Transfers, 2024-25 season

[Craig 6700]

8 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

 

To be fair like, teachers talk to one another then to their partners, their partners post on football forums/twitter.

 

It's not that unreasonable to think that this information could get out into the public domain. I'm not saying it's true though. 

 

Fair point, but it's Sean Casey so we know it's utter, utter bollocks and people should be calling him out on it just to see how he tries to worm his way out of it. 

[Alex 35587]

Like Gemmill says it could be true but it’s more likely bollocks for the divs desperate for rumours. It’s completely vague and there’s a good chance we’ll sign somebody in the near future who has a kid at / nearly at school age. Then he can do his ‘As I said’ routine without saying anything disprovable. Even if they don’t sign anyone that fits the rumour he can say it fell through but they were looking just in case. I feel like I spent far too much time on that and certainly significantly more time than it deserved

[Howay 12496]

 Casey is the best in the bizz, not only does he have contacts in nearly every department as well as the boardroom at NUFC but now he has his narks in the local schools.

 

After years of loitering around school playgrounds, being chased away for “being a fucking nonce” it has finally paid off - he won’t name the player mind as he has a code, he just posts what is essentially a useless bit of information even if there was the most remote shred of truth to it. 

[Howmanheyman 33846]

1 hour ago, OTF said:

 

Clark always had a clanger in him, in the championship less likely to be punished for them. He was otherwise a good player, more than decent at attacking the ball on set pieces too.

 

Does that mean Hendrick scored in his first and last games for us and did less than fuck all in between.

The highlight of Hendrick's NUFC career was standing next to me in Sainsburys and still looking the trampiest.

[Craig 6700]

11 minutes ago, Howay said:

 Casey is the best in the bizz, not only does he have contacts in nearly every department as well as the boardroom at NUFC but now he has his narks in the local schools.

 

After years of loitering around school playgrounds, being chased away for “being a fucking nonce” it has finally paid off - he won’t name the player mind as he has a code, he just posts what is essentially a useless bit of information even if there was the most remote shred of truth to it. 

 

Pearson? 

[Meenzer 15721]

34 minutes ago, Alex said:

It’s completely vague and there’s a good chance we’ll sign somebody in the near future who has a kid at / nearly at school age. Then he can do his ‘As I said’ routine without saying anything disprovable.

 

Aye, it's all very

 

[wykikitoon 20739]

What happened to the FFP we have got CN

 

 

[wykikitoon 20739]

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[Dr Gloom 22151]

"Newcastle would need to spend almost their entire remaining transfer budget to sign the Real Sociedad and Sweden forward"

 

he won't let this one go will he?

[Dr Gloom 22151]

1 hour ago, Gemmill said:

 

To be fair like, teachers talk to one another then to their partners, their partners post on football forums/twitter.

 

It's not that unreasonable to think that this information could get out into the public domain. I'm not saying it's true though. 

 

but why would they tell some random bullshit artist, who lives in ireland?

[Gemmill 46032]

1 minute ago, Dr Gloom said:

 

but why would they tell some random bullshit artist, who lives in ireland?

 

There are fully signed up members of the Cult of Casey. Maybe their god demanded an offering. 

[Polarboy 2311]

Assuming chicken pedo is incorrect with regard to our remaining budget, should we get Isak and someone like Asensio, it would represent a quantum leap in the quality of options for our forward line. I would assume buying both Isak and Diaby in one window would be prohibitively expensive, so perhaps that's why Asensio's name has been floating about recently. 

[wykikitoon 20739]

3 minutes ago, Polarboy said:

Assuming chicken pedo is incorrect with regard to our remaining budget, should we get Isak and someone like Asensio, it would represent a quantum leap in the quality of options for our forward line. I would assume buying both Isak and Diaby in one window would be prohibitively expensive, so perhaps that's why Asensio's name has been floating about recently. 

Get them both and what we have signed already and IMO that's a banging transfer window.

[Polarboy 2311]

2 minutes ago, wykikitoon said:

Get them both and what we have signed already and IMO that's a banging transfer window.

 

If I'm being extremely picky it would be nice to also get either a def mid specialist or an attacking mid, so perhaps something will turn up in the loan market. 

