RodneyCisse Posted September 21, 2022 Share Posted September 21, 2022 10 hours ago, danny said: Prob maddison unless he signs a new contract, the cheeper option imho Maddison will have a year and a half left at that point? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
danny Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 9 hours ago, RodneyCisse said: Maddison will have a year and a half left at that point? My bad i thought id heard he was in his last year Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cronky Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 11 hours ago, Kanji said: Mudryk seems an outstanding talent Looks seriously fast, and with a decent touch. Likely to be queue though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 3 minutes ago, Cronky said: Looks seriously fast, and with a decent touch. Likely to be queue though. We should hire Phillip Schofield as DoF then. Arf arf. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paully Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 https://theathletic.com/3611055/2022/09/22/goalkeeper-super-agent-richard-lee/ When former Watford and England goalkeeper Ben Foster decided to retire this month, he got a phone call. Newcastle United wanted to sign him. The person on the other end of the phone was Richard Lee, described by Foster on his YouTube channel as a “super goalkeeper agent” (as well as being Foster’s former No 2 at Vicarage Road). Speaking to The Athletic, Lee explains his role in the game: “It’s basically a big jigsaw, where you have to fit the pieces together — or a game of chess where you have to be three or four moves ahead. “I’ve got Google alerts set up on over 300 goalkeepers in the UK and around the world. I check every match, half-time and full-time, for any keeper substitutions. “I’m in contact with every single goalkeeper coach to understand their needs and keep spreadsheets so that I know where the gaps are — and where they may appear.” So when Newcastle were in need in the early weeks of the new season, Lee was prepared. “I got a bit of intel that Karl Darlow (Newcastle’s backup goalkeeper) had gone down,” he says, “and straight away my mind went to Ben, and I found out he was on their contingency list if anything went wrong.” Lee called Foster, who was a free agent and 39 years old, after his Watford contract expired at the end of last season. “I asked if he’d be up for Newcastle and his response was, ‘Yes, that sounds very interesting’.” Some admin needed sorting quickly: “Ben wasn’t under contract with me. It was more based on us being friends and keeping an eye out for him, which he wanted me to do. I’d always been very respectful of his previous agent so never trod on toes there. “I got Ben to send me a message saying that I was, in fact, acting on his behalf, which I screenshot and sent through to Dan Ashworth (Newcastle’s sporting director) as, often, players with no official agent have all sorts of people claiming to represent them. “(Ashworth) was in a meeting with the manager (Eddie Howe), discussing the situation, and he said he would call me back. He also called Ben, who he knew from (their time together at) West Brom, to say that he was going to progress with the conversation.” Negotiations began. “Dan made his initial offer and then Ben was telling me where he was at,” Lee says. “Dan was very good, being creative and also reasonable because I knew the role they wanted Ben to do. “The figures were starting to get crazy. Ben was in another category to the other goalkeepers they were looking at, so he had a lot of power due to his Premier League experience. On every phone call, Dan and I would try different methods to bump up the money to get it closer, because Ben wouldn’t budge. “Just to complicate matters, I’d just arrived in Dublin for a client meeting and I was intending to stay at the airport for six or seven hours and then fly back out that day. Not only did I have to be upfront about the fact that the planned meeting was going to be interrupted with these negotiations but there was no (phone) reception in the airport, so I had to keep walking down the road to get a signal. “Dan came back and said they’d hit the number and let’s do it. That’s when I called to break the news to Ben. I didn’t think there was any issue, but there was a weird feeling when he said, ‘Give me half an hour’. Because he had said if I get to that number he would say yes.” Newcastle had significantly improved their salary offer and made it a season-long deal rather than just a short-term one until January. “That was when I got the call (from Foster) to say, ‘Rich, I’m not sure’. We had a few more calls and shared a few messages in which it sounded like he was coming round to it, but then I got the final call and I knew at that point it was a no. He’d asked for that figure almost not wanting them to get there, and the moment they accepted it that provided clarity in his mind that he was done.” Instead of signing to continue his playing career, Foster retired. Newcastle ended up signing Loris Karius, the former Liverpool keeper who was also available on a free, until January. “Naturally there’s disappointment because he would have been perfect for the role,” Lee says. “As an agent, you get a real buzz when things like this come together. It may sound silly but I was imagining being on that journey to Newcastle, knowing you’ve done a significant deal for a player — these are your magic moments. So it was a feeling of deflation after an exciting, adrenaline-fuelled day.” Not that he was annoyed with his long-time friend. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happinesstan Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 32 minutes ago, Paully said: I’d always been very respectful of his previous agent so never trod on toes there. Until the opportunity to do otherwise arose. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
