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Unless Jackson is sold for a monster fee along with a couple of others like Nkunku I don’t see how we can comply with those FFP rules and buy Xavi, Garnacho, AND a top class CB. Drop the fucking Garnacho pursuit. Tell him sorry, we’ll come back in for you in January or something. Get Xavi and Guehi and call it a window.

Fucking hell, man. He was finally starting to really come on and become the player we all had hoped. We 100% need a new starting CB now. I figured it was a short to medium term injury when I was posting this morning. If he’s out the whole year we NEED a left sided CB and a good one.

If only it was 3-4 PL clubs battling it out for him instead of these cheap ass Italians and Germans! 🤣 Then we may actually get the £70m+. Milan may offer us a loan with option to buy for €20m or some insulting bullshit knowing them.

Do we even know what’s going on with Veiga right now? Is he training at Cobham?

United demanding £50m for Garnacho and using Madueke as the benchmark. If we actually pay that there’s no chance Xavi is coming too.

Is a bit strange that Bayern were heavily linked with Woltemade and that move never happened. So they definitely are after a striker. Jackson would probably feast in that league like so many decent strikers do. Perfect backup to Kane. Would Bayern actually pay what we’re demanding is the question. My guess is nobody outside of the PL is going to offer us more than £50m or something.

Probably because we’re by far and away the biggest club that are interested in him and he seems like someone who loves being a famous influencer. Staying in the biggest/best league, at a top club, and in London keeps his profile and celebrity high. Also good mates with Enzo Fernandez I think which I’m sure plays it’s part. Tbh, he probably really fancies his chances of beating Gittens for a starting place. Gittens is actually younger than he is and has no PL experience.

Garnacho was always spoken about by these reporters as basically a “bonus” signing at the very end after we’ve already secured Xavi and whichever other priority signings. That’s why it almost didn’t seem as bad. But if we’re now pushing ahead with him before Xavi it tells me that it’s Simons that was actually the one we’ll move for if the price is right but isn’t a priority.

If we pay more than £35m for Garnacho we’re getting massively ripped off. Mason Mount levels of scamming us like we did them.

Would we even be able to afford a new CB with the UEFA FFP shit after we potentially sign both Xavi & Garnacho?

If this club signs Garnacho first and then decides not to push through Xavi…

Having 6 total CB’s would be fine if some of them were talented academy lads who would be fine getting limited minutes here and there in the cups. Having 6 CB’s when they’re all starting caliber senior pros is overkill imo even with UCL football.

Thing is, if you sign Guehi what happens when Colwill returns? We already have 3 RCB’s, 2 of which are super solid in Trev and Tosin. So saying that we’d just shift Guehi over there once Colwill is back isn’t so straightforward.

He said something like “Colwill felt something at the end of the session.” My mind immediately went to hamstring.

I’d be surprised if we go into the market for a new CB unless he’s out for several months. Buying an expensive CB only for Colwill to be back in a few weeks would create quite the headache. On the other hand, Badiashile also happens to be injured for all we know and we sent Sarr back to Strasbourg so it’s a real problem area all of a sudden. Throwing Hato in at LCB right away is a huge risk. What an unfortunate and unexpected mess all of a sudden before the season even starts.

He should absolutely go for that same sort of money. But can we get someone to pay it is the tricky bit. Guess it depends on how desperate Newcastle is. Very desperate we should hope!

I could maybe see us accepting them giving us a big chunk this summer and another installment next summer. But you’re almost certainly correct that if we demand it all at once there’s no chance Newcastle pay £80m.

They’re shite now. They won’t be if they address their biggest weaknesses in midfield and in net. No European football and being able to focus solely on the PL will be a big advantage for them.

I think that’s exactly what this is. Monster outlay in a desperate attempt to get UCL football. Because they’re fucked if they allow the current top 4 to run away from them and lock them out like it looked as though they would thus far in the window. With their debt situation they NEED to be in the UCL going forward or they’re screwed. Baleba + Donnarumma to add to Cunha, Mbeumo, and Šeško would surely be £300m+ window. All players I rate other than Šeško.

So yet another summer when all the journalists said at the start of the window that Man United are broke and MUST sell to buy and then they go out and spend crazy money. They haven’t sold 1 player yet. I would hate it if they can pull this off. Baleba has legitimate world class potential just like Caicedo did leaving Brighton. And it would annoy the shit out of me if Brighton suddenly capitulate and let him go for reasonable money after taking us to the cleaners whenever we negotiated with them. He + a new keeper would be transformative for United and make them a genuine threat to us and the others in the top 4.

I think he’d do well there, tbh. Not Isak well but better than anyone else they could get at this point.

Newcastle fans are freaking out about the idea of signing Jackson. As if they’re way too good for him. 🤣

You’d have to assume that Liverpool know Isak is coming for them to allow Darwin to go leaving them with only Ekitike for the time being. Which in turn means that Newcastle must have something in place with a new striker since they can’t let Isak leave before that. Wonder if we get news of a Jackson bid today.

Darwin to Saudi means one less option for Newcastle. There was some talk about him going the other way as part of the Isak deal. Jackson going there seeming more and more like their last, best option.

Notoriously slow Man United who usually take a month to make every signing have swooped in and signed Šeško in 2 days. Meanwhile, we’ve been negotiating with Simons for nearly 3 weeks and no bid. Will the move still happen? Probably. But would’ve been very helpful to have him in for at least one of this weekend’s preseason matches. Ben Jacobs says that Newcastle have Leipzig’s other striker Openda on their list, btw. If the Sesko move doesn’t affect their stance with Xavi, surely they would change their mind if Newcastle throw money at them for Openda. So again, we need to push to get this done asap.