I shouldn't be doing this but it is clear that you have not been initiated into the non-bedwetters code then? Stay dry for a whole month and you may be invited to join. Best maybe start by trying to get through a whole match dry.
Brighton pay the exact kind of money for the exact quality of player Newcastle should be after. It's not like all they do is find super cheap, they're not all like Mitoma (£5m) and Van Hecke (£2m), they also got Caicedo (£27m), Verbruggen (£20m), Baleba (£25m). The thing that stands out to me is they've paid more than double our record payment for a goalkeeper! We have got to be cannier in the market than we have been the past three years. Ultimately you can't get it all right, all the time. Mistakes have been made - the GK situation I think far and above the biggest error in judgement from whoever was responsible. That said, there's a lot of sympathy for Howe too. We were hugely impacted by Saudi indecision around the CEO and Sporting Director, resulting in Howe (presumably) having to do too much in transfers. The knock on effect of being too slow in sponsorship deals, mainly because the PL scuppered our ability to do so with ATP rules, also had the impact of selling Anderson and Minteh. So my take is we should be competing with Brighton, Brentford, Forest, Bournemouth for players almost every time - then when we have a really solid squad, with DIFFERENT options from the bench, upgrade just one of the subs with a ready-made player of any age.
Luckily we can afford to out spend them based on revenues alone. We just can't keep up with the trad big 6 just yet
Indeed but maybe try outbidding them for these kinds of players rather than fighting for players nobody else wants.
