Polarboy

Moving up to the next rung of the quality ladder is going to be tough, but I'd rather we were patient and only spent money on quality with potential, as opposed to the Everton etc approach of overpaying for players who are the shortsighted flavour of the week at the time they were signed. 40m for the Icelandic nonce for example. If we overpay now we could very easily miss the opportunity to spend money on real quality later if we max out our FFP.

I do recall people praising Pedro as a prospect last time Watford were up. It might make sense given it's going to be hard to get someone with potential, can come into the team, has experience in the PL, but would be happy to be Wilson's understudy. If we did get someone like Pedro we'd really need to go all out for another goal scoring attacker who can immediately improve the team.

The only thing about Hudson-Odoi is that he ruptured his achilles tendon the season before last, and has had a few reoccurring problems is that area since. I'm sure our medical team would take that into consideration, but again it's something to think about should we try to loan him.

If reports are to be believed Benfica don't want to sell him until after their Champions League qualifier on the 23rd, given how important it is for them financially to qualify for the competition. It's not ideal given he could get injured, other clubs could jump ahead of us in the queue, or as I said the other day should another club beat us we could be in the last week of the window with few viable options. Edit. The Chronicle are reporting that Hudson-Odoi would be keen on a move to us, but that there's heavy competition for his signature. Another thing in our favour is that Chelsea would prefer to loan him to a PL team. Hudson-Odoi was heavily linked to Dortmund last year.

Hudson-Odoi who was benched against Spurs was meant to play in a reserves match, but has been withdrawn from that. An Evening Standard footie writer who covers Chelsea has said that news of him going out on loan has intensified in the last 24 hours. So it appears that Hudson-Odoi will be going out on loan for the season imminently. Whether he'll be coming to us is another matter given there's plenty of teams interested in him. I think I'd prefer Pulisic given he's proven himself to be more explosive in goal and assist returns when he's on form. Hudson-Odoi supposedly has all the potential in the world, but the question is how long it would take Howe to get him back on track again after his big injury.

Or Hudson-Odoi, or Broja. Of the four, given we'd only likely buy one and loan one given you can't loan more than one player from a club, and we likely won't pay the fees needed for two of those players, I'd take Pulisic and Broja. Broja will likely largely depend on Chelsea being successful in getting Aubameyang off Barca.

From the sounds of it West Ham losing was harsh. They had a few cleared off the line, missed a penalty etc.

Gallagher would be a very decent signing if we're actually after him. Whether he's what we desperately need is another question, but Shelvey's injury does make him more of a priority than he would have been. He's only 22, plenty of potential, can play multiple centre mid roles, and managed 8 goals and 3 assists in a bang average Crystal Palace side with Vieira chopping and changing his position from attacking to defensive mid.

Brighton 0-0 Newcastle United: Eddie Howe praises new signing Nick Pope's performance - BBC Sport

Hopefully that, if there was even any doubt, clears the minds of the money men and women about what we need to do in the final few weeks of the window. We can't progress as we'd like on being solid and having a lot of grit, both of which we showed in abundance today.

I got ten to one, tenner on for Leeds and Newcastle away win. Leeds are two up, so it's squeeky bum time for that sweet, sweet pay out.

Here's the link again for anybody that missed it on the previous page. Seems to be decent. AlexSports.Live = 101 - Channel 6

But for a mistimed jump Burn was centre of the goal for a header.

AlexSports.Live = 101 - Channel 6

ASM doing a Gordon.

Yeah you really need ublock of something similar to block ads and pop ups when on those football streaming sites.

Yeah Burn has played, I think at least left of a three, if not just at LB for Brighton.

Brighton & Hove Albion vs Newcastle United live stream - soccer streams (footybite.cc) The streams will appear closer to the kickoff time. I know most people are aware of that, but I gather there are a few boomers on here 😉👍

I really hope we don't ever sign Gordon. By the sounds of it he's diving about like a tit again today. Thing is that if Everton get beat badly off Villa today, they might hit the panic button and sell Gordon in order to generate funds for transfers.

Newcastle seen as 'most advanced' club in race to sign striker – 'Finishing' preparing their offer - Sport Witness

Entreaty? Have you been reading Lady Chatterley's Lover again?

The second leg of their tie against Dynamo Kiev is two weeks away. If we could more or less be guaranteed to get Ramos off Benfica that would be one thing, but presumably we could quite easily wait two weeks, be in the last week of the window, and end up with our dick in our hands if a club like PSG etc, swoop in and sign him. Of course this is assuming that the report from the Portuguese paper is correct.

According to the Knight Rider we're only 10m short of Sociedad's valuation of Isak, who's supposedly always been our number one attacking target this window, so the closer we get to the end of the window a compromise could perhaps be met. I say only 10m, but maybe they could negotiate add ons to make up the difference.

They're going to gazump us again aren't they the cunts. You would only hope that he'd see how little game time he'd get at PSG and go for us instead. This of course is assuming that Ramos is PSG and our current number one target for a new striker. Of course unless we play him as a SS and change our formation to 3-5-2, which of course would allow us to play Botman, Schar and Burn, then he won't be starting for us. But I'd be willing to bet he'd get more game time for us given he'd immediately overtake Wood as second choice striker, as opposed to having to get a start ahead of Messi, Neymar and Mbappe.