Transfers, 2024-25 season

[The Fish 11311]

45 minutes ago, craigc said:

Pope and Botman if that's our lot I'll be a bit disappointed. 

 

Hang on, you said, 'underwhelmed so far'.  So far we've signed;

1. a top class England intrnational 'keeper who will allow us to play further up the pitch,

2. a dependable, reliable left back of Premier League quality who was player of the season for Villa, then one of the better performers for us in the 2nd half of the season.

3. one of the most exciting young CBs in European football who was courted by the Italian Champions no less.

 

If you're underwhelmed by that you need to check your yourself before you wreck yourself.

[ewerk 32933]

He’ll not be happy until we’ve signed Hamza Choudhury on loan.

[Winston 41]

People are getting too greedy too quickly. Weve signed 7 players in the space of 6 months. Ball of time left in this transfer window for more players but if we cant get the right players with the right profile for various reasons then so be it, im happy to wait. 

[Ayatollah Hermione 14560]

1 hour ago, David Kelly said:

Replacing ASM would be fine but not when Murphy is one of our most likely starters on the other side of the pitch.  Maxi is miles better than any of the three other wide options so you don't get rid of him for someone who only likely a stop gap option and leave yourself with bottom six players on the other side of the pitch.

If Harrison and Maxi are both left sided players, signing Harrison makes no sense at all.  I'm surprised I've not seen anyone else question this.  The only argument I've seen is that people just don't like Harrison.

Unless I'm completely wrong about where Harrison plays.  I fully admit I've not seen loads of him but I always got the impression he plays on the left and his wiki page seems to back that up.

Didn’t somebody comb THE STATS and find out that Maxi is actually more effective on the right from an assist standpoint? I.E he has to pass with his strong foot rather than cut in and shoot with it

[trophyshy 7277]

Botman is unbelievably class.  He alone makes this a phenomenal window. 

[Holden McGroin 7483]

I totally agree having only seen him for about 10 minutes in a friendly.

 

All joking aside, I don't think we have improved much from the end of the season. Might take Botman time to get upto speed so Burn maybe the better option to start on day 1. Also, Pope is not much of an upgrade on Dubravka.

 

I think we'll go balls out on a marquee signing and add another 1 or 2 as well so im not worried.

 

 

[Alex 36587]

Think about the squad the owners inherited. We’ve come along way in a short time and as ewerk points out there’s over a month left in this window. It wasn’t like building on Leicester or West Ham type side to challenge for CL

places. It was a complete overhaul they needed. Remember when we pretty much would’ve taken their hand off if someone had offered us finishing 4th bottom? 

[Alex 36587]

15 minutes ago, Holden McGroin said:

I totally agree having only seen him for about 10 minutes in a friendly.

 

All joking aside, I don't think we have improved much from the end of the season. Might take Botman time to get upto speed so Burn maybe the better option to start on day 1. Also, Pope is not much of an upgrade on Dubravka.

 

I think we'll go balls out on a marquee signing and add another 1 or 2 as well so im not worried.

 

 

Yeah. Howay made the point well that signing Botman and Pope didn’t make a lot of sense of we weren’t going to improve the attacking positions this window. Given they’re a greater priority 

[Polarboy 2317]

Getting rid of the dead weight, and I mean that in the nicest way possible, is probably a lot harder than we even think. It's going to take two or three windows on top of last January to get our squad into decent shape. 

[Polarboy 2317]

 

200,000k a week, fucking hell. If there was any doubt that he's only really in it for the money that's been dispelled. I'm glad we steered well clear of him. I'm no fan of those bubble blowing twats in east London, but any player with even a small bit of sporting ambition would have chosen the 'ammers. As for Forest I suppose if he helps keep them up it will be money well spent, but the amount of players Forest are buying and the money spent rarely spells success for promoted sides. Fulham did something similar one of the seasons they came up and they still went straight down. For one thing you lose any camaraderie that was developed in your promotion season, and obviously team cohesion is also lost with so many players trying to gel together. Of course Fulham didn't have anyone of the quality of Lingard in fairness. 

 

[wykikitoon 22593]

In laws are forest fans and are not happy with that lol 

[Winston 41]

51 minutes ago, Polarboy said:

 

200,000k a week, fucking hell. If there was any doubt that he's only really in it for the money that's been dispelled. I'm glad we steered well clear of him. I'm no fan of those bubble blowing twats in east London, but any player with even a small bit of sporting ambition would have chosen the 'ammers. As for Forest I suppose if he helps keep them up it will be money well spent, but the amount of players Forest are buying and the money spent rarely spells success for promoted sides. Fulham did something similar one of the seasons they came up and they still went straight down. For one thing you lose any camaraderie that was developed in your promotion season, and obviously team cohesion is also lost with so many players trying to gel together. Of course Fulham didn't have anyone of the quality of Lingard in fairness. 

