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Agreed, there’s no chance of Harrison tbh. They won’t want to lose 2 out of their front 3 and with the Raphinha and Phillips money they’d have no reason to sell.

There’s no doubt he hears things from someone at the club, the Harrison link is true as Eddie Howe’s nephew has been championing him from when he joined the club, but when he comes out with stuff like “should be quiet” he’s just trying to get a rise out of people tbh. It’s not like people at the club are going to walk about going “ok we got Botman so maybe we will all rest for a few weeks before bothering signing others”, him and the other journalists are also getting far less information with Ashworth in.

How fucking giant is the central area of our back now btw . If Burn or Botman move into RCB we’d have Botman 6’ 5” and Pope and Burn both 6’ 6”, even if Schar played RCB he’s 6’ 3” or so.

Aye, someone I know sent me that clip the floppy haired cunt is called Rory he’s a chewwwsea fan that piggy backs off the true Geordie. The times I’ve seen him he’s been fine about us, maybe that’s because TG was around and fwoffeee coffee Rory didn’t have the nads to say anything, or (which imo is the case) he had his knickers in a twist about us - and comically for a chelsea fan in particular the money we have. He bases his entire point that Sunderland are bigger on that they’ve won loads more, saying they were the Bank of England club and won “loads and loads of titles whereas Nooocarrsel won one I fink” dozy cunt, iirc one title is what Chelsea had pre-Abramovic. Fwiw I find the whole “bigger club” nonsense tedious as in reality none of the clubs listed fucking win anything. Everton, Villa, and I guess the mackems (although that nonce is the first one I’ve heard claiming that other than the nonce sympathizers) can all enjoy being definitely much bigger clubs than Newcastle over the next 10+ years, maybe they can make themselves a little cup and give it a cuddle while they watch Dave Winchester, Tom Davies, and whoever the fuck Villa have pretend to play football. Butch as well btw he really nailed his point, well done marra.

He doesn’t like movies, he prefers to just sit and stare at the beige paint on the walls.

This is just fucking weird. Some bloke has made a fake Botman twitter account, copied Botmans profile and even made a few of the recent tweets Botman has, and is now going around thanking Newcastle fans. What makes people want to do this , it’s genuinely just weird behavior

From last night obviously but look at him scrambling to make sense of this for his wank FFP points. More of his bullshit too. Fucking £12m for Ekitike? There’s not a chance that’s the fee.

They’re tragic, posting on every tweet about Newcastle but then a Newcastle fan has a pop back and they’re all going “why are Newcastle obsessed with us, trying to create this rivalry it’s going to be both our clubs pushing the “big 6” which will be great to see” I really don’t get where they’re getting this idea their trajectory is in any way comparable to ours. Them saying Botman looks slow and won’t adapt is hilarious as well, he plays in Ligue Un which is one of the most comparable leagues to the PL, meanwhile they’ve bought a 29 year old error prone CB from La Liga, probably one of the least comparable leagues (I don’t mean in terms of quality btw I’m meaning play style, pacing of games etc), I know which one is the riskier signing. Just watched a highlight reel of Botman and I’m now convinced he’s the next Rio Ferdinand (playing wise). I’ll say one thing mind, I hope we get some forward players as defensive highlight reels aren’t the same

How much is it going to ruin them if we start winning trophies.

A dance off broke out in the middle of the aisle. Stand by everything I said last night, including the bit about that exile bloke. The really exciting part of the deal, besides signing one of the highest rated young CBs in Europe, is it shows our lot can stay the course in a difficult transfer saga with heavy pressure from one of the worlds biggest clubs. When it looked many times that the deal was dead, there was so much ITK bullshit on both sides of the discussion, then out of nothing reports start breaking it’s all agreed and he’s coming for a medical.

Oh aye, also exile 1968 is a kiddie fiddler

Mate. I’m absolutely steaming on a bus home after a work event where Pitbull performed and I had no fucking idea Botman was signing but I am wanking on the bus now. Also I’ve proven I know fuck all. Although this kind of backs up my point that fucking nobody knows what’s going on besides a select few. Personally I love it.

