Howay

Back to dreamland for the mackems. Firstly no one wanted to allow him to have 10%, him asking for it is different to anyone allowing it. We’ve signed one player from Burnley and none from Leeds newspaper links = definitely true and going to happen (also Man City and Barcelona have just signed Leeds players), never mind that we have signed Bruno Guimeraes from Lyon, Kieran Trippier from Athleti, and Sven Botman from Lille for a combined fee of nearly £100m it’s definitely hard to see a difference from Mike Ashley.

They’re out the loop tbh. Most the information they get will be from the other side of the deal now I reckon, that’s why transfers like Pope, Targett, possibly this one and the quick movement on Botman caught them by surprise. I still think we will see a lot of movement late in the window too as teams will be wanting to trim their squads down to 25 men so might start assessing who they can get decent fees for etc.

5 goals from 8 starts is canny depending on how long the 16 sub appearances were, it seems they really want a young striker to rotate with Wilson and maybe Wood. Class there basically wasn’t a single link to this kid until his agent flew into Newcastle tweeting about it.

Aye I think we likely have a few like that lined up, where we will keep trying until late to land our higher up targets but then start triggering clauses. Kind of like Wood was except a little less of a panic as they have had more time to select players that are quick buys.

Aye he flat out doesn’t understand FFP at even a passing level. You can’t just say “we have X to spend” and it mean total transfer fee like people did years ago, that’s why like I’ve said before the £60m he was told for FFP reasons is likely right and we’ve spent somewhere around £20m of that so far in terms of how that £60m is calculated. That’s why his budget keeps going up, he was initially saying all we had was £60m but now we can spend basically double that the fucking head case.

It’s also yet another example of them being wound up about something that hasn’t, and probably wont, happen. It may as well say “I’ve heard they want Jack Cork for £200m if that’s what they get then us buying Stewart halfbridges for £50 shows we have a brighter future”.

Paqueta and Bruno is a brilliant CM pairing, we then either play Bruno deeper like he played at Lyon with Joelinton as the 8, or have Joelinton screening with Bruno 8 and Paqueta further forward. I don’t really see the point in holding off and losing out on a top class Brazilian international because Fraser/Murphy/ Almiron are poor. With that midfield we might actually start to control games. We could then sign one of Cornet, Dennis, Sarr for something around 15m, and/or Belotti on a free. If you were meaning in terms of 25 man squad, Anderson doesn’t count towards it and imo we should look to offload Shelvey if we got Paqueta as he triggers an extra 12 month extension with 3 more appearances.

If there’s any truth to this then we have to be all in for him tbh. He’d add so much to our attack, then we can go and bring in options up front lower down our list than Diaby and we’d be set up very strong going into the season.

That’s why he got it in a size XS, so it’s three quarter sleeves. Always thinking Adam P.

I think the added bonus with Anderson is since he is under 21 he doesn’t count against the squad limits iirc.

“Eeeyah aaahv found it Bill, somewun just left it behind this skip” “Dirty Mick I never doubted you, I’m promoting you to the commercial team!” ”gerrin, what’s that” ”oh you’ll figure it out, now give me that fucking sandwich you found, it’s completely vital to my purchase of Sunderland”

I think last season it might have possibly rocked things, but it’s a fresh season now it should have went to Trippier. I don’t see the point in having a 28 year old captain who isn’t starter, he’s just a cheerleader at that point and he’s not a club legend as was the case for Noble remaining captain. I understand the captain does more than just on the pitch argument to a degree but at the same time him not having the captaincy doesn’t restrict him from speaking up or being a leader if he’s so good at it. I’d personally say being dropped almost immediately from a starting spot is more of a hit than losing captaincy to a title winning England international. Doesn’t make a difference to me overall but it is a weird move by Howe.

Aye, it’s possible that the amounts are true, I agree it would be a bit mad buying a CB for that when we desperately need midfielders and attackers. They could be happy consolidating I suppose but with this lack of attack it’s a bit of a momentum killer. The thing that makes me seriously doubt it is that firstly it’s not really how FFP works, so when these journalists say “there’s only £35m left” it’s not accurate it’ll depend on timing of payments, agent fees, player contract etc etc. Secondly I don’t understand going for the players we’ve been after - how were we ever going to sign Diaby and Ekitike together? Surely the plan was never to only bring in Ekitike. If this is the budget then why aren’t we in for Sarr, Dennis, Cornet, maybe even working on Toney and Harrison earlier to try and get their valuations lower. It just all seems a bit off for me. The other angle could possibly be that they’re saying £40m for FFP in the same way they said £60m to Edwards early in the window. Which could be accurate? As if you say Botman was £35m over 5 years plus wages of £4m a year he’d be £11m against that £60m (obviously oversimplified everything as there’ll be other things involved I’m sure).

Prior to MBS’s ascent to the throne SA was funding Islamist extremists, and I believe they had ties to Al Queda through those channels (iirc been a while since I watch a doc on it). The interesting thing about MBS is he wants to move Saudi Arabia more to the west (in some aspects) and because of that has cut off that funding and support of extremists, so basically from that perspective it’s a ridiculous point. However exiles post here is simply extremely racist. It’s aimed at Mehrdad, and is I guess implying because he’s from the Middle East he would commit an atrocity like that - Mehrdad is from Iran he’s not even from Saudi Arabia. None of that matters to the racist fucking cunt that is exile though.

Aye he’s fucking clueless man. One of my mates uncles is ex-SBS and worked in Oman, Bahrain, and other countries training their forces. That list posted includes US special forces (and the Navy so probably Navy Seals), so it’s likely SAS and SBS will be there helping train combatants. I’m not saying what’s going on isn’t horrific but like you say there’s fucking heavy western involvement, exile (and others) need to pack in going on like they do unless they want to actually discuss the gray areas. Again though it’s clear what the reason for their posts are as it’s rarely applied to Man City and they actually reveled in PSG getting Ekitike, the latter which is weird as aye we absolutely cannot compete with PSG currently and no Newcastle fan thinks that.

If this happens I fully expect we will see upstanding impeccable moral mackems like exile walk away from SAFC, their club would be partly ran by blood money if the deal goes through so they couldn’t possibly keep supporting the club.

Aye, to be fair I think if it was the playing side he was more responsible for I’d be more hesitant but as he’s likely more the commercial side and as AH mentioned Atlanta bring in loads (for an MLS team), that’ll transfer better.

I’m pretty sure he was there when Atlanta United were formed (or very early in) and basically set them up as a club, they’re one of the best ran clubs in the MLS. I read an article about him ages ago on the Athletic.

Agreed, he could also be staying on message with the clubs push back against the view clubs have that there’s a bottomless pit of money. If we had the defence we have, with a Bruno, Joe, and Paqueta midfield, then bought or loaned a lower target RW like Sarr, Cornet, Hudson-Odoi I think we’d have enough up top with all the creativity and the ability to keep the line of possession higher up the pitch.