 

The link has the correct price lmao

[Polarboy 2317]

Newcastle continue search for attacking reinforcements after Moussa Diaby setback (90min.com)

 

Our old friend Graeme Bailey at 90 minutes reckons we're biding our time with Calvert-Lewin until later in the window, and are assuming that a) Everton still need to generate money even after selling Richarlison, and b) that they'll be more amenable to giving us a better price later in the window when they're trying to make signings themselves and won't have time to haggle. Well the bit about getting a better price is more my interpretation of it reading between the lines. If correct it would seem that DCL leaving isn't beyond the realms of possibility. Of course if he were available you would assume Man U, assuming Ronaldo goes, Chelsea etc might try and jump in given their problems up front. 

[wykikitoon 22593]

Lingard confirmed for Foresr

[wykikitoon 22593]

 

 

 

[wykikitoon 22593]

https://www.instagram.com/p/CgSOuJSNCQs/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

 

 

[Polarboy 2317]

Either Sesko's agent is as much of a tit as Ekitike's, or it looks like we might be getting him. Of course it might sting a bit when it's announced that Bayern or someone have been the ones to actually swoop in. If that was his agents intention i.e. generate publicity for his client by posting about being in Newcastle without the intention of ever signing for us, then he's done his job for his client I suppose. 

[Craig 6790]

18 minutes ago, wykikitoon said:

 

 

 

 

In a nutshell. The fucking ITKs are going to hate it when these deals get announced as it'll expose them for what they are. Absolute bullshitters.

 

[Dr Gloom 23416]

1 hour ago, Craig said:

 

In a nutshell. The fucking ITKs are going to hate it when these deals get announced as it'll expose them for what they are. Absolute bullshitters.

 

like I said 

[Billy Whitehurst 993]

I can’t believe someone is paying Lingard £200k per week, utter madness.

 

You’ve got to think that the majority of the Forest first team are on about a tenth of that. He’s sure to cause a fair bit of resentment when he is spending half his time dabbing (or whatever arseholes get up to these days) on TikTok.

[Craig 6790]

44 minutes ago, Billy Whitehurst said:

I can’t believe someone is paying Lingard £200k per week, utter madness.

 

You’ve got to think that the majority of the Forest first team are on about a tenth of that. He’s sure to cause a fair bit of resentment when he is spending half his time dabbing (or whatever arseholes get up to these days) on TikTok.

 

Depends if he delivers I guess. They'll soon forget about what he's being paid if his performances ensure Forest remain in the PL after this season. 

IMO a promoted team does need to strengthen following promotion if they have desires of staying there. I appreciate there was an emotional connection, but i'd be intrigued to know what we paid Beardsley when he returned in 1993 relative to everyone else. I suspect it was higher. 

[OTF 8313]

2 hours ago, Billy Whitehurst said:

I can’t believe someone is paying Lingard £200k per week, utter madness.

 

You’ve got to think that the majority of the Forest first team are on about a tenth of that. He’s sure to cause a fair bit of resentment when he is spending half his time dabbing (or whatever arseholes get up to these days) on TikTok.

 

On the surface it's madness, but they'll be seeing it as pay 10M in wages for a player who would command that much in transfer fees easily if he was still under contract. Of course even a freely available player will have an agent wanting to wet their beak on the deal so there will have been some coin outside the wages involved as well. It's a Mike Ashley'esque move a gamble for them to try to retain premier league status which is where the real windfall is. Attacking players are notoriously expensive, so it could potentially be a good deal for them, but only if Lingard wants to compete. The motivation for him is probably more about what comes next, do even reasonably well and Lingard and his agent then get to do the same again next season when at the age of 30 I'd say they'll be looking for a 2 or 3 year deal.

[Kitman 2305]

1 hour ago, OTF said:

 

On the surface it's madness, but they'll be seeing it as pay 10M in wages for a player who would command that much in transfer fees easily if he was still under contract. Of course even a freely available player will have an agent wanting to wet their beak on the deal so there will have been some coin outside the wages involved as well. It's a Mike Ashley'esque move a gamble for them to try to retain premier league status which is where the real windfall is. Attacking players are notoriously expensive, so it could potentially be a good deal for them, but only if Lingard wants to compete. The motivation for him is probably more about what comes next, do even reasonably well and Lingard and his agent then get to do the same again next season when at the age of 30 I'd say they'll be looking for a 2 or 3 year deal.

If I was a Forest fan, my concern would be whether he will actually give a fuck or not.  If he does put the effort in and stays fit, this could be a great deal for them. However there must be a reason he couldnt get in a poor Man Utd side and I suspect it's his attitude

[OTF 8313]

25 minutes ago, Kitman said:

If I was a Forest fan, my concern would be whether he will actually give a fuck or not.  If he does put the effort in and stays fit, this could be a great deal for them. However there must be a reason he couldnt get in a poor Man Utd side and I suspect it's his attitude

 

Let's be real for a moment, if you were a Forest fan you'd not be posting on a Newcastle United forum.

 

 

[RobinRobin 12374]

15 hours ago, OTF said:

 

Keep me posted if they release a sequel.