More transfer rumours

[SUPERTOON]

I’d still guess that Harrison is the main target.

[NWMag]

Paqueta

[The Prophet]

The latest from Mr Waugh:

 

Eddie Howe admits he “hoped” Newcastle United would have signed attacking reinforcements by this stage of the window and that there is a “slight frustration” with the difficulty operating in the current market.

 

Hugo Ekitike, the 20-year-old striker, joined Paris Saint-Germain on loan, despite Newcastle having an offer accepted by Reims, and that affected Howe’s summer plans.

 

Newcastle are exploring options for attacking signings and have made a host of enquiries for striker and wingers, including Leeds United’s Jack Harrison, but nothing appears imminent, with Howe stating that it is looking unlikely another fresh face will arrive by the Premier League opener against Nottingham Forest next weekend.

 

“Never say never,” Howe replied when asked if a forward would sign during the coming week. “I’ve been in the game long enough to not give you a definite answer on that. As the days tick by, it seems more and more unlikely. But we are trying, as we have been all window. We’re desperate to try and improve the group if we can, with the right player.”

 

Howe refused to comment on speculation linking Newcastle with Maxwell Cornet, but insisted that the Burnley forward’s omission from their squad for the Huddersfield Town match on Friday had “nothing to do with us”.

 

Still, the Newcastle head coach accepts that, ideally, he would have new attackers to integrate into his starting XI given the Premier League season starts in a week.

 

I probably wouldn’t have hoped to have been in that situation, but that’s the transfer window,” Howe said. “There’s no certainty on anything. When you go into a window, you want to get your business done early, get the majority of your pre-season done with the squad that you have and want, but time in management has told me that rarely happens.”

 

You have to be adaptable, and that’s what we’ve tried to be. The most important thing is we get the right players, not the speed at which we get the players in. We’re working hard behind the scenes to make that happen.”

 

Pushed as to whether he felt frustrated by the situation, Howe admitted there is irritation with the inflated prices being quoted, but not with the club failing to acquire players.

 

“I think there’s a slight frustration, but not aimed at anyone from our side,” Howe said. “Not a frustration that we haven’t done business, there’s just an understanding of the window. There’s a frustration that you want to build the team and get the cohesive nature of the team building quickly, but we hope we can do something.”

[ponsaelius]

Having seen the way we’re coached and playing I’m absolutely of the opinion that we are better off doing everything we can to bring in proper quality rather than look for marginal gains over current our weakest players. However my petty impatient side just wants the endorphin hit of a signing right now.

[Hanshithispantz]

6 minutes ago, ponsaelius said:

Having seen the way we’re coached and playing I’m absolutely of the opinion that we are better off doing everything we can to bring in proper quality rather than look for marginal gains over current our weakest players. However my petty impatient side just wants the endorphin hit of a signing right now.

Aye this. Even just looking at it from a financial POV it seems counter productive to write someone like Miggy off (which I had done myself tbh ) in favour of a decent £25 Prem winger when he could feasibly put £10-15m on his price next season. It's a swing of £35-40m we could be using next summer (minus whatever pennies he could bring this summer).

 

 

Edited July 29, 2022 by Hanshithispantz

[Colos Short and Curlies]

Imagine the summer of 2001 if this place existed when we missed out on Jeffers and Zenden, only to get an unknown from PSG and a striker from a relegated club who only scored 6 goals that year.

 

[Vinny Green Balls]

3 minutes ago, Colos Short and Curlies said:

Imagine the summer of 2001 if this place existed when we missed out on Jeffers and Zenden, only to get an unknown from PSG and a striker from a relegated club who only scored 6 goals that year.

 

This place sort of did exist back then, and IIRC there was a somewhat underwhelmed feeling.

[Colos Short and Curlies]

4 minutes ago, Vinny Green Balls said:

This place sort of did exist back then, and IIRC there was a somewhat underwhelmed feeling.

I was in Kos when Robert signed. Just remember thinking who?

[Dr Jinx]

2 minutes ago, Colos Short and Curlies said:

I was in Kos when Robert signed. Just remember thinking who?

I was on a local holiday, had one of those WAP phones which cost an arm and a leg to go online for just a few minutes.. there was some sort of teamtalk type thing with basic text.. same, who?

 

But they did mention he was a winger with a decent goals record. I think we’d already signed Bellamy at that point. Wasn’t particularly wowed by that signing either but Bobby knew what he was doing.

[Disco]

Absolutely no cunt would’ve known who Robert was bar a brief mention in World Soccer.

[CaliMag]

I was at their first game. The Rob Lee Testimonial. We lost to Bilbao. I was not that impressed with either of them, though Robert did look keen. Thought we'd finish 11th for the third year in a row, but then everything just clicked. Let's hope for a repeat. 

 

[LFEE]

2 hours ago, KaKa said:

 

Yeah, he was in a big sulk about that as he's quite a key member of the team. Watford shouldn't have done that really.

 

Dennis will need managing as he can be moody, but we've got the type of manager and atmosphere that will be really good for him.

In defence of Watford it was his country’s fault for not submitting the paperwork in time iirc. So Watford stuck to the rules. Totally understandable in the position they were in.

[Nobody]

40 minutes ago, CaliMag said:

I was at their first game. The Rob Lee Testimonial. We lost to Bilbao. I was not that impressed with either of them, though Robert did look keen. Thought we'd finish 11th for the third year in a row, but then everything just clicked. Let's hope for a repeat. 

 

My first ever game at SJP. Remember next to nowt about it mind, except thwt we lost. 

[nemtizz]

Cornet clearly improves us but I pray the 'delay' in signing forwards is that we're looking at options above him.

[Dr Jinx]

1 hour ago, CaliMag said:

I was at their first game. The Rob Lee Testimonial. We lost to Bilbao. I was not that impressed with either of them, though Robert did look keen. Thought we'd finish 11th for the third year in a row, but then everything just clicked. Let's hope for a repeat. 

 

I don’t think we’ve brought in the spark yet which is going to set the whole thing off. Like Bellamy could finish obviously but he was just electric with pace and generally made intelligent runs behind. Very few defenders got the better of him when it came to that he was also a massive arsehole so he had players wound up all the time. Actually loved having him at the club and he shouldn’t have been sold.

[Zero]

I still confident that we will complete a big name signing before the window ends. We won’t get 100m pounds loan facilities just for running daily business.

[FloydianMag]

Real Madrid sniffing around Borja.

 

https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/chelsea-fc-real-madrid-broja-transfer-b1015488.html

[snakzz]

Are we sniffing anywhere today?

[The Butcher]

 

[TBG]

Looking forward to the next 10 pages in which he's both incredible and not good enough for Blyth Spartans.

 

 

[The Butcher]

Cuntwards confirming the bid and saying that Maddison wants the move

[Shadow Puppets]

Yes please! Love Maddison!

[r0cafella]

Maddison is a very talented player but isn't he more of a 10?

[snakzz]

Would take both maddison and barnes. Either one would improve us alot. 
 

But maddison is more like Paqueta and would pick Paqueta over Maddison. Will prolly come cheaper to. 

 

 

Edited July 30, 2022 by snakzz

[Foxedup]

£40m is just embarrassing lads.