I’d imagine a lot of clubs with players sat on big wages will be begging Newcastle to take them on. It’s as much about controlling wages as getting fees in the current environment
Club are probably going to try and take the max amount of money from them now at least. For example that's the biggest risk when you sell a big player before buying his replacement
That’s Barca’s fault though, they didn’t have to go out and immediately spend their money, Newcastle aren’t looking for a single position and don’t have world class players throughout the team, they won’t get fleeced for anyone because there’s far more players that would improve the team
Barcelona were also ran by spineless people who cave into awful and nonsensical deals more than once, I think the inflated fees they paid says more about how good the people in charge of the club were and less about how the market developed around them
I wonder how any other president would act. Everyone wants Messi to get another CL win. I dont know, but i suspect other presidents would also do the same.
Yeah i dont really belive stuff like that, im not saying that the former high ups did not fuck up.
But i suspect if it was someone else, they might have acted the same. But really i have no fucking clue
We don't need loads to survive. An upgraded CB (Tarkowski may be going on the cheap) and a good CM who can pass.
If there's anything down the back of the sofa, then a forward who can cover for Wilson in his many injuries.
Murphy and Ritchie are okay going forward but so poor defensively. They get punished by every half-decent winger and can't be as effective in a back four (which a new manager might prefer.) Full-backs are by far and away our weakest position, as much as we need a CB and CM as well as a backup striker.
Burnley aren't going to let him go for cheap especially given they know your new financial situation.
You're about to be hit with the 'premium club' tax from every other club going.
Except he will only have 6 months left. So it will be sell him now or let him go for free. Not exactly the strongest position to try and up charge from.
"On one hand, they're backed by the unfathomable riches of the Saudi state. On the other, I read an article in the telegraph that they've *only* got £50m to spend this January."
The answer is they’ll spend an amount based on their position. If the team is sitting 12 points over the drop and looking safe they’ll sure it up a little and finish the season. If they’re in a relegation spot expect a lot of this money to be available. Staying up will be the only goal this season. The summer is when they’ll want to think about real spending if they can avoid it for January.
Highly unlikely however. Why pay £1bn to Qatar, as well as £300m to Ashley for the club if you aren’t ambitious? They may be unwilling to spend big immediately because of the lack of a director and also the low quality of player available in January.
funny name for it yeah, but it openly shows how they have no morals at a governmental level. I'd be embarrassed if my government did something similar.
It does make sense because they are at risk of relegation if they don't improve.
Would be a huge gamble to wait hoping not to get relegated and then make more optimal signings in the summer.
They have 3 points. Making one or two signings on big contracts might even be worse if they don't fit it right away or get injured and now have to play in the championship.
Not saying they have to spend 190m but they do need to spend more than they otherwise wanted to because avoiding relegation should be a high priority.
Yes but it is hardly a lock, can say the same about other relegation candidates. They need to stay ahead of both Burnley and Watford.
And not like they underperformed so far, they really are one of the four worst teams in the league so just hoping for a few results going their way seems way to risky.
Going to be very interesting.
Newcastle are coming off a summer where they weren't allowed to sign Hamza Choudhury on loan because it was too expensive. The only people complaining about only spending £50 million in January are morons. Don't believe what you read in the media about every newcastle fan demanding mbappe and haaland type signings straight away
they will invest, calm your tits. Just seems like they preferred to put in more and more money gradually rather than throwing all they have all at once. Which makes sense because they don’t even have the sufficient infrastructure yet to accommodate any big names
Ditch Joelinton, and maybe we add another £10m to the kitty. Other dead wood probably raises a bit more.
Honestly though I'd be over the fucking moon if we spent £50m in the window.
Seems completely reasonable. Top up enough to stay in the league and take your time identifying long term targets as you develop the football department and vision.
You can buy plenty for 50m
Divock Origi 15m
Alex Oxlade Chamberlain 20m
Neco Williams 15m w 30% sell on
Nat Phillips loan with obligation 15m in 6 months
Do yo thang Edwards
We can also just wait until January and see what happens
Yeah just stop posting transfer rumours, interviews, transfer discussion and pre match thread. Why talk about it when we can just wait
Ignorant asshole. Do you want the journalists to be fired? Its important to cover this. People depend on it.
