Transfer Rumours Summer Transfer Window 2023

Think he’s not as good as Longstaff. A lot of money got basically 6th choice

 

I agree with DPP here.

 

Teacher’s Pet.

 

I enjoyed the apple thank you

 

Applebottom

 

Tierney is decent but has an injury record comparable to Callum Wilson, so the suggested asking price does not look good value.

With Anthony Gordon - I hope he's going to turn out to be our next Craig Bellamy, but categorizing a player who is still largely unproven as belonging to the tier above 'decent Premier League' standard is premature.

 

Newcastle fans are certainly fickle... they already think Jacob Murphy is a good player now so Gordon doesn't have to do much to persuade them.

 

I think they are ridiculously similar, only difference is Longstaff is more box to box and McTomminay plays a more holding role but look at their stats:

name / age / app / goals
McTominnay / 26 / 202 / 18
Longstaff / 25 / 193 / 20

For the back up positions he'd be adequate a least, you don't get a (decent-ish) EPL player for less than £20m now. I'm not saying McTominnay would be top of my list but I can see the sense in a move for him - at a fair market price - if we want EPL quality players throughout the squad. I do accept your point though that it's a lot of money for essentially a "backup" but in terms of squad depth he definitely adds something.

It's a balancing act in line with FFP - going back to say Alvarez if you want him and McTominnay probably you'd be in for £60-70m for pair or do you go get Maddison for £60m on his own?

Sure it'd be lovely to go get Alvarez and Maddison for £100-120m but then we still need others around the squad (LB, CB and a winger) so I trust the backroom staff to be on point with the money spent on players and still bring in upgrades.

Like I say may be a mute point as Anderson could be the answer we are all overlooking.

 

But he’s not an improvement to the squad though.
Adding Alvarez improve our squad pushing Longstaff/Willock down. If McNobody was better than both of those then yes I’d agree but he isn’t so it’sa pointless signing.

We need a starting CM first. That then leaves us with 2 back up midfielders. Obviously in an ideal world we’d then have money for the third back up but between Anderson, White and Miley we have that covered leaving that cash available for another position.

Just my opinion but I’d be seriously disappointed with this signing. Even more so if we don’t get priority signings in

 

Diaby,Tierney and Ward-Prowse all in coming and McTominay if any injuries to other squad members.

 

First 3 yes please
McNobody no thank you

 

I agree

 

Interesting you call him McNobody because he would literally be coming in to fill a gapping hole in the squad. How can he not be an upgrade on nobody? Unless we are banking on Hayden or Hendricks coming back in? Is McTominnay better than the three youngsters mentioned - yes, at present, is the honest answer, will he be when they are his age (6-8 years time), probably not but he'll do as a stop gap.

Or to put it another way he is the replacement for Shelvey... and we still have space in the squad for at least on first choice player.

If we expect to compete on all fronts next year you need a squad to do it and while I agree I hope we can do better than him, he'd do a job for the team.

 

He’s not better than Longstaff nor Willock soo that gaping hole as you call is will still be gaping

I’ve also listed quite clearly where we are and the need for a starting CM but that clearly has to be better than both names above which McNobody isn’t.

therefore if we buy him he’s 6th choice and I’d rather give that position to a youngster as they are just as capable and we splash what cash we have in actual starters

 

@Roland Deschain

 

I again agree with DPP (I must be getting soft) but he’s right.

What’s the point in spending 25m on a player to be 6th choice. Who doesn’t improve the first 11. That’s just madness.

We need to spend 50m on Maddison. Instant improvement. Pushes some down the pecking order.

All incoming transfers now unless they are young talent have to be better than what we have or we don’t make progress.

 

100%.

We will only buy 1st XI or youth. The end. That’s how you improve.

 

Seems to be a more exciting rumour gaining some traction today - apparently we're getting ready to go big for Diaby and are willing to break our transfer record yet again in order to push it through.

 

It seems to be a common theme in the press that we want a defensive midfielder. Clearly that means they think we haven’t got one good enough at the moment. We seem to want Bruno further forward. If Mctomminy was signed it would be for that position so he certainly wouldn’t be sixth choice. More like first choice contender.

 

More McTomminay rumours in the Gossip column, saying Howe very keen. It's likely we'll go for Madison, so I don't see how McTomminay would get in there with Bruno, Joelinton, Madison and Willock.