NUFC Transfer Rumours

[kingxlnc]

Another option - Alvarez is coming this weekend with Atletico. 
 

Let’s get Lautaro Martinez or Marcus Thuram from Inter. 

Ivan Toney on loan.

 

Guirhassy.

 

CR7 on loan. 

 

Theres still plenty of decent CFs out there. 

[oldtype]

1 minute ago, r0cafella said:

No, if you have a director of football who is competent i would expect we sign players who want to sign for us as everyone else seems to do. 

 

Let's be frank, our transfer issues in this window are outliers for the rest of the league. 

But of course they’re outliers. There’s not a single other team in the league that’s even attempting to compete with the top six for players without being one of them.
 

Maybe we should have been less ambitious from the start, but I don’t necessarily think a DOF would have been able to make that decision either given the excitement around the club prior to this window.

[KennyUtd]

14 minutes ago, r0cafella said:

This is such a stupid tweet man. We didn't get any of them as they had better options. 

 

Id expect a director of football was in charge of recruitment to have a very good idea of who wants to join and get stuff over the line. This window has been an absolutely failure. 

Who is hammering Eddie Howe too? No one as far as I can see. It's saying he can't do it all by himself. Crook just trying to stir some pot. 

[The Prophet]

5 minutes ago, r0cafella said:

I think your a cracking poster but I hate this post

 

How does a linear or none linear trajectory work when a clear glass ceiling is in place. 

 

Unless something changes i imagine we yoyo between European qualifications challengers to slightly below. Obviously it's hard to predict as the information we have is incomplete but for me this is far more of a realistic outlook than just hoping things improve. 

 

Cheers man.

 

It depends what the linear progress is moving towards. I was talking in terms of incremental improvement, rather than with a specific end goal in mind.

[nufc4eva]

1 minute ago, kingxlnc said:

Another option - Alvarez is coming this weekend with Atletico. 
 

Let’s get Lautaro Martinez or Marcus Thuram from Inter. 

Ivan Toney on loan.

 

Guirhassy.

 

CR7 on loan. 

 

Theres still plenty of decent CFs out there. 

Let's just instead tell Isak he's going nowhere and needs to suck it up, then get Wissa or similar second striker. Think we have exhausted the good options as replacement.

[r0cafella]

Just now, oldtype said:

But of course they’re outliers. There’s not a single other team in the league that’s even attempting to compete with the top six for players without being one of them.
 

Maybe we should have been less ambitious from the start, but I don’t necessarily think a DOF would have been able to make that decision either given the excitement around the club prior to this window.

So it's bad targeting then? As I've said absolutely no benefit trying to buy players who have better options. It's up to us to recognise this it's just a waste of time and resources. 

 

Id expect any director of football to take a level headed approach tbh, and not be swept away with hubris. It's another reason why you'd want one tbh. 

 

I understand the concept isn't popular but I think it's quite clear why this model exists and the manager led models basically died with Klopp. 

[r0cafella]

1 minute ago, The Prophet said:

 

Cheers man.

 

It depends what the linear progress is moving towards. I was talking in terms of incremental improvement, rather than with a specific end goal in mind.

I hear you man, like Liverpool I'm a destination poster

 

Stupidly aside sorry for being harsh, I meant what I said your a canny poster and I don't want to see you go on hiatus. 

 

It's just I've heard this path isn't linear said so many times and it always strikes me as blind optimism especially as we haven't closed the financial gap and this window is really reinforcing how important it is we do that. 

[Toonpack]

8 minutes ago, jack j said:

Why would Ramos come here though 

We need to look on the rung below if we are being realistic

 

If we need to look at the rung below, we need to keep Isak, whether he likes it or not, end of.

 

 

Edited August 6, 2025 by Toonpack

[oldtype]

1 minute ago, r0cafella said:

So it's bad targeting then? As I've said absolutely no benefit trying to buy players who have better options. It's up to us to recognise this it's just a waste of time and resources. 

 

Id expect any director of football to take a level headed approach tbh, and not be swept away with hubris. It's another reason why you'd want one tbh. 

 

I understand the concept isn't popular but I think it's quite clear why this model exists and the manager led models basically died with Klopp. 

I mean yes we should have a DOF and it’s ridiculous that we don’t. I just think the targeting issues were going to happen this summer regardless. Hard to be the guy in the room pouring cold water on everything when we’ve just won a cup, qualified for the champions league, and can spend actual money for the first time in ages.

[Lush Vlad]

1 hour ago, SUPERTOON said:

Not sure where we go from here, it’s increasingly likely we start the season with Gordon or Osula up front. That in itself is a failure. Mental we are in this position given what we achieved last season.

It’s worse than a failure. It’s completely unacceptable for a club that allegedly has ambitions of competing at the very top.
 

