Sandro Tonali

[Yorkie]

Tonali will obviously leave at some point because he's exceptional and he won't be able to fulfill his potential here. Bruno makes you believe that it's enough just to be worshipped but Isak proved the opposite.

 

I don't think he's said anything to set hares racing there, and it's no "come and get me" plea. He's just given an honest answer. 

[Conjo]

5 hours ago, duo said:

 

Sorry but you have to show more faith than that to a club who stood by you during your ban.  

 

Why? He took a reduced wage during ban, extended his contract, focused on improving himself when he was off, has played like a gladiator almost every single game since he came back and is refreshingly honest about the possibility that he might go elsewhere sometime in the future. He owes us nothing as far as I'm concerned.

[Smal]

I would definitely prefer him to say that rather than "I came here for the project" numerous times before playing like he can't be arsed and then refusing to play and disrupting a whole season because Liverpool told him to. 

[J7]

He left the club he supports not long after a CL semi final to join us to progress his career. He’s not going to hang around here for pure loyalty reasons. A number of players like this will pass through and we have to get used to it. It’s better than struggling to offload Savait for 10 years.
 

It’s about constantly trying to progress, not falling in love with individuals and getting angry with them if they dare leave. Enjoy them while they’re here.

[BonesJones]

11 minutes ago, J7 said:

It’s about constantly trying to progress, not falling in love with individuals and getting angry with them if they dare leave. Enjoy them while they’re here.

 

Agree. There's defintely a recent exception to that rule though.

[timeEd32]

He won't be here forever. But he was also asked a question and chose to answer it honestly in a language he didn't even speak 2 years ago, so ultimately there's not much to panic about. If he goes in the summer it will be because we're not in the CL and someone is offering a massive salary increase + six figure transfer fee. I doubt we'd sell for less. Summer of 2027 he goes is my guess unless we are in the CL / have made significant progress (and can pay him more).

[Memphis]

No point in fretting over something so shapeless. He will leave at some point. He is too good not to. We would have to seriously jumpstart our project to match his career timeline. Maybe he stays a year or two more, that would be excellent. Enjoy him while we can and appreciate that he's being transparent about a difficult subject. 

[80]

10 hours ago, timeEd32 said:

If he goes in the summer it will be because we're not in the CL and someone is offering a massive salary increase + six figure transfer fee. I doubt we'd sell for less. Summer of 2027 he goes is my guess unless we are in the CL / have made significant progress (and can pay him more).

Definite black mark against Ross Wilson if he lets him go for under a million, like.

[timeEd32]

9 minutes ago, 80 said:

Definite black mark against Ross Wilson if he lets him go for under a million, like.

Ha, no idea what I did there. Nine.

[Lush Vlad]

15 minutes ago, 80 said:

Definite black mark against Ross Wilson if he lets him go for under a million, like.

 

[TBG]

Xhaka is the ready made replacement and already settled in Newcastle. 

[Smal]

some comments from him just gone up on the club site

 

https://www.newcastleunited.com/en/news/i-think-everything-is-perfect-sandro-tonali-opens-up-on-life-at-newcastle

 

The supporters love him. How happy is he at Newcastle? "I'm really happy," he replies. "I try to live a very easy life. I'm happy with my family, my family is happy here, and so I think this is perfect for me, perfect for my football.

 

"I play very good football now, so I think everything is perfect now. I don't want to change anything for my life because everything is 100 per cent; everything is very well now and I think this is perfect for me and for my family."

 

 

Edited November 7, 2025 by Smal

[JT24]

“How’s life, Sandro?”

[Scoot]

36 minutes ago, Smal said:

some comments from him just gone up on the club site

 

https://www.newcastleunited.com/en/news/i-think-everything-is-perfect-sandro-tonali-opens-up-on-life-at-newcastle

 

The supporters love him. How happy is he at Newcastle? "I'm really happy," he replies. "I try to live a very easy life. I'm happy with my family, my family is happy here, and so I think this is perfect for me, perfect for my football.

 

"I play very good football now, so I think everything is perfect now. I don't want to change anything for my life because everything is 100 per cent; everything is very well now and I think this is perfect for me and for my family."

 

 

 

 

If you'd read this forum 48 hours ago, he was 100% definitely certainly leaving.

 

 

[FLUMPO235]

Watched the interview clip. It just seemed like someone who’s very honest and a bit clumsy with the wording due to English not being his first language.
 

he’s enjoying being here now, but who knows what will happen in a the future, probably wants to go back abroad at some point.

 

hes probably had an internal talking to about it mind. 
 

when that time comes i will wish him well, unless he wants to join Liverpool or Chelsea and he goes on strike to force his price down. 
 

 

[Coffee_Johnny]

22 hours ago, J7 said:

He left the club he supports not long after a CL semi final to join us to progress his career. He’s not going to hang around here for pure loyalty reasons. A number of players like this will pass through and we have to get used to it. It’s better than struggling to offload Savait for 10 years.
 

