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He's spiteful man he'd rather gamble than see us happy.

Rafa Benitez kept his cool when questioned about (lack of) transfers on Friday afternoon but was clearly far from happy. The United boss says that he personally doesn’t get involved in the transfers, but stated that he gave Mike Ashley his list of transfer targets ‘A, B and C options…’ and is still waiting to see if they end up being signed. “We have given a list with A, B and C options…we have to wait until 31st January, then we will see.”

Recap of what Benitez said at todays presser. Rafa is still hopeful he’ll have at least one signing by the close of the window On whether they’ll break the club’s transfer record he would only say they’d have to wait and see On Nicolai Jorgensen he just said he did not deal with transfer negotiations and merely gave those who do his A, B and C targets On Mitrovic, he said if someone does sign he’ll be able to consider offers for him, but only from teams outside of the Premier League He acknowledged Brighton’s bid but said he wouldn’t sell to a rival unless, he joked, they were willing to pay £500m He spoke of Kenedy signing, how he’d watched him since the summer and said he’s a great option who adds quality and versatility to the squad He said that the window should be reduced because 31 days is too long in the middle of a season when you’re left with uncertainty over certain players On the FA Cup game at Chelsea, he said he’s unlikely to bring any youngsters in because he says there are too many first team players on the fringes who would deserve a chance if he was to switch things up Injury wise, Lejeune has been back running this week. Everyone is fit except Jesus Gamez, although the suggestion was that Mitrovic won’t be involved Asked about his time at Chelsea, he said he enjoyed his time there and was proud of what he achieved, but said his only focus was on Newcastle now

Your right but in this instance we could do without the extra games.

He gets everything about the city, the club, the fans Ashley's a bastard for treating him the way he does

IF we beat Chelsea it'll be the first time in Ashley's ten year tenure that we've reached the fifth round of the F.A. Cup. The FA Cup has lost it's magic now & to be honest being drawn against Chelsea maybe a godsend. I'm not saying i want us to get beat but we could do without the extra games to concentrate on our league position.

P.S. I was on holiday in Miami so i couldn't give a toss love Mike

Happy Face tweeted this morning we've never bought a player after 26th January for the last 7 windows

I expect the first question in todays presser will be regarding transfers or lack of them

That's all it is, i expect Rafa to be starting to get pissed off

£15 million second bid for Jorgenson rejected they want £25 million in no hurry to sell.

Well it's 8.00pm on 25th January we have one loanie in who hasn't played a minute of premiership football this season. We've tried to buy a dutch player by offering 60% of the asking price. Now considering Rafa wanted them all in by the 15th of january the 20th at the latest.He wanted quality & experienced premiership players. It's now looking like Ashleys sold Rafa down the river for the 3rd window in a row. Yes there's still a few days of the window left but it's looking less likely Rafa's getting what he asked Ashley for & what he was promised. It's a disgrace it really is.

Monaco in talks with Leicester over loaning Silmani

If Ashley can get £15 million for Mitro he'll be £3.6 million in profit over the 3 windows

new bid from Brighton £15 million for Mitrovic

This guy doesn't fit in with what Raf's wants, premiership experience or premiership quality.

They want £20 million we offered them £12 million they said no thanks

Pete Graves Sky Kenedy signs for #nufc on loan. Next on the list is a striker and a goalkeeper.... but hearing tonight it's been a frustrating day on both fronts. Work to do

psssst any news on the secret striker

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I dont think he's played any premiership football this season if not it's going to take a couple of weeks to get him up to speed

Ok we'll see

It's no good just bringing extra bodies in we need proven premiership players to help the ream out. If this Kennedy kids the best they can ddodo we might as well stick with what we've got.

Does Kennedy bring the Premiership experience or quality Rafa said he wanted ? To answer my own question probably not.a bit of a meh signing Kenedy got 549 minutes and one goal for Chelsea in the Premier League in 2015/16, then only another 75 league minutes for the Blues and 15 minutes on loan at Watford last season. The summer saw the winger sent home in disgrace by Chelsea after upsetting their Chinese hosts, after Kenedy insulted locals by posting on social media: ‘Damn China’ and ‘Wake up China, you idiot’. This season has brought only four appearances as an unused sub in the Premier League. However, in the domestic cups he has started three League Cup and 2 FA Cup matches.

Swansea win 1-0 the bottom of the table is very tight now.