Transfers, 2024-25 season

[wykikitoon 22727]

Forest look to be signing Sosa.  Elanga or MGW on the move?

[RobElliott 1791]

51 minutes ago, The Fish said:

What's Mike Williamson up to?

 

He is still trying to score a goal from a corner

[Isegrim 10326]

3 hours ago, Kid Dynamite said:

I guess, playing devils advocate, they've said since day one they want £65mil. If we'd offered that on day one it probably would have been done .

 

[Alex 36667]

17 hours ago, RobElliott said:

 

He is still trying to score a goal from a corner

He’d have had more chance if he took them. 

Edited August 16, 2024 by Alex

[Dr Gloom 23558]

He’s not worth £65m. They’re having our pants down if we pay that 

[Christmas Tree 5101]

At this point I’d settle for some random private jet landing at Newcastle story.

[wykikitoon 22727]

11 minutes ago, Dr Gloom said:

He’s not worth £65m. They’re having our pants down if we pay that 

Paging @Gemmill

[Gemmill 49712]

We've offered 60. An extra 5 is neither here nor there.

 

And for the 10th time, he's only just turned 24 last month, and if he's still our first choice centre half when he's 32, then £65m will have been an absolute steal. 

[GrahamTaylor5 1172]

2 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

We've offered 60. An extra 5 is neither here nor there.

 

And for the 10th time, he's only just turned 24 last month, and if he's still our first choice centre half when he's 32, then £65m will have been an absolute steal. 

Or if we end up selling him on at a profit the way Leeds sold Ferdinand.

[wykikitoon 22727]

I doubt we will hear anything this close to the weekend now. If anything is going to happen it will be Monday 

[Gemmill 49712]

He might be missing from their team this weekend, you never know. 

[ewerk 33096]

3 hours ago, Gemmill said:

We've offered 60. An extra 5 is neither here nor there.

 

And for the 10th time, he's only just turned 24 last month, and if he's still our first choice centre half when he's 32, then £65m will have been an absolute steal. 

It would make him the 7th most expensive defender in history.

[Christmas Tree 5101]

3 hours ago, Gemmill said:

We've offered 60. An extra 5 is neither here nor there.

 

And you wonder why Northern Rock went tits up  

[Gemmill 49712]

2 minutes ago, ewerk said:

It would make him the 7th most expensive defender in history.

 

Warren Barton was once the most expensive defender in England. WHAT OF IT. 

[Gemmill 49712]

Just now, Christmas Tree said:

And you wonder why Northern Rock went tits up  

 

Well it wasn't through buying centre halves. 

[Gemmill 49712]

You're only getting a laugh for the first time you posted that btw. 

[Andrew 5136]

7 hours ago, Gemmill said:

When you've taken a fortnight to get within £5m of their valuation, and that fortnight was the last two weeks before the season starts, I think there's a fairly strong argument for just going the extra 5 and getting the bloke in the squad for at least match week 2.

 

Unless we are in very low-key advanced discussions on a cheaper alternative, that is. 

We do have previous for that. 

 

The media were going mad over us pursuing Barella and then we announced Tonali instead.

 

We've really done two pieces of huge business so far since the new owners came in, Tonali and Isak and both were without a peep from anyone until it was done.

[Kid Dynamite 7606]

1 hour ago, Gemmill said:

 

Warren Barton was once the most expensive defender in England. WHAT OF IT. 

Harry Maguire was £80mil 5 years ago. I know which one I'd rather have 

[Gemmill 49712]

Cannavaro only cost Juventus 10m euros. We should sign him instead. 

[Howmanheyman 36442]

9 hours ago, Andrew said:

We've really done two pieces of huge business so far since the new owners came in, Tonali and Isak and both were without a peep from anyone until it was done.

 

This media stuff seems to be very much coming from Palace's end or the player's agent. Doesn't mean we're not after him but they couldn't hold their water by the looks of it? 

[Gemmill 49712]

39 minutes ago, Howmanheyman said:

 

This media stuff seems to be very much coming from Palace's end or the player's agent. Doesn't mean we're not after him but they couldn't hold their water by the looks of it? 

 

I think they fully expected a bidding war and probably can't believe that there's still only one interested party. 

[Dr Gloom 23558]

The one thing these owners haven’t done so far is let a selling club take the piss. They’ve walked away from deals that played out in the media in the way this one has - Diego Carlos springs to mind - and have worked hard to establish a reputation  as tough negotiators to stop selling clubs trying to add a Newcastle tax. This deal makes zero sense after all that. 

 

I think, and hope, we walk away from it now. We have to be honest about where we are in the bullshit world of psr/ffp. Guehi is a good defender but he’s never worth £65m and we don’t have the financial headroom to throw that kind of cash on him just because he had a good euros. There are other, good CB options out there for much less. 

[Gemmill 49712]

If you sign him on a 5 year deal, the PSR difference between £50m and £65m is basically nothing. 

[Dr Gloom 23558]

15 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

If you sign him on a 5 year deal, the PSR difference between £50m and £65m is basically nothing. 

You could have got him for £30m before the euros. And there are other defenders available for that sort of fee that are just as good or better than Guehi. The big money would be better spent on a new right winger - the one glaring weak spot in the squad    

[ewerk 33096]

16 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

If you sign him on a 5 year deal, the PSR difference between £50m and £65m is basically nothing. 

 

It's the equivalent of a £15m player. You're saying that signing Alan Shearer, the league's greatest ever striker, is basically nothing.