Polarboy

He has a worse dress sense than a Lithuanian goat header from the 80's.

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Hopefully Trippier will stay on in a coaching capacity after he retires if that's something he's interested in, at least until he completes his badges if he isn't already doing them. He's clearly an immense influence on the team with his professionalism and general attitude.

It's been reported that Chelsea don't want to strengthen anyone in or around the top four on the off chance they can claw back the gap and qualify for the CL.

So it seems it's 40m straight up with an extra 5m performance related. It seems like we wanted to pay 25 plus 15m in add on's, they wanted close to what Chelsea were offering, i.e. 60m, and the compromise was 40m straight up and 5m in add on's.

Just checked and he's cup tied for the league cup which is annoying. He played 52 minutes in a match in the third round.

So is it 40m total, or 40m now and then more on top of that dependent on performance?

Willock is obviously consistently sub offed at around the 70 min mark, so I'd imagine Gordon will be introduced slowly from the bench that way instead of Murphy coming on to wind people up we'll have the rat king.

Four years younger and PL, British tax. Sounds like part of the fee will be performance dependent so it would be interesting to know what those performance goals are. In fairness though the risk attached to both transfers are comparable in my view. Bruno was obviously thought of as a talent and a prospect, but so was Paqueta at West Ham, and we've been fortunate that Bruno has settled so quickly coming from the French league. Well I say fortunate but I'm sure Howe has had a big hand in it. Gordon on the other hand has performed sporadically in the PL already but the question is whether he'll achieve his potential.

Sky Sports Italia ran a story on it. https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/newcastle-united-news/newcastle-united-anthony-gordon-sky-sports-transfer-rumours/ Sky Sports are saying they've heard we've reached a compromise on the fee for Gordon, although it hasn't been totally confirmed as of yet. Makes sense that things are moving with Dyche in place.

If not a mackem then a total fucking idiot, although not much difference I suppose. He's literally talking about the guy brought Caicedo, Mac Allister etc to Brighton for relative peanuts. My guess is that if we're not reinforcing in the defensive mid role this window then we've got our ideal candidate lined up for the summer and can't get him now.

No transfers requested and yet Howe is on record more than once saying we need to replace Wood. I think your in the know (Mackam wum) should probably have watched Howe's recent interviews before he started making up nonsense.

I seem to recall fans of the club being a lot more forgiving of players perhaps wanting to leave when Ashley was in charge, given what a shit show the club was. Everton and their owners aren't the same as Ashley in a lot of ways, they spent money for a start, they just happen to have about the same football knowledge as Ashley had and have turned Everton into a farce of a club.

Mostly things we know already I suppose.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-11679891/Anthony-Gordon-tells-Everton-NOT-return-club-missing-three-days-training.html Supposedly only the first day he missed was a planned absence, so he's been AWOL for two days against the clubs wishes.

I can't say I'm found of players who go on strike like this to engineer moves, but at the same time we're only hearing one side of the story. As people have said it could be the case that Everton have messed Gordon about in regard to promises made to him over transfers and the fee that they are looking for him over the past 12 months. It's also the case that Everton are run shambolically, so the normal channels and ways of conducting yourself may have fell on deaf ears.

He's a scouser isn't he? 😂😉

It actually says over 30m as opposed to at least. I never know what that means though. If you want over 30m is that 40, 50, 60 a 100.

Sky Sports Italia are reporting that AC Milan have held talks with ASM's agents and he'd be amenable to making the move. The sticking point is supposedly us asking for at least 30m Euro. Italian football media seems even dodgier than UK media so I'm not sure how seriously it should be taken.

Gordon, Ashby and maybe that Brazilian attacking mid Matheus Franca. It would be a decent January window, but they're all players that are largely unrealised potential with perhaps only Gordon ready to start. It would be ideal if we could also get someone like Ziyech on loan for that little bit of experience, but it seems like he's just a back up to Gordon in case that falls through.

Suck on that you little dwarf.

Armstrong is of course playing out of his skin the little twat.

Willock and Longstaff couldn't finish a colouring book.

https://www.nufcblog.co.uk/2023/01/24/sky-sports-two-newcastle-targets-absent-from-training-on-tuesday-as-transfer-talks-intensify/ Apparently there are rumours that we're after Onana as well as Gordon. A Belgian journalist, Onana is Beligian himself, has reported that we've registered an interest, as has Bailey over at 90mins. Two 21 year olds with immense amounts of potential under Howe's coaching could be top class additions. I have to admit that I haven't watched much of Everton this season for obvious reasons, but this Onana lad is an absolute unit at 6'4 and Everton paid an initial 30 odd million for him so he's obviously highly rated.