Transfers, 2024-25 season

[Alex 36694]

16 minutes ago, thebrokendoll said:

 

Kid Dynamite??

I think they were at uni together 

[thebrokendoll 10241]

17 minutes ago, Alex said:

I think they were at uni together 

 

oh. I thought for a minute you were suggesting the kid was that fucker who spars with the mackem on good morning britain.

[Alex 36694]

3 minutes ago, thebrokendoll said:

 

oh. I thought for a minute you were suggesting the kid was that fucker who spars with the mackem on good morning britain.

Andrew Pierce? The prize twat’s prize twat 

[thebrokendoll 10241]

1 minute ago, Alex said:

Andrew Pierce? The prize twat’s prize twat 

 

aye that's the one?

surely that's not KD?

[The Fish 11313]

52 minutes ago, Howmanheyman said:

 

Almiron is one of the people we can't sell from the Ashley regime. The stars we could sell at a profit would be Bruno, Isak or Gordon. I'd add Botman to that but that's now a wait and see as it's a bad injury which has been unnecessarily aggravated. Do I want to sell the crown jewels? Of course not.

 

That's my point though, we don't want to sell the stars, and we can't sell the fringe players. So where does that leave us? We have to inflate the PSR envelope by signing commercial deals and offloading from the wage bill. Those are both more incremental steps, but way more sustainable than trying to cash in on the players who we should be building a dynasty around. 

 

I think they messed up this window, by focussing too much on Guehi and not the bigger picture. We needed an athletic, technical  right-sided CB. Not Guehi specifcally. If there were none available at the price we were happy with, then we should have quickly shifted focus to another area of the pitch. To fail to do that was shortsighted.

 

 

[Holden McGroin 7561]

1 hour ago, Howmanheyman said:

 

Almiron is one of the people we can't sell from the Ashley regime. The stars we could sell at a profit would be Bruno, Isak or Gordon. I'd add Botman to that but that's now a wait and see as it's a bad injury which has been unnecessarily aggravated. Do I want to sell the crown jewels? Of course not.

The new regime gave Almiron contract extension. I suppose that was with a view to getting a fee somewhere down the line. We should have sold him when he had that cracking season. 

[Toonpack 11343]

12 minutes ago, Holden McGroin said:

The new regime gave Almiron contract extension. I suppose that was with a view to getting a fee somewhere down the line. We should have sold him when he had that cracking season. 

And replace him with who ? Given our PSR hole it would have had to be for less than we got for Miggy, or we passed on someone we did buy.

[Howmanheyman 36519]

28 minutes ago, The Fish said:

 

That's my point though, we don't want to sell the stars, and we can't sell the fringe players. So where does that leave us? We have to inflate the PSR envelope by signing commercial deals and offloading from the wage bill. Those are both more incremental steps, but way more sustainable than trying to cash in on the players who we should be building a dynasty around. 

 

I think they messed up this window, by focussing too much on Guehi and not the bigger picture. We needed an athletic, technical  right-sided CB. Not Guehi specifcally. If there were none available at the price we were happy with, then we should have quickly shifted focus to another area of the pitch. To fail to do that was shortsighted.

 

 

 

 

That was also my point! Your first three sentences. 

[Howmanheyman 36519]

I feel like the ignored woman from the fast show. 

[Dazzler 11718]

19 minutes ago, Holden McGroin said:

The new regime gave Almiron contract extension. I suppose that was with a view to getting a fee somewhere down the line. We should have sold him when he had that cracking season. 

It was only a cracking half season tbf, he was slowly reverting to form towards the end but still had a few outstanding performances (like when we shagged Brighton).

 

I don't recall any rumours of big offers / clubs looking at him at the time though and I've always got the impression that his aim is to head back to the MLS so he's going to run his contract down to a point an MLS team can afford him or he'll leave for free.

[Dazzler 11718]

Just now, Howmanheyman said:

I feel like the ignored woman from the fast show. 

[Holden McGroin 7561]

24 minutes ago, Toonpack said:

And replace him with who ? Given our PSR hole it would have had to be for less than we got for Miggy, or we passed on someone we did buy.

if we got £20m for him 3 windows ago it would have given us loads of headroom to buy someone. 

[Gemmill 49832]

https://www.themag.co.uk/2024/09/this-latest-initiative-im-very-impressed-with-newcastle-united-sporting-director/

 

Well. 

 

This lad is destined to be very good friends with @thebrokendoll, I think. 

[Gemmill 49832]

45 minutes ago, Holden McGroin said:

if we got £20m for him 3 windows ago it would have given us loads of headroom to buy someone. 

 

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No one was advocating selling Miggy after he'd just gone through his purple patch. 

[Sonatine 11917]

1 hour ago, Howmanheyman said:

I feel like the ignored woman from the fast show. 

[The Fish 11313]

37 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

 

This post is sponsored by 20/20 hindsight.

 

No one was advocating selling Miggy after he'd just gone through his purple patch. 

No, but I was advocating for selling Willock. Imagine what we could have done with the £20-£30m we got for him. Maybe a better P.A. system at Stack?

[aimaad22 4661]

Mitchell has come in at a bad time and left with having to burden the blame for a pathetic window. I get his comments in that context, it's the sort of thing you'd expect from a top exec who's used to being successful. If they can make it work, having two or more powerful characters with strong opinions can be a good thing for any company. If Howe does decide to walk then he will have shown he's not ready for the top level yet because he has to learn to work in these power corridors, whether it's with Mitchell or someone else.

 

As for Mitchell himself of course it's too early to judge. I like the fact he's being straight about things that need to change, that's what he was brought in for. We're reading too much into his comments about Howe and England as well. It's part of his job to be prepared for the manager's exit. I hope Eddie stays here for many years, but things can change very very quickly in football and any club should have a plan for when their manager leaves. It would be completely stupid for the club to say 'all our plans depend on Eddie staying and we're in the shit if he takes the Englang job so we will beg him to stay, that's the plan'. 

[Holden McGroin 7561]

1 hour ago, Gemmill said:

 

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No one was advocating selling Miggy after he'd just gone through his purple patch. 

I would have thought it was a no-brainier if there was someone better available.  His career stats suggest that was one off and he is heading towards 30.  

[Diego21 2155]

4 hours ago, Holden McGroin said:

I would have thought it was a no-brainier if there was someone better available.  His career stats suggest that was one off and he is heading towards 30.  

We knew it was a unique season for Miggy, but to be fair to him, it was also the first time in his entire time here that the team wanted to attack and Almirón didn't have to run 80 metres on every play to try to have a chance.

[aimaad22 4661]

Ah that explains it, poor lad can't but help old habits so now he just cuts it back 80 metres towards his own goal. 

[Holden McGroin 7561]

2 minutes ago, Diego21 said:

We knew it was a unique season for Miggy, but to be fair to him, it was also the first time in his entire time here that the team wanted to attack and Almirón didn't have to run 80 metres on every play to try to have a chance.

He could have practically had his own goal of the season contest. It wasn’t sustainable. 

[RobinRobin 12470]

To sell someone you need a buyer willing to pay what you want and for the player to be willing to leave.  Not saying we couldn't have sold him then, but he and his family was settled and perhaps he wouldn't have wanted to go then as well.

[thebrokendoll 10241]

having barely featured on the beebs gossip column the entire time the transfer window was actually open, we're now never off it.

antony from man utd now joining guehi (yawn) and elanga as january targets.

very clearly mitchell providing the leaks here in a vain attempt to make himself look less of an incompetent thundercunt. but you can't fool me and hopey, no siree.

[ewerk 33148]

Good.

 

 

[Dr Gloom 23594]

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