Polarboy

It's all depends on the price. Anything over 30m, which it's likely to be, and I'd walk away. Leeds as people have mentioned aren't under any pressure to sell Harrison, so our negotiating hand is weak. Harrison is a good player, but in a season or two he should be a useful sub and little else. So again it all depends on the price.

Weirdly I don't think Ekitike is completely ruled yet. PSG seem unwilling to pay what Reims want, even if there's a relatively small gap, and are being linked to a young Portuguese striker according to Romano. Of course it's probably only maybe a ten percent chance of it being resurrected.

Hope reckons we're more likely to end up with Harrison than Diaby

Yeah I don't think it's meant to be taken all that serious. More of an article to highlight a player who might be decent for a decent price.

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The Northern Echo are reporting, so take that for what you will, that we're confident of getting Leverkusen to lower their price, and are also confident of getting Broja on loan. I'd guess that Kalimuendo is the back up for Broja should our loan bid fail if you look at how strongly players have been linked with us. Broja and Diaby are almost certainly our top targets given how much coverage they've gotten for example. "Newcastle are expected to make two more signings this summer, with the club’s hierarchy currently preparing a final offer for Bayer Leverkusen winger Moussa Diaby. Leverkusen slapped a €60m price tag on Diaby’s head at the start of the summer, but the Magpies’ recruitment team are confident there is scope for negotiation. Newcastle also remain hopeful of securing a season-long loan deal for Armando Broja, with Chelsea set to make a decision over the Albania international’s future shortly."

Transfermarkt have Bailey's fee to Villa down as 28.80m. As far as I know Transfermarkt are pretty reliable, and that seems to be a very exact number for a guess. But yeah in today's market 50m is probably the price you'd pay, but it's hard to quantify the difference in quality that an extra ten million will supposedly get you. Players are worth how much people are wiling to pay at the end of the day.

Bailey cost Villa 28m, and Leverkusen supposedly want 50m plus for Diaby.

Just thinking that the report about us lodging a bid of 20m euro for Kalimuendo the young PSG striker, 5 of which would be paid on a bonus related basis, could make a fair bit of sense given we're also said to not want to pay over 40m pound for Diaby. Diaby and Kalimuendo together would cost an initial £52.6m, assuming we'd have to pay the entirety of the 40m up front for Diaby, and obviously 50m is supposedly all we have left for this window. I know people on here would dispute the logic of us being that restricted in how much we can spend of course. But maybe it's a case of how much we want to spend for this window, as opposed to how much can actually afford.

Reported.

Apparently Gerrard told him to stay in Birmingham and left him off the preseason tour because he wouldn't commit to signing a new contract. He's in the final year of his contract. Don't know much about the lad, but he's very highly rated.

The fucking size of Botman. Joelinton is 6'1 and a unit himself, but Botman almost makes him look like child in comparison.

It's a long shot, especially seeing as he appears more comfortable on the left, but Fraser in top form is capable of a lot more than we've seen. Whether Howe can get him back to something resembling that form is another matter. He's still only 28 though, so its not an impossibility. Having said all that I would happily concede that we desperately need to reinforce our right wing regardless. More generally I'd say there is an almost equal need to sign a striker given the obvious fitness concerns of Wilson, and the less than prolific record of Wood. Was it Benitez who came up with the short blanket analogy? As in if we pull up the blanket our feet will get cold and vice versa. Assuming of course that we do only have 50m left to spend.

The problem with trying to loan forwards is that unless you are incredibly lucky there aren't many teams who'd be willing to loan an attacking player who's actually quality and will improve a team. Obviously if we could get Broja on loan and sign Diaby that would be ideal, but that doesn't seem like it's going to be possible. For the loan thing to even be worth it I'd imagine we'd need to pay a sizeable loan fee up front, and also include and obligation to buy.

Newcastle United transfer target Hugo Ekitike in limbo as Reims reject latest offer | NewcastleWorld Would you take Ekitike if his deal to PSG collapses, and we're the only choice he has of moving? In fairness I can't see the deal going tits up for the sake of 4m Euro difference between our offer, which was supposedly accepted, and their offer. If it was just the case of the kid wanting to hold out for PSG I'd be fair enough given he reportedly supported them as a kid, but he and his agent do seem as if they're dickheads. Perhaps I'm being harsh though without more info to go on.

In fairness using one of our domestic loan spots for a versatile defender who can play across the backline, is a sensible enough use of that spot. Not very exciting of course. Iirc we still have one domestic and one international loan spot left should we get Tanganga.

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I'd happily take as good as Wilson as long as he wasn't made of glass.

Never heard of the guy who posted the tweet, but he does have over 200k followers, so I suppose that lends some credibility, however small. Perhaps Diego could enlighten us with regard to de Tomas. I found this Player Analysis: Raul de Tomás – Breaking The Lines Obviously it's premature in the extreme, but on the very off chance we do buy him, some might want to read it. Reading between the lines if this guy is on our list of targets, I'd imagine he's fairly far down given he'll be 28 in October, and we're trying to bring down the average age of the squad. Pretty much every other player we've been linked to in the forward areas, apart from Zapata and Asensio, have been 25 or under. By the same token he'd likely be a fair bit cheaper because of his age. I've seen figures between 20 and 30m mentioned.

I'd take the Chuckle Brothers, one of them a as reanimated corpse, for those striker and winger positions at this stage. I really don't have the patience, even though the transfer window doesn't even close until the 1st of September 😂

Again perhaps I'm reading too much into it, but why add the yet at the end of the tweet. Saying there's no suggestion Sociedad's stance has changed would have sufficed.

I would say Howe will ideally want all his business done at the lastest the 26th of July if not a bit before, given we have that run of pre-season games against Benfica, Atalanta and Athletic Bilbao. But obviously as Galetti was saying in that tweet transfers tend to happen in a domino effect, especially ones for forwards, so once somebody like Broja, DCL, Scamacca etc move, it could speed up business elsewhere. Having said all that if we are being tough in price negotiation, that could prolong negotiations until the other club starts feeling the heat and brings down their price.

The yet is interesting. Or perhaps I'm reading too much into it.

‘World-class’ Newcastle target pulls full U-turn as Klopp eyes Liverpool deal (hitc.com) 😂 Now a Spanish media outlet are saying that Asensio has done a u-turn, and supposedly after some reassurances from Ancelotti, and encouraged by the departures of Jovic and Bale, he's more confident of getting game time so wants to stay given his ambitions to make the Spain squad. The Bale and Jovic part is a bit weird given they both Barely played last season either, so maybe the story is nonsense.

Most unsurprising rumour ever is that Jeremy Piven is an absolute cunt in real life.