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organic red said:
Szob turned down Newcastle and CL football for Liverpool....no doubt this would impress JK
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I said this about Newcastle when they were banging on about how CL would mean they could buy who they wanted. They're still Newcastle and nobody outside of England knows or gives a **** about Eddie Howe.

They either have to go down the Chelsea/Citeh route of big wages for mercenary players or accept a few seasons of in and out of Europe while they establish themselves or be really clever in the transfer market (which is really hard to get right)

I've noticed how quiet they've been so far, considering their changes in circumstance
 
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RogerisontheHunt said:
I said this about Newcastle when they were banging on about how CL would mean they could buy who they wanted. They're still Newcastle and nobody outside of England knows or gives a **** about Eddie Howe.

They either have to go down the Chelsea/Citeh route of big wages for mercenary players or accept a few seasons of in and out of Europe while they establish themselves or be really clever in the transfer market (which is really hard to get right)

I've noticed how quiet they've been so far, considering their changes in circumstance
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To be fair their recent signings have been the type. They got players like Botman / Isak / Bruno in a worse position than now so they can attract players. They need to target the player that we were 4/5 years ago.

It sounds stupid but CL may have been worse thing for them as now trying to target CL players but not got the rep for it and players may think it is a one off and want to make sure they’re consistently in Cl before they join.

Don’t think they want or need to go after the older mercenary players and don’t think newcatsle fans or Howe will Want that to be fair.

Their first step should be constantly challenging for top 6 places - let’s be real if us or chelsea werent quite so **** they may not have got top 4 this year anyway. Next year going to be tougher as teams don’t underestimate them plus have the 2 games a week with europe that not dealt with.

To do that, need to target those players that are just under top class and looking to develop them. Tonali is the type just need a couple more of them
 
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Newcastle's problem is location. Foreign players want to live in London, or North West around Hale Barns/Alderley Edge. They will see Newcastle as being out on its own as a city, even though it is a great place and the surrounding countryside is fantastic. But foreign players will be unaware of this and just look for the bright lights of London or Manchester/Liverpool.
 
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RogerisontheHunt said:
I said this about Newcastle when they were banging on about how CL would mean they could buy who they wanted. They're still Newcastle and nobody outside of England knows or gives a **** about Eddie Howe.

They either have to go down the Chelsea/Citeh route of big wages for mercenary players or accept a few seasons of in and out of Europe while they establish themselves or be really clever in the transfer market (which is really hard to get right)

I've noticed how quiet they've been so far, considering their changes in circumstance
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Players will still be looking to see if they can maintain their position in the top 4 before seeing them as a genuine proposition.
 
InBiscanWeTrust said:
There’s a vid showing minutes played, h th ink was on red men tv.

Pretty much showed that Fab was overworked this season (could explain his huge drop off) and the minutes Keita ox Milner contributed is less than Mac made all season.

In theory with Mac’s increased minutes to cover those squad players, Szobo you’d think getting similar minutes, should allow us to rotate Hendo and fab more often, especially if Bajcetic is available.

fab/bacj for dm (Hendo could also cover).
szobo/Hendo/Elliott for rcm
mac/thiago/Jones for lcm
thats plenty of options for CM with adequate cover.

8 players for 3 positions is a good number, especially when all 8 are of decent quality compared to last year when we had 9/10 players for that but 3 of them just weren’t good enough to use/rotate/ available.
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Totally this. I think he was badly used in the 2020/21 season as well when we had him unnecessarily used as an auxiliary CB for far, far too long because we weren't prepared to adapt our 4-3-3 formation to the players we actually had available.
 
Garlic Klopp said:
Newcastle's problem is location. Foreign players want to live in London, or North West around Hale Barns/Alderley Edge. They will see Newcastle as being out on its own as a city, even though it is a great place and the surrounding countryside is fantastic. But foreign players will be unaware of this and just look for the bright lights of London or Manchester/Liverpool.
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Beautiful.
I drove down the A68 from Jedburgh to Corbridge on Thursday - it's like a fairground ride.
 
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InBiscanWeTrust said:
Yup right footed. His rw posotion last season was bit of a false role I think. Think was more start there but drift massively inside to get involved. All the clips of his goals/assists have him from inside right.

Given the options we have in diaz and Jota that could do a job wide right plus Elliott really don’t see him playing there at all for us.
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klopp has not played a rw at rw since salah arrived bar emergencies

he has not played an lw at lw either. its always inverted and free.

I agree that this guy looks a false 10/8 in the box midfield
 
I presume sboz will be the attacking RM. Can’t see him as the Salah back up tbh. He has the work rate to cover Trent, but has immense attacking ability to get us up the pitch, and into the box.

I really hope we also get Lavia and thuram …
 
moreinjuredthanowen said:
klopp has not played a rw at rw since salah arrived bar emergencies

he has not played an lw at lw either. its always inverted and free.

I agree that this guy looks a false 10/8 in the box midfield
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Yeah. The inverted forwards worked because the wide deliveries came from the FBs.
This why, regardless of how good Trent may be in midfield, I think we lose a lot from him not being out wide.
 
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