quite in shit situation these are in, Ashworth leaving them, Howe is having way too much power despite being found out this season, PL ffp rules really restrict them doing serious business and the business they done turned out to be really shit short term this season with long injury to Barnes, and Tonali betting fuck up. (wonder if Ashworth was already doing the sabotage on them:D)
can see them cash in on Bruno Guimaraes who may want to play CL regularly, and that wouldnt happen next season and quite a bit to improve to be in top4 even in May 2025 for them especially if rags and Chelsea do improve from being able to spend so much more than Castle and having an already much bigger/better squad than them.
have a funny feeling Saudi owners care much more about the saudi league in next 2/3 years than the Castle project where they are restricted to spend big and made to watch their rivals spunk 200-300m per summer window while getting their DoF too.
also have a funny feeling about Tonali, actually an Italian friend of mine said this to me, that he expects Tonali ask for a transfer about few months after his ban is done due to being homesick, like January window 2025.
that way he just used Newcastle to be the club where he spends his banned period then fucks them over, also earning Milan a huge fee, huge loss to Castle, and trying to get a move back to Serie A on loan or some shit.
would be quite the shithousery from Tonali, but the way it went so far it already was from him and his agent to negotiate this transfer while sitting on a big fucking ticking time bomb secret like this. :D