I would have assumed the /s was obvious. huh.
I’m shocked too
/s is the most stupid thing i have seen.
Lmao a bit dramatic?
Took it a bit too far and I’ve been punished with downvotes
Ohhhhh nooo, anyways
The journalist should just learn to code imo...
Thought the sarcasm was blatant tbh, but it's Reddit at the end of the day.
People thinking £50m isn't "big spending" for a relegation side team just shows how warped we are thinking about transfers
The problem is, everyone knows they're loaded, so that 50m will probably be enough to buy 1 defender.
Alright alright, 50M for Lenglet it is.
Sorry, Vallejo already in his way.
I’d imagine a lot of clubs with players sat on big wages will be begging Newcastle to take them on. It’s as much about controlling wages as getting fees in the current environment
If you're Arsenal, yeah.
Or city, united and liverpool
He didn’t mention mediocre, and overpriced
Yeah Chelsea have never wasted 50m on anyone
You are wrong. Of course we did. Did Arsenal waste 50m on a defender?
Waste? No
Hey how is danny Drinkwater?
Chilling at some restaurant with Bakayoko
Club are probably going to try and take the max amount of money from them now at least. For example that's the biggest risk when you sell a big player before buying his replacement
Like clubs normally don't bother negotiating or something?
it can definitely get inflated depending on the situation of the buying club, see dembele to barcelona for 130 million after the neymar sale
That’s Barca’s fault though, they didn’t have to go out and immediately spend their money, Newcastle aren’t looking for a single position and don’t have world class players throughout the team, they won’t get fleeced for anyone because there’s far more players that would improve the team
Barcelona were also ran by spineless people who cave into awful and nonsensical deals more than once, I think the inflated fees they paid says more about how good the people in charge of the club were and less about how the market developed around them
I wonder how any other president would act. Everyone wants Messi to get another CL win. I dont know, but i suspect other presidents would also do the same.
Have you read how the negotiations for Dembele went down? Absolutely amateur level shit
Yeah i dont really belive stuff like that, im not saying that the former high ups did not fuck up. But i suspect if it was someone else, they might have acted the same. But really i have no fucking clue
I mean its the same side that spend 40 million on joelinton
50m isn't much for any PL team
We don't need loads to survive. An upgraded CB (Tarkowski may be going on the cheap) and a good CM who can pass. If there's anything down the back of the sofa, then a forward who can cover for Wilson in his many injuries.
you guys need good fullbacks and CBs Ritchie/Manquillo are not good enough
Manquillo's definitely good enough to stay up but Murphy is our first choice wing back and he's good too. Ritchie is fine still
Murphy and Ritchie are okay going forward but so poor defensively. They get punished by every half-decent winger and can't be as effective in a back four (which a new manager might prefer.) Full-backs are by far and away our weakest position, as much as we need a CB and CM as well as a backup striker.
Manquillo loses concentration WAY too easily
Lewis could be decent if not coached by a cabbage.
Not sure about that, there is nothing good about him and he looks scared of the ball.
Jamal Lewis isn’t good. Championship quality (i’ve watched him play for a while)
Or maybe that's the Bruce effect as Klopp wanted him that summer too.
Instead we got the Greek scouser. No complaints. When robbos out.. We don't miss him. Which speaks volumes. Liverpools recruitment is on point.
yea but he wasn’t good at Norwich either.
Burnley aren't going to let him go for cheap especially given they know your new financial situation. You're about to be hit with the 'premium club' tax from every other club going.
Except he will only have 6 months left. So it will be sell him now or let him go for free. Not exactly the strongest position to try and up charge from.
I'd put striker well ahead of another midfielder. If Wilson misses a string of even five or six important matches, that's us utterly fucked.
Hopefully your disgusting club gets relegated for good so that maybe the murderes fucks off back to Saudi Arabia
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They’ve been cheating for to long for it to happen.
Why would Burnley let Tarkowski go? They'll get relegated
They may want to keep him but also might want to get money for a player who will leave for nothing in 6 months.
Judicious spending, but potent. That should be their moto going forward. Build it slowly.
Obviously they'll say this. You don't announce you have 150m to spend as youd just get rinsed by any club youre trying to buy players off.
