Orikoru
Tour Winner
There is simplifying the badge and then there is that! You might as well just have a blank circle in place of Chelsea's badge. Plenty have 'simplified' badges but they still look like badges and not just a blank wonky shape.
nickjdavis
Head Pro
WTF are Newcastle playing at?
The football transfer market isn't like ebay where you watch your bids rise in small incremental amounts.
£50m for Strand Larsen rejected so they go back in with an extra £5m....as if that's going to really make any difference to a club where the player could be the difference between PL survival or relegation.
If they really want a player at this time in the window they need to go in with a bid of £60m and add-ons to the effect of if we get Champs League football we will pay you another £10m, other European Football £5m, and if you get relegated we will pay you another £10m....and if that gets rejected then walk away.
As I've said about Liverpool/Isak...if a club really wants a player then they either need to piss, or get off the pot.
We really are fannying around when decisive action is needed and its not only becoming annoying but its making the club look simply incompetent....but then again, the chant of "sack the board" has been a regular anthem around St. James' since the 1970's.
yours
disgruntled of Ipswich
The football transfer market isn't like ebay where you watch your bids rise in small incremental amounts.
£50m for Strand Larsen rejected so they go back in with an extra £5m....as if that's going to really make any difference to a club where the player could be the difference between PL survival or relegation.
If they really want a player at this time in the window they need to go in with a bid of £60m and add-ons to the effect of if we get Champs League football we will pay you another £10m, other European Football £5m, and if you get relegated we will pay you another £10m....and if that gets rejected then walk away.
As I've said about Liverpool/Isak...if a club really wants a player then they either need to piss, or get off the pot.
We really are fannying around when decisive action is needed and its not only becoming annoying but its making the club look simply incompetent....but then again, the chant of "sack the board" has been a regular anthem around St. James' since the 1970's.
yours
disgruntled of Ipswich
I didn't say that I liked it, but I can see where they are coming from. They could have done a better job, it's just a solid shape now so totally without character. The 1st team shirt has the usual badge on so I suspect they are partly testing the waters with this. Hopefully, they get the feedback, 'try again'There is simplifying the badge and then there is that! You might as well just have a blank circle in place of Chelsea's badge. Plenty have 'simplified' badges but they still look like badges and not just a blank wonky shape.
RichA
Well-known member
Looks like the designer stuck a webdings symbol on temporarily for the first sketch and nobody bothered to change it.There is simplifying the badge and then there is that! You might as well just have a blank circle in place of Chelsea's badge. Plenty have 'simplified' badges but they still look like badges and not just a blank wonky shape.
Don Barzini
Assistant Pro
I hadn't even noticed that!
Agree though - it's a "miss" on an otherwise "hit" of a shirt.
hairball_89
Club Champion
Shows how vital a sporting director (insert job title as appropriate) is and how much the job of the manager/head coach has changed. There is no way Eddie Howe can manage the situation in terms of the club, the players he has and the PR, HR and transfer negotiations of ins and a very specific out.
Re: Liverpool - the opening bid c. £110m was just that. But it's been well publicised one of the "conditions" of the Isak sale was "we need to get 2 in", so until that happens there's categorically zero point in Liverpool going back to the table. I think it'll get done in the region of £135m, where it's £120m ish upfront which liverpool will say they paid, rising to £135-140m in add-ons which Newcastle will brief they've received. But... Newcastle have to sort out their getting someone else in, the continuous knock backs are embarrassing.
nickjdavis
Head Pro
A couple of weeks ago I'd have agreed about the 2 in as a condition to letting Isak go but now, even after conciliatory (?) talks held a couple of days ago, with Isak still adamant that he wants to go, I think the club have to get rid, his presence can only be detrimental to the overall morale of the squad...especially if there are some who are sympathetic to his position.
A lot can happen between now and midnight on Monday.
hairball_89
Club Champion
indeed. And c. £130m on the Newcastle balance sheet looks something like £90m in profit on PSR which gives £250m plus in transfer kitty immediately, if my maths and understanding of PSR is anywhere near correct.
Liverpool also haven't been short in spending money and everybody knows we need at least one forward and one centre back. if this isn't Isak and Guehi it will be a very interesting week!
nickjdavis
Head Pro
I think we have to pay Real Sociedad 10% of the profit on Isak but, as you say, it would give a huge boost to the clubs PSR situation which by all accounts, isn't that bad, now that the first years excess (of the new ownership) has dropped off the 3 year cycle.
nufc.com are reporting (and they have historically made a point of not reporting on transfer rumours/speculation unless there is something concrete in the offing) that although the 2nd bid for Strand Larsen was rejected, further discussions have resulted in a fee being agreed.
Personally after watching his 12 minute cameo last night (yes OK it was against West Ham), and seeing the ruthless efficiency with which he dispatched his two chances...especially the first one...I think he could actually grab a sackful of goals for us.
I would say that Guehi is way more of a priority for you than Isak. Interesting if your focus goes down that route more and leaves Isak hanging.
Arthur Wedge
Well-known member
Think they are focused on both tbh
Guehi once Palace get into the Europa group stage and Isak after Monday was out of the way
Arthur Wedge
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clubchamp98
Journeyman Pro
Yes the price of them they should be adorned with a gold plated badge.
nickjdavis
Head Pro
a dilemma about which game to watch tonight....they are all equally unappealing.
Comes down to Grimsby v Man U or to see if Rangers can mount an improbable comeback against Brugge
Comes down to Grimsby v Man U or to see if Rangers can mount an improbable comeback against Brugge
Lucifer MorningStar
Well-known member
Option 3 watch paint dry
Red devil
Well-known member
Everton on as well
nickjdavis
Head Pro
Grimsby is the decision.
Tashyboy
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The mighty Stags are taking 6,039 fans to Everton.
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Don Barzini
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