Transfers, 2024-25 season

[Dazzler 11675]

7 minutes ago, Kid Dynamite said:

Depends how hamstrung we are by FFP. With Tonali and Joelinton out for the season, the gaping hole in our midfield may be more of a miss than swapping Trippier with Tino at RB imo

Possibly, but we're just about to sign the next big thing (or so our twitter fans will have you believe) from Man City, so our answers our solved. We're still fucked without Trippier IMO though so should be having Bayern's duds down on the fee.

[Holden McGroin 7514]

Bayern must be getting some encouragement if they have come back. I suspect we’ve set the acceptance fee at £20m.

 

 

 

 

[Ayatollah Hermione 14623]

Glad we’re not neglecting the long term tbh. The only reason this kid would come here is for promised game time, you’d think 

[Dazzler 11675]

13 minutes ago, Ayatollah Hermione said:

Glad we’re not neglecting the long term tbh. The only reason this kid would come here is for promised game time, you’d think 

Aye, he'll be one of the many Man City youth players that are good enough to make it, but will never get the chance there. With our injuries and Tonali you'd like to think (and I suspect he'll expect) he'll get a few chances from the bench

[ewerk 33044]

If Trippier goes I’m cool with it. He’s 32 now and has probably peaked as an attacking RB in the PL. Ideally him and Tino would be rotated but finances and injuries won’t allow it.

[Kid Dynamite 7594]

54 minutes ago, ewerk said:

If Trippier goes I’m cool with it. He’s 32 now and has probably peaked as an attacking RB in the PL. Ideally him and Tino would be rotated but finances and injuries won’t allow it.

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[Dr Gloom 23529]

1 hour ago, ewerk said:

If Trippier goes I’m cool with it. He’s 32 now and has probably peaked as an attacking RB in the PL. Ideally him and Tino would be rotated but finances and injuries won’t allow it.

I get why they would sell him for £15-20m at his age but it’s premature to say he’s peaked. He’s been unbelievable for us since signing bar a little dip in form the past month or so. He’ll be a massive loss were he to go 

[Dr Gloom 23529]

1 hour ago, PaddockLad said:

NEW SIGNING KLAXON!!! 
 

 

https://theathletic.com/5221944/2024/01/23/newcastle-transfer-alfie-harrison-man-city/?source=user_shared_article

not the Manchester City midfielder we were looking for 

 

 

[wykikitoon 22684]

Meanwhile we can't sign anyone and these cunts are under investigation 😂

 

 

[toonotl 3402]

https://theathletic.com/5218649/2024/01/23/newcastle-almiron-transfer-trippier-wilson/

 

Summary:

 

Trippier not going anywhere because his leadership is too valuable to replace. Unless stupid money comes in. Current offers seem nowhere near enough. Tripps happy to stay.

Wilson not going anywhere because it's too difficult to replace him in this window. Unless stupid money comes in. Same deal as above.

Almiron a different story, club reluctant to sell, but he will be sold if the price is right.

 

Joelinton contract situation looks to drag on into next season. Club hoping to meet somewhere in the middle and avoid disrupting entire wage structure.

 

Bruno likely to be sold in the summer, (dropped as a side note in answering the Joelinton question strangely so not so sure how concrete the opinion/reporting is), but the story goes that it business will likely be done, and, in combination with the released players coming off contract and new sponsorship deals, will signal a big turnover in squad personnel and something of a transformation of the squad. It's our "Coutinho/Grealish/Kane" money, I suppose. Big dollars for one player to reinvest in multiple elite players across multiple positions in the squad.

 

There was a mention too that the approach this window is perhaps indicative that the season is perhaps something of a writeoff (not coming from the club, of course) but that's the sense many get from the activity that we're keeping our powder dry for a better buyer's market in the summer (when we will also have more coin to work with).

 

I'm pretty happy with this tbh. It's disappointing that we probably won't see much business (unless Miggy is sold and/or we can swoop on a player that becomes available). But it does make sense to wait until the summer really. We're not trying to avoid relegation or push for CL this season. There's no point blowing our load for minimal chance of a big reward.

 

I'd be gutted to see Bruno go, but it seems like the writing is on the wall. And it'll be toward a positive end too so it'll hurt a whole lot less when we see 4-5 high-quality "replacements" on the pitch.

[ewerk 33044]

I think Forest’s problem was that they sold Brennan Johnson too late. Their main argument seems to be that if they’d sold him earlier in the window then they’d have gotten a lower fee so I suppose they have that money to spend now.

[toonotl 3402]

3 minutes ago, wykikitoon said:

Meanwhile we can't sign anyone and these cunts are under investigation 😂

 

 

 

Ajax won't work with us because of their connections to the mackems. Clearly.