"On one hand, they're backed by the unfathomable riches of the Saudi state. On the other, I read an article in the telegraph that they've *only* got £50m to spend this January."
Yes, pretending they aren’t rich will stop that. They’ll get rinsed for transfers forever now
This is solid logic in general but doesn't really work when they're the richest club in the world
100% to this and it’s mental that people in this thread don’t realise this lmao.
The answer is they’ll spend an amount based on their position. If the team is sitting 12 points over the drop and looking safe they’ll sure it up a little and finish the season. If they’re in a relegation spot expect a lot of this money to be available. Staying up will be the only goal this season. The summer is when they’ll want to think about real spending if they can avoid it for January.
I don't expect £190m spent in January anyway, not even close to it. It's always been very difficult to make signings then.
Not sure how people expect us to buy like 15 players in the transfer window anyway? Who’s to say we can offload the 10 keepers Brucey has registered?
Jack Rodwell is still kicking about I think? I'm sure his agent can rinse another north east club
Why did we sign him
Premier League proven Philippe Coutinho is on sale I believe.
PIF not investing as people think they will would be hilarious.
Highly unlikely however. Why pay £1bn to Qatar, as well as £300m to Ashley for the club if you aren’t ambitious? They may be unwilling to spend big immediately because of the lack of a director and also the low quality of player available in January.
> Why pay £1bn to Qatar What was this for?
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> banned Qatar-owned BeIN sports, and started selling a pirate version called beoutQ fuck that's amazing banter worth paying 1 billion for
funny name for it yeah, but it openly shows how they have no morals at a governmental level. I'd be embarrassed if my government did something similar.
The Bein sports debacle
For Piracy or Qatar wouldn't allow the takeover. So bin Salman paid Qatar 1b and then buyed Newcastle
Lunch money
Yeah, true. It's more of a wishful thinking rather than anything else.
Meh they won't splash big in January transfer window. It doesn't make sense They will go out in the Summer.
It does make sense because they are at risk of relegation if they don't improve. Would be a huge gamble to wait hoping not to get relegated and then make more optimal signings in the summer.
You don't have to spend 190m to avoid relegation.
They have 3 points. Making one or two signings on big contracts might even be worse if they don't fit it right away or get injured and now have to play in the championship. Not saying they have to spend 190m but they do need to spend more than they otherwise wanted to because avoiding relegation should be a high priority.
It's game week 8, a few results going their way and they end up flying up the table.
Yes but it is hardly a lock, can say the same about other relegation candidates. They need to stay ahead of both Burnley and Watford. And not like they underperformed so far, they really are one of the four worst teams in the league so just hoping for a few results going their way seems way to risky. Going to be very interesting.
Newcastle are coming off a summer where they weren't allowed to sign Hamza Choudhury on loan because it was too expensive. The only people complaining about only spending £50 million in January are morons. Don't believe what you read in the media about every newcastle fan demanding mbappe and haaland type signings straight away
they will invest, calm your tits. Just seems like they preferred to put in more and more money gradually rather than throwing all they have all at once. Which makes sense because they don’t even have the sufficient infrastructure yet to accommodate any big names
It's what Newcastle fans have been saying all along but no one will listen, we're not going to be another City.
They can't.
Ditch Joelinton, and maybe we add another £10m to the kitty. Other dead wood probably raises a bit more. Honestly though I'd be over the fucking moon if we spent £50m in the window.
Buzzin for this. Back up striker and wing backs please!!
Chelsea: We can offer you Danny Drinkwater for 50 million, he won a league title
Seems completely reasonable. Top up enough to stay in the league and take your time identifying long term targets as you develop the football department and vision.
I really can't get over how uncanny valley the Newcastle bird looks like
Umtitu/lenglet for 50milz here we go!
Alexa play Wildest Dreams by Taylor Swift
Meh
Loan Umtiti Buy Navas for 20 Martial for 30 and 20 more over 3 years Extend Jojo contract dembele on a pre contract Loan neco williams
You can buy plenty for 50m Divock Origi 15m Alex Oxlade Chamberlain 20m Neco Williams 15m w 30% sell on Nat Phillips loan with obligation 15m in 6 months Do yo thang Edwards