Dont think ive ever heard the words “get a replacement in first” as much as ive heard it this summer…
Youd think palace having an england CB entering his final year would’ve sorted his replacement by now.
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We have 4 CB at the moment. Guehi will make 5.
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Rightly so.
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Erm but we didn’t when we sold Quansah, erm we have sold Diaz with out a replacement Jota and Nunez have been replaced by one. So all the talk of getting in replacement first isn’t a reality for Liverpool.
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It’s also a mental thing for clubs to be saying.
Palace go buy a replacement and then what, we’re obligated to make them an offer for Guehi? Can they carry an additional CB if we decide we don’t want him now and no one else comes in? Maybe we’ll chuck a low-ball offer in because now we know they pretty much have to sell as they’ve publicly said this new lad is his replacement.
Truth is football transfers are rarely related in this linear way of player X arrives allowing Y to leave. Yes, clubs don’t want to be left short, especially this late in the window, but not every club is as shit at this stuff as Newcastle are.
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Im not sure we have left ourselves terribly thin upfront.
Let’s see at the end of the window.
We had a great start, no doubt about it.
Then we sold some players for good money. In all likelihood there will be a bit more of that.
How will the window end? If no more signings, fine, have a little pop as we do look short.
I suspect we will sign at least 2 more players, and quite possibly three. Let’s see.
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I truly do hope thats correct but appears the Isak deal has thrown a spanner in the works and we are reacting at a snails pace.
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You literally don’t know what the club is doing.
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Neither do you.
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No I don’t do I but I’m not making assumptions they are not doing something because they haven’t emailed out a project plan with all the tasks.
They signed Leoni within a week and all we had was Joyce mention him in passing.
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Edwards and Hughes were together with the boys at the PFA in Manchester last night btw
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I mean in the transfer world… they aren’t just wandering around award evenings and heading for a coffee.
We have for several years simply not done business in public. The guy who was at the forefront of that was Edwards and now he is back in a higher position.
We will get one or two rumours fed to the reliables like Joyce and Ormstein and when those two break things it’s usually a lot further down the line. No one at this club is feeding a minute by minute update like other clubs do and guess what generally it works well.
Yes stuff will leak from the player or the other side but it’s why a Newcastle soap opera can appear exciting and the club effectively looks stagnant.
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Slackers! Sign moar playaz instead of getting on the turps!
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this is another one dragging on.
At least we have Leoni now. I’d still like Guehi as well to really strengthen the depth in the position and give some competition for a starting spot but some of the urgency has been taken off the deal.
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Yea the club certainly took their own sweet time closing deals for Frimpong, Kerkez, Wirtz and Ekitike. And now the club is incompetent all over again.
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FSG out!
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