@Roy Munson You put on here that Barella and Maddison would be signing for the Toon. Seems like Barella isnt interested and Maddison prefers Spurs. You're defo ending up with McTominay and Maguire from Utd.
I've not seen us linked to a player with a shred of credible. It's all bollocks from local useless journalists who know **** all. Newcastle are some of the slowest in the transfer market I think last season Tottenham signed six whilst we signed 1 in the same time span
Perhaps the only thing I'll praise Pep for is that while he spends a king's ransom wherever he goes, he seldom buys a dud. This has given City an edge more than anything else in recent years. Whereas United and Chelsea have similar net spends if not greater, look at how much of that money was pissed up a wall. City on the other hand have done really well - only Kalvin Phillips and Benjamin Mendy stand out as big money wastes across a period stretching back over 6 years, and the latter was more down to him being a bit of a Don Juan than his ability on the pitch. The only team to really threaten them in recent seasons was Liverpool, surprise surprise, after a sustained period of successful signings in the market. That threat has faded as City continue to strike gold but Pool signed duds. No idea what gives him such an edge tbh. Definitely helps that they have his entire backroom team from Barca days in place to help in selecting transfer targets. But their success rate since he joined is freakishly good.
Fun fact. Did you know man utd went 29 seasons without a title. City 43 seasons Chavs 49 seasons Obviously before football started in 92 though.
I dunno….there’s a few that didn’t do much imo Danilo 30 mill Ferran Toress 33 mill Kalvin Philips 40 mill Nolito 18 mill Mandy 57 mill Cancelo 65 mill Class all them as duds…Im sure there’s more Leroy Sane £52 mill…he didn’t last long either…decent on their day like most players but long term duds What Pep can do is quickly replace the duds regardless of their initial cost no eyelids batted. Then you get clubs like us who still have their duds like Ndombele and we can’t just go and replace him at the next opportunity therefore it becomes a big deal for us. Lots of myths surrounding the Pep and his magical abilities when the reality is his mistakes are just buffered with the most money.
Think Chelsea spend more mate ... Pep builds teams - as did Sir Alex ... for me both were able to see a 'core' of key players, then continually (successfully) fill in the pieces around those key players ... and also had the nous / balls to move players on at the right time ...
Maybe Chelsea do spend more, maybe Pep does build teams but that doesn’t remove him from the fact that he signs duds as well. The only ‘piece around those key players’ Kalvin Philips has filled is the space on the bench.
and won a trophy bro, don't forget that, won proper hardcore silverware. Btw good to see Kane notching a couple more last night....goals that is not trophies.
Spaces on the bench give a poor overall impression mate ... and Kalvin brings a rather funky hairstyle ...
Your lot need to sign Saka mate, he's got 8 to 9 years on Kane and clearly is the new beginning, Spurs need to do an transfer swap with Arsenal just for the bantz. Especially if Spurs then win a trophy, we need to see this happen.
