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Rafa has gotten rid of so much dirt and reduced the wage bill tremendously only for the fat fcuk to pay him back in such a way. Over the course of 3 seasons, Newcastle had a squad of 35 senior players now down to 25...the squad has been asset stripped and reduced to its bare bones and that's why you can understand why Rafa needs atleast another 5 signings;
Gk
Dubravka
Elliot
Woodman
Darlow
RB
Yedlin
Monkeylow (not even good enough even as a squad player)
CB
Lascelles
Lejuene (injured)
Schar
Clark
LB
Dummet
Lazaar (banished and no one wants the mercenary)
RW
Ritchie (just an honest player which we could still do with a better option)
Murphy (short on confidence even as a squad player)
CM
Shelvey
Diame (hot and cold)
Ki (yet to taste)
Hayden
Saivet (waste of space)
LW
Kennedy (good player but not ours)
Atsu
FW
Rondon (on loan)
Muto (untested)
Perez
Joselwho (can get rid off)
With the above squad, you can say that we only have 4-5 quality players that we actually own, rest of the first team is decent for survival of which 2 aren't even our players....and the rest we could absolutely do without....
You can see how our team has been stripped off its quality players during Ashley's era write down to its core....for the team to even try and emiluate what we did when we finished 5th, we would need to sign 5-7 quality players which would mean a spend of a minimum of £100m...
Collocini
Gutierrez
Ba
Cisse
Cabaye
Debuchy
Janmaat
Wijnaludum
Sissoko
Townsend
Tiote
Remy (on loan)
Krul
Ben arfa
We never really ever replaced these players with equal to or better options
Last edited by gogz_86; 08-08-2018 at 09:08 PM.
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Next year's accounts will be interesting.As will the coming season with that squad of players.
I live in hope he will get out before next year's accounts get published.What a simple tw#t I am.
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Players in
Muto £10m
Schar £4m
Dubravka £4m
Ki free (but nor really)
Kennedy £2m loan
Rondon £2m loan
Agent fees £30m
Total spend £52m
Players out
Mitro £22m
Sels £3m
Mbemba £5m
Armstrong £2m
Merino £10m
Agents fees -£40m (including the getting rid colback et al)
Total money in £2m
Newcastle declare loss on players £50m (Ashley submits report to parliament that he has invested £50m into the squad)
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