Howay

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.

Aye there’s been a distinct lack of discussion around testicular fortitude on here as of late.

“@hekitike9 Hugo is fine. I assure you! No injury! So it's ok to score even more next season. But where ? I asked the question if he would go to Newcastle. He smiled at me!” This is doing the rounds on Twitter. The smiling at the question could mean fuck all, but it seems like the cutting his holiday short story was right as the blokes other tweets say this was in Reims.

It’s got the “here we go” treatment from Fabulous, so seems it’s done.

I like Pope tbf, I know Dubravka is a canny keeper but he’s also missed half our games over the last two seasons - however you rate them both as AH says we now have genuine competition in that position rather than dropping from Dubs to Darlow for half the season. A relatively small outlay as well given the state of the market.

Aye why are they fucking bothered about suggestions a bloke that hasn’t played for them in fucking ages shouldn’t be first choice for his national side (something else that’s nothing to do with SAFC)? Bunch of irrelevant plebs.

I’d love us to say “sounds good, we can’t compete with them at this stage so the offer we made is our final offer and we will be looking at other options, let us know within the next week as we plan to be in advanced stages with others”.

Agreed, if we can work to bring in say 3-4 Bruno/Trippier type signings, and then a couple more Pope/Targett/Burn type signings it’ll have been a brilliant window. Like you say those Bruno type signings are going to be dragged out as we are dealing with agents, clubs, and sometimes even the players themselves that know there’s a market for them - in the past we were often the only one in for a player (like Joselu for example). Ashworth is experienced and will know how long to spend on a target and when to give a final deadline before moving on.

Staveley keeps looking better and better from this court case . Loving the idea the rancid fucking cunt that is Mike Ashley asked to be allowed to keep a stake in NUFC and Staveley told him to whistle. I live in hope that one day I’ll hear that Ashley has went bankrupt and can no longer afford his extra relaxed fit jeans and size 3 lonsdales, horrible little prick he is. He’s so full of shit about the sponsorship fees as well. As AH says, even if it’s true that he had been paying - he clearly knew he was underpaying if his defence was “ohh yeah well you know takeover and all that so we paid nuffink but we were going to double the amount” (even double was clearly low for all the exposure his tatty brand had). Chancing prick.

This toonpolls lad is claiming he sent Ekitike a picture of a birthday cake saying where can I send it, and Ekitike DM’ed him with the message in the video. I was skeptical when I saw the screenshots but this seems to show him clicking through and showing it all then the profile - not sure how you’d fake it unless he’s sad enough to splice videos together. People are having a go saying the handle on the DM is all caps whereas Ekitikes is all lower case - I’m not sure that matters as the profile he clicks through to looks to be Ekitike, and I don’t think Twitter handles are case sensitive. tldr; might be something might be fuck all.

Even if they were the best performers the world has ever seen Sunderland is still a hovel, their football club is a wank lower league side, and their stadium is a generic template.

“…but secret geordie cabal member number one there’s a problem, the staffies keep fornicating and defecating everywhere” ”that’s a problem how? Our studies show the mackems are now showing pride in the ever increasing mounds of dog todd throughout their town. There’s also posts on their forum discussing how there’s no major sites of staffie love making in Newcastle, maybe we will even run a look north special on it to further fan the flames of pride” ”good idea should we send Jeff to cover it?” ”No, you must be the new member, send the new reporter from North Shields - make him slightly judge and show disdain for the story and make sure he mentions he’s from North Shields. They’ll be so overcome with rage that even if they themselves found the staffy orgie to be disgusting they’d be nothing but boastful towards it.”

And what wouldn’t be true about points a through d? . So they’re now abbreviating Ed Sheeran and Elton John? fucking hell man you’d think they’d never had concerts before the way they’re fucking banging on about it, do they think anyone gives a fuck? They let people perform at their stadium, people choose to perform there, the same acts would perform anywhere so long as there was demand and capacity to do so. It’s not like Elton John is weighing up between playing at both grounds thinking “well I’m a MLF and the Geordie’s are all deluded animals so I’m going to perform in a flat pack stadium in the middle of what looks like abandoned land” it’s not they deep lads. They fucking LOVE that airshow as well man, it’s canny for kids but fucking hell again it’s not something you should bother holding up over other towns/cities as it could be held pretty much anywhere on the coastline.

To be fair the one lad that says “In Sunderland it feels like most the shite has been condensed into a couple of areas” is right, it just so happens the shite is condensed to anywhere with an SR post code, the remaining bits are average bits of countryside where either various stray dogs go for a shag, or Uncal Mick, Lal Mick, and Plain Mick do overnight camp outs and drink loads of white lightening mixed with blue drink. It’s one of those things they often go at but I’ve no fucking clue why they do, it’s a topic they’re just better off adding to the ever growing list of ones to avoid. Sunderland is a dump, it simply is, they can bring up Benwell all they want and while it is rough and shite (before any Stevie types start - I get a pass on slating it as my dad grew up in Benwell), as you say all cities have areas like that, but in comparison Sunderland doesn’t have areas like Jesmond, Gosforth, Benton. They won’t count the coast, despite it all having a Newcastle postal code, so equally I’ll rule out any of their coastal areas which rules out any hope of them bringing up a nice area nearby. Not even being biased tbh, Sunderland is just a shithole. In many ways I wish it wasn’t as crap as it is, it’s a fucking embarrassment for the region but thankfully people outside of the UK generally haven’t heard of it.

I’m surprised Svetlana and Natalya can stomach being that close to him and his rancid shoes regardless of how much he’s pretended he will pay them. There must be a support group for all the people he’s offered to pay for photos after he sprints off back under his bridge with his can of Kestrel super.

He’s a twat, I don’t even get the point he (and it seems a few others) are even making. The same idiots were tweeting and retweeting “all we demand is a club that tries” - we’ve already spent £13m on a player, signed two promising youth players, and if negotiations had went our way would have two £30m players in and it’s only week 1 of the window.