NUFC Transfer Rumours

[sanyi75]

7 hours ago, r0cafella said:

Not a good look

 

This is the club's spin as well. Other clubs do medicals, we plan them

 

Talk of overpaying and citing the Wissa deal, big difference between paying twice what someone's worth and 5m. The fact we not only overpaid for Wissa but overpaid to such a degree but fucked around over 5m for a player who we will book a profit on regardless tells me this club has absolutely no clue. 

I still can't understand how we got Wissa to sign such a contract. The fact that we bought him expensively can be explained to some extent, but the weekly salary he received from Brentford (25k per week) we pay him 140k per week plus a bonus of 35k. How can you do this, let alone against other players.

[Optimistic Nut]

1 minute ago, sanyi75 said:

I still can't understand how we got Wissa to sign such a contract. The fact that we bought him expensively can be explained to some extent, but the weekly salary he received from Brentford (25k per week) we pay him 140k per week plus a bonus of 35k. How can you do this, let alone against other players.

 

Capology by any chance?

[r0cafella]

1 minute ago, sanyi75 said:

I still can't understand how we got Wissa to sign such a contract. The fact that we bought him expensively can be explained to some extent, but the weekly salary he received from Brentford (25k per week) we pay him 140k per week plus a bonus of 35k. How can you do this, let alone against other players.

I'm not sure what your point is? 

[Loki679]

7 minutes ago, Optimistic Nut said:

 

Capology by any chance?

 

That salary for Wissa has been widely reported tbf.

[sanyi75]

10 minutes ago, r0cafella said:

I'm not sure what your point is? 

I think it's unrealistic, only the best players on the team should get paid that much, many of our good players (Hall, Miley, Livramento, Barnes, Osula) get paid much less. The other thing is that when we negotiate with players, we often don't offer nearly that much.

[r0cafella]

Just now, sanyi75 said:

I think it's unrealistic, only the best players on the team should get paid that much, many of our good players (Hall, Miley, Livramento, Barnes, Osula) get paid much less. The other thing is that when we negotiate with players, we often don't offer nearly that much.

Oh, ok I see what you mean. 

 

We were fleeced by him and Brentford but as they say. Willing buyer willing seller. 

[sanyi75]

11 minutes ago, r0cafella said:

Oh, ok I see what you mean. 

 

We were fleeced by him and Brentford but as they say. Willing buyer willing seller. 

I thought, he should have been happy that NUFC wanted to get him, I think he should have accepted a much smaller weekly salary, for example double his salary there, because we will fail to sell him. Whoever signed this contract is ... That's why I'm afraid of this year's transfer window, because things are not going as they should. When we should hesitate, we sign such contracts at other times, and I still see the same player search mistakes.

[r0cafella]

1 minute ago, sanyi75 said:

I thought, he should have been happy that NUFC wanted to get him, I think he should have accepted a much smaller weekly salary, for example double his salary there, because we will fail to sell him. Whoever signed this contract is ... That's why I'm afraid of this year's transfer window, because things are not going as they should. When we should hesitate, we sign such contracts at other times, and I still see the same player search mistakes.

No disrespect or insult intended but I suggest you take what footballers say with a pinch of salt. He wanted to come here because we were the only club daft enough to pay the package. 

[sanyi75]

8 minutes ago, r0cafella said:

No disrespect or insult intended but I suggest you take what footballers say with a pinch of salt. He wanted to come here because we were the only club daft enough to pay the package. 

Yes, you are right. Miley's attitude shows that she loves this club, we need more Miley.

 

 

Edited 2 hours ago by sanyi75

[Jewel]

11 hours ago, GeordieDazzler said:

Only if we sign his brother too apparently

Let's sign his gran and grandad too, just to be on the safe side. Surely, he couldn't refuse us then, could he?

[Nucasol]

8 minutes ago, Jewel said:

Let's sign his gran and grandad too, just to be on the safe side. Surely, he couldn't refuse us then, could he?

Cracking suite in the Jesmond Dene Hotel lined up for them. Comes furnished with the mummified corpses of Tranquillo Barnetta and Brett Emerton.

[TRon]

8 hours ago, Kanj said:

 

You can’t paint last summer’s overpay on Wilson’s underpay as a direct example. But you can absolutely say the club (PIF/Hop) have no fucking clue at this point. I suspect Wilson knows how football works and has been around the game long enough to know what can happen if you delay shit. He’s the DOF so this will fall on him but the CEO and NUFC Board (Jamie, Solis, etc) need to fucking have a word with themselves. We are owned by a sov wealth fund who own Aramco, plastered all over the World Cup and F1. Our Chairman can text or call heads of state, and he has shown up to our matches in person over the period of our ownership, he claimed one time we’d be #1 and his club has gotten blown out of the water by Liverpool, Chelsea, Man City an Man United - legacy PL clubs owned by billionaires who would give A LOT to have PIF money flowing through their other lines of businesses. Act like an elite club NUFC please. Stop allowing agents and clubs to take the piss out of us. We are all fucking sick of this. It’s been the majority of our entire existence barring small short spells of a manager or someone above getting it, only to be shown the fucking door. 

 

 

I have generally been very supportive of PIF because I still think they are our best chance of becoming a successful football club, but on this I absolutely agree. 

 

We need someone at the business end who is invested and can make things happen. How come Edwards and Iraola can act so fast and swoop in to take our signings while at our end we seem to be haggling over contractual minutae? From the outside it seems like PIF haven't delegated enough power to the DOF to make things happen.