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Agree. Apart from winding up LTA we should keep ASM. He honestly has tried to adapt his game under Howe and whilst he'll never be a good defender he did actually delivery quite a few good passes. He steps up in big occassion matches of which there will be more for us this season that any in recent times.

L'anatra è per il girovita e la morbidezza della testa. Mortacci tua, testa di cazzo!

We'll probably never know what his favourite pizza is.* * - certo che è margherita del cazzo

The club wrote an article in the Athletic

Who should I report this creep touching a teenage girl to?

Not much.

If that is all true then it's bloody hilarious.

That's fine. The point is don't comment on things you know nothing about.

I don't mind it in isolation, but it doesn't strike me as very Newcastley. A few good results in it and I'll change my mind.

Honestly comments like that, apart from being an obvious trolling attempt, are just holding your hand up and admitting to having no idea about the talent being discussed.

Szoboszlai was a much better fit for our team IMO and his stock is on a continued rise where-as I feel Maddison, after his last season, doesn't have the application that Howe desires. Szoboszlai has done it at every level for a number of years, people on here who hadn't heard of him before our interest honestly need not comment on it.

I wasn't saying that they're not 'elite', more that we have to take advantage of our advance in schedule to buy this level and age of player. An important aspect with Szoboszlai was wages. He's on wages now where we could afford to give him a hefty bump without breaking the structure and/or bank. That requires the rare balance of age, skill and club. Plus physically I think he would have fit right in. Now I have to hope that I was spectacularly wrong with my thoughts on him, and that he fails miserably at Liverpool.

This makes a lot of sense. But I really, really wanted Szoboszlai.

None will be more upset about it than me (on here). Even more so if he goes to Liverpool. Sure we're not there yet, as far as being an elite club, but we're in the Champions League and they're not. I believe we have an elite club level hierarchy in place and an eager manager who is doing a phenomenal job and IMO will improve because he's young and adaptive. We need that sort of signing to try to maintain our champions league status through increasing our overall quality and depth.

Definitely not going to ask how you know that.

Off-brand Florian Lejeune.

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Exactly, it's always money but the club has to be a fit for the player's ambition when that player is highly regarded as Tonali is.

He's a bit too tall and skinny for the midfield if you ask me. Long head also.

These days the authorities have to line everything up before they so much as make.an accusation. Of course it all just ends up petering away in a prolonged legal battle.