NUFC Transfer Rumours

[andycap]

If Mitchell was in charge of recruitment like we thought he was gonna be when he joined us. 

We'd have made plenty of signings by now from abroad. 

High potential players for Eddie to work with. 

In my opinion of course. 

[Whitley mag]

5 minutes ago, Ben said:

Fuckin Mitchell stealing a living.

Think he’s signed some good youngsters by the looks of it, but we’ll never know what his 1st team signings would have been, I suspect a little bit different to the current links though.

[The Prophet]

Perhaps just see how it plays out?

[nemtizz]

#wait

[Collage]

4 hours ago, Theregulars said:

Think it’s quite funny to see him on the wind-up, and as set out above think he’s genuinely emotionally invested in Newcastle and wants the best for it. 
 

Once you adjust to the reality that none of them really have full or accurate information, the club knowingly and deliberately use them and that their career viability depends on how many clicks and views they can garner, it’s quite funny to watch someone openly bait people and for them to fall for it every time.

 

Not to say he’s not embarrassed himself or seemed to have mislead people on occasion, his guehi stuff last summer was not helpful. 

He's a journalist. If that's what you think a journalist should be doing...to me it's very strange. Fortunately I don't have X/Twitter anymore so what I read from him is on here.

gbandit sums it up well some posts up. Edwards is boring and has nothing to say.

[STM]

Just now, The Prophet said:

Perhaps just see how it plays out?

 

And miss out the guesswork and whinging? Come on, get in the transfer window spirit 

 

For once, i will cut some slack because we havent signed anyone im forever and people are desperate for that hit.

[andycap]

Nowt to do with that, it's the linked players nearly all costing 60 million when we have to spend more wisely. 

It makes you think we are shopping in the wrong market that's all. 

 

 

Edited 5 hours ago by andycap

[STM]

18 minutes ago, Weezertron said:

I thought this window would be us pushing our team to the next level with recruitment. But going off the links we're seeing (what else can we go on?) it seems more solidifying the level we are already reaching on occasion. 

 

It's still progress. Slower yeah, but safer. 

 

We can't afford the elites, we won't risk the unknowns and so we're left with shopping the pool of good players from the Prem, that clubs are reluctant/don't need to sell.  

 

Obviously this is just how I see it. No one knows. 

 

 

 

What's elite? Isak, Bruno, Tonali, Gordon, Trippier, Botman?

 

At the very least Tonali and Isak were incredibly marquee signings, even if there was an element of risk attached. We afforded them, although those transfers are very difficult to do, there's nothing stopping us pulling one out again.

 

The only difference now is that we are having to be a little more cautious towards the PSR ramifications.

[STM]

Also, isn't the whole point that we sign someone like Joao Pedro, who's 23, and take his game to the next level? 

 

Theres every chance we will add 20m to his value in 12 months under Eddie Howes tutelage.

 

 

[Ben]

7 minutes ago, nemtizz said:

#wait

 

Cans

[LFEE]

1 hour ago, STM said:

 

Or people have different opinions and perceptions.

 

And let's be honest here, you are the one who thinks it's possible that Luke Edwards, our most hated journalists, is likable. I don't.

Yes but you can’t have two different correct perceptions. One of us has to be wrong.

[STM]

1 minute ago, LFEE said:

Yes but you can’t have two different correct perceptions. One of us has to be wrong.

[LFEE]

Just now, STM said:

So your statement was as bad as your judgement of LE & EH’s working relationship.

 

Do you watch them all? 

[Adam P]

It was my honest assessment of their relationship, if you watch the pressers closely with this in mind, you cant help notice Eddie and Luke are buddies. Doesnt mean i think we should trust him but the boss keeps him onside for a reason. 

 

 

Edited 5 hours ago by Adam P

[Weezertron]

11 minutes ago, STM said:

 

What's elite? Isak, Bruno, Tonali, Gordon, Trippier, Botman?

 

At the very least Tonali and Isak were incredibly marquee signings, even if there was an element of risk attached. We afforded them, although those transfers are very difficult to do, there's nothing stopping us pulling one out again.

 

The only difference now is that we are having to be a little more cautious towards the PSR ramifications.

 

I think most of the fanbase would be thrilled continuing the recruitment approach that got us those players. I would love it. 

 

[Weezertron]

24 minutes ago, STM said:

Also, isn't the whole point that we sign someone like Joao Pedro, who's 23, and take his game to the next level? 

 

Theres every chance we will add 20m to his value in 12 months under Eddie Howes tutelage.

 

 

 

True, but the goal should be to get them before they've been signed by two premier league sides. Avoids not only the massive fee, but the wages. 

[STM]

21 minutes ago, LFEE said:

So your statement was as bad as your judgement of LE & EH’s working relationship.

