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It's tenuous at best, but Howe was asked about whether he was considering players from the Portuguese league after the Benfica friendly, more or less said that he was, and praised their technical ability. The journalist in the Sky video seems pretty certain we're interested, so it comes down to how reliable he is.

Unfortunately I can see Silva going to Barca and Man City coming in for Paqueta. Silva has apparently been asking Citeh to sort a move away for him for a season or two, specifically to Spain. So unless Pep convinces him to stay for another season, or Barca have finally run out of their funny money, then Silva's potential move could really fuck up our bid for Paqueta. As for Rider's audio clip, if we're in for Maddison we should be interested in Paqueta, because neither are wingers by trade, they're number 10's. Maddison is on record as saying he doesn't like playing wide, but both can and have played wide in their careers.

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Arsenal's technical director Edu has already denied that Arsenal were interested in signing Paqueta, stating that while he admired the player they were already well stocked in the attacking mid area.

Juventus focus on Depay as Newcastle close on Muriel - Football Italia (football-italia.net) No idea how reliable La Gazzetta dello Sport are, but if the whole Botman saga is anything to go by then they're little more than propaganda for Italian clubs when teams from outside Italy are involved. Dieng would make more sense given Muriel is 31 and Dieng is 22.

When he played wide last season it was mostly from the left (11) than the right (2). He's right footed so it all depends on how much his game relies on playing as an inverted winger when he isn't playing as a centre forward.

Only 11 of those were starts in the league. With Dieng it seems we are going after potential, and are willing to take a chance on a young player given he can play centre forward and out wide, which will allow us to cover Wilson while we bed him into the team playing him out wide, which obviously has less pressure on it than leading the line for a team.

90mins were also all over the Ekitike saga from start to finish from January onwards. Perhaps whatever legit contacts they do have, have decent intel about Ligue 1, which of course is where Dieng and Paqueta ply their trade. Of course this is me more trying to convince myself than actually being all that confident. With Shelvey out now, Gallagher, Dieng and Paqueta could be a very decent end to the window. Of course Gallagher is unlikely to want to come if we can't guarantee him that he would be an important part of the team. So I can't see him and Paqueta happening unless we restructured the team to accommodate both, which is unlikely. If our move for Paqueta is legit, then the Gallagher stuff was very likely pure paper talk.

We'll see how it goes with who Everton end up signing, and whether Lampard can actually coach said players effectively, but Coady could easily be in the bottom three or close to it with Everton by the time the World Cup comes around. Also he played every game pretty much last season, so maybe he's lost his place to Collins who they signed this summer, but one game into the season is a bit early to be thinking you're bench fodder and move. So I would assume it's more complex than your comment suggests.

Most likely a terrible career move by Coady, who's a very decent centre half. I had actually assumed that he was an Everton fan given he's a scouser and chose what is a downward move to Everton, but apparently he's a Liverpool fan. The only logic to the move is that he wanted to move home for some reason.

We've supposedly submitted an enquiry for Conor Gallagher off Chelsea. I'd be pretty underwhelmed if we are actually interested in him, given that I don't think he's much better than say a Willock given he's an attacking mid. He'd add depth and little else.

He's still only 19, so maybe he really does want to follow Haaland's career trajectory. As in start at Salzburg, join a German team for a couple of seasons, and then move on to a big English or Spanish club. Of course if his development doesn't go to plan he may regret not taking the big move while he could.

At least we didn't get gazumped by Chelsea or Man U, and we're obviously in need of a forward now, and not next summer.

Nottingham Forest have hired Lee Charnley as a consultant to help them in their transition to the PL 😂 Fucking hell, first they take a scattergun approach to signing players, sign tic toc star and mercenary Lingard, and now they're hiring Penfold. Whoever is running their club has more money than sense.

It could just be a negotiating tactic, but either way they will be looking for an over the odds fee. Given the clubs apparent strict policy of only going for players if they think they will get value, with Wood being the exception, I can't see us getting him.

With Werner off their wage bill, and with whatever fee they get, it could be that Chelsea are extra motivated to go after Sesko who they as mentioned have been linked to. There's a strong danger that even if we manage to negotiate a fee with Salzburg, if indeed we are really serious about him, Chelsea or Man U will swoop in at the last minute.

According to Romano Arsenal were never interested in this Guedes guy, and he hasn't even mentioned our name, so it appears Wolves have a clear run at him even if we do hold an interest. Sesko and maybe a loan winger would be decent, but again it seems unlikely we'll get Sesko given Man U and Chelsea have shown interest, Sesko himself has supposedly said he'd prefer to continue his developement at Salzburg for another season, and Salzburg themselves are loath to lose him this early in his Salzburg career.

Tough convincing a Portuguese player to join us when Wolves are involved, if these reports hold any weight. Of course if he isn't excited about our potential, and would rather the comfort of having numerous fellow countrymen around him, then he's probably not the right sort of character to begin with.

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Looks like Hudson-Odoi is going to either Southampton or Leicester if he leaves Chelsea, so despite the rumours I doubt we were ever in for him, or at least have changed our minds. Hopefully that's a good sign in that we aren't scrambling around trying to loan Chelsea cast offs. So Guedes is off to Arsenal most likely, or perhaps Wolves given the Portuguese connection, and Hudson-Odoi is off to Southampton or Leicester. 😂 Shame this is a Newcastle transfer news thread.

That's Martinelli fucked then. Might have to get rid from my FF team.