England's Tino Livramento

[Shearergol]

36 minutes ago, Mountain said:

 

 

Why did you want two CMs?

 

Because we need to match Man City already 

[The Prophet]

I was hoping for two centre mids, one first team, one development. The emergence of Miley has pretty much negated that need though.

[Joelinton7]

2 hours ago, Skeletor said:

 

Maybe he never left.

Maybe he never will. 

[The College Dropout]

1 hour ago, Mountain said:

 

 

Why did you want two CMs?

 

Didn’t anticipate Anderson being ready for serious minutes and expected us to push for champions league spot again. 
 

One Tonali type. One more Szob type that could play wide too. 
 

Get Barnes but keep ASM. 
 

 

I think that team (+ defensive reinforcements) can qualify for CL again and give the CL a decent go. 
 

As it stands FFP makes that type of investment  impossible. So we’ll do the best we can.  I’d be delighted with any type of European football again and Eddie has shown he can work miracles. 

[gdm]

Can see this being confirmed today

[Dr.Spaceman]

Why

[cubaricho]

I mean he was literally at the stadium for both the Sela Cup match days. It’s honestly just a matter of time before the announcement. 

[James]

This is normally the part where we tell jokes about his leg falling off in the medical

[gdm]

1 hour ago, Dr.Spaceman said:

Why

He was at the game on Saturday & Sunday Assume it’s pretty much done bar the announcement 

 

 

Edited August 7, 2023 by gdm

[Dr.Spaceman]

3 minutes ago, gdm said:

He was at the game on Saturday & Sunday Assume it’s pretty much done bar the announcement 

 

 

 

 

Have you paid any attention to our transfers over the last few years, we'll take another 2 weeks or so man 

[AyeDubbleYoo]

Wor Adam P said he was doing the media stuff yesterday, so could be announced today. 

 

In Adam we trust. 

[Miggys First Goal]

Needs more Aniston in this thread. That usually shuffles things along. 
 

[BeloEmre]

 

[Wilson]

11 minutes ago, Miggys First Goal said:

Needs more Aniston in this thread. That usually shuffles things along. 
 

 

Well that worked better than expected. 

[gbandit]

Can’t wait to see him in black and white. I love our approach in terms of the age range of every player we’ve brought in. We’re not buying the best players at their peak but a lot of our signings have the potential to be amongst the best in the world at their positions when they peak. Really exciting knowing a lot of the squad is only going to get better in the next five years 

[James]

1 hour ago, gbandit said:

Can’t wait to see him in black and white. I love our approach in terms of the age range of every player we’ve brought in. We’re not buying the best players at their peak but a lot of our signings have the potential to be amongst the best in the world at their positions when they peak. Really exciting knowing a lot of the squad is only going to get better in the next five years 

Especially when we know Howe actually works to improve players unlike Mourinho or Conte who just use and discard

[54]

 

[r0cafella]

Just now, 54 said:

 

Oddly specific correction

[James]

3 minutes ago, r0cafella said:

Oddly specific correction

Chelsea lawyers are watching

[Kanji]

+ Newcastle Online’s transfer value gurus here who seemingly are the experts of valuation in football players today 

[Jesse Pinkman]

Jacob Murphy looked very good at RB yesterday and has clearly been learning from Trippier. I would cancel this transfer and focus on LB and CB with our remaining funds. 

[Jinky]

10 minutes ago, 54 said:

 

Who are we gonna buy with the spare £1M

[andycap]

8 minutes ago, Jesse Pinkman said:

Jacob Murphy looked very good at RB yesterday and has clearly been learning from Trippier. I would cancel this transfer and focus on LB and CB with our remaining funds. 

Your joking aren't you lad? One good game at right back doesn't mean your a right back all of a sudden. 

[Kid Icarus]

Fucking hell, another one out of the blue

[Yorkie]

14 minutes ago, Jesse Pinkman said:

Jacob Murphy looked very good at RB yesterday and has clearly been learning from Trippier. I would cancel this transfer and focus on LB and CB with our remaining funds. 

 

Murphy isn't a long-term successor to Trippier though. 

 

This move, like Gordon, is clearly an opportunistic one. Howe/Ashworth see signing Trippier's long-term replacement as more effective squad management (given our resources) than upgrading on Burn/Targett. A left-back would be great but it's sensible to try and integrate Trippier's successor, particularly if the player you've identified for that role is available. 

 

I think we'll get a CB but we won't get a winger; Gordon is that player, we just signed him early.