Now That's What I Call Transfer Rumours! 7

[Kimbo]

Alvarez is an interesting one. I think I only saw him play in an attacking role but it sounds like he can do a job anywhere in midfield, at a very young age as well. Compare that to Lavia who would apparently cost a lot more and seems to be a specialist defensive midfielder.

[GeordieDazzler]

We talking about Alcaraz here? 

[Super Duper Branko Strupar]

1 hour ago, TBG said:

All this Rice talk. 

 

Could we try and peas be serious for a moment.

 

Links and rumours everywhere. My head is fried. 

[Mazzy]

Interesting that Fresneda isn't on more people's lists. He was a big name banded about last summer and he's now half the price according to that post at the top. 

[Kimbo]

53 minutes ago, GeordieDazzler said:

We talking about Alcaraz here? 

Some prefer to spell it Alvarez.

[The Prophet]

https://twitter.com/The_Looney_Toon/status/1666893831671799818

 

"As a lot of you know I don’t rate  Luke Edwards. I think he’s an absolute weasel of a journo & gives the profession a bad name. I’m sick & tired of his “exclusives” which are often just made up waffle. As such I’ve decided to look at his transfer exclusives from the last 8 weeks"

[Guest]

I remember when I used to play professionally, the lure of London never appealed to me. 

[SteV]

14 minutes ago, The Prophet said:

https://twitter.com/The_Looney_Toon/status/1666893831671799818

Burnsie’s got some borderline personality disorder like.

[The Prophet]

1 minute ago, SteV said:

Burnsie’s got some borderline personality disorder like.

 

Is that him? 

 

It's a fair point he's making.

[SUPERTOON]

1 minute ago, The Prophet said:

 

Is that him? 

 

It's a fair point he's making.

Nah it’s not him 

[SteV]

Just now, The Prophet said:

 

Is that him? 

 

It's a fair point he's making.

The sentence/paragraph structure is incredibly similar. 
 

Probably uses it to interact with people that have blocked his main account. Or just to argue with himself occasionally.

[TheBrownBottle]

I’m not sure which is stupider; believing everything that Edwards writes, or thinking that NUFC wouldn’t have a potential transfer target list going comfortably into double-figures.

 

It’s not the ‘gotcha’ the Twitter gadgie thinks it is

[TheBrownBottle]

NB The tweet he makes before the rant is from Luke Edwards linking us to Maddison. 

 

edit: and a few tweets down he comments about how he ‘likes’ the approach outlined by a different Edwards tweet re targets.

 

Some of our lot are frighteningly fucking stupid.  

 

 

Edited June 8, 2023 by TheBrownBottle

[black_n_white]

Signing Rice would give us a ready made captain for the next 8 years, unfortunately we need to bring in multiple players so transfer fees and wages will be lowered to cover these signings. We are probably 2-3 years away from signing that level of player due to FFP.

[jack j]

https://twitter.com/The_Looney_Toon/status/1666893831671799818?t=E8YALrVDjw2WED07VlUSog&s=19

 

Luke Edwards latest exclusives?

The lads gotta point mind

 

Edit someone said its another burnsie account

Apologies

 

 

Edited June 8, 2023 by jack j

[Kid Icarus]

Graeme Bailey is probably the worst of the know nowt blagging knackers imo. At least Sean Casey's mildly endearing in a Kenny Sr sort of way.

 

Bailey's just been on Loaded Mag. Here are a few of his corkers that I can remember.

 

If PIF want someone like Neymar they'll go for it. Immediately followed by 'that's not the type of squad Eddie Howe's looking to build' when another star player was mentioned.

 

If Newcastle aren't top 5 at Christmas, they'll get rid of Howe.

 

Trippier winning Newcastle player of the Season was 'spectacularly bizarre'

 

Trippier had an awful end of the season, Martinelli apparently took him to the cleaners.

 

To say Bruno wasn't our best player last season is mind boggling.

 

Bruno was only below an 8/10 once this season

 

If you took Trippier out of the team and Bruno out of the team there'd be a 30 points difference between the two teams

 

Nick Pope and Sven Botman were also better than Trippier this season

 

Bruno doesn't get enough credit, but he bigs him up all the time. Newcastle fans need to start realising they have a world class midfielder on their hands 

 

ASM isn't as good as Adama Traore.

 

ASM scored less than Chris Wood (implying that's how bad he is obviously ignoring the 5 assists and him starting only 12 games)

 

All of it said with absolute assertion to a podcast and audience of people who watch Newcastle obsessively.  Going 'do you really think Trippier was better than Bruno this season? Really?' to Pete who goes to loads of matches.

 

All while Trippier's been voted POTS by fans, is in everyone's PL Team of the season, and is in Opta's Team of the season across the top 5 leagues.  Such an obnoxious, clueless toad.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited June 8, 2023 by Kid Icarus

[toontownman]

6 hours ago, Nucasol said:

Don’t be rubbing Koch up the wrong way. You’ll end up in a sticky situation.

Would be explosive imo.

[r0cafella]

The athletics article is up re our transfer plans and it contains nothing new. 
 

can’t help but feel our correspondents at the athletic are lacking compared to some of the other clubs ones. 

 

 

Edited June 9, 2023 by r0cafella

[WilliamPS]

It’s clear none of the journos know which players the club want, but everyone knows what positions 

[r0cafella]

1 minute ago, WilliamPS said:

It’s clear none of the journos know which players the club want, but everyone knows what positions 

Not sure about that, the same names and budget keeps cropping up at different outlets (could be a case of them all repeating each other mind). 
 

every article seems to share the same theme of playing down expectations interestingly. 

[Stifler]

To be fair, since last summer, a lot of our targets were not really covered in the press. The Isak one came out of nowhere, we were only slightly linked with him early in the summer, but that was probably more of a case of us being listed as a club who could afford him.

[r0cafella]

If budget is an issue we really should be in for Tielmans as he can rotate with Bruno as a 6, it’s mad how basically any player with a modicum of potential is 50m

[SUPERTOON]

36 minutes ago, Stifler said:

To be fair, since last summer, a lot of our targets were not really covered in the press. The Isak one came out of nowhere, we were only slightly linked with him early in the summer, but that was probably more of a case of us being listed as a club who could afford him.

Other than Isak (who was covered as a target just no one knew we had agreed a deal) who else would you say wasn’t covered ? I think every signing we have made has pretty much been spoken about by the media.

[r0cafella]

Just now, SUPERTOON said:

Other than Isak (who was covered as a target just no one knew we had agreed a deal) who else would you say wasn’t covered ? I think every signing we have made has pretty much been spoken about by the media.

I think what stifler means is our targets usually aren’t called by the media until closer to the deal being done. 
 

the athletic mention nothing is imminent so maybe that’s what he’s referring to. 

[relámpago blanco]

11 hours ago, Ankles Bennett said:

The trick is to find where you will be working fore it was overwhelming road from Euston station nd follow the train line out until you get to an area you can afford to buy.  For me it was Hel Mempstead. A 30 minute express train to London Cross the road and I'm at work.Quicler than work transport in the toon.

Wasn't quicker for me, my trains home where always cancelled.  I lived there for 5 years. Place just wasn't for me. Now I drive my daughter to nursery through the South downs driving past a plethora of farm land and animals. Much better for stress and mental well-being.