Malick Thiaw

[HayDen Traces]

1 minute ago, Skeletor said:

We've hit rock bottom.

[AyeDubbleYoo]

2 minutes ago, Skeletor said:

We've hit rock bottom.

 

He's that bad is he?

[Moose]

2 minutes ago, Skeletor said:

We've hit rock bottom.

 

2 minutes ago, TBG said:

We're so back

 

The duality of a Newcastle transfer window

[The Prophet]

Just now, AyeDubbleYoo said:

 

He's that bad is he?

 

No.

[Menace]

Howe made Lascelles and Krafth into decent defenders - something tells me he'll be able to sort him out. He's not Guehi levels, but Howe will get something out of him and if the price is right then fair enough. Still want another 3-4 signings though.

[KetsbaiaIsBald]

Howe could coach me into being a decent centre half.

[lovejoy]

The analysis of this lad on here, man. 😂😂

[AyeDubbleYoo]

Just as well we didn't get Sesko and Thiaw, the pronunciations would send us over the edge. 

[AyeDubbleYoo]

1 minute ago, lovejoy said:

The analysis of this lad on here, man. 😂😂

 

At this point everyone is so hysterical that anyone we don't sign is class and anyone we can/might sign is shite. Could be correct, who knows. 

[Geordie Magpie]

9 minutes ago, SUPERTOON said:

 

How long til it's rejected or someone else signs him

[Kanj]

35 minutes ago, Curva Sud Milano said:

Trust me....Musah, not Mensah, is an absolute disgrace. If you decide to buy him, I'll personally come to your house and I'll cook for you a fabulous carbonara.... for a month!!! 

I'll do it for all the 50,000 at St.James too.

 

 

 

 

 

@Minhosa let's go 50/50 and get this deal done. Carbonara the next time I'm over mate. 

[Stal]

6 minutes ago, AyeDubbleYoo said:

I love 90s footballers confirming our transfer dealings. Next, Franck LeBoeuf tells us the bid has been rejected. 

 

We are then informed by David Hirst that no bid was ever made.

[Kanj]

8 minutes ago, AyeDubbleYoo said:

I love 90s footballers confirming our transfer dealings. Next, Franck LeBoeuf tells us the bid has been rejected. 

 

 he's a canny plastic surgeon

[The Prophet]

Schrodingers Whinge #3

 

"Why are we bidding for PL players? They come at a premium, the cartel will gazunp us anyway. We should buy the dip with young European talent."

 

V

 

"That's underwhelming, he was shit last season"

[AyeDubbleYoo]

What I will say is that I still find it refreshing that the club do at least know which positions we need to fill and attempt to fill them. Quite rare in my life that you feel the club are actually going after the positions we need at pretty much exactly the time we need them. 

 

We can't get them to join obviously, but that's the next step in our evolution. 

[nufc123]

2 minutes ago, The Prophet said:

"That's underwhelming, he was shit last season"

But isnt it fair to complain when he was shit?

[Joe_F]

3 minutes ago, Geordie Magpie said:

How long til it's rejected or someone else signs him

 

It was rejected a couple of hours before we 'officially' put it in, I think.

[Kanj]

I still feel like Thiaw is the type you spend 25-30m on and that he hopefully develops into the player you want him to be in a year+ time. So this one feels more like the Bruno/Botman bracket, although he needs to obv develop under Howe. 

 

If it's one thing I know, our ability to turn any defender from 1 level to another level or 2 or 3 is nearly perfect. Lascelles, Krafth, Tino, Hall, Burn, Schar, and Botman are better players after Howe. Targett was there too until his body failed him. 

 

 

Edited August 6, 2025 by Kanj

[gbandit]

You bring the Guanciale Curva, we’ll sort you out with the rest 

[JP]

1 minute ago, Kanj said:

I still feel like Thiaw is the type you spend 25-30m on and that he hopefully develops into the player you want him to be in a year+ time. So this one feels more like the Bruno/Botman bracket, although he needs to obv develop under Howe. 

 

If it's one thing I know, our ability to turn any defender from 1 level to another level or 2 or 3 is nearly perfect. Lascelles, Krafth, Tino, Hall, Burn, Schar, and Botman are better players after Howe. Targett was there too until his body failed him. 

 

 

 

Which is the model that has worked for us.

 

Shopping in £60m+ markets means the players want wages worthy of that value and the agents push that rhetoric hard - resulting in everything we see this summer.

 

Happy to go back to the old model (Thiaw fits that) if it means adding the depth we desperately need.

 

[Mike]

Signing up for the carbonara.

[Mole]

Honestly the Carbonara has been the best thing I've seen on this board all summer.

 

 

[Kanj]

Sign Thiaw now. 

[The Prophet]

7 minutes ago, nufc123 said:

But isnt it fair to complain when he was shit?

 

It is.

[The Butcher]

Big fucker, good age, full International and plenty of time improve.

 

Fatha from Senegal and mother from Finland. Random as.

 

Bring. Him. Hyem.