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Can't imagine it would have been delayed by much. "We're signing nee fucker, meeting adjourned".

Mine too, mine too.

Mate he is fucking mint and as you know, we agree about terriers. He's a Cairn, our other two were a Westie and Scottie which both are originally from the Cairn breed (Westies are the white ones they use to destroy as they weren't breed standard and Scotties are Cairns/Wire coat Fox Terrier), so lots of similarities but also different. He's crazy, ridiculously intelligent and an absolute card, all rolled into one. Took him 5 minutes to work out the dog door, he slept from 2000 to 0430 which is unheard of for a puppy and has been a loony all morning running around. Success, we made it through the first night.

Just had some wings and a couple of pints. Well have we signed anyone yet?

If you ask me not getting Tosin on a free changed everything in this window. That changed our focus. If he’d come we’d have conceivably had a very healthy budget to add to midfield and the forward line. I can see the need to replace Miggy/Murphy. Howe and/or Mitchell might have seen that differently. We’ll never know now. If we lose by two goals on Sunday there’s going to be hell on inside the ground, vitriol directed at Howe and those in executive positions and I want no part of that….if that does happen we’ll be wandering down “August 2004 lane”…. people furious about how things have gone in the last 6 months need to remember how long it took to appoint anyone anywhere near as good as Sir Bobby Robson into the managers chair at SJP after we turned on him. If you’re judging the present board as fuckin useless you might want to think about that

Surely the PL would object to them buying another club AND moving them

That's just Barratts looking for land to build more houses.

I thought we’d at least have a new GK in by now.

After all of the protesting and the "we should have walked away", you're ready to pay £70m on deadline day.

nee cunt. not even a goalkeeper.

He said nothing of any real interest whatsoever. Which as far as I can make out is in line with the rest of football podcast usual content policy

Well this has been a cluster fuck of epic proportions. We were told day one he has sepsis, and there was nothing they could do. We agree that he should be put on end of life care and tried coming to terms with it. The next day a different consultant said during rounds “ah the antibiotics seem to be working, let’s get him some more and send him home”. He had not had any antibiotics, as he was on end of life care.. so we disagreed. He was moved wards to free a bed, and another new consultant sat us both down and told us he was happy to treat him again but it was unlikely to work and we should prepare ourselves that he might not make it. So he was taken off end of life care, and has been treated with antibiotics for the last 2 days. They finally got his bloods back yesterday and he is recovering.. I don’t claim to be medically trained in anyway whatsoever, but do doctors not talk to each other/read notes on patients? My mam is nearly 70, and has been told twice this week by separate consultants that her first born is going to die when all he seemingly needed was some antibiotics. Also trying to sleep in a hospital chair for days on end has fucked my back, on the plus side I’m sat outside james cook now (4.45am) and it’s the first time I’ve not seen any smack heads around here all week. Swings and roundabouts.

I think it's perfectly fair and reasonable to say that it is not acceptable for our department of people involved in sourcing transfers to only identify one target to improve the first team for the transfer window, especially when that target doesn't seem to be for sale. We can talk about availability until the cows come home. We can talk about other good players going to other clubs too. We can talk about who wants to come here and who doesn't. We can talk about wages, ambition and a million other factors. It's all guesswork on our part for the most part. And it's fun (most of the time) and very low stakes all of the time. It seems like it is possible that the market wasn't favourable for the transfers to materialise the way anyone wanted them to materialise. However, it is the job of certain people to allow for such an occurrence and have plans to mitigate it. If we want to talk about simplistic then having a single solitary transfer target to improve the first team for the entire window. That's simplistic. It's also naive. It's setting yourself up to be exploited by a selling club that knows they have you on the hook. And for people to determine that these things are the case as a necessary precondition of market availability also seems simplistic. It's possible. But not necessarily so and so questions should be asked. It seems naive to suggest that nobody should challenge the approach taken by the people in charge at the club to suggest that it could've been possible to find another way and absolutely should have been possible given the resources and expertise at the club. From my perspective, the argument that the people at the club know best means that in most circumstances where things could have gone better that they should have known better. They're experts in their field. I agree with that. We have hired some impressive operators. That makes failure less conceivable but it doesn't make it more excusable. They could have done something different. And in a results based business it may well turn out that they should've done something different. And for that they deserve criticism. I don't agree to the automatic determination that the top brass have a monopoly on making correct decisions in a business so overwhelmed with risk and uncertainty. It's a risk to sign a player that there may be questions over. It's a risk to sign Guehi at an inflated transfer fee. And it's a risk to sign nobody at all. There's nothing necessarily wise about keeping our powder dry nor is there anything necessarily imprudent about buying a player that wasn't our first choice. This is all conjecture and opinions for the most part and beyond that it's sheer blind luck. I find it pretty useless to accuse each other of a lack of foresight in a situation where there is limited foresight for everyone. At the end of the day, I'm thankful for the complainers on the board because for the most part they drive the conversation. Otherwise we'd all be sitting around watching the ivory tower dwelling so-called accountants debate probabilities around League Cup draws every day.

Can anyone dig out the first post where @LongTimeAdmirer first said “close the thread, no further business will be done”?… it’s at least a fortnight ago Got to say I like her/him/them…showed brilliantly cynical youthful foresight when us experienced campaigners were sat here with bubbles coming out of our gobs

Is 2024 officially the year when you can't have a moan about your club without captain sensibles patronising you?