I’d say heads should roll for such a pathetic transfer policy. But there’s not

even anybody in the key positions of power to get the chop  Which seems to be the main problem in itself. 
 

I don’t have an issue with targeting players that are perhaps that next rung up in value and proven ability to what we have mainly been going after before. But the complete inability to get a deal done or at least work on multiple deals or move onto the next one when it’s obvious we’re losing out. Is baffling. 
 

Hard to blame Howe or mini Howe too much. As they have been dealt a shit hand. But seems an incredibly rigid transfer policy and I don’t buy that we suddenly only have very obvious or unattainable and/or overpriced options to choose from. Nickson has been here years and we felt creative in the transfer market at times. Now it feels like a kid playing FM that only watches the Prem and the odd CL game. 

[kingxlnc]

Nickson’s halo and the goodwill from Tonali Bruno Isak et al has slipped majorly

 

major redemption required

[r0cafella]

Just now, oldtype said:

I mean yes we should have a DOF and it’s ridiculous that we don’t. I just think the targeting issues were going to happen this summer regardless. Hard to be the guy in the room pouring cold water on everything when we’ve just won a cup, qualified for the champions league, and can spend actual money for the first time in ages.

The issues of this summer happen within the current structure I agree. Eddie is probably the best thing to happen to the club but the downside is he wants that final say and this is problematic as it doesn't fit the structure of a well run club. 

 

Also, it seems like we are well behind on the data side as well. Things are rough and we have structural issues it's unlikely we can resolve. 

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Just now, kingxlnc said:

Nickson’s halo and the goodwill from Tonali Bruno Isak et al has slipped majorly

 

major redemption required

[Kid Icarus]

Latest rumour I've heard is that Liverpool have asked us to give them the 24/25 EFL Cup we won and we're using all of our resources to see if that's possibile 

 

 

Edited August 6, 2025 by Kid Icarus

[Fak]

1 minute ago, kingxlnc said:

Nickson’s halo and the goodwill from Tonali Bruno Isak et al has slipped majorly

 

major redemption required

 

He's not in charge of signing players?

[GEFAFWISP]

Heard Mitchell's real reason for leaving was he had the temerity to recommend a player that hadn't been scouted for 3 years previously and would've wanted to actually join us but wasn't on the select list of players that improve us. Andy Howe ran him out of town.

[AyeDubbleYoo]

It really is strange like, I can only put it down to the backroom chaos and an overestimation of how attractive to players we would be. TBH I thought the same, I thought players would be desperate to come here. I guess they might be, just not it Liverpool or Chelsea want them. 

 

Fair to say we probably didn't expect all of our rivals to go on insane spending sprees at the same time. 

[Barnes23]

1 minute ago, kingxlnc said:

Nickson’s halo and the goodwill from Tonali Bruno Isak et al has slipped majorly

 

major redemption required

The extent to which he is implicated is largely the extent to which he is performing functions outside of his original remit out of necessity, as far as I can tell. The fault ultimately lies at the top. 

[AyeDubbleYoo]

1 minute ago, GEFAFWISP said:

Heard Mitchell's real reason for leaving was he had the temerity to recommend a player that hadn't been scouted for 3 years previously and would've wanted to actually join us but wasn't on the select list of players that improve us. Andy Howe ran him out of town.

 

I want players that improve us TBF, seems a good idea. 

[GEFAFWISP]

1 minute ago, Kid Icarus said:

Latest rumour I've heard is that Liverpool have asked us to give them they 24/25 EFL Cup and we're using all of our resources to see if we can make that a possibility 

Package deal with Isak for £120 million.

[JP]

1 minute ago, Kid Icarus said:

Latest rumour I've heard is that Liverpool have asked us to give them the 24/25 EFL Cup we won and we're using all of our resources to see if that's possibile 

 

 

 

 

We'd somehow lose out to Chelsea in this 

 

[nufc4eva]

2 minutes ago, kingxlnc said:

Nickson’s halo and the goodwill from Tonali Bruno Isak et al has slipped majorly

 

major redemption required

What are they meant to do, they have offered the right amount for players and players choosing clubs with a bigger reputation worldwide. We aren't competing with these clubs yet on reputation even if likes of Man U are shit

[GEFAFWISP]

Just now, AyeDubbleYoo said:

 

I want players that improve us TBF, seems a good idea. 

So do I, but I believe there's more than 5 of them in world football.

[oldtype]

I just really, really hope there’s a file cabinet somewhere at the club labeled “list of less ambitious targets that we’ve scouted before and are comfortable signing if we have to.”

[nufc4eva]

2 minutes ago, GEFAFWISP said:

So do I, but I believe there's more than 5 of them in world football.

Not that can get to similar levels as Isak quickly there isn't and good forwards are hard to find that can fit our style and do it in this league.