I don’t class myself as ITK in any way, shape, or form but I’m related to a club scout and hear bits here and there. Only reason I’m posting this is because that’s how I know the transfer activity is now completely restricted to Ashworth, Howe, and Nickson (I imagine some higher ups too) - so these ITK twitter accounts know absolutely fuck all, I used to half think maybe they heard bits like I did but they’re completely full of it. Little bits get passed about to scouts and this is the other reason I’m passing a long as it meshes with the ‘patience’ talk, I’d heard about a week before things started emerging that our three keeper targets were Areola, Pope, and Leno in that order - they were advanced with Areola and the bid went in but he started asking for a lot of money so they went for Pope and signed him as we all know. The key part for me was when watching the interview with him he mentioned that there’d been discussions for weeks & that he’d been speaking to Trippier a lot about it, before everything suddenly happened quickly - this was all before we’d given up on Henderson and Areola. While this makes sense that we have contact with all these back up targets and are working on them as we proceed with top targets it’s just nice to know it really is happening now whereas in January I think we really were focusing on one target at a time. Again, I know nowt really - especially now - short of some youth players we’ve scouted

So accounts like this put up a picture of Ekitike laughing with his agent, they unanimously decided he was taking the piss out of Newcastle - despite nothing to suggest that - and a load of our fans went and gave him a load of abuse in the comments 🙄. Fucking idiots, so they’ll go way over the top to thank a player and call him a world beater who was utter dogshit for years like Hayden to, I assume, show how amazing they are but when the club is in negotiations with one of the premier up and coming striker talents in football they do this? I’m sure the club will be thrilled.

Edwards is a funny one about the FFP stuff. I think it’s pretty clear he doesn’t understand how it works and has no intention of knowing how it works (see his £60m budget claim before bids for Ektike, Botman, Targett etc made that an impossibility). I’m fairly sure we also bring in more sponsorship, TV, and match day revenue then Villa yet they seem to have no worries whatsoever in terms of spending - and yes they sold Grealish but they spunked more than his fee on fees and wages the month he left. I think he just enjoys being boring.

Comments like the one this Bob bloke is making are so tedious. I feel some of our fans are so obsessed with trying to not look “ungrateful” or “deluded” that they come out with absolute fucking shite. He can hand on heart say he’d be fine with just Targett and Pope in after one of the biggest takeovers in the history of football? Bruno Guimeraes who they’ve promised CL football and trophies to wouldn’t. I’m not saying people should be freaking out or getting pissed off at the owners but if the current business was all we did it would be a poor window.

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.

Raphinha is class tbf, Leeds are wank and from 60 starts over the last two seasons he’s hit 17 goals and 12 assists in the league from the wing, while playing with Patrick Bamford, and Jack Harrison. He’s just starting to peak at 25 and is becoming a somewhat regular starter/squad member for Brazil. £65m is a lot of money but the market in general is mad with figures, they have him with a decent length of time on his deal iirc. Compare him to someone like Buendia who cost nearly £40m with a single PL goal for Norwich. As mad as it is I personally see Raphinha as being in that £65m range nowadays, Arsenals offer was £40m or so? Compare that to the £72m they paid for Pepe and it’s a shite offer tbh. I’d love us to sign Raphinha as I think he’s absolute quality but I don’t think we will go to that price tag.

Out of interest I looked up his net worth seeing as all the mackems get excited about having a billionaire owner. Looks like his trust (so not him) is worth an estimated $2b, so basically Ellis Short level and comparable with many in the championship. An upgrade on the carpet bagger twins? I guess aye as at some point he will probably get that money, but in a football environment will they be splashing cash? No . For context Stokes owners are worth 5 times as much.

They have to watch Villa I suppose.

New angle by the Italian press he’s going to be forced by his club to join us.