The football we played didn't merit anything
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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025
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The football we played didn't merit anything
If Paqueta does get cleared of his charges and Spam want to sell there's definitely a deal to be made here.
Paqueta was heading to City for a reason before the ban.
petition for new latin motto: "id est qui sumus" it's who we are.
i think i'm just not that mad anymore. a lot of my anger was at myself for getting sucked in and believing we were going to try and get bigger and win things like a real club when the evidence to the contrary was always there. the kudus-mgw day/week was a cruel tease but were we all really so surprised? again, mad myself more than levy.
we've got some good young players who might come good. franks seems to be smarter than the last guy. there's enough to be hopeful about going in even if it's another year of disappointment with the transfers. i want to try and enjoy the season as much as possible because i haven't for almost 2 years now and beating the war drum against the owners all year just doesn't sound very fun to me
Paul O’Keefe probably
They have more than enough money for both of course, but you just get the unmistakable sense that the football-loving people at PIF care more about their Saudi league project and the seduction of FIFA than they do about making a PL/CL winner of Newcastle.
Prime messi couldn't have dug Ange out of his tactical ineptitude.
I thought all fans cared about what winning a trophy, but now we're criticising the team for being able to win a trophy despite doing so under a manager that would normally have got us relegated
A negative post but one I'm finding hard to disagree with!
We do currently have a sub-standard squad, a squad who wants to apparently challenge on all fronts and win The CL and EPL.
Not a chance when we have regular starters like Maddison, Solanke, Johnson, Benny, The Legend that is Sonny, just to name a few! Should we keep and play these players regularly come 25/26, we are looking at no more than mid-table mediocracy, likely early exit from the CL and a bang average run in the domestic cups imo
Major exits and major investment is needed!
lol yeah but he doesn’t know them does ??
What you think hes gonna do ? Just Billy no mates try hang with them whilst spurs are on tour !!??
somehow deal so we had biss and bents out
With ederson and paqueta in
Obviously nice to put an end to that drought but we won't be able to replicate anything with that type of football
FFP/PSR wasn't a thing when City were formed in 2008. Their prior owners were bent Thai billionaires too IIRC.
They turned up on transfer deadline day incredibly. They immediately tried to hijack United's deal for Berbatov, failed and then spent £30m on Robinho. In 2008. Also spent £18m on Jo that window but he was already there I think.
In 09/10 they went even more mental and got Barry, Santa Cruz, Tevez, Kolo Toure, Adebeyor and Lescott for around £120m in total. In 2009.
City spent heavily in the first few years to improve as rapidly as possible. I don't know if they knew FFP/PSR was coming but they were un-hindered until FFP came about in the 11/12 season. PSR was 13/14
They won their first PL title in 11/12 so were already a force by the time it had kicked in.
Newcastle could need 10+ years to actually benefit from being the richest club in the world. They will need to, IMO, build a new stadium with vastly inflated ticket prices and premium facilities, get a record breaking naming deal, shirt sponsors, qualify for the CL in most seasons, win a few more cups and only then will they be able to start spending extravagantly.
Or, more likely, they'll just say fuck it and do it anyway. City will get off with a fine and, when they do, the rich clubs will go mental and buy everyone.
Can he play a deeper role? Because for a #10, his scoring output, is quite shit.
As George W Bush eloquently put it;
“There's an old saying in Tennessee—I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee—that says, fool me once, shame on... shame on you. Fool me... you can't get fooled again.”
Probably bigger than ours but not the same level as Liverpool, City, Woolwich and Chavski
Essentially the Sky Big 4 is back and United are doing their best to get back in. We’ve been lucky that they’ve been shit at it but we can’t ride our luck forever
Levy’s game changing stadium has taken us backwards if anything
They aren't doing absolutely everything they could with their riches even right now, both off the field and on, and this Isak thing is a devastating blow to the credibility of the project.
I think there are serious questions about how committed the Saudis actually are to that club, which should be getting more coverage than it has.
He can and does for them.
I’m not convinced he solves any of our major problems though. Good player but not a deep lying passer and not really a lock picking 10
He's played as an 8 and as a left winger as well.
Disagree on that, without it we'd be even worse off, we have at least loosened the purse strings wrt fees over recent years, whatever your view on the wagebill.
Without the stadium Sissoko would probably still be our record signing.
So many forwards moving clubs. Shame we're not pursuing any of them.
I've always assumed that they've avoided going balls to the wall because the City case is still on going. That they want to fly under the radar until that gets settled.
But it definitely feels like the air has gone out of that project now.