Yankuba Minteh (now playing for Brighton & Hove Albion)

[Beth]

We've got to keep him and sell Almiron and/or Murphy. We can't be that hard up surely.

[Smal]

Also... you don't just sell your best prospect to Liverpool - a direct competitor - for £40m. That's nuts. If you're selling to clubs like Liverpool it needs to be for £80m+, else you're just accepting your level is being their feeder club. 

[Skeletor]

3 minutes ago, Smal said:

Also... you don't just sell your best prospect to Liverpool - a direct competitor - for £40m. That's nuts. If you're selling to clubs like Liverpool it needs to be for £80m+, else you're just accepting your level is being their feeder club. 

 

Or think: We have a highly rated prospect in a long-term problem position. Let's use Minteh and sell Almiron.

[Whitley mag]

Massive risk attached selling him to Liverpool, he might be a flop but if he isn’t and sets the PL alight, then Howe and co better be bloody sure they’ve got a top drawer right sided player lined up.

 

Where not in a position like Man City where we can let a Cole Palmer slip through the net.

[PauloGeordio]

16 minutes ago, Beth said:

We've got to keep him and sell Almiron and/or Murphy. We can't be that hard up surely.

See him as back up to our RW upgrade and then develope him. 

[Yorkie]

22 minutes ago, Beth said:

We've got to keep him and sell Almiron and/or Murphy. We can't be that hard up surely.

 

Don't think it's about being 'hard up,' it's about what represents good business. If we can turn a humongous profit on an asset we've invested pennies in, it's going to be tempting and, sadly, exactly the sort of thing we should be doing in the backward world of PSR.

 

The order of which we sell players is barely relevant, especially when it's going to be a huge bonus if we can shift the likes of Almiron at all (for any meaningful fee). Murphy shouldn't come into it imo; he's far too useful to sell for a negligible fee. 

[HaydnNUFC]

Don't want us to sell him and 100% agree with moving on Almiron first. Jacob Murphy got 1 more assist just last season (7) than Almiron has in his entire Newcastle career (6).

 

Don't think we'll get Olise. Think Pedro Neto misses too many games. I've mentioned I really want us to go for Nico Williams but getting players out of Bilbao will be tough, even with his release clause.

 

Regardless, our LW options being Gordon, Barnes, Joelinton and maybe Anderson and the RW options being a new big money signing, Minteh and Murphy would be class.

 

2 minutes ago, Yorkie said:

Murphy shouldn't come into it imo; he's far too useful to sell for a negligible fee. 

 

Fully agree. He can be a bit of a passenger at times but he's still probably the best crosser of the ball at the club.

[Guest]

Murphy's stats for when he plays instead of almiron were more productive.

Murphy can also play wing back and do a job at right back.

Id let miggy go 

[Elric]

Hopefully the proposed Trafford signing isn't based off the sale of Minteh, especially to those Scouse cunts

[Kid Icarus]

I get the feeling we haven't heard about who our RW target is yet.

[PauloGeordio]

1 minute ago, Kid Icarus said:

I get the feeling we haven't heard about who our RW target is yet.

Exciting out of the blue like Isak/Sandro. 

[frankpingel]

Aye, let's just hope this is all unfounded rumours. I was definitely looking forward to his further development into, possibly, the long term answer to our RW. 

[rebelrouser]

It is time for Miggy to move oh to Al-Shabab. I wonder if we could get £15m for him.  ASM was £30m wasn't he? Buy a RW and keep big Joe in the middle. LW: Gordon, Barnes,  Big Joe, CF Isak, Wilson RW new guy, Murphy Minteh, Gordon.

[jackflap]

The club always bangs on about needing to be creative with FFP and as unpalatable as it may be selling Minteh now for a decent sum and including a buy back clause would be an example of that. Selling to another PL club would be very short sighted though unless it was a side like Palace.

[The Prophet]

We absolutely should be trying to shift the likes of Longstaff and Almiron first, but I doubt there will  be clubs banging down the door for them.

 

If we need to shift someone before June 30, demand might dictate we need make a tough decision.

[Emotic]

10 minutes ago, PauloGeordio said:

Exciting out of the blue like Isak/Sandro. 

Probably, like Isak, someone who is out of favour this season because of injuries or just a loss of form. Ferran Torres and Raphinha have been linked, and Torres just came off a two-month hamstring injury earlier this year... Barca would do well gving up some of that forward line of theirs.

[Memphis]

Selling a player of his potential without even assessing him properly in our setup would be asinine. Unless we were to sell him to a mid to lower level PL club with a buy-back clause, basically a deluxe loan of sorts to ensure he plays. That would be fine by me. 

 

But a sale to a Liverpool or a higher-level club without a clause would be a repudiation of our stated goal of developing young talent. And would be a prime example of how the rules are set up to favor the historically wealthy clubs now and forever. 

[Dr Jinx]

There’s no reason we couldn’t ask for 25m for Miggy.. we signed him for 21? Inflation n all that.

[PauloGeordio]

2 minutes ago, Dr Jinx said:

There’s no reason we couldn’t ask for 25m for Miggy.. we signed him for 21? Inflation n all that.

International too! 

[madras]

I'd doubt it's an either/or Minteh or Miggy. I'd assume if Minteh goes then a higher profile RW comes in and Miggy still goes.

[Elric]

Imagine if Minteh wasn't already our fucking player, we sign him up, the excitement at his potential after seeing some of his stats for the season just gone 

 

It'd be madness to not attempt to move some of the deadwood before him, like.  

[Weezertron]

Sell a youth player to a higher placed team, while needing a player in that very same position. 

 

I can't get involved shite like this. 

[khay]

4 minutes ago, Elric said:

Imagine if Minteh wasn't already our fucking player, we sign him up, the excitement at his potential after seeing some of his stats for the season just gone 

 

It'd be madness to not attempt to move some of the deadwood before him, like.  

probally 'cause no one else wants the deadwood either. 

[thomas]

doesn't deadwood tend to move late window anyway, as opposed to early?

[Holloway]

Miggy is hardly deadwood like, he'll have suitors in the 15-20m bracket