Transfer discussion thread

[jod23]

Seeing Chelsea spend 600 million whilst our midfield is still shite makes me sad.

 

[hawkman]

Seeing Chelsea spend 600 million whilst our midfield is still shite makes me sad.

Havertz is still their best number 9 and Kepa is still their keeper so they haven't improved everything

 

[TheGreatBarryB]

Pressure on Potter ramps up. Here’s 8(?) new players …fit ‘em in

 

[Loonerty]

Reckon the fact that all the players signed are under 23 is more backing than pressure.

 

[moomba]

 

[chef]

Mudryk was only £62m, got to hit those add ons first to get it that high.

 

[Peter Sidorkiewicz]

Any thoughts on Newcastle with oil money, flying high in top 4, reluctant to spend money to improve their squad.

Signing only Anthony Gordon for the first team is a little underwhelming for a club with big ambitions.

 

[Genesis67]

Any thoughts on Newcastle with oil money, flying high in top 4, reluctant to spend money to improve their squad.

Signing only Anthony Gordon for the first team is a little underwhelming for a club with big ambitions.

Howe strikes me as conservative. An "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" type. And Newcastle are going pretty well ATM.

If they finish season with Europe next year, particularly if it's CL, you'd expect them to pull the trigger pretty hard over summer.

 

[joop]

Any thoughts on Newcastle with oil money, flying high in top 4, reluctant to spend money to improve their squad.

Signing only Anthony Gordon for the first team is a little underwhelming for a club with big ambitions.

Think it’s pretty sensible, they’re playing really well so why buy players just for the sake of it?

 

[Magma]

newcastle also need to get their revenue up first before going crazy with spending

 

[SM]

They aren't scoring many goals though.

 

[chef]

newcastle also need to get their revenue up first before going crazy with spending

Theyve got a big Saudia sponsorship coming too dont they?

 

[Magma]

Theyve got a big Saudia sponsorship coming too dont they?

probably but until the get european money coming in regularly it doesnt really mean much. they're still years off being a realistic, sustained challenger.

 

[Bradesmaen]

It's hard to get players coming from CL sides to non-CL/European football with the promise of it might happen next year. Look where West Ham were at this stage the last 2 seasons.... they dropped off and missed CL one season and missed Europa the next.

 

[Toffee Lion]

It's hard to get players coming from CL sides to non-CL/European football with the promise of it might happen next year. Look where West Ham were at this stage the last 2 seasons.... they dropped off and missed CL one season and missed Europa the next.

Hence why Everton overpaid on salaries & transfer fees to get players into the club. It lead to our eventual downfall though by then not meeting the profit & sustainability criteria.

It's funny, had Everton received the cash injection of Moshiri in the 00's, we'd be a modern day Top 6 club IMO. As is the luck of Everton, it came, but it came too late and FFP now makes it so no club can rock the Top 6 boat.

For Newcastle to break into the Top 6, they need more than the Saudi's. They need CL football, regularly and they need to raise their wage budget slowly. The good news for them, is it looks like CL football could be achieveable.

 

[Magma]

lfp have apparently rejected ziyech's loan. cant bring themselves to lose part of the collection

 

[glenferry23]

Mind boggling numbers. Madness.

 

[chef]

Mind boggling numbers. Madness.

Crazy times.

 

[UnitedWarrior93]

Insane

 

[Bradesmaen]

Mind boggling numbers. Madness.

Yet FFP says they can spend a ****load still. Might as well create the superleague and **** em all off

 

[UnitedWarrior93]

Yet FFP says they can spend a *load still. Might as well create the superleague and * em all off

Super league probably will end up happening.

 

[Lunchlady Doris]

Super league probably will end up happening.

Hope it fails massively, no interest in it personally, especially knowing it'll be a closed comp.

 

[glenferry23]

Yet FFP says they can spend a *load still. Might as well create the superleague and * em all off

Big Toddy Boehly when someone tells him he’ll have to wait 5 months to sign another forward.

 

[Magma]

makes our spending look frugal

 

[Northalives]

Rice and Caicedo?

If they can land both then the future is quite secure. That kind of stuff reminds me of the days when AC Milan would have a squad just for the European Cup and one for the domestic league and both were practically as good as each other.

Rice, Caicedo, Partey, Xhaka, Jorginho right in the heart will do me.