TaylorJ_01 Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 where oh where will we find another 20 stamina 1 passing dork for our wank midfield (I'm mildly bitter) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
duo Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 36 minutes ago, JT24 said: That’ll be Curtis Jones they’re talking about. I’d stop watching. Clearly Liverpool want their money back Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JT24 Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 Could have had Kenneth Taylor in as a ready made replacement but, shockingly PIF, took too long. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earp Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 3 hours ago, Chicken Dancer said: We've got an awful habit as a fanbase of wanting to sell our best players at any point they're having a bad patch. The whole team is playing shit, he's absolute mustard and the type of player we need to keep about long term if we ever want to amount to anything more. Every player has good and bad spells, it's football. Spot on. People spoke of him as arguably one of the best midfielders in Europe not so long ago now apparently he can’t pass. I think he’s partly been the victim of Eddie’s new ‘system’ and also the complete lack of movement up front Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaylorJ_01 Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 Just now, JT24 said: Could have had Kenneth Taylor in as a ready made replacement but, shockingly PIF, took too long. Now that's a proper tacklin' name. John McTackle, Craig Strength, Chudley O'Studs, that's what we need Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scoot Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 Its the higher wages he wants and until we can offer what the top clubs can, this will probably happen once every summer. It all boils down to increasing our revenue. PIF have done a decent job with that since taking over, from £140m to £400m+ (estimated to be this year's turnover) so they've tripled it. Until we add another couple of hundred million a year, we can't pay the top wages. Its part of the growth. It takes time with all the rules in place now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUPERTOON Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 19 minutes ago, Earp said: Spot on. People spoke of him as arguably one of the best midfielders in Europe not so long ago now apparently he can’t pass. I think he’s partly been the victim of Eddie’s new ‘system’ and also the complete lack of movement up front His passing has never been great tbh. Still a brilliant player though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 50 minutes ago, Turnbull2000 said: Wouldn't put it past him to try an Isak. This is all on Tonali's instruction to get him away this summer. 22 minutes ago, JT24 said: Could have had Kenneth Taylor in as a ready made replacement but, shockingly PIF, took too long. Why do you guys make stuff up in order to mope? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheInfiniteOdyssey Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 It is what it is. If we miss out on Champions League football, these are the scenarios you have to deal with. No club is necessarily immune to it. As long as we get a good fee, nothing else we can hope for really. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earp Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 18 minutes ago, SUPERTOON said: His passing has never been great tbh. Still a brilliant player though. I must disagree. I think it was one of his strong points Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HaydnNUFC Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 (edited) If he wants anyway come the summer, identify a replacement between now and June, get the best possible price for him and move on. However that’s what we’ve been quite poor at in recent windows, the club have to start working multiple windows ahead for both incomings and outgoings. It can be argued that the Tonali replacement should already be at the club. Same with Tino. I digress but too many players have been held onto for too long, so poor at selling. Trippier, Pope, Willock, Joelinton, Wilson, Almiron; many of those players we could’ve had alright money for at optimal times, instead they were held onto or given new contracts and we have lost some and will likely lose all for next to nowt. Edited February 6 by HaydnNUFC Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earp Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 1 hour ago, Menace said: Still think he's been mostly misused here like. Would've loved to see him play further forward but alas. The guy is quality and would walk into most teams midfields in the world, he would be a huge loss. This season is an anomaly because most of the team is playing shite He used to play further forward. When was the last time he was in a position to score a goal like Southampton away? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUPERTOON Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 29 minutes ago, Yorkie said: Why do you guys make stuff up in order to mope? @JT24 is only joking in fairness. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smal Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 15 minutes ago, HaydnNUFC said: If he wants anyway come the summer, identify a replacement between now and June, get the best possible price for him and move on it will probably be Elliot Anderson for £80m-£100m. I won’t mind it but the forum might actually explode Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HaydnNUFC Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 1 minute ago, Smal said: it will probably be Elliot Anderson for £80m-£100m. I won’t mind it but the forum might actually explode I will. He’d end up costing more than the fee we’d get for Tonali, plus I think we need totally different profiles of midfielders anyway to Anderson. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rafalove Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 Looks like he’s off then. I hope we’ve learned our lessons. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keegans Export Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 (edited) The squad is considerably more than one or two players away from competing at the top level and our commercial + matchday + broadcast revenue isn't enough to fund the surgery required so our only option is to sell someone we'd rather keep for a substantial fee and invest that in three or four new players. Before last summer if you'd said we'd lose Isak and Tonali and have that £200-250m to spend I'd have backed us to pick up six or seven good players and maybe even leave the overall squad in a better position to compete on multiple fronts. Then summer 2025 happened... Edited February 6 by Keegans Export Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LionOfGosforth Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 6 minutes ago, Rafalove said: Looks like he’s off then. I hope we’ve learned our lessons. @AyeDubbleYoo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earp Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 2 hours ago, Menace said: Still think he's been mostly misused here like. Would've loved to see him play further forward but alas. The guy is quality and would walk into most teams midfields in the world, he would be a huge loss. This season is an anomaly because most of the team is playing shite He used to play further forward. When was the last time he was in a position to score a goal like Southampton away? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earp Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 Can you imagine even 6 months ago people talking of selling Tonali. Mental Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Decky Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 Does his daft cunt agent not realise that speaking to the media about this is optional and he can say fuck all about it if he wishes? Coming out with this crap right now is so fucking stupid. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 40 minutes ago, LionOfGosforth said: @AyeDubbleYoo Sake. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drewboy74 Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 Has Tonali said something like? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rafalove Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 (edited) 35 minutes ago, AyeDubbleYoo said: Sake. I mean, “Newcastle are having a hard time of letting go”, would be cause for pessimism, surely? Edited February 6 by Rafalove Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Joel Inton Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 Fuck me. I hope we’re seriously not considering replacing him with Anderson or Curtis fucking Jones. He’ll go. The noise started at a similar time with Isak IIRC, I thought it was Liverpool just trying to unsettle him ahead of the final, but clearly not. His replacement will be a huge factor as to how we perform next season. Hopefully we get it right. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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