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2 hours ago, wykikitoon said:

Trust the process. There's still 6 weeks to go and the owners aren't stupid 

This is what I think too. I don’t think anybody in the press has the inside track on what’s going on behind the scenes; the owners and management know we are short in attack and Ive no doubt they will address it.
 

The reality is that we are shopping in the high end stores now not Ashleys poundland….so unless the player or the club want a transfer (like pouty Hugo), we will have to prise targets away from unwilling sellers. That process often goes down to deadline day for a number of reasons (and theres also the matter of moving the deadwood on). I doubt its a budgetary issue so much as an availability issue.

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Yep. Agreed. I'd be surprised if the staff and owners bugger up the transfer window. The pant wetters are showing themselves once again. They're out, damp, and proud!

 

Paper talk is going to continue since us failing to sign players is (almost as big of a story) for other teams supporters as it would be for us if we signed someone. Let's be honest for some rival supporters our summer transfer news is more interesting than their entire existence.

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Man City had to walk away from Kane. We are nowhere near that stage, yet, but it is better to be walking away from top quality players rather than walking away from loan deals for Choudary. To think we have people upset after we have Botman, Bruno and Trippier in the space of 2 windows is crazy.

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I know it's said tongue in cheek, but I don't think it's bedwetting to critique our transfer policy. It doesn't mean you aren't happy with the owners or that you want Ashley back. I'm not sure it's healthy to put the club on such a pedestal that everyone connected is infallible and can't be questioned about anything. 

 

We had a cracking 2nd half to last season and a great transfer window. Burn, Trippier and Targett massively improved the defence. Bruno and Joelinton massively improved the midfield. The clear deficit in the squad was with the front 3. Wilson is injury prone. Wood is hopeless and Murphy/Almiron/ASM/Fraser provide little in the way of goals or assists.

 

2 1/2 weeks away from the start of the new season and we've added a CB and a GK to last seasons squad. We seem to have wasted a lot of time looking at Diaby, Nunez, Isak etc. just hoping their clubs will half their asking prices. Time to start looking at at people we can afford...

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5 minutes ago, wykikitoon said:

Was speaking to my brother about him yesterday, he said he would laugh his tits off at £35m.  He said even £20m would be great business by Leeds.

I certainly think that it would represent a PIF premium if we paid that.  Surely there must be someone left field who is a better option.

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40 minutes ago, RobinRobin said:

I certainly think that it would represent a PIF premium if we paid that.  Surely there must be someone left field who is a better option.


PIF/English player premium.

 

I think Harrison would be a success here. Strikes me as a grafter without too much of an ego. In the mould of a Burn, Targett, Richie.
 

18 goals from midfield in 2 seasons is pretty much what our entire midfield had managed in the same period 

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44 minutes ago, Kid Dynamite said:

I know it's said tongue in cheek, but I don't think it's bedwetting to critique our transfer policy. It doesn't mean you aren't happy with the owners or that you want Ashley back. I'm not sure it's healthy to put the club on such a pedestal that everyone connected is infallible and can't be questioned about anything. 

 

We had a cracking 2nd half to last season and a great transfer window. Burn, Trippier and Targett massively improved the defence. Bruno and Joelinton massively improved the midfield. The clear deficit in the squad was with the front 3. Wilson is injury prone. Wood is hopeless and Murphy/Almiron/ASM/Fraser provide little in the way of goals or assists.

 

2 1/2 weeks away from the start of the new season and we've added a CB and a GK to last seasons squad. We seem to have wasted a lot of time looking at Diaby, Nunez, Isak etc. just hoping their clubs will half their asking prices. Time to start looking at at people we can afford...

Totally agree with this.  However since ashworth has come in the news out of the club has certainly been limited and it's gone to CN basically becoming an ITK.  So with regards to us wasting time on certain players unless we hear that from the club then I wouldn't assume we just had them in our sights.

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40 minutes ago, Kid Dynamite said:

I know it's said tongue in cheek, but I don't think it's bedwetting to critique our transfer policy. It doesn't mean you aren't happy with the owners or that you want Ashley back. I'm not sure it's healthy to put the club on such a pedestal that everyone connected is infallible and can't be questioned about anything. 

