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Newcastle's drastic upturn in form has seen the Magpies move safely into mid-table, with attention now able to turn to planning for next season in the top-flight. However, it would appear that any further approach for Ruiz will fall upon deaf ears, according to journalist Mirko Calemme.

Calemme told the Radio Goal show, via Sport Witness: “The Spaniard said ‘no’ to Newcastle because he knows he can aim for a more prestigious club. With Napoli there is no certainty, but the renewal has been blocked for two years and everything suggests that he is the one sacrificed on the market. But De Laurentiis, as we know, never say never.”

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That last line shows the fallout of the Ashley era. Before him even though we won nowt we were probably still one of the 10-12 biggest clubs in Europe and attractive to most players.

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Just watched a 10 minute highlight video of Osimhen, nearly 6 minutes of which were him doing pointless flicks over other players heads and being fouled, laying on chances that weren’t taken and some really poor finishing. Then of course he scored some goals at the end, mostly headed.

 

He looks a real awkward handful but not in the same league as Darwin Nunez for finishing.

 

Now both in the same side could work……

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26 minutes ago, Dr Jinx said:

Just watched a 10 minute highlight video of Osimhen, nearly 6 minutes of which were him doing pointless flicks over other players heads and being fouled, laying on chances that weren’t taken and some really poor finishing. Then of course he scored some goals at the end, mostly headed.

 

He looks a real awkward handful but not in the same league as Darwin Nunez for finishing.

 

Now both in the same side could work……

 

Is that the "Victor Osimhen Nigerian Nightmare 2022" vid on youtube by any chance? :lol: If so, in those initial clips I see a target man alone up top doing great work at keeping the ball and making something out of nothing in those situations. Unless we turn into Man City next season he is exactly what we need.

 

Edit: Imagine the player receiving the ball in those situations during the first 4-5 minutes being Chris Wood. Do you think they would have ended with the team keeping possession/gaining a free kick or resulting in a chance on goal? :lol:

 

 

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15 hours ago, McCormick said:


Agreed but I don’t think we’ll be terribly close to a top 8 finish next season; noises from journos are suggesting a fairly ‘modest’ war chest this summer.
 

Reckon Villa will spend more and we’ll finish behind them comfortably in mid table. But we’ll see!

Aye it all depends on investment.

 

A lot of the player links are for £40m+ targets so I think we'll spend big. The club are putting out "modest" budget so we don't get fleeced imo but we'll see soon enough

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It does look like it'll be like winter in that it will be Mandy, Eddie and Nickson in a room doing everything themselves as haven't got the backroom structure in place yet. They did fine before, apart from the Chris Wood panic buy. It will probably mean it will be largely one at a time at least on complicated transfers but have more time over summer. 

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The supposed 50 million budget is nonsense imo, we all know a striker is a top priority and you are looking at around 50 million for a top one. If we are then relying on player sales we pretty much wouldn’t have anything left after a striker.

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All these journos/reporters downplaying our budget don’t have a clue, they said the same in January and have been wrong almost entirely over the takeover. We will spend, with sales incoming money, 150-200m IMO. I know for a fact we already have two deals all but signed, sealed and delivered from January. I assume one is Lingard and maybe that Carlos fella?

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12 minutes ago, SUPERTOON said:

The supposed 50 million budget is nonsense imo, we all know a striker is a top priority and you are looking at around 50 million for a top one. If we are then relying on player sales we pretty much wouldn’t have anything left after a striker.

This is my thought. Every player we are credibly linked with is going for at least half of that and most around 50m.

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1 minute ago, The College Dropout said:

This is my thought. Every player we are credibly linked with is going for at least half of that and most around 50m.

Exactly, even younger ones linked are at least 25 million.

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10 minutes ago, HTT II said:

All these journos/reporters downplaying our budget don’t have a clue, they said the same in January and have been wrong almost entirely over the takeover. We will spend, with sales incoming money, 150-200m IMO. I know for a fact we already have two deals all but signed, sealed and delivered from January. I assume one is Lingard and maybe that Carlos fella?

In fairness to the local journalists who are all saying the same thing, I do think they have been briefed by the club to quote these figures. I'm over the moon with the ownership but I do think their comms strategy needs to be looked at. To be actively encouraging the £50 million budget & evolution over revolution whilst then contradicting themselves about competing within 5 years & the Champions League comments from Bruno, etc just makes everyone look stupid. 