It’s about constantly trying to progress, not falling in love with individuals and getting angry with them if they dare leave. Enjoy them while they’re here.

Nowt to stop you loving them while they’re here. Recipe for a happy life lots of super intense chapters that don’t need to have all the same characters in them. 

[Curva Sud Milano]

It's just a matter of respect, given and received.

Maldini should be a legend of our AC Milan but he wasn't and never will be.

[Fak]

1 minute ago, Curva Sud Milano said:

It's just a matter of respect, given and received.

Maldini should be a legend of our AC Milan but he wasn't and never will be.

 

Maldini isn't a club legend?

[Curva Sud Milano]

43 minutes ago, Fak said:

 

Maldini isn't a club legend?

 

For all the other AC Milan fans yes, not for us.

He disrespected us three times... the first time we forgave him because of the enormous respect we had , the second time was worse: he called us mercenaries in an interview and we still let it go just to be close to the team that was doing poorly.

The third was a disaster... an incident occurred at the Istanbul airport after the AC Milan-Liverpool match between us and him (and his wife).

A few days later we had a very long meeting among ourselves on how to proceed.,many wanted to wait for him outside his house and teach him a "lesson" ... just out of respect we had for his father (he was a TRUE legend of AC Milan in the '60s) we desist, but we swore he would pay.

We waited years and we did it in the way that hurt him the most, on the day of his last football match... chants, banners, and the enormous flag of our only true captain, Franco Baresi. He reacted badly and the rest of the stadium booed us, we know that but we didn't care. 

We were the MERCENARIES who 30 years earlier went to Oporto with 12 pullman , a 50-hour travel and another 50 to return to Milano and we did it several times around Europe, in those years there were no Ryanairs.... the others, those who whistled at us, watched it on TV in their homes.

[alexf]

Sounds like a bunch of entitled pricks. Any grown adults who want to "wait outside a footballers house and teach them a lesson" is pretty pathetically low. 

 

If I have misread the context of that post and this was some sort of skit then forgive me 

[Kanj]

I’ll never claim to know more than a true Milan fan but he had a few issues with the ultras. Odd shit given his 25 year career and every trophy he’s won for the club. 

[Decky]

On 07/11/2025 at 00:00, Conjo said:

 

Why? He took a reduced wage during ban, extended his contract, focused on improving himself when he was off, has played like a gladiator almost every single game since he came back and is refreshingly honest about the possibility that he might go elsewhere sometime in the future. He owes us nothing as far as I'm concerned.

 

And we'll get a huge fee for him and move on. I don't think anyone realistically expects Tonali to be here beyond next summer or the summer after? He's probably here five years too soon but let's enjoy him while we can.

[macphisto]

5 hours ago, Curva Sud Milano said:

 

For all the other AC Milan fans yes, not for us.

He disrespected us three times... the first time we forgave him because of the enormous respect we had , the second time was worse: he called us mercenaries in an interview and we still let it go just to be close to the team that was doing poorly.

The third was a disaster... an incident occurred at the Istanbul airport after the AC Milan-Liverpool match between us and him (and his wife).

A few days later we had a very long meeting among ourselves on how to proceed.,many wanted to wait for him outside his house and teach him a "lesson" ... just out of respect we had for his father (he was a TRUE legend of AC Milan in the '60s) we desist, but we swore he would pay.

We waited years and we did it in the way that hurt him the most, on the day of his last football match... chants, banners, and the enormous flag of our only true captain, Franco Baresi. He reacted badly and the rest of the stadium booed us, we know that but we didn't care. 

We were the MERCENARIES who 30 years earlier went to Oporto with 12 pullman , a 50-hour travel and another 50 to return to Milano and we did it several times around Europe, in those years there were no Ryanairs.... the others, those who whistled at us, watched it on TV in their homes.

Who's Us? Ultras? 

[Mattoon]

If you want to be the best or at least eat at the same table then you have to keep your talismans, look at Liverpool and Salah, City and players like De Bruyne, even Man United and Fernandez, you keep your best until you outgrow them or they no longer offer you their best.

 

I get that players come and go and you just have to enjoy them in the now but if we ever want to take that step up then we have to keep hold of the ones that will get us there and accepting Tonali will leave this summer or next is cuck behaviour.

[Lucky]

At the root of all of this is that Isak has spread a cancer into the squad in terms of money.

 

What’s he on now? 300k a week?

 

The likes of Tonali will be looking at that and weighing up his value. Loyalty for the ban year will only go so far.

 

If we’re offering him less than 200k a week for a new contract he’ll have his agent in his ear telling him what he can get elshewhere. A few of our current squad will be in the same boat. Not loads of them but certainly a few.

 

The issue is that if we start paying out bigger contracts we won’t be able to sign players at the same level. So we’re quite powerless to stop our big names from leaving.