 

Do you watch them all? 

Yes, I watch every press conference.

 

I think you are wrong. Is that a hard concept to grasp? I also don't need laughing emojis or to claim anything on your judgement. It's opinions. 

 

I think Luke Edwards is a cunt. I don't think Eddie Howe likes him at all. 

 

We disagree, we don't need to be cunts about it?

[STM]

14 minutes ago, Weezertron said:

 

I think most of the fanbase would be thrilled continuing the recruitment approach that got us those players. I would love it. 

 

 

I think that's exactly what we are doing.

 

We aren't in the business of buying cheap foreign risks with the view of selling them for a profit. We leave that to Brighton/Bournemouth.

 

Eddie Howe wants as sure a thing as possible and I don't blame him, it's his neck on the line if we get things wrong.

 

For every Dean Huijsen there's a "bargain" who didn't make it and we can't afford too many players to fail here because the expectations are now through the roof.

[STM]

38 minutes ago, andycap said:

Nowt to do with that, it's the linked players nearly all costing 60 million when we have to spend more wisely. 

It makes you think we are shopping in the wrong market that's all. 

 

 

 

 

What market you want us shopping in Andy? 

 

Spend less money on higher risk players = more errors in the transfer market. More errors in transfers = worse team performances. Worse performance = worse results. Worse results = bye bye champions league football.

 

Im not suggesting we need to spend 60m on every player FWIW but we've signed one player of that price to this point.

[Weezertron]

4 minutes ago, STM said:

 

I think that's exactly what we are doing.

 

We aren't in the business of buying cheap foreign risks with the view of selling them for a profit. We leave that to Brighton/Bournemouth.

 

Eddie Howe wants as sure a thing as possible and I don't blame him, it's his neck on the line if we get things wrong.

 

For every Dean Huijsen there's a "bargain" who didn't make it and we can't afford too many players to fail here because the expectations are now through the roof.

 

I hope thats what we're doing too.

 

I don't think signings like Elanga/Pedro for 60/70m represent the same approach in my opinion but it's cool if you do. 

 

They'd both be good players for us anyway so it's not a problem - other than it potentially restricting the strengthening we can do elsewhere.

 

All good.

[Theregulars]

51 minutes ago, Collage said:

He's a journalist. If that's what you think a journalist should be doing...to me it's very strange. Fortunately I don't have X/Twitter anymore so what I read from him is on here.

gbandit sums it up well some posts up. Edwards is boring and has nothing to say.

I don’t really think most journalists are journalists these days, no. I don’t think what I said constitutes endorsement of the standard of his information-sharing, and yeh I’d rather he provided concrete information or wrote interesting opinion things. But watching him poke fun at people scrabbling about for minute-by-minute transfer updates like crackheads rustling through a bin is quite funny, because he’s taking the piss out of their eminently pisstake-worthy behaviour. 
 

If you actually get riled up or offended by a regional football writer not giving you the hit you crave then you’ve bigger problems than Luke Edwards, in my view.

 

 

 

 

Edited 4 hours ago by Theregulars

[STM]

Just now, Weezertron said:

 

I hope thats what we're doing too.

 

I don't think signings like Elanga/Pedro for 60/70m represent the same approach in my opinion but it's cool if you do. 

 

They'd both be good players for us anyway so it's not a problem - other than it potentially restricting the strengthening we can do elsewhere.

 

All good.

 

Theres no way we spend 60+ on Elanga. That's daft paper talk. Same with JP for 70. Any club can ask for what they want. Southampton were quoted 100m for Dibling. 

 

Elanga is going to be closer to 50 IMO (which is still think is steep) and JP might reach 60.

 

(That's if we sign them, which I'm still not convinced of)

 

We spent 45m on Gordon and everyone said the same thing, he'd probably go for 70/80 now.

 

 

 

 

[Weezertron]

1 minute ago, STM said:

 

Theres no way we spend 60+ on Elanga. That's daft paper talk. Same with JP for 70. Any club can ask for what they want. Southampton were quoted 100m for Dibling. 

 

Elanga is going to be closer to 50 IMO (which is still think is steep) and JP might reach 60.

 

(That's if we sign them, which I'm still not convinced of)

 

We spent 45m on Gordon and everyone said the same thing, he'd probably go for 70/80 now.

 

 

 

 

 

All fair points that will be either right or wrong. 

[The Prophet]

51 minutes ago, The Prophet said:

Perhaps just see how it plays out?

 

I'm all for assessing potential links and the like, but it seems a bit futile to assess the window or what we're trying to do as a whole until we see the full picture.

[The Prophet]

For example, I find it fascinating that we've seemingly targeted two players who play in that left hand eight/false nine position. I'm not sure how we'll put it together and we likely won't know until August time, but I have complete trust in our recruitment.