 

I'm not sure of the answer because if the club said no comment then everyone would assume they'd spend a load of money. Obviously if they do only spend £50 million then their other comments about challenging just look ridiculous. 

 

 

 

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We can generate decent income and extra wage budget from selling the likes of Lewis and Almiron, i'm sure we have at least 8-9 players than we can let go off easily, and if we sign 5-6 good players like we did in January it will help us massively improve, we don't need to spend big but spend smart and identify targets that will make us a better team.

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9 minutes ago, macphisto said:

In fairness to the local journalists who are all saying the same thing, I do think they have been briefed by the club to quote these figures. I'm over the moon with the ownership but I do think their comms strategy needs to be looked at. To be actively encouraging the £50 million budget & evolution over revolution whilst then contradicting themselves about competing within 5 years & the Champions League comments from Bruno, etc just makes everyone look stupid. 

 

I'm not sure of the answer because if the club said no comment then everyone would assume they'd spend a load of money. Obviously if they do only spend £50 million then their other comments about challenging just look ridiculous. 

 

 

 

 

Any other clubs announcing their “war chests” in advance?  
 

We’ll spend what we have to spend based on assessment of needs. It’ll be holistic. Any declaration of intent ie we’ve got £50 mill to splurge is just smoke and mirrors. It’s going to be a fun summer :coolsmiley:

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1 minute ago, PauloGeordio said:

Any other clubs announcing their “war chests” in advance?  
 

We’ll spend what we have to spend based on assessment of needs. It’ll be holistic. Any declaration of intent ie we’ve got £50 mill to splurge is just smoke and mirrors. It’s going to be a fun summer :coolsmiley:

No they're not but are other clubs giving out massively contradictory messages like us (Howe about the Liverpool match, "Hopefully it is [a title decider] in the future")?  As I say, I'm not entirely sure of the correct strategy but I don't think this is it. Some people won't be bothered by this but I do think it's important to keep the local journalists onside as it makes things so much easier for the club. We saw how the local journalists looking out for the club got into a spat with national journalists after the Chelsea match. Hopefully local journalists are in on the act because all of them will look ridiculous by the end of the transfer window.

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We shouldn’t be held to ransom by players greed, so happy we have turned our backs if he is wanting too much.

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7 minutes ago, reefatoon said:

We shouldn’t be held to ransom by players greed, so happy we have turned our backs if he is wanting too much.

I think it's more they don't want him as a player than his wage demands. It's better for the club to say they don't want him as his wage demands are too high as it helps to dampen the expectations of  the market heading into the summer. Maybe I'm looking too much into these things.

 

 

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1 minute ago, gbandit said:

If he wants big wages then he’ll have to prove he deserves them. Wonder who will be willing to cough up, probably someone like Everton 

Typical signing for those twats.

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Fingers crossed - they don't see Lingard as a "blue chip" player so we won't give him the 100-150k he might be after.

 

He's a good signing for a West Ham. Likely to be in Europe so need the squad depth. Only need to sign 2/3 players of sufficient quality so can take this risk.

 

4 minutes ago, reefatoon said:

We shouldn’t be held to ransom by players greed, so happy we have turned our backs if he is wanting too much.

Don't think it's greed. Lingard should get as much as he can. I just don't think we have the luxury of signing him on 100k+.

 

11 minutes ago, Joey47 said:

Wouldn't really want Coutinho but would be funny to see Newcastle actually steal another clubs signing instead of vice versa for once [emoji38]

Don't want him. This is an Everton transfer. We should look for the next Coutinho.

 

I like Arsenal's approach to trying to get back into the top 4. Going for the likes of Odegaard. Arsenal are fortunate that their academy has pumped out 4-6 decent to elite premier league level footballers though.

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13 minutes ago, macphisto said:

No they're not but are other clubs giving out massively contradictory messages like us (Howe about the Liverpool match, "Hopefully it is [a title decider] in the future")?  As I say, I'm not entirely sure of the correct strategy but I don't think this is it. Some people won't be bothered by this but I do think it's important to keep the local journalists onside as it makes things so much easier for the club. We saw how the local journalists looking out for the club got into a spat with national journalists after the Chelsea match. Hopefully local journalists are in on the act because all of them will look ridiculous by the end of the transfer window.

It’ll be old fish and chip paper, and on to the next story. Time will tell. Enjoy the ride :indi:

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