Yep, let's just have a 48-man squad. We can afford nine million a week in wages.
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Deulofeumygod
Player Valuation: £40m
Where would sissoko play? Alongside gueye or too deep?
Darth Toffeeman
Player Valuation: £40m
Arsenal, Spurs and Chelsea are hardly worldbeaters. City have the winter to contend with as Pep might struggle then. United look the strongest but still no guarantee. Need to assess it when the window closes.
This article from yesterday states that we have already made a bid, so this reported £30mill proposal may be the 2nd or third offer.
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/spor...ssa-sissoko-latest-newcastle-already-11805900
Newcastle United have received six firm offers for Moussa Sissoko so far this summer and the Magpies are bracing themselves for further bids before the transfer window closes.
Three Premier League sides, as well as three European clubs, have so far submitted offers for the French international but none have matched the Magpies’ asking price of £35million.
Publicly, United insist they are hopeful of keeping Sissoko on Tyneside past Wednesday’s 11pm deadline, but the midfielder is desperate to depart St James’ Park this summer and has yet to feature in the Championship so far this season despite having returned to training four weeks ago.
And it is believed that a bid in excess of £25m could yet be enough to persuade Newcastle to sell the unsettled 27-year-old, as long as the vast majority of the fee is paid up front and Sissoko is offered acceptable terms.
The club will not sanction a loan move for Sissoko, however; either the midfielder departs permanently, or he will remain at St James’ Park.
Italian clubs Inter Milan and Juventus have already bid for the midfielder, as have Real Madrid - despite the Spanish side’s public denial.
Crystal Palace and Everton have also submitted formal offers this summer, as have West Bromwich Albion, though the Baggies’ bid was deemed as risible and dismissed out of hand.
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/spor...ssa-sissoko-latest-newcastle-already-11805900
Newcastle United have received six firm offers for Moussa Sissoko so far this summer and the Magpies are bracing themselves for further bids before the transfer window closes.
Three Premier League sides, as well as three European clubs, have so far submitted offers for the French international but none have matched the Magpies’ asking price of £35million.
Publicly, United insist they are hopeful of keeping Sissoko on Tyneside past Wednesday’s 11pm deadline, but the midfielder is desperate to depart St James’ Park this summer and has yet to feature in the Championship so far this season despite having returned to training four weeks ago.
And it is believed that a bid in excess of £25m could yet be enough to persuade Newcastle to sell the unsettled 27-year-old, as long as the vast majority of the fee is paid up front and Sissoko is offered acceptable terms.
The club will not sanction a loan move for Sissoko, however; either the midfielder departs permanently, or he will remain at St James’ Park.
Italian clubs Inter Milan and Juventus have already bid for the midfielder, as have Real Madrid - despite the Spanish side’s public denial.
Crystal Palace and Everton have also submitted formal offers this summer, as have West Bromwich Albion, though the Baggies’ bid was deemed as risible and dismissed out of hand.
Give Newcastle the traitor and ten million.
Job done.
Job done.
toffeejack
Player Valuation: £100m
instead of £30m, would people be happy if we gave them £10m + mccarthy?
i'd take sissoko for similar to what we sell mccrathy for, but £30m, no no no.
i'd take sissoko for similar to what we sell mccrathy for, but £30m, no no no.
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Its a huge price for Sissoko & probably more what Mike Ashley hopes to get rather than anyone will offer.
A 2000% mark up for Newcastle in just three years while being relegated.
A 2000% mark up for Newcastle in just three years while being relegated.
yep I'd do that mate if it meant Koeman gets a player he wants and shifts a player he doesn't rate.
apart from the Euros and when he first arrived at Newcastle, all other games I've seen him he has looked total gash but hey ho, if that's what the manager thinks we need then I'm all for it.
Tosh.
@The Esk has explained over and over and over again why the league rules meant that we HAD to sell a player for a big profit in order to create space in our wage structure. The only three players that were viable were Stones, Barkley and Lukaku. Of those three, Stones was the easiest to replace (and indeed HAS been replaced already).
Stek looks to be a vast improvement on Robles, and was cheap as chips.
Gana seems to be a vast improvement on McCarthy and, again, was cheap as chips.
Bolasie is admittedly a big gamble, primarily due to the HUGE price... but let's give him a few games shall we?
The window is not shut yet, and the massive influx of cash this time around (the Sky money) meant that to sign players early in the window would cost HUGE sums (such as Bolasie). I am glad we haven't gone bananas trying to sign every big name going regardless of cost. We have to build a squad, and Martinez spent two years of his three destroying our squad with garbage signings like McGeady, Kone, Niasse, Cleverley and so on... as this window draws to a close I think you will see several clubs revising their valuations of the players they are trying to sell, and we will make a couple more buys. There is no doubt we can afford the transfer fees now, but we still have to keep a sensible wage budget in order to stay within league rules so some players will have to be sold too.
In short: you're wrong, get a grip.
Bungle
Player Valuation: £90m
Praying that their ITK is as accurate as our ones.
Fully agree with the essence of this post, and you are right. One caveat however: Ashley Wiliams is better IMHO than Jags. That's part of the reason why I was so pleased with bringing Wiliams in.
toffeejack
Player Valuation: £100m
if real madrid, juve and inter are interested, he's obviously rated in the right way, but i have a feeling that's mostly due to the euros. There he showed just how good he can be, and exactly the same as bolasie, on their day they look like the best players in the league in their position, but their day is few and far between. Suppose if we have 11 players who can be properly boss, if half of them perform every week we may get away with it every week. Might just be because they were at poor clubs as well.
MartyMcFly
Player Valuation: £15m
Euros final.
wainy
Player Valuation: £35m
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