[wykikitoon 20739]

5 minutes ago, Polarboy said:

 

If I'm being extremely picky it would be nice to also get either a def mid specialist or an attacking mid, so perhaps something will turn up in the loan market. 

That would be nice then I would be correct with my Transfer number prediction  

[The Fish 10966]

23 minutes ago, Polarboy said:

Assuming chicken pedo is incorrect with regard to our remaining budget, should we get Isak and someone like Asensio, it would represent a quantum leap in the quality of options for our forward line. I would assume buying both Isak and Diaby in one window would be prohibitively expensive, so perhaps that's why Asensio's name has been floating about recently. 

 

I think if players like Diaby and Isak are interested and available for fair market value in the same window we should buy them both. We can afford it. Give them both 4-5yr deals and start bringing in that sweet sweet sponsorship dinero

[Polarboy 2311]

5 minutes ago, The Fish said:

 

I think if players like Diaby and Isak are interested and available for fair market value in the same window we should buy them both. We can afford it. Give them both 4-5yr deals and start bringing in that sweet sweet sponsorship dinero

 

I'm not privy to the intricacies of FFP, but obviously it would be nice to get both. Having said that if getting both would push us dangerously close to breaking FFP rules I'd rather we took the slow and steady approach to building our squad. It's not as if the football authorities are going to be doing us any favours should we even get close to breaking any spending rules. 

[wykikitoon 20739]

4 minutes ago, Polarboy said:

 

I'm not privy to the intricacies of FFP, but obviously it would be nice to get both. Having said that if getting both would push us dangerously close to breaking FFP rules I'd rather we took the slow and steady approach to building our squad. It's not as if the football authorities are going to be doing us any favours should we even get close to breaking any spending rules. 

IIRC We aren't close to it.

[The Fish 10966]

2 minutes ago, Polarboy said:

 

I'm not privy to the intricacies of FFP, but obviously it would be nice to get both. Having said that if getting both would push us dangerously close to breaking FFP rules I'd rather we took the slow and steady approach to building our squad. It's not as if the football authorities are going to be doing us any favours should we even get close to breaking any spending rules. 

 

 

I've shown elsewhere that FFP for the PL aren't going to slow us down much. We could theoretically spend hundreds of millions. Like you say though, it does make sense to keep some of that wiggle room available. My point is just that, Isak and Diaby are two excellent players, we could afford to get them both this window without falling foul of FFP and maintaining some wiggle room for January. However, if we hold off, there's no guarantee that they'd be available/interested in January, or next summer. And you run the risk of there not being a better alternative available at that time. 

[Howmanheyman 33846]

'Wriggle' Dave, not 'wiggle'.

[Dr Gloom 22151]

40 minutes ago, wykikitoon said:

That would be nice then I would be correct with my Transfer number prediction  

 

TT's very own Sean Casey strikes again

[LongTimeAdmirer 1286]

43 minutes ago, The Fish said:

 

I think if players like Diaby and Isak are interested and available for fair market value in the same window we should buy them both. We can afford it. Give them both 4-5yr deals and start bringing in that sweet sweet sponsorship dinero

 

you reckon isak is fair value at 50 mil though? seems excessive 

[Polarboy 2311]

7 minutes ago, LongTimeAdmirer said:

 

you reckon isak is fair value at 50 mil though? seems excessive 

 

It's somewhat of a risk at that price, but we'd be paying for potential given his age and how highly rated he is. There's people in football who seriously compare Isak to his Swedish compatriot Ibrahimovic. 

[Kid Dynamite 7171]

He's got an awful lot of games and goals

under his belt for a 22 year old. Could be 6 or 7 years off his peak yet 

[ewerk 31207]

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Newcastle will try to thrash out a buy-now-pay-later deal, with a relatively small down payment this summer and another large instalment in 12 months time. That could see a £50m-plus fee with a 50-50 split, which would mean the Magpies only had to find a far more manageable £30m now.

I don’t understand this. It’s makes no difference to FFP and is pocket change to the Saudis. I only hope it’s a negotiating tactic to plead poverty.