Transfers, summer 2022

[Gemmill 13511]

5 minutes ago, Holden McGroin said:

Craig Hope stating the obvious.

 

Probably necessary when your job is to spend some of your day on #NUFC twitter.

 

[Tom 8567]

Probably for the best tbh 

 

 

 

[wykikitoon 5558]

Hope he sacks his agent tbh

[Dr Gloom 7922]

[OTF 1951]

+30M to the Raphinha fund.

[ewerk 13199]

[Andrew 2298]

21 minutes ago, Tom said:

Probably for the best tbh 

 

 

 

 

Fully on board with that decision. That kids reps are going to greed him out of a top level career the way theyre going.

 

Theres absolutely no fucking way madrid and bayern are after him, they don't sign "ten goals once" players, especially when theyre looking for the next benzema/lewandowski profile player

[Gemmill 13511]

Reminds me of Anelka when his brothers were representing him. Ah well, he looked a good prospect but we don't need that kind of drama at the club. 

 

His club will be livid about it. Maybe it gets resurrected later in the window if he bins his agent. 

[Ayatollah Hermione 7479]

That’s a big testicled move from our lot, for sure. Sending out a fairly clear message to any other agents who want to fuck about. Putting that money to Rafinha is a great shout

Edited Thursday at 09:45 by Ayatollah Hermione

[Rayvin 3049]

Yeah I'm kinda surprised by that but I can understand why we did it. Only slight annoyance is that I don't really think the other alternatives we've been linked with look particularly good - wonder who we'll move onto next.

 

This may also help us secure Botman tbh, if Lille see we're not messing around.

[Holden McGroin 61]

Aye. If that's true (big if) then if he wants to come then the player himself will force it. Not sure how you can agree personal terms with a player then agent demands more though.

[Rayvin 3049]

The more I think about it, the more I think this window almost has to be a frustrating one if we are to avoid being seen as a Man City style entity. It's going to take clubs seeing us walk away from decent players because of them taking the piss, for this notion that we're easy money to be kicked off the table.

[Holden McGroin 61]

Just because we are the richest club in the world doesn't mean we have unlimited spending. 

 

Im sure we are just trotting out the line "we have a budget in line with FFP" on the negotiating table.

[Howay 7250]

Is 90min.com very reliable? I thought it (and Bailey) were generally a heap of shit, Bailey always seems to be a pleb iirc. 
 

If it’s true then I hope the lad wakes up and bins off his agent, I personally don’t understand the point in having agents, especially ones that act in the manner this one seems to. They’d have to be pretty fucking amazing negotiators to make up for the 15% of player wage + egregious fees for their own pockets many seem to ask for nowadays. If all of this is true about his agent I’m leaning towards hoping we do move on, it’ll be like this whenever he needs or wants a new deal, and it’ll be like Almiron where every window he’s pushing for a move. 

Edited Thursday at 10:08 by Howay

[The Fish 2490]

16 minutes ago, Rayvin said:

Yeah I'm kinda surprised by that but I can understand why we did it. Only slight annoyance is that I don't really think the other alternatives we've been linked with look particularly good - wonder who we'll move onto next.

 

This may also help us secure Botman tbh, if Lille see we're not messing around.

One of the issues with the rumour mill running 24/7 and the emergence of sofa-analysts is we build up every player we're seriously linked with. We read articles about him, looks at his stats, watch compilations and a lot of it leans whichever way our bias wants. Ekitike maybe a great prospect, and everything I've read and seen suggests he is. But maybe, he's not. Maybe other options would fit better in the squad, or adapt better to the PL. The alternatives we've heard about are the likes of Raphinha, Hazard, etc. but, for all we know, Ashworth and the scouts have 3-4 other young kids with potential that we've not heard a real peep about?

 

I do think this is another example of the club proving that, despite our attributed wealth, we'll not be held ransom. We won't pay the Newcastle tax.

[Dr Gloom 7922]

whatever happens, it's good craic just having these conversations. last summer's transfer window thread was tumbleweed town. 

[wykikitoon 5558]

32 minutes ago, Howay said:

Is 90min.com very reliable? I thought it (and Bailey) were generally a heap of shit, Bailey always seems to be a pleb iirc. 
 

If it’s true then I hope the lad wakes up and bins off his agent, I personally don’t understand the point in having agents, especially ones that act in the manner this one seems to. They’d have to be pretty fucking amazing negotiators to make up for the 15% of player wage + egregious fees for their own pockets many seem to ask for nowadays. If all of this is true about his agent I’m leaning towards hoping we do move on, it’ll be like this whenever he needs or wants a new deal, and it’ll be like Almiron where every window he’s pushing for a move. 

Another thing Cloughie was right about. He never worked with players with agents 

[The Fish 2490]

8 minutes ago, Dr Gloom said:

whatever happens, it's good craic just having these conversations. last summer's transfer window thread was tumbleweed town. 

No doubt, when we were linked with Choudhury on loan, I couldn't give enough of a shit to pore over anything. He might have been a decent player but because of a decade of Ashley and underwhelming transfers I knew he wasn't going to be great. Fucking Hell even with Saint-Maximin I knew that even though he was an exciting talent, the expectation that he'd have a suspect attitude, or not great end product or he'd be inconsistent came so easily. #

 

Now, with Bruno, and Burn and Targett I had genuine faith that they'd, at worst, be good and certainly be better than what came before them. 

[wykikitoon 5558]

Bruno, Targett, pope and wood deals have all come out of the blue in some of ways. So I have faith. 

 

Also funny how all the ITK have quietened down since Ashworth arrived 

[Craig 2562]

2 hours ago, wykikitoon said:

Apparently two medicals booked in today according to nob on the tyne

 

[wykikitoon 5558]

Chicken shagger said we haven't pulled the plug on Ekiteke 

[Craig 2562]

14 minutes ago, wykikitoon said:

Chicken shagger said we haven't pulled the plug on Ekiteke 

 

[Tom 8567]

Workrate  Unmatched 

[Gemmill 13511]

I've seen nowt confirming the end of the Ekitike deal from The Athletic. We usually get the straight dope from the great Hope as well and he's said nowt. So 90min.com and that Graeme Bailey can a-fuuuuuck a-hofffffff. 

Edited Thursday at 11:21 by Gemmill

[Isegrim 4663]

7 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

I've seen nowt confirming the end of the Ekitike deal from The Athletic. We usually get the straight dope from the great Hope as well and he's said nowt. So 90min.com and that Graeme Bailey can a-fuuuuuck a-hofffffff.