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BaZ87 said:
Let's tell them this but as I heard some people discuss on a podcast yesterday, Newcastle's approach to this transfer window has been shambolic. I genuinely believe that when the Isak stuff first broke a deal could have been done where we'd have stepped aside from the Ekitike deal but now Newcastle are faced with the prospect of signing their 12th choice striker or forcing an unhappy Isak to stay.

Now obviously I'm not suggesting Newcastle should just bend over and let us violate them but clubs have to have a plan for these eventualities and it appears they didn't.
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they've been fools.

Eales should have been replaced months ago and the less we say about Mitchel, the ******* better.

They've hung Howe out to dry
 
I have a hunch he may end up staying for a another year, with some back hand deal.

Unless we get a Sesko type, we won’t sell.

It’s been a total shambles though, we need to get our act in order we have basically thrown all the good will and feel good factor from last season in the bin now, starting from the bottom if feels like again now.
 
montymint said:
they've been fools.

Eales should have been replaced months ago and the less we say about Mitchel, the ******* better.

They've hung Howe out to dry
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I'm not sure what happened with Mitchell but to go into a summer without a CEO or director of football has really shown. Big transfers don't just happen over night, they're usually months in the making but it doesn't look like Newcastle have a great deal of groundwork on numerous targets they tried to sign and I can't imagine Isak wanting to leave has come out of the blue either and yet you've had nothing in place.
 
What exactly is the issue at Newcastle, they are a decent sized club, Champions League, lots of money, or have the Saudis put the brakes on spending?

I get Liverpool being appealing but Sesko seems to prefer Man Utd too (although that's far from agreed).
 
Robbo said:
What exactly is the issue at Newcastle, they are a decent sized club, Champions League, lots of money, or have the Saudis put the brakes on spending?

I get Liverpool being appealing but Sesko seems to prefer Man Utd too (although that's far from agreed).
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Two midtable clubs with one paying higher wages.
 
Forgetting Isak issues Newcastle entire handling of the transfer window on there part is laughable

Newcastle fans being ****** off is perfectly understandable.

If they sell Isak to us and still struggle to get any one in be worse plus other clubs will know there now sitting on a ballot of money so may make it harder for them
 
BaZ87 said:
I'm not sure what happened with Mitchell but to go into a summer without a CEO or director of football has really shown. Big transfers don't just happen over night, they're usually months in the making but it doesn't look like Newcastle have a great deal of groundwork on numerous targets they tried to sign and I can't imagine Isak wanting to leave has come out of the blue either and yet you've had nothing in place.
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apparently we'd promised Isak a new contract last year, which Mitchell ripped up to save money.
 
Robbo said:
What exactly is the issue at Newcastle, they are a decent sized club, Champions League, lots of money, or have the Saudis put the brakes on spending?

I get Liverpool being appealing but Sesko seems to prefer Man Utd too (although that's far from agreed).
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We have gone for the wrong type of player, all the players we have tried to sign would have automatically been wanted by a more established clubs or clubs that could pay more in wages, we have tried to take that step up in the calibre too soon.
 
C Kent said:
nailed on fella, we want him. Might as well get used to it, everything briefed by journos is that we can go 200m more an that was before the diaz sale.
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Oh no doubt we want him. But at 150m? Not happening.

I rate Isak highly, but no way is he worth that sort of money, especially with his injury record.

We need central defenders more than another striker anyway.
 
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montymint said:
apparently we'd promised Isak a new contract last year, which Mitchell ripped up to save money.
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Makes you wonder if Isak had already made up his mind back then. Surely it would have occurred to someone at that point that he would then want to leave if a new contract wasn't offered?

A very poor strategy if they had been aware of this for a year and were just hoping that Liverpool (or another club) wouldn't make an offer, or if they had focused all their attention on Ekitike.
 
Ayahuasca said:
Makes you wonder if Isak had already made up his mind back then. Surely it would have occurred to someone at that point that he would then want to leave if a new contract wasn't offered?

A very poor strategy if they had been aware of this for a year and were just hoping that Liverpool (or another club) wouldn't make an offer, or if they had focused all their attention on Ekitike.
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Craig Hope seems to think that was the case, which is why he started so poorly last season.

It also makes you think that since April, his minor injuries have probably been him spitting his dummy out.

I think the club had hopes with Mitchell leaving, they could convince him to sign a new deal.
 
Although Isak has been a brilliant player for us, I can't feel myself being dragged in to all the sensationalism and hype around him. Providing we can get a decent enough striker, get him sold. Even £100m feels expensive for a player with his injury record. That's just my opinion.
 
the wopster said:
Liverpool went from:

Only bid if invited Respectful
Only if Newcastle want to sell
Won’t bid blindly

To:

Lowball offer
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Went from treating Newcastle like another football club to realising they might have to be treated like the basket case they are.

We're gonna have to sell or lend you some players at this rate.
 
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Nobody has confirmed what the formal bid was have they? Just that they were considering a bid of £120m - which doesn't seem like a lowball offer.
 
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