Alexander Isak | Cried his way to a £130m move

Honestly if I was Newcastle, I probably would have taken the £120m plus Nunez, use the money to buy Jackson, then you'd have £60m left to strengthen another part of the team and you'd end up with a stronger squad, even if you lost a top quality striker.

Reckon they'd both suit Newcastles style better than the clubs they're at, both work hard etc. Good CL level players even if it's fun to take the piss out of them a bit for missing easy chances.

As it stands they have essentially no striker for the opening day.
 
pee dubya said:
Honestly if I was Newcastle, I probably would have taken the £120m plus Nunez, use the money to buy Jackson, then you'd have £60m left to strengthen another part of the team and you'd end up with a stronger squad, even if you lost a top quality striker.

Reckon they'd both suit Newcastles style better than the clubs they're at, both work hard etc. Good CL level players even if it's fun to take the piss out of them a bit for missing easy chances.

As it stands they have essentially no striker for the opening day.
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They could show some balls and tell
Him he’s going nowhere if they can’t find a replacement. Even if he’s a sulky **** after, they’re not going to have him anyway if he goes, but if they find no replacement let him rot.
 
pee dubya said:
Honestly if I was Newcastle, I probably would have taken the £120m plus Nunez, use the money to buy Jackson, then you'd have £60m left to strengthen another part of the team and you'd end up with a stronger squad, even if you lost a top quality striker.

Reckon they'd both suit Newcastles style better than the clubs they're at, both work hard etc. Good CL level players even if it's fun to take the piss out of them a bit for missing easy chances.

As it stands they have essentially no striker for the opening day.
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I suppose Jackson may be better than nothing, but not much. If I was a Newcastle fan and you ended up with Jackson you wouldn't be happy, a big downgrade on Isak.
 
Jackson imo quite poor. no way Chelsea would upgrade him with Joao Pedro and Delap to move him out if he was that great...
its not like when they let Salah, KDB go really.

decision making bad, mentally not the strongest, almost cost Chelsea CL with his red card 3 match ban end of season, and stats also not great.

Isak to Jackson is a bit like Kane to Solanke, not the same...

btw complete mess whats happening at Newcastle, they needed to kick on this summer build a bit on their good season, and strengthen their squad, and now a week before the season they havent done much all summer, missing out on targets left right centre, about to lose Isak, they can end with a weaker first 11 than last season which is madness when you have CL coming up, oh and all their rivals spending big btw making their chances of finishing top5 slim while balancing a hard new format CL too.

I can see Howe struggle big time in CL and not even finish in the bare minimum top24 of CL if they get a bit harder set of opponents. he doesnt have the european experience as Emery had at Villa.

feels like their Saudi owners focus lot more on Saudi league, bankrolling CWC, rolling with Infantino than turning Newcastle into PL powerhouse.
I think their fans complaining rightly so maybe there are potential loopholes even with PSR that some teams using but Newcastle very careful almost scared.
they also dont weigh-in on our APT case much despite lot of the stuff we found out how it specifically triggered now rules voted in just because their takeover. they want City to fight their fight as well for them

now wait what happens with their top players if they dont make CL places next two seasons. more Isak-sagas coming I guess and thats it for them then they are stuck replacing top players rather than build on them.

they needed to step away big time while rags and Spurs are so much down on the table rather than being caught up by them soon as thats gonna make their CL chances very tiny going forward.
 
Stoned Rose said:
No one else’s fault you’re only 5 feet 5 mate ;)
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6’2”…vertically and, increasingly laterally!!

Stoned Rose said:
Those things have always been part of the game. Didn’t stop us winning 4 in a row, the treble or the CL. One shit season doesn’t mean the game has changed dramatically.
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I agree that teams gave often had a player or two who might be big, or strong, or fast, but the modern game is different. It is literally developing players who have two or all three of these attributes.

City have obviously been very successful over the last decade or so, but much as we can look back and say football has changed dramatically over the decades, I would politely suggest the change over the last decade (or less!) has been quicker and more dramatic than we have seen in decades.

Personally, I think Pep recognizes, possibly from watching Barca & PSG, or the Spanish National Team, that the game is getting faster and faster, and the game in England is getting bigger and stronger. Indeed, I think part of the reason he has hired Pep2 as his Assistant is an attempt to create a faster, higher pressing team, while helping keep the back door closed for the counter.

We are going to see a different City this season, and I’m excited to see it.
 
ChicagoBlue said:
Personally, I think Pep recognizes, possibly from watching Barca & PSG, or the Spanish National Team, that the game is getting faster and faster, and the game in England is getting bigger and stronger. Indeed, I think part of the reason he has hired Pep2 as his Assistant is an attempt to create a faster, higher pressing team, while helping keep the back door closed for the counter.
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I hope he’s recognised it, and the appointment of Lijnders may suggest that, but it’s odd we made weak, slow, Bernardo captain and seem to be keeping slow Kovacic and slower Gundogan.

Imagine how much better we’d be with players like Barcola, Livramento and Guehi. Hopefully Reijnders, O’Reilly, Cherki and Ait-Nouri get more games than the slower, less physical players.
 
pee dubya said:
Honestly if I was Newcastle, I probably would have taken the £120m plus Nunez, use the money to buy Jackson, then you'd have £60m left to strengthen another part of the team and you'd end up with a stronger squad, even if you lost a top quality striker.

Reckon they'd both suit Newcastles style better than the clubs they're at, both work hard etc. Good CL level players even if it's fun to take the piss out of them a bit for missing easy chances.

As it stands they have essentially no striker for the opening day.
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Why the fuck would any team with aspirations to be a dominant force want Nunez?
 
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