This doesn't look like the cold as steel Dr Gloom that estate agents across the country fear.

i hate that phrase, but it is in this case. willock and tonali barely kicked a ball last season. if we can keep them both fit this season it's massive and will relegate longstaff to fifth choice, which is where he should be, instead of a first team mainstay. tonali, bruno, joelinton and willock are really good options in CM. it's hard to pick a best three out of those but there's a solid case for starting a fit and firing willock. he was instrumental in the season we finished 4th and the way he links up with joe and isak in particular is really promising.

GIWA

Is that because you can't hear over you stroking?

‘Flex’ now reckons that Dan Ashworth is the reason we have had a shit window and Man U’s has been so amazing.

Rangers. (A)

Helicopter heading up the A19

Press conference delayed? That’ll be because Eddie is busy handing in his resignation then.

You should be ringing them up to complain about your man not getting on so he can give sky his own take on the safety features of the stack and what NOT to say to young lasses who work in hooters.

Crikey, CT rebounded quickly

and ?????? Very good at what ? Baking cakes, carpentry, crochet, juggling ? what is the very good about ? Your post tells me nothing !!!!!

eales + mitchell = llambias + wise

Oldest shittest joke since the formation of transfer windows, nice one for not only digging up its unfunny corpse on Twitter but posting it here too.

FYP

Fraser has mutually terminated his contract and signed for Southampton. quick, we have funds for Guehi now.

This looks shite cos of the Ashworth/Staveley thing too. Successive very professionally run windows, where we had our business done before deadline day, and now this. The fact Ashworth wasn't involved in our best window since the takeover won't matter to the narrative. We've gone from looking like a proper outfit to looking a bit shite following Ashworth and Staveley's departures. I'm not suggesting we're fucked without these two or anything. I'm just saying we're gonna be hearing some "what's going wrong at Newcastle?" stuff.

Well, at least with it being deadline day, this deal can’t be ELANGATED!

Don’t you start another thread!

agree, he looked good when he came on, i like longstaff. valuable member of the squad, helps with the homegrown quota, can't fault his effort, but he isn't a technician. he's a good fourth or fifth choice rotation option. i would prefer him coming off the bench to use his energy to help see games out instead of starting as many as he has in the past couple of seasons.

I don't think there's gonna be many football supporters up and down the country thinking newcastle have won this little spat mate.

Am watching NRL then going shopping for a giant ham joint and the ingredients for a jerk rub, neighbours are having a Caribbean themed barbecue tomorrow and this will be our contribution. Anyone wasting their time sat watching the idiots fuckin lantern that is sky sports news frankly needs to look at their life choices

Yeah - it’s deadline day. If we’d just bought three or four elite players we’d probably be comparing it to our best windows ever. It’s only because this one is an outlier. Every window since the takeover (other than Jan because of the PSR crunch) they’ve made a statement signing or two. This could the first one to underwhelm since the Ashley era. Perhaps we’re getting greedy and entitled because of how they’ve splashed the cash until now. But people are moaning mainly because the teams around us have all improved and we have struggled for whatever reason to sign anyone of note.

T'is a reet grand listen

Steps megamix now ffs

Don’t know how you dare call anyone Eeyore the way you are whinging on about the transfer window mind. Liked a dumped teenage lass.

Lads. I think we have to have perspective. It's important to make a correct analysis. Let's see. The market may really seem disappointing to us. But let's take it step by step. First of all, we know that we had to sell for a high amount because we were threatened with losing points if we didn't do it, as happened to Everton last year. We got rid of two projects like Minteh or Anderson who have not yet exploded and have not had time to prove anything. It could have been worse. Bruno or Gordon were in the rumours to leave. Secondly... Not all markets can afford to spend a lot of money. After many years without doing so under Ashley's command, the situation has now changed. In recent years we have made many expensive investments. Gordon, Barnes, Isak, Bruno, Hall, Botman, even Joelinton if we go a little further back. That is unsustainable. In the 2021-22 season we were fighting relegation... Remember the first 15 games, which we didn't win any of. The 'problem' is that in the 2022-23 season we finished in the Big Four positions... We performed way above our possibilities. And now it seems to us that we have taken two steps backwards when we finished seventh. We have been in absolute shit for many years. Now it is time to enjoy, but enjoy it wisely. This is a long-term project. This year we have had a couple of structural potholes. Amanda has left and we have changed our DOF. We really had very few arguments to improve the team. We all agree that the right flank should be reinforced, but perhaps there is no good player on the market that the board likes and they prefer to wait and save that money so that he is the big bet for next year. I have not followed Mitchell's work, but I know that he is a good worker, that he is the man who has discovered players like Sadio Mane for Southampton. He is the man who turned Tottenham into a Champions League finalist with signings like Trippier, Son, Alderweireld or Dele Alli. He is the man who has worked at Leipzig and signed players like Nkunku, Dani Olmo, Mukiele, Haidara (not Massadio), Matheus Cunha when they were unknown. He discovered Disasi for Monaco, he gambled on Caio Henrique for a very low price. We will be patient. Big projects take years to build. Now we have to lay the foundation.