Transfer Rumours Summer Transfer window

In a football sense it is though when they are spending fortunes on players. If we don’t agree a deal it won’t happen and Bayer have no reason to budge and we seemingly won’t go to their price so it does look like to anyone looking in that it won’t happen

a lot can change as we know but the clock is ticking and there’s a lot more work to be done. Xhaka would be key and so would a GK and CB in my opinion

 

Not being pushy but what are these reports ...

... I'm only interested because of how these stories ebb and flow.

 

I posted it earlier mate from the northern echo

 

@Smug in Boots

 

We don't know that though, they might realistically know Xhaka doesn't want to be there ...

... Newcastle have no reason to budge but I bet they do.

 

I'm not sure they'll have to

 

Think this one will rumble on til the final few days of the window.
If it was anyone else I would say move on, but Xhaka will drastically improve our squad.

hoping that we get what we need in before the West Ham game, even if we got 2/3 more in I’ll be happy.

we are almost there.
And bar Jobe leaving we haven’t lost the key core.

 

That's my point, it's meaningless and just repeated exactly what's already been said a hundred times.

As I said they could be millions apart or half a million, who knows?

Seriously, if we can't trust this current regime, with the finances, there's no point carrying on.

Of course not but we don't know they have no reason to budge.

If they weren't willing to budge, and we'd ended our interest, they wouldn't still be talking.

 

Are we forgetting about Mepham who played 40 league games?

We’re desperate in defence.

 

It’s not about not trusting the regime, I just think from experience we won’t pay the fee required for him to come here

 

Newcastle need funds, Isak would grant them a record British fee. They’d be able to fund their window in positions they need. Isak has said he wants to move on and is showing no commitment

Bayer want to keep Xhaka and by the sounds he’s happy to stay and commit to Bayer without kicking up a fuss. Two different scenarios

 

But you don't know what that fee is ...

... and, from experience, haven't we just paid big fees?

 

We don't know that either.

If he was happy to stay he wouldn't have bothered telling his agent he only wanted to go to Sunderland and wouldn't have negotiated a deal.

We don't know what kind of fuss he's kicking up, we're all just guessing as are the media.

As for Isak, Newcastle don't need funds for a striker if he stays as Salah did.

If no one buys Isak he's still their player.

 

I feel like you have to trust what the media are saying to some degree, otherwise you wouldn't even think we'd asked about him.

 

We do know what the fee is. Multiple reports from Plettinberg and Sky have said it’s €20m and we had offered much lower, some reported €10m

You can’t pretend the media don’t know when they linked us in the first place

 

Why, Xhaka has already instructed his agent, the media just reported it, they didn't find out by accident.

 

What we don’t know, and won’t, are the convos Xhaka is having behind closed doors at Bayer.

 

Yes and they will know how the deal is going and what is being branded about…

Come on now, Sky and these top journalists (Ornstein, Fabrizio, Keith Downie, and more aren’t flat out lying)

 

But how do you know Xhaka did that? Because the media told us.

 

Exactly, and the report from Germany that he'd also be happy to stay there if it doesn't happen can come through that same pipeline?

Is it not reasonable that in his mind he's happy to stay there but if he leaves would only do it to come here?