Another winger... I'm not a football expert, nor do I pretend to be. But my understand of the role of a winger was to beat a man on the outside, then to put in a cross for the forward to either run on to and score or to attack the ball and head it into the net. We have forwards who either fall over and look surprised, surge towards the ball but never quite get there, or shin the ball wide from about 6 yards out. I'm not entirely sure how improving the quality of our wing players is going to help with that...
Joins the queue of interested January signings. As a fringe player suppose he is cheap but unless the fee is pennies then forget it. Tightwad MA won't allow it.
I know we probably need another winger, but is it a priority? I can think of at least 4 positions where we have a more desperate requirement, which would result in a greater overall uplift in the quality of the squad. No.10, Striker, Left Back, Right Back, Holding Midfield to name but a few...
It would be a brilliant window if we got upgrades at number 10, left back and at centre mid, I think that would keep us up comfortably. I am a bit confused by some of the players we are linked to.
Can we stop with the transfer threads. It’s a ****ing joke. You idiots think we will sign any players that are worth any salt. Until Ashley either sells or gets hurt with impunity we won’t get any players worthy of wearing a Nufc top. So please stop with this relentless hope!
A CM is the priority for me. And not a holding one either. Need someone with a proper engine in there who is going to dictate a game and get the team up the pitch. There is of course absolutely zero chance of us signing such a player.
Looking at MA's recent business acquisitions outside of football, does anybody know of any failing football clubs on the brink of collapse, that used to be thought of as decent (apart from us)? Can players be purchased through pre-pack administration?
This got me thinking about since Ashley has come in in 2008 what has the club actually spent as a whole net on transfers. So I've had a look on https://www.transfermarkt.com/newcastle-united/alletransfers/verein/762 and this is my results and although I am shocking at maths and someone may want to double check it - I believe over 11 seasons Ashley has a NET SPEND of £34million across that time so on average £3.09million per season... Doesn't even buy you a Joselu a year. Taking into account 15/16 was a NET SPEND of £103m supposedly trying to avoid relegation, an ultimately futile tactic with McClaren in charge.... take that away and we are talking about roughly £70m Profit across the 10 years...
Wellllll like I say he has technically spent a massive £3m a year so we better not ask to many questions and be thankful for that. Obviously raking in millions in TV revenue, match-day and corporate revenue is imaginary. Appreciate there are bills to pay, wages, clauses, bonuses etc but surely he's set the club up to be self sufficient as he says so in short - I have no idea where this money goes bar into his back pocket.
Sums up the problem in a nutshell. Puts everything into context when you realise “big clubs” like Brighton, Huddersfield, Fulham and Wolves have spent £108M, £73M, £101M and £84M respectively more than us in just 3 transfer windows.
