NUFC Transfer Rumours

[BonesJones]

38 minutes ago, duo said:

Eddie wants us to move early, and the club needs to move early to secure primary targets.  Agreed it's only the 3rd but other clubs have started doing business.

Not quite so easy when the reported 'primary' targets are the ones that the other clubs are doing business for.

 

Despite footballing logic right now, Man U are still a bigger draw to players, plus wages. Chelsea, bigger draw plus wages. And so on atm until it reaches our turn so to speak.

[On the Grid]

52 minutes ago, duo said:

Eddie wants us to move early, and the club needs to move early to secure primary targets.  Agreed it's only the 3rd but other clubs have started doing business.

How is this known by anyone?

[madras]

19 minutes ago, BonesJones said:

Not quite so easy when the reported 'primary' targets are the ones that the other clubs are doing business for.

 

Despite footballing logic right now, Man U are still a bigger draw to players, plus wages. Chelsea, bigger draw plus wages. And so on atm until it reaches our turn so to speak.

I'm not so sure Man Utd would be as big a draw if it weren't for the wages right now 

[janpawel]

What's people's thoughts on Ousmane Diomande? 

 

He used to get hyped loads a year or so ago, now the hype has died down. 

 

21 years old, 6ft 3, rapid, good 1 v 1, amazing in the air, and supposedly very progressive with his passing / making runs. 

 

€80m release clause, though he has 2 years left on his deal now, so wonder if it could be negotiated lower. 

 

Highly praised, good data metrics but most importantly, he passes the YouTube highlights test

 

 

[madras]

9 minutes ago, janpawel said:

What's people's thoughts on Ousmane Diomande? 

 

He used to get hyped loads a year or so ago, now the hype has died down. 

 

21 years old, 6ft 3, rapid, good 1 v 1, amazing in the air, and supposedly very progressive with his passing / making runs. 

 

€80m release clause, though he has 2 years left on his deal now, so wonder if it could be negotiated lower. 

 

Highly praised, good data metrics but most importantly, he passes the YouTube highlights test

 

 

We were linked for a while. Seemed like the price (60mill I think) took us to Sven.

[Memphis]

The point is that none of us know exactly what is going on behind the scenes. We are notoriously quiet about our dealings so I would say it's incorrect to assume nothing is happening. If we're still sitting here having signed no one by mid-July, then I will start freaking out myself. I expect we will be busy over the next month. 

 

And while I like Mbeumo, we can't pay him 180k/pw. We can't pay anyone that yet and I wouldn't want him to be the first. Maybe Isak's new deal can hit that mark. It's shit that ManUtd can pay those types of wages due to their huge commercial revenue advantage, but they can. Hopefully we cut into that advantage over the coming years. Until we do, wages will be a stumbling block for a certain type of player. 

[Weezertron]

Would everyone be alright finishing the window with 2 signings, both around 60mil each? 

[On the Grid]

3 minutes ago, Weezertron said:

Would everyone be alright finishing the window with 2 signings, both around 60mil each? 

Personally...im just holding off for a tenuous link to a new RW from the continent, none of these premier league players...one of the NE journos will swing by soon enough with a scoop... a morsel, just give me a morsel please...I want a new thread about said player to click frantically, only to dismiss it as rubbish. 

 

But yeah i will take £60m each

[Harveys Barn]

12 minutes ago, Weezertron said:

Would everyone be alright finishing the window with 2 signings, both around 60mil each? 

No - I think we need much more squad change and depth.

 

We need to be selling 2-3, and buying 6-7.

 

If last summer teams were able to buy players like Hujisen and Milenkovich for 10-15m, and if Brentford just bought kelleher for 18m, then we also need to be able to find and buy 3-4 players in that sort of range that we have scouted well.

[TheBrownBottle]

1 hour ago, On the Grid said:

How is this known by anyone?

Because Howe said exactly that in a press conference

[Whitley mag]

42 minutes ago, Weezertron said:

Would everyone be alright finishing the window with 2 signings, both around 60mil each? 

No would leave us criminally short with all the extra games to play.

 
Where in a tricky situation with limited funds where we need to improve the first 11 but also the squad depth.

 

 

[TheBrownBottle]

44 minutes ago, Weezertron said:

Would everyone be alright finishing the window with 2 signings, both around 60mil each? 

If the squad remained intact, sounds ok to me - but I think we'll see movement out, and each of those will need a replacement