Howay

Aye I didn't really think we would be, massively outlandish fee for us. I'd be surprised if we spent 25m on a player nevermind over 40m.

If we are bidding on the £40-60m range I'd be fucking gutted if we ended up with someone like Bas Dost ffs.

If I heard that sentence from my agent I'd drop him right away. That £500 fine probably put his Agency in the red, shambolic prick.

At least the bit about how he was trying to figure out Newcastles transfers while on the sesh goes someway to helping us all understand the signing of Riviere.

I was hoping the fact City had bought him said something about his quality, but after reading the surprisingly well researched article Meenz posted it seems it says fuck all about his ability. It is good that he supposedly had a good season in La Liga and was defender of the season the prior season in the second division.

The rare times he got on the pitch for us he seemed to have an ok range of passing, would be nice to see him at full match fitness. Seems he played 20 or so games like Andrew mentioned and scored 6 goals so not a terrible season, hopefully he's put this shite run of injuries behind him.

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11678/10935589/florian-lejeune-close-to-newcastle-move-from-eibar Can't say I've seen him play before, CB is a big area of need though imo.

Stone cold sober as well.

The Newcastle account on Facebook put up a video of some of the players arriving for the first day of training, all the players manage the task of walking into the training centre without issue until Colback who drops his shoes

He's some boy. Seriously man, it's not the first time something like this has come out about his senior management meetings. Odd culture to have at a company.

That's the nice bit of the place as well.

I'm impressed he managed 2 assists the fucking slug. No doubt they were the ones where it was a fairly ordinary pass and the goal scorer did everything. Fuck him I hope he ends up in the French 2nd division which is more fitting for a man of his lack of talent.

They're a complete and utter fucking disaster. It's absolutely fucking hilarious that they're trying to big up Simon fucking Grayson now after slagging off Rafa Benitez last season. Genuinely hope they fucking sink without a trace the complete fucking animals.

Spot on.

Aye it definitely was, I think since I wasn't fully focused on it I enjoyed it more than I would have if I'd just been sat at home watching.

Watched Drive and Chappie on a plane flight recently, really enjoyed both films tbh. Chappie was weird as fuck but it was a canny idea and the right length for what it was imo. I think most on here have probably seen Drive, it was one of them I always wanted to watch but never bothered with and I'm glad I finally gave it a go.

It doesn't bother me at all personally Noelie was more just giving a reason why people lump on you a bit. In fact I think it provides a differing opinion as otherwise it would just be a bit boring on here. I also said I think they're perfectly fine to have pops at your opinion, I agree with you that having pops at you personally is a bit ott.

He can worry all he wants but I just think people get a bit sick of him moaning on to the extent he does, he spent all of last season moaning, even after games we won he regularly moaned because the side didn't win as comfortably as he thought they should. You're right though he's perfectly entitled to his opinion but people are more than welcome to have a pop at it imo. Brighton and Huddersfield have both signed 1 player each fwiw. Brighton bought a goalkeeper, Ryan, to replace their keeper that left, Stockdale. Huddersfield have bought a 28 year old Belgian striker, Depoitre, who has a worse record than a 19/20 year old Mitrovic did in the same league and then managed 2 goals in 13 appearances in all comps for Porto. Huddersfield are likely being credited with signing Mooy but I don't think it's a done deal yet and apparently Stoke are after him as well. Hudds are also trying to buy Izzy Brown from Chelsea who they had on loan last season, so they're not exactly making ground on us a side that finished 13 points and a massive GD advantage over them. I'm more worried about other sides than either of them two tbh.

Think you'll be pretty disappointed if you've got that level of player in mind, he's being linked to Barca and Manchester United so I can't see us going in for him. Edit: Aye what Andrew said

Aye was going to ask the same thing. The fee would be a club record which would normally make me doubt the rumour, but honestly our club record fee is canny low considering the fucking mental money thrown about recently. Has anything happened with that centre back from the Spanish side? The papers seemed convinced he was on the verge of signing as well.

The Mirror reckons we're close to signing Andreas Samaris from Benfica. http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/newcastle-close-andreas-samaris-175million-10675549

Aye I'm hoping that's the case. He had a bit of a mixed record, probably more misses than hits but I always think it's hard to know who he really wanted to bring in and was blocked from getting. If the rumours about him trying to fight a bit of a power struggle with Rafa over the January window have any truth to them whatsoever then this is good news.

Doesn't really say much about him though does it? Going solely off their international performances players like Gerard and Lampard wouldn't have been rated highly by many. I'm not saying the lad is a world beater but there's no point trying to be this negative about a rumoured loan signing in June.

He'd have been one of the brightest up and coming managers in the game a week ago he's hopeless now though, and now they're back pining for fat Sam.

Aye I saw that, I'm not sure why a club on the verge of takeover would be trying to hire a manager and pay for his compo to get him. I agree with what ewerks saying, I think he must have asked for a certain level of transfer fees to build the squad and has been told that wouldn't happen so he's told them to whistle. Utter fucking shambles of a club.