Rafa on transfers

[sherwoodmag]

More to come in before window closes,I think Newcastle fans will be surprised by some he said.

[Zippity]

Hope we can get a few wage thieves off our books too.

[Jammy89]

That i think it our biggest problem Zip.

We've got players we need gone before we can buy but they can't get their wages elsewhere and are happy to sit on them.

I think had we shifted Krul etc. our bigger earners early in window we'd have already signed more players in.

[Zippity]

The Guardian's take on things. The more you hear, the more you think this isn't going to end well...

https://www.theguardian.com/football...rafael-benitez

[Nephy]

The other day I saw a headline about Shearer and Ferdinand teaming up again... perhaps Rafa's desperation for strikers he led to him dragging them out of retirement? That'd certainly be a surprise!

[Zippity]

happy days those.....

[Nephy]

Yeah... sigh... hard to even imagine ever seeing a world class strikeforce like that grace St James' again... sad times

[ex_pat_magpie]

happy days those.....

Best dual partnership the Prem has ever seen or will see.

[Zippity]

Yeah... sigh... hard to even imagine ever seeing a world class strikeforce like that grace St James' again... sad times

Not for a while; there's always hope....

[ghostrider]

The only time a world class strike force will grace St James' Park for us is if we get a PSG type owner or if Rafa or wheoever is clever enough to do it, to actually produce them through nurture and top coaching/hard work.

Neymar, Lukaku and Gylfi and co have seen to it that normal football clubs cannot afford anything like the crap being bandied about.
The minute we can compete for the Pogba's and Lukaku's is the very minute we cease to become the football club we all bought into and will be lucky to ever get it back as anything that resembled it.