The Transfers Thread

[Super Hans]

juve aren't underrated, all i've heard is people obsessing about how fantastic conte is and how they're going to be a force in europe next season. no one is underrating them at all.

I think they are rated about right in potential, but underrated on current output. If that makes sense.

 

[NUFC Tiger]

If anyone has a lazy $267~ lying about, feel free to try and put a bid in for us - apparently Mike Ashley will listen to reasonable offers.

Given City went for about 200m and Liverpool for 300m from memory, doesn't seem like a bad deal for a club with the third largest stadium and average attendances. Not a bad squad, just a bit of investment needed to fill a few holes

 

[NUFC Tiger]

If anyone has a lazy $267m~ lying about, feel free to try and put a bid in for us - apparently Mike Ashley will listen to reasonable offers.

Given City went for about 200m and Liverpool for 300m from memory, doesn't seem like a bad deal for a club with the third largest stadium and average attendances. Not a bad squad, just a bit of investment needed to fill a few holes

 

[NUFC Tiger]

In other news, we've put a 12m bid for Andre-Pierre Gignac from Marseille - can't see him, Bony and Aubameyang all coming in (rumours we have bids for all 3 atm). 2 would be ideal but only 1 would be likely at best.

 

[Jozzy]

Plus any club that signs Suarez now won't be able to play him for 6 games as the ban will be transferred. Madrid,are better off chasing Bale who is a couple of years younger and Spurs will be able to demand players like Di Maria as part of the deal.

Bale will also cost way more than Suarez.

 

[NUFC Tiger]

Just saw this on my facebook feed...interesting.

"Saint-Etienne have refused an €18m (£15.3m) offer from Newcastle for Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (according to Eurosport)"

 

[Shoei]

Just saw this on my facebook feed...interesting.

"Saint-Etienne have refused an €18m (£15.3m) offer from Newcastle for Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (according to Eurosport)"

I'll be annoyed if Aubameyang ends up in the Premier League and not at Arsenal. Would offer more than most of our forwards.

 

[Magma]

sky italy saying we've got interest in gomez.

wouldn't mind having a play at di maria now madrid have isco.

 

[Jatz]

I'll be annoyed if Aubameyang ends up in the Premier League and not at Arsenal. Would offer more than most of our forwards.

Considering you are about to get Higuain, I think you'll be ok.

I honestly think Giroud is underrated and will complement Giroud really well. Arsenal's attack will be quite potent.

 

[glenferry23]

Considering you are about to get Higuain, I think you'll be ok.

I honestly think Giroud is underrated and will complement Giroud really well. Arsenal's attack will be quite potent.

I love your confidence

Until he runs out on the Emirates, I won't believe it!

 

[NUFC Tiger]

I'll be annoyed if Aubameyang ends up in the Premier League and not at Arsenal. Would offer more than most of our forwards.

You guys look odds on to get Higuain - would have him over P.E.A if we could afford him!

Weren't Arsenal also looking at Rooney?

Giroud is pretty solid - nice first season in the prem and should get better after having a year to settle.

 

[Jatz]

I love your confidence

Until he runs out on the Emirates, I won't believe it!

should be completed before the end of the week

 

[moomba]

If anyone has a lazy $267m~ lying about, feel free to try and put a bid in for us - apparently Mike Ashley will listen to reasonable offers.

Given City went for about 200m and Liverpool for 300m from memory, doesn't seem like a bad deal for a club with the third largest stadium and average attendances. Not a bad squad, just a bit of investment needed to fill a few holes

I think the problem you're going to have is that there's not a huge potential for growth at Newcastle. City had land around the stadium ripe for development, Liverpool has the worldwide support and was pretty much undervalued at the time due to the state they were in.

Newcastle are pretty much restricted in what they can do in the stadium and there isn't any surrounding area that can be developed. And there squad is still a fair way away from being able to sustain a top 4 challenge.

Any new owner is going to be limited thanks to FFP in what they can spend to get the club competing at a high level, so I think you'll find it difficult to find a buyer. Especially at that price.

 

[Latro]

Giroud is just a back up if that. His shot accuracy was 49% and missed the second most big chances in the league, he missed 19 of 23. Only Graham was worse. He cannnot create anything if not in the box and his pass accuracy is poor as well.

 

[chef]

Pretty sure the rumours are Dortmund has bid for Mkhitaryan.

The rumour is they have out bid you so far.

 

[chef]

sky italy saying we've got interest in gomez.

wouldn't mind having a play at di maria now madrid have isco.

Be interesting to see where he ends up as he's apparently also agreed terms with Fiorentina, but if BM can't get Lew they may hang onto him.

 

[Jatz]

Giroud is just a back up if that. His shot accuracy was 49% and missed the second most big chances in the league, he missed 19 of 23. Only Graham was worse. He cannnot create anything if not in the box and his pass accuracy is poor as well.

