - to add that this is based on us not being able to recoup much from player sales. I don't think we have many sellable assets and I think we will struggle to shift the likes of Clark, Richie & Gayle for any sort of fee because of their wages. Almiron and maybe Lewis are the exceptions to that, we might find someone willing to punt £7-10m on either of those two.

 

 

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32 minutes ago, Groundhog63 said:

I've gone from sacking off 3 season tickets

Watching the toon but no other football play on the box, with anticipation, but not giving a fuck when we lose

Detesting football and what it's become

Having a political/moral aversion to our owners TO

Watching L2, L1, any football at all really and back to eating, drinking and sleeping all things NUFC

 

£200m will give me a boner all summer

I’m the same mate! I lost so much interest I can’t even remember us beating City under Pardew and the last 14 years have been a blur, thankfully!

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Hope I’m wrong but all the noises from journos etc. (I know, I know) point towards a more “modest” outlay this summer. Reckon 150m+ warchests won’t be available until we firm up our sponsorship deals. I’m guessing a 70m net spend this coming window.

 

 

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