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I wouldn't worry, from afar Newcastle have clearly been going in the right direction. keep your squad together add a couple and you're golden. if i was a newcastle fan, given what i've witnessed at city, i'd want the owners to sort out all the behind the scenes stuff. a state of the art training centre and academy. make it so when players get there they never want to leave. get all that sorted while you wait to see what happens with the 115 and the apt cases then you'll know the lay of the land on the big spending. maybe build a womens team and a hotel. our training and academy have been the making of us. we make so much money from it.

It's America's royal wedding man, let him have it.

One tenuous link in amongst a plethora of attacking players.

We were linked with an Italian CB last week. Sounds like Guehi might be heading to Liverpool.

It's the £££'s the players go for. They won't buy someone they don't want, the difference between 1st/2nd even 3rd + choice will be wafer thin, we're not buying Billy Askew because prime Messi turned us down. It's interesting that there have been very few rumours around our main position of need (RCB) and all the noise has been around the position social media thinks is our main issue.

Will they? They may not be his first choice, if rumours to be believed, which is a shame for him. He deserves to be backed properly. I don’t know if we keep losing out on rumoured targets to Chelsea and Man U because they offer higher wages, or because they remain more attractive (hard to accept in Man U’s case currently) than we are or because we’re haggling over £5-10m on each fee.

Importantly they'll be the players they want.

I wonder what Chelse are telling the players that they sign. 2 Seasons (games played, from 90+) Caceido €116m - 73 Lavia €62m - 17 Nkunku €60m - 38 Palmer €47m - 70 Disasi €45m - 37 (loaned out) Jackson £37m - 65 Ugochukwu €27M - 12 Sanchez (GK) €23m - 48 Petrovic (GK) €16m - 23 (loaned) Washington €16m - 2 (loaned out) Angelo €15m - 0 (loaned then sold) 1 Season (from 45+ games) Neto €60m - 35 Felix €52m - 12 Dewsbury-Hall €35m - 13 Jorgensen (GK) €24m - 6 Kellyman €22m - 0 Anselmino €16m - 0 (then loaned out) Amagou €15m - 1 Veiga €14m - 7 (then loaned) Wiley €10m - 0 (then loaned) Adarabioyo (Free) - 22 This window (so far): Pedro €60m Delap £35m Estevao €34m Essugo €22m Penders (GK) €20m Sarr €14m Paez €10m Would they even bother trying to pretend to players that they're important to their plans? Or do they just tell them how much they'll be making? Bolded the ones who have had some degree of success there, was feeling very generous with Jackson. That's over €80m spent on GKs alone in a couple of years and they likely don't know who their best keeper is. It gets worse if you go back another year as well. As a fan watching all of that go on it can't be a very rewarding process. I hope we never turn into this soulless conveyor belt of mercenaries.

I mean they might not be Eddie’s first choice targets. Sounds like we’ve already missed out on a few, if rumours are to be believed

Plus they have 7 strikers to help him

He clearly wanted to join Chelsea and putting bias aside they have a better recent history of winning things, will give him bigger wages on a huge contract (7 years I heard), CL football and can offer him the London lifestyle. its hard to compete with that

I feel like Mbuemo was, but as soon as he publicly said he wanted man u and 250k a week we just went "fuck that" and moved on. Given our wage structure I am perfectly happy with that, as much as I rate him.

Hardly watched any this year. Has the line up been any good?

There's every chance that the agents of these targets have been using us as leverage to parlay up their clients' wages. Not to mention the selling clubs squeezing up the transfer price. We don't really know if the likes of Mbuemo and Pedro were serious targets, a lot of it has been amplified through social media with no direct corroboration from the club as far as Ive seen.

Heavily linked by the likes of 'TeamTalk' 'adwum pewarsum' 'nufc370' etc. i.e social media 'influencer' know fuck all cunts.

he not dissimilar looking tbf

if it is what is going on then I don't see why we are engaging in Ashley style tactics just to piss clubs off and players to go elsewhere. Im still patiently positive about our dealings being concluded on the quiet but id expect to see some through the door in the next fortnight.

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Definitely coming my way - referral awaited

Oh, great

As above and also we have to wait until 1 July to get rid of the PSR issue.