I reckon Rafa's list of players is still sat unread on Charnley's desk right now, underneath a myriad of takeaway menus and the 'idiot's guide to stealing a living' book which he, ironically, hasn't got round to reading
https://thisisfutbol.com/2018/01/transfers/newcastle-make-approach-for-goalkeeper-casilla/ Well I can imagine how that contact went. "Do you have a player called Casilla in your team?" "Si" "5 Mill" "Que?" "No wait, 4 Mill" "Que?" "Oh well played you dastardly bastard, you can expect to receive a 5 Mill final offer the day before February, and then you'll never hear from us again, goodbye" "Que?"
Thing is it's another window with Charnley. Last time out he took 2 months to get Lejeune in. A player who had a release clause. The delay was because Charnley kept haggling over the release clause to pay less. The result? We just paid the clause. Two months after we said we would. We don't do "under the radar". Everyone knew we about Lejeune. Everyone knew we wanted Abraham. Everyone knew, in spite of a month of chat, he was going to Swansea. Jacob Murphy was another that was well known, we don't seem to be able to operate smoothly and sneakily. I fear there's just nothing with any substance, apart from us needing to wait for Chelsea to sign a backup left back.
Cout has already signed for Barca according to Nike so missed that boat. Plus Sane plays for City so not sure he's ours to sell
Ha! Sorry, with all these Salah, Mane's, Sane's, it's hard to know which to pick. Pick them we shall, though. Whoever the buggering bollock we want.
Lets just hope and pray that IF the takeover goes through this week, that the very first thing Mandy does is peddle Penfold and have a credible replacement ready and waiting to sort out this windows transfers. One of the first SSN images i want to see this window is Penfold slowly waddling across the car park at SJP, with his all his possessions stuffed into a shoe box, with a sad little apple on then top.
I was more hoping for a man in a balaclava carrying a series of bin bags to an unregistered Ford Transit. Bad taste? I purely meant the dustbin man taking out the trash....
I see one of our relegation rivals(palace) are proactive and are after some French defender for £16m while we wait around to see if Chelsea will leave Jackie Kennedy spend a few months in Newcastle holidaying!
Yeah, just caught wind of that and was about to post it. As usual, everyone doing something - except us.
Apparently bids have been made for Slimani and Ings on loan with view to buy. Ings has been the fart that flat-out refuses to go away, I don't see the point in wasting a squad place on a glass structure. Apparently Burnley after Ritchie, If we could get a good replacement (i know) maybe I'd go for it. Crossing has been woeful lately and seems too pre-occupied with getting his first goal. A speedier winger would fit the system.
