Dante's Dadda ⚫⚪

Think I need another reset week away from all socials / Sky sports etc 😂😭

Argh that sucks! Hopefully you enjoyed most of it!

I know that football is just a game, and that ultimately, there's much more serious issues in the world to be worried about, but #NUFC 's transfer window thus far has played merry hell with my mental wellbeing.
I shouldn't be panicking about 11 men kicking a ball about but here we are 🫠

He's had a cracking pre-season by all accounts. So a player that we could have had for £21m is now viewed by Allegri as, while maybe not integral, certainly a lot more costly than 2 months ago.
I might actually copyright the phrase "it's the Newcastle way".

Indeed he was

I wonder if Julian Alvarez might like to be the next player to 'prefer a move to another club'?
25yrs old, on £114k per week. Would cost a bit (went to Atleti for £64m plus £17m in add-ons) but at this point 🤷‍♂️

Also knows the league.
Surely there's no other club left to usurp a #NUFC bid?!

Seems that way. If we had anything about us, we'd up our bid by 10 million just to force MU to cough up more money.

True, but if MU haven't met RBs valuation (their bid is much the same as our 1st) then they won't sell. RB are usually very shrewd sellers.

It's the time spent on it more than (potentially) missing out on him that irks me the most.

I mean, you might be right but I can't see what loyalty RB have to MU to accept a lower bid. Tbf, nowt would surprise me any more.

According to various reports on the other site, we've offered the full lot up front

It took us a further 3 or 4 days to put our latest bid in after the 1st was rejected - and needed the direct intervention of Jamie Reuben to lead it. If we know he's waiting on / wanting MU then we have to read the room surely.

Ha. Who knows, but even their proposed add-ons are less than ours. Makes no sense.

I'd be staggered if RB accepted a lower figure for Sesko than what #NUFC have bid; that makes no financial sense for them regardless of the player's 'preference' or not.
Be that as it may, the fact that we've pissed about with this for a week has once again let a competitor get a foot in the door.

This should work
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Cheers fella! Let's hope it's the former.

I'll be honest, I've had a 12hr journey from Newbiggin to Norn Iron today (ferry delay included).
My frazzled, sleep deprived brain is seeing a lot of positive Sesko chat.
I'm so tired - would anyone be so kind as to sum it up for me and I'll pick it up tomorrow morning?
Will love you if you do 😬😘

Yep, that much has become apparent after just a week. I think we're all hardwired to be suckers for punishment and misery.

Absolutely.

A bit of a mess wouldn't do it justice by the looks of things. Fortunately I'm off work from today until the last week of Aug so my free time will mostly be placating bored kids rather than worrying about the club (and I was getting proper stressed, hence my hiatus)

Ha! I can see where you're coming from! Honestly, I had no clue about the Isak situation and quite honestly, it was better that way.

There was a really good writeup on the other site about Muniz / Wissa:

Bonjour!
I've just had a lovely self-imposed break away from all social media / Sky sports and it's been nothing short of glorious.
No stressing about #NUFC or the shit-show of the world in general.
Would thoroughly recommend.

Logging back on today though, it seems that we're in a bit of a pickle 🫠

I suppose the only danger to that is if he's sold with only a week or so left in the window... but surely even our lot aren't that daft!

There is that, but you'd have to hope that the penny pinching wouldn't be so much of an issue if we are flush.
The other side of that is that the selling clubs will know of our spending ability so will try to rinse us. There's no happy ending to any scenario; I'm trying to find any light I can!

Look, I don't want Isak to go, and I especially don't want him to go to Liverpool.
But if he doesn't want to be here then we cash in (to a foreign club ideally) and rebuild with a WHOLE LOT of amortisation.
No player is bigger than #NUFC, as hard as it may be.
*weeps into his coffee*

Good morning!
I've woken up in an unusually positive mood so can only comclude:

Today's the day our window begins 💪

No doubt my emotions talking, but really feels like he was holding on to play his Villa Park 😢

I was lucky enough to see Ozzy Osbourne both with Black Sabbath and as a solo artist. His voice was deteriorating and he couldn't move as well as he used to. But I fucking loved every single second of it.
Memories I'll treasure.
RIP Prince of Darkness 🦇

Maybe, maybe not, but they've been credited with an interest and given that we've lost out on players from our wishlist to rivals already, I would kinda like us getting the player for once!