[wykikitoon 22684]

6 minutes ago, ewerk said:

I think Forest’s problem was that they sold Brennan Johnson too late. Their main argument seems to be that if they’d sold him earlier in the window then they’d have gotten a lower fee so I suppose they have that money to spend now.

And they apparently bodged the paper work to show that it was earlier. 

[wykikitoon 22684]

 

 

 

[Holden McGroin 7514]

30 minutes ago, wykikitoon said:

Meanwhile we can't sign anyone and these cunts are under investigation 😂

 

 

It’s getting desperate. what is Bentaleb upto these days ? 

[Dr Gloom 23529]

50 minutes ago, Holden McGroin said:

It’s getting desperate. what is Bentaleb upto these days ? 

I sense a deadline day bid coming

 

 

 

[Chaser 1365]

Unless we are about to do a Brighton and buy a load of wonder kids who will light the place up, I still can't see how we can sell our guaranteed first teamers when there's not much to back them up. There's nothing to suggest our youth, bar Miley are anywhere near capable to drop in as backup. 

[Isegrim 10321]

 

[Kid Dynamite 7594]

I'd be gutted if we sold Bruno mind. Botman, Bruno and Isak are the spine we should be building the team around

[aimaad22 4655]

53 minutes ago, Isegrim said:

 

 

 

Considering what other players like Fabinho and Neves have gone for, the fee should be at least 30M hopefully.

[OTF 8381]

2 hours ago, Dr Gloom said:

I sense a deadline day bid coming

 

 

 

Reinvented as a combative box to box midfielder. 

[OTF 8381]

2 hours ago, Isegrim said:

 

If this goes ahead will it mean Gordon being played on the right and Barnes on the left (once fit) or the other way around?

[Andrew 5124]

28 minutes ago, OTF said:

If this goes ahead will it mean Gordon being played on the right and Barnes on the left (once fit) or the other way around?

 

Cant imagine swapping Gordon, hes been one of our best players this season from the left, it makes very little sense to destabilise his performances. Barnes being on the right means we only have to get up and running with one new player in an unfamiliar role in the side rather than a new player on the left and one playing a new position on the right.

[Howay 12496]

4 hours ago, toonotl said:

https://theathletic.com/5218649/2024/01/23/newcastle-almiron-transfer-trippier-wilson/

 

Summary:

 

Trippier not going anywhere because his leadership is too valuable to replace. Unless stupid money comes in. Current offers seem nowhere near enough. Tripps happy to stay.

Wilson not going anywhere because it's too difficult to replace him in this window. Unless stupid money comes in. Same deal as above.

Almiron a different story, club reluctant to sell, but he will be sold if the price is right.

 

Joelinton contract situation looks to drag on into next season. Club hoping to meet somewhere in the middle and avoid disrupting entire wage structure.

 

Bruno likely to be sold in the summer, (dropped as a side note in answering the Joelinton question strangely so not so sure how concrete the opinion/reporting is), but the story goes that it business will likely be done, and, in combination with the released players coming off contract and new sponsorship deals, will signal a big turnover in squad personnel and something of a transformation of the squad. It's our "Coutinho/Grealish/Kane" money, I suppose. Big dollars for one player to reinvest in multiple elite players across multiple positions in the squad.

 

There was a mention too that the approach this window is perhaps indicative that the season is perhaps something of a writeoff (not coming from the club, of course) but that's the sense many get from the activity that we're keeping our powder dry for a better buyer's market in the summer (when we will also have more coin to work with).

 

I'm pretty happy with this tbh. It's disappointing that we probably won't see much business (unless Miggy is sold and/or we can swoop on a player that becomes available). But it does make sense to wait until the summer really. We're not trying to avoid relegation or push for CL this season. There's no point blowing our load for minimal chance of a big reward.

 

I'd be gutted to see Bruno go, but it seems like the writing is on the wall. And it'll be toward a positive end too so it'll hurt a whole lot less when we see 4-5 high-quality "replacements" on the pitch.

I think any talk of Bruno being sold is just opinion rather than anything concrete. The bloke seems more than happy to stay, and as KD noted we should be building around him. Our FFP situation starts to really clear come summer as this year will be one of the FFP back years which will have the sale of ASM (and potentially Almiron) as well as CL money, SELA and other sponsorships. 

[OTF 8381]

1 hour ago, Andrew said:

 

Cant imagine swapping Gordon, hes been one of our best players this season from the left, it makes very little sense to destabilise his performances. Barnes being on the right means we only have to get up and running with one new player in an unfamiliar role in the side rather than a new player on the left and one playing a new position on the right.

Agree, I was just thinking that Barnes really really likes to cut in and shoot with his right, where-as Gordon only reallly likes to.

 

If he goes we'll definitely miss Miggy's engine, but definitely not his right foot. In fact he'd probably not miss his right foot if it went.