Your point was you wanted to buy modern day Bale, Modric and Kane - I said we have but biught them at a similar stage to when we bought hem 'ie before they became famous' ...... like most clubs do !
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Transfers Summer Transfer thread - 2024
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Your point was you wanted to buy modern day Bale, Modric and Kane - I said we have but biught them at a similar stage to when we bought hem 'ie before they became famous' ...... like most clubs do !
I fucking hate admitting they have overtaken us
Isak was €70m plus addons
Are we going to have that level of conviction?
.......Yet you're none the less prepared to gas them up for things that aren't true.
Newcastle poised to spend record £59m on Real Sociedad’s Alexander Isak
Newcastle United are poised to break their transfer record with the acquisition of the Sweden striker Alexander Isak from Real Sociedad for an initial £59m
www.theguardian.com
It was a £63m deal, our deal for Ndombele was the same.
Not sure if it proves anything either way if we spend £10m anyway, said before the profile is more important than what we put down, speculating about money is pointless.
Assuming that Richie & Ndombele's fees convert to roughly the same in Euros then I guess we already have.
I just think the most important attribute for a striker does is what they do in the box. That is ultimately where a game is won and lost.
Like I said, Richy isn't the best footballer but he's good in the box and gets goals, and ultimately goals win you games.
We've invested in him and I'd rather spend the money elsewhere to get more goals out of him with other players who can retain possession rather than getting another striker. Which is why I think a top LW is the main priority.
To me, thats better than selling him and probably taking a hit on the fee just to spend a similar amount on another player just to get the exact same output, possibly even less.
Well we won’t improve our position with guys like Richy as our striker. He’s not good enough to take us from where we are just now to challengers. Is that not what we want to become? We all say we want to be that but will accept players that can’t get us there
Who cares if we’ve invested in him,it’s not worked. He’s been horribly out of form albeit for personal reasons,turned it around to a certain extent and hardly kicked a ball for weeks due to not being selected and injured. We have to get better.
Well we won’t improve our position with guys like Richy as our striker. He’s not good enough to take us from where we are just now to challengers. Is that not what we want to become? We all say we want to be that but will accept players that can’t get us there
Ultimately (and hypothetically) you want every player to be upgraded eventually no matter how good they are, but not seeing a new ST as a priority doesn't mean someone doesn't want to see the squad leveled up this summer...... That's a pretty disingenuous path to take.
..........Thinking there's more immediate gain to be found in other positions (e.g. Wings & MF) is a perfectly reasonable position to debate from.
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That’s exactly what we will do though. Ange has even admitted as much.
I wouldn’t be talking about a similar amount - Williams and Gyokeres in for 200M, Richy, Gil, and Werner out for c.40M
What I see is whoever plays centre forward for us is that centre backs have a comfortable afternoon playing against us. We need a striker that unsettles teams. We don’t have that. I would be happy with another midfielder, 2 wide players and a centre forward.
If we can offload our unwanted then competition for our full backs and left centre back.
I’m dreaming but if we don’t make our squad much better with Europe next year we will struggle to sustain being even where we are now.
If we end up swapping Werner for Mitoma does it really move the needle though? I doubt it.
That wasn’t my point
Because he’s been told that’s his remit
This is an established club policy over 23 years. It’s nothing to do with what Ange wants.
He has final say on the player but the player has to come from within the clubs range.
Yes, exactly the profile we need.
Your point, now in denial, is you wanted to buy the likes of Kane, Modric and Bale in their prime as we sold them.
My point very simply was we had bought them as players with great potential and developed them ..... something we are doing again with the likes of Vicario et al.
That’s exactly what I said.
We sell top class players and sign players we hope can be top class
It’s a model that has seen us fail for 23 years now