Summer Transfer Window

Mate, their interested ended weeks ago, if they ever really had any. Haller is a senior, slot straight in type. Anyone thinking Ekitike was good enough to go to Dortmund and lead the line are mental, he was - if anything - another they might look to develop. Karim Adeyemi was signed a couple of weeks ago. Whether it's ITK's repeatedly showing ignorance, Ekitike's agent fuelling the rumours or just hopeful Newcastle fans trying to justify us spending £30m on a French twig remains to be seen.

Adeyemi is miles ahead of Ekitike. Represented the senior national team 4 times, from the U21's, U17's and U16's. He's never had to play for the U20's, because that's more of an amateur level.

Ekitike's pinnacle has been the U-20's which isn't even a real team, it's kind of like the hopeful's of a younger age group. He hasn't played for France at ANY meaningful level (U17, U21).

We need to be finding and securing players like Adeyemi. Maybe they will across this Summer, obviously patience is key here, there's a long way to go.

I know this is boring, broken record, negative ****. But with a limited transfer budget, spunking a massive portion of it on this lad is a ****ing disaster waiting to happen. Bookmark and screenshot, please, Chaos.

 

With Mike Ashley and Steve Bruce we managed to sign Callum Wilson for £20m. How ****ing difficult is it to improve on that? I'm not having a go at the new owners, but if we can't top Mike ****ing Ashley's 'ambition' then I'm gonna be incredibly disappointed.

We're talking here as if Wilson is the best we can possibly get, yet we managed that with the worst owner and manager combination, possibly of all time. I get we can't spunk £80m on Nunez and beat Liverpool, or be more attractive to Haaland than City, but Jesus Christ there's got to be dozens if not hundreds of strikers better than Wilson, with thousands better than Wood and we're now unable to attract them? Doesn't add up to me. If we're pitching at Chris Wood level, we're not going to move forward. That's a fact.

Does anyone really believe we're going to carry last seasons run directly into this season? Everybody now knows how we're going to play, element of surprise is gone UNLESS you change personnel. Like City - everybody is used to them playing a false 9. They've now signed the best CF in the world, meaning everyone's got to try and adjust again. If we sign Ekitike to sit on the bench and Botman to play where Burn is, it'll be very predictable and that's IF the likes of Joelinton can keep their levels up.

Summer's got a long way to go, but Howe must know he has to change it up.

 

Newcastle isn't a place players want to join at this stage. We've got to expect much less than what people think is possible.

I would anticipate another window like January with many signings being seemingly underwhelming.

Ashley or not the club itself is still a mess, the talent of today has only ever known Newcastle as a **** club that's no different in their eyes to a West Brom, Brighton or Palace, plus the facilities are the worst in England and the city is an undesirable place to live.

 

Think its only undesirable until they actually move to it, then they enjoy the environment.

But, yeah, investment has still yet to fully take hold.

That being said, I think this Eti lad and Botman have already agreed to sign. If they have agreed, there's no need to rush them into the doors and have them take photos right this second.

 

Aye, players don’t seem to mind moving to Manchester / Liverpool & I wouldn’t call either of those desirable.

 

Yes I think the reputation is worse than the reality, but the belief exists that Newcastle is an awful place to live.

When the new owners sat there and told the nufc fanbase over and over that it was a long term plan ie 10 years and reinforced the word patience I laughed because I knew they have none.

They're already complaining about links to players we couldn't have dreamed of signing 8 months in.

 

Only Wood was underwhelming from the Jan signings. Neccessary in the situation, but underwhelming.

Another window of similar numbers and success ratio would be fantastic.

 

With the exception of gamereas and Trippier they were players people didn't exactly think wow about, but it worked.

I'm really just pointing out that there's a lot needs to be done before they can spend 50 million plus on a player and before that type will say go on then I'll choose newcastle ahead of the big clubs.

The entire club is run down.

 

Does anyone think the nunes link might have anything in it?

 

I think you and I are going to have to disagree heavily here. There are good players playing in some absolute ****-hole cities, across UK, Germany, Belgium, France.

 

That's not really what I'm saying mate, but it all counts.

 

Think you may be in for one hell of a shock come first game of the season. Inside the stadium anyway. Stadium and training ground won't be worst in PL by any stretch of anyone's imagination come August.

 

I'm sure it'll be improving but it won't be as good as the big clubs who nufc are up against in this window

 

The actual training facilities - as in what the players use during training was already right up there. The pitches, the equipment, the balls, cones, everything.

The areas it was **** in were things like the office spaces, corridors, medical room, lecture theatre and players lounge - Pretty sure there has never been a player in history turn a club down because the scouts office was tiny and needing a coat of paint.

 

Well what are you saying? There are worse places than Newcastle, besides which it's fairly irrelevant. Yes the facilities are gash, but if you're picking up £100k a week, play at SJP in the PL and have God knows how many private clinics available, what difference does it make? Ofc we cannot possibly compete with any club offering UCL football. That's a given. But Europa League or Conference? That's going nowhere for a career.

 

I'm glad we've got good quality cones like.

 

Cones are top notch, some of the bollards are a bit squashed like.

 

What I said... All of it

 

Exactly it's ****

 

So having moaned about league one facilities for 14 years under Ashley the fans are now saying it's fine.