relámpago blanco Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 I don't think we should sign anyone and just spend whatever money we have on some mental I jury rehabilitation centre Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myleftboot Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 22 hours ago, Kanji said: Mudryk seems an outstanding talent Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest reefatoon Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 36 minutes ago, Myleftboot said: Bet nobody reads that without doing the voice. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Deuce Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 36 minutes ago, 54 said: all of them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingxlnc Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 For Jan, it has to be Maddison or top draw RW Pedro A CM - e.g. Haidara / Sangare That relegates Almiron, Shelvey and gives us a decent first sub change in Pedro. Keeps the upward progression. CM and RW are absolute musts this window, has really cost us big time already Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Prophet Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 January is going to be interesting. Stavely said it's generally a window they won't look to do too much business in, but this one is quite unique straight after a world cup. Howe will be pushing, so you'd imagine it'll be another moniter the market and see what presents itself job. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 36 minutes ago, The Prophet said: January is going to be interesting. Stavely said it's generally a window they won't look to do too much business in, but this one is quite unique straight after a world cup. Howe will be pushing, so you'd imagine it'll be another moniter the market and see what presents itself job. I think if we're in the running for Europe which we should be, they'll get a couple in to get there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowlingcrofty Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 Think we’re going to start to move towards quality over quantity now that we’ve got a pretty solid first XI. 1 or 2 in January and then 3 or 4 in the summer. Now we have Ashworth and Eales here I’m confident we’ll have our deals lined up to go when the window opens. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoSelecta Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 11 minutes ago, bowlingcrofty said: Think we’re going to start to move towards quality over quantity now that we’ve got a pretty solid first XI. 1 or 2 in January and then 3 or 4 in the summer. Now we have Ashworth and Eales here I’m confident we’ll have our deals lined up to go when the window opens. 2 in January would be great. If we then qualified for Europe we’d need more than 4 in the summer. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikky Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 8 minutes ago, BoSelecta said: 2 in January would be great. If we then qualified for Europe we’d need more than 4 in the summer. Yep 6 away I reckon from making an impact on the top 8 at least - will solidify us in terms of quality depth Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
STM Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 1 in January, if we are lucky. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowlingcrofty Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 2 minutes ago, STM said: 1 in January, if we are lucky. To be honest I’d be buzzing if it was just one quality addition in January. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aiston Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 Wouldn't mind a couple of squad players on top of those mentioned so far...push the likes of Longstaff, Murphy and Wood well away from first 2-3 subs. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaKa Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 The one good thing that will come out of the recent struggles in the final third is that the issues will be addressed this January without hesitation. No chance they let this carry on as a potential issue through till next summer now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LFEE Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 We’ll spend £100m on the right players becoming available. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 1 hour ago, KaKa said: The one good thing that will come out of the recent struggles in the final third is that the issues will be addressed this January without hesitation. No chance they let this carry on as a potential issue through till next summer now. Aye, we're sorted at least until the summer defensively so at least a CM or winger in January you'd think, possibly both. Next summer a right centre-back to upgrade on Schar. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lotus Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 How’s Sander Berge doing this year? The stats look good but has anyone seen him play? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gbandit Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 Seen him play a couple of times and my brother in law is a massive Sheffield United fan. He says that he’s streets above most players in that league but that he seems to lack the intensity and attitude to really dominate despite his technical ability and physique. Maybe he’s something of a Wijnaldum type player that couldn’t be relied upon to perform when you really need him to but he’s clearly ready for a premier league team Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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