 

We had a cracking 2nd half to last season and a great transfer window. Burn, Trippier and Targett massively improved the defence. Bruno and Joelinton massively improved the midfield. The clear deficit in the squad was with the front 3. Wilson is injury prone. Wood is hopeless and Murphy/Almiron/ASM/Fraser provide little in the way of goals or assists.

 

2 1/2 weeks away from the start of the new season and we've added a CB and a GK to last seasons squad. We seem to have wasted a lot of time looking at Diaby, Nunez, Isak etc. just hoping their clubs will half their asking prices. Time to start looking at at people we can afford...

Absolutely we should criticise their mistakes and missteps, but with 6 weeks left in the window, it'd be too harsh to judge this window negatively. Especially as we've signed a good left back, an upgrade on our first choice 'keeper and one of the most exciting young CBs in Europe. 

 

There will be a little naivety, e.g. Ekitike He wasn't massively keen on the move in January, plus Reims didn't want to sell. I don't think I would have spent as much time trying to agree terms with him, I'd probably have called off the pursuit earlier. I think Ashworth and now Eales will provide better guidance because of their experience. 

 

There's 6 weeks to go, plenty of time to bring in someone we've been linked with, but also available capital to take advantage of the carnage that tends to happen at the end of the window. 

 

I fully expect us to sign 2 players who ply their trade at the business end of the pitch. It might be a winger and an attacking midfielder, or it might be a striker and another. Either way I can't imagine we're done, not by a long stretch.

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we don't want to get taken for mugs, but the difficulty with leaving it too late is you might end up paying more because the selling clubs know you're desperate. not an easy balancing act to get right. agree with fish that we will get two more signings in. whether they're the players we really want, or we overpay remains to be seen. 

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44 minutes ago, Dr Gloom said:

we don't want to get taken for mugs, but the difficulty with leaving it too late is you might end up paying more because the selling clubs know you're desperate. not an easy balancing act to get right. agree with fish that we will get two more signings in. whether they're the players we really want, or we overpay remains to be seen. 

We'll probably overpay but, if the striker is 'worth' £40m to the market as a whole, and we end up paying £60m, that's fine. It's not like we're paying £6m for Riviere when he's worth 60p, the £40m winger will likely be much better than whatever we've got, right?

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The reality is we're unlikely to know, and neither are the hacks, about what is truly going on behind the scenes. I imagine they're playing their cards very close to their chest - Targett and Botman were names socialised given one was on loan for half a season and the other was clearly a target in January (pre-Ashworth). 

The signing of Pope by contrast came pretty much out of the blue. I'd expect that's more indicative of our style of approach going forward. As Fish said, there's 6 weeks to go before the window shuts. If by that time we haven't strengthened our front line then, by all means, be critical. 

Now is not the time to be getting frustrated - not yet. 

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Dennis and Paqueta would be the two I'd currently pick given our apparent failure on other targets. Both Cornet and Dennis can play across a front three, but I think Dennis is more comfortable playing centre forward. Again Dennis would kill two birds with one stone being able to play wide and centrally, and we clearly do need a creative player in midfield alongside Bruno and Joe, with Paqueta being ideal. Dennis may only cost 20m maybe 25m. We keep hearing we only have a certain amount to spend because of FFP, who knows what the truth is, but for two quality players we could perhaps try and structure the payments for one or both. Of course given that Watford are in the Championship we could perhaps give them someone like a Murphy, Manquillo, Ritchie or Fernandez in part exchange. All four would do a job for a Championship side. With regard to Arsenal and Paqueta I think it's pretty unlikely that they'd go after him after spending so much on this Fabio Viera lad who's also an attacking mid. 

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Newcastle United: Ben Jacobs drops interesting Lucas Paqueta transfer claim | thisisfutbol.com

 

No idea how reliable this Ben Jacobs lad is but he's basically echoing the other report in regard to Lyon having lowered their demands in terms of a fee. He goes on to say that we along with other clubs are talking to his agent to see what it would take to sign him. If any of the aforementioned is true you would like to think we have an advantage given he and Bruno's connection. 

 

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41 minutes ago, wykikitoon said:

 

 

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. 

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Was listening to On the Continent podcast the other day and they talked about paqueta. 

 

Apparently hes very sensitive to people he likes around the club leaving, he left Milan because Leonardo had gone and now he wants out of Lyon because juninho and bruno have gone.

 

Assuming we are in for him thats got to bode well for us over arsenal. 

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