Even with the Isak chatter, the highlight of my drive home was that fuckwad Cundy getting stuck into that other fuckwad Goldstein by saying that there is a higher chance Mbeumo signs for Liverpool than United.
What a time to be a Red.
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He’d better have signed by the time I wake up tomorrow.
@Walshy07…do your thing.
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Haha @PeachesEnRegalia
There’s a new Alpha in town.
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Who’s better.
This reminded me of why I unfollowed every Newcastle-related journalist after the takeover. Some of them turned into proper scum with yard dog mentality, hell bent on bending the truth to suit their… Erm, let’s call it “club of choice”. This is the part that boggled my mind, though:
“Liverpool are flexing their muscles. Newcastle can do what they can to fight them off, but ultimately face a grim choice: losing their best player to a direct rival or missing out on their No 1 transfer target to a team that finished four places above them last season.”
Newcastle and Liverpool haven’t been direct rivals for anything but the last season’s League Cup in ages, which their respective trophy cabinets will testify to. Newcastle might become Man City v2.0 in due course but up until this point, there’s not an “r” of “rivalry” between these two clubs, regardless of what this clown says.
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Strong vibes of last year tussle with Chelsea about expensives midfielders target.
Since it turned so well, I have no doubt it will be the case, whoever is signed or not.
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Last year you mean the year before last
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Well corrected, got my timeline wrong.
And splashing the cash like never before.
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Interesting comment in the ESPN article about our Isak approach:
Sources have also told ESPN Newcastle are working on a deal to sign Eintracht Frankfurt forward Hugo Ekitike, with a view to the forward playing alongside Isak in attack.
Liverpool have also been liked with the player however it is understood they are not convinced by the 23-year-old, with Newcastle set to up their offer to Frankfurt in the coming days.
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I have to say that, even if we don’t sign Isak this summer, I’ve throughly enjoyed the social media reaction from rival supporters to our “approach.”
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Still of the assumption very few people know what Hughes is thinking. See today and the reaction. Club keeps its cards close to its chest.
Newcastles reaction is laughable, we’ve had us in a period of mourning had the Spanish press try to both unsettle Konate and Diaz and I feel it’s worked on the latter.
Cry me a river, isnt your announcement that you are going work on a deal for the other lad without making a bid the same thing.
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It’s hard to say. The Edwards regime kept things close to the vest, but all of our major transfers this summer were fairly well-telegraphed beforehand. They weren’t sagas, but it did appear that the credible newsbreakers on Twitter were right.
This one seems like a leak from the Liverpool side at least in how Ornstein framed it, especially with the language about knowing Newcastle’s stance and all that. Perhaps hoping Isak will see the news and agitate.
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I am absolutely certain that Liverpool don’t put this out without encouragement from somewhere. I think the player would like the move and it’s now down to him to be clear with Newcastle that he wants to go.
It’s probably quite similar to the situation with us and Diaz. We don’t want to sell, but the player fancies the move, and there is a price point that we’d let him go.
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Most certainly its a ploy by the Izak camp.
I would agree with us not entirely convinced by Ekitike - I think if we were he would be here by now.
We must’ve had some encouragement by Isak’s camp and fairly certain that this will happen because its a risk leaving Toon to talk and bid for Ekitike and they say they sign him but then dont sell Isak - who are we left with to go for?
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The obvious one would be Sesko, but he’s a different profile of forward and more at the level of Ekitike than Isak, so not ideal.
I imagine it’s something like Plan A - Isak, Plan B - Ekitike, Plan C - Sesko.
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I wonder if the talk of having £120m to spend on the right forward might open the door to someone like Alvarez for example, becoming available?
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Would be an interesting thought for sure.
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