Transfer rumours

[HughieG]

It's January and we're getting nearer the end of the window.

Who are we linked with and who will we sign?

Personally, I'm pretty excited about this rumour.

[toptoon]

Yes - if it’s true. A couple of alarm bells from the article if he thinks we’re not a big enough club and comparing himself to former great players.

[HughieG]

I don't doubt that he thinks our club is great, I just think he is considering his options. Doesn't mean that if he signs, he doesn't want to be here, won't perform etc. To be fair, most players of his quality will be wondering if NUFC currently is the right move or if they should sign for more established teams that are guaranteed Champions League football etc. That's just the stage we're at.

If we don't sign him, we will sign someone else who will lift the quality of the squad, and in a couple of years (I hope!) most players won't think twice about signing for us.

[TANYA_]

Yes - if it’s true. A couple of alarm bells from the article if he thinks we’re not a big enough club and comparing himself to former great players.

ooof the latest rumour is that are now actively chasing Clare Balding from Everton and Frazer going as part ex

[MidsMagpie]

Milinkovic Savic a class act he would be an amazing signing but i doubt he will join now but maybe in the summer if we are in the champions league.

[Alberts__Lob]

Don't know about anyone else but i took much more notice of transfer speculation when Ashley owned the club even though he spent bugger all. Probably because we were so desperate for new players all the time. Now we've got very capable people running things who want the best for the club

[ex_pat_magpie]

Don't know about anyone else but i took much more notice of transfer speculation when Ashley owned the club even though he spent bugger all. Probably because we were so desperate for new players all the time. Now we've got very capable people running things who want the best for the club

That's very true Albert. It's a question of wait and see.

Considering that every window up to now has been very positive and top class players brought in that we didn't expect to have makes me think that everthing will be being done and declarations will only be made when evrything is tied up.

In other words prepare to be pleasantly surprised.

[toptoon]

Eddie (and his staff) is a tremendous advert for signing for Newcastle. The probability that he will make you a better player should be a real pull for any player with ambition.

[Sclox]

Declan Rice was mentioned on talk shiite. Available in the summer being linked with Chelsea and Arsenal.

I'd like players to want to be in on the ground floor now as the future is bright, surely everyone can see that?

These fkers who will only sign when we are in the CL smack of mercenaries.

[Zippity]

That fella who's just signed for Chelsea is exactly the sort of character we want to avoid, too. Spent weeks talking about Arsenal and Arteta then goes to another team at the last minute because they offered more cash.

I do think, as Albert mentioned, that momentum is key in a season. Much as we havrn't lost, we've kind of struggled to break teams down recently. A new face of the right calibre-and calibre-might give us a boost and a fresh impetus.

Out of the names mentioned, I think savic will only move (somewhere) in the Summer so I'd rather see us loan a player if we were taking, say, unwanted players off Chelsea's books. Pre-takeover, a Chelsea squad player who'd been in and out of their first team would have been a cracking signing but I think our sights will be set quite a bit higher in the Summer and we don't want to fill up places in the squad with players from the teams around us.