Give him more than a season in a foreign league ehh? If he still hasn't done much after next season then fair enough.

 

[Latro]

Why he is just not fast enough to do anything against PL defenses. He was just the best scorer in an awful league. IMO if Bendtner was not a nutcase he would be just as good and 3 years younger.

 

[Shoei]

"Borussia offered £19.5 million. I contacted Mkhitaryan’s agent on Tuesday and I wrote to him about the club’s position. We are prepared to sell for £25 million," stated Palkin in The Sun.
“This offer stands for the next 10 days. If Mkhitaryan wishes to leave, they have to pay this amount for him.”

Does Liverpool have £25 Million to match it?

 

[Shoei]

Considering you are about to get Higuain, I think you'll be ok.

I honestly think Giroud is underrated and will complement Giroud really well. Arsenal's attack will be quite potent.

I'm thinking more along the lines of Aubameyang playing as a wider forward like poldi and Theo with either Giroud/Higuain playing the centre.

Theo isn't good at standing up and beating his man 1v1 and Gervinho can dribble, just nobody knows where he will end up after doing it.

It all really depends if Gervinho leaves or not. Aubameyang would be a good upgrade.

I think he's going to be very dangerous, so that's why i'll be annoyed if he moves to the Premier league.

 

[Latro]

The front three if Higuain transfer goes through will be Cazorla/Higuain/Walcott.

 

[NUFC Tiger]

I think the problem you're going to have is that there's not a huge potential for growth at Newcastle. City had land around the stadium ripe for development, Liverpool has the worldwide support and was pretty much undervalued at the time due to the state they were in.

Newcastle are pretty much restricted in what they can do in the stadium and there isn't any surrounding area that can be developed. And there squad is still a fair way away from being able to sustain a top 4 challenge.

Any new owner is going to be limited thanks to FFP in what they can spend to get the club competing at a high level, so I think you'll find it difficult to find a buyer. Especially at that price.

True about the land but we still normally get 50-52k fans to home games anyway (especially when things are going well) which is more than CL contending teams like Chelsea, Spurs and Liverpool so the need to expand the stadium isn't really a paramount concern (given those 3 teams have or are actively trying to move to bigger stadiums in future I believe).

I don't think our squad is actually that bad truthfully (maybe I'm a bit biased lol) - we finished 5th the season before last and the only changes we've had since then are Ba leaving (who hasn't been replaced yet) and Simpson leaving (who we upgraded with Debuchy, the French international RB). Further we've added Anita, Goufrann, Sissoko and Yanga-Mbiwa who are better than the squad options we had in 11/12 (guys like Guthrie, Obertan, Williamson, Best and Lovenkrands). This season our small squad had to compete in Europe and we had a crippling injury list (by far the worst in the league according to most reports). With a fit squad to choose from and less fixtures, 'theoretically' we should move back up the table - how far up? Time will tell I guess (especially following on the heels of a pretty rocky pre season so far). Obviously we would behind the top 5-6 at the very least.

The price may indeed put some buyers off - most of that valuation includes about $120m owed to Mike Ashley in interest free loans he made into the club from his own fortune. If you can work past the potential stumbling block of the price, the club is one of the very few that has turned an operating profit in England (2 seasons running) and we have a strict wage budget in place while most of the squad are on fairly modest wages - from a profitability perspective, you have a fairly well run club and a large and established fanbase of loyal passionate Geordies and fans from around the world who regularly turn out to watch their team.

We've just started a new sponsorship deal with Wonga (the controversial money lender 'legalised loansharks' if you will) which brings in about 8-9m a season. The facilities and stadium are of a high standard and wouldn't need any significant investment.

All things considered, I think there is a lot of potential there and if you wanted to buy an English team and had the money on hand, I'd like to think we'd be one of the more attractive teams (excluding the current top order). There's a decent platform to build on and with the FFP, I think (as we've been building to this model for a few years) we are already well placed to deal with it (while some of the big spenders may need to make adjustments). Further to that, the juicy new TV deal money might attract investors to the PL

At the end of the day, I'd settle for a decent owner who doesn't appoint his drinking buddy as director of football and his casino manager mate as managing director of the club (Thankfully Derek 'Lambeezee' has just resigned - obviously took offence to Kinnear's pronunciation of his surname!)

 

[glenferry23]

The front three if Higuain transfer goes through will be Cazorla/Higuain/Walcott.

That's actually quite decent on paper. We need to buy a quality DM to release Jack to take the advanced role (with Rosicky able to play this as well), then have a new DM deep lying alongside Arteta and then all of a sudden we might be a chance to f***ing do something next season.

 

[Latro]

NUFC Tiger have you heard what Kinnear used to call Kinkladze?

 

[Buddy23#]

Bale will also cost way more than Suarez.

Yep that rules out Madrid then.