Alright, alright, you win! He's an improvement, it adds to the squad (which I often moan about, poxy purple players....) and is clearly better than Bentaleb plus cost nowt. If Newcastle do bring in two full backs and a striker, it's a decent window. And as has rightly been pointed out, most clubs below the cartel haven't done anything either, so relegation is currently unlikely.
I tell you what mind the clubs really laying it on thick regarding this signing.. Im happy he's a decent player, but it's a bit much all this oh look we beat AC milan to a free. To me that indicates we won't be doing any more business
If he's on free I fail to understand if we don't... I can kind of understand If it's 8 million purely down to his injury record.. You might lose 8 million straight away and he's unlikely to go uninjured and be worth more in year or 2... Sadly that's the aim
I think there's always a few clubs I'd still put us ahead of.. This season Its Fulham, West brom and then arguably Leeds, villa, Brighton, palace and I still think we should be doing better than Sheff United I don't see them doing so well this season... Whether we stay up might come down to how good the prompted sides are this season... Its hard to tell, but Leeds looked pretty good to me and they've spent big... West brom? Not too worried and Fulham looked fairly weak
Yes I forgot that aspect... So far it's not a good start... If there's 3 players we need to stay injury free, avoid anything long term or not be injured at the same time its dubs, ASM and miggy... We have absolutely no cover for those 3.. The others are all much of a muchness imo. At least we have a manager with an ability to rotate and rest players at the right times
Indeed hence the last sentence.. Last season was crazy.. Do you remember seeing max playing with a limo vs Sheff United, coming off on crutches then starting vs I think Southampton days later, managing to get through and his hamstring went in the 95th minute... It was just nuts... Then he started blaming everything on injuries lol..
