Summer 2016: Transfer rumours and suggestions

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I'd love to know who the bigger sides were that have gone down twice in a row. He's probably counting Bristol Rovers, the daft carrot-chomper. (No offence Redsox! 😉)

Can only assume given the success and way club is viewed now he views Man. City as one who went down from prem in mid 90s and then were relegated again two years later.

Leeds did the same two years ago.

Neither club have our history but both are better attendance wise, Man. City were averaging 30k in league one in the late 90s and Leeds get 20k + most weeks which is probably what we'll start with for the first couple of months.

Man City were certainly not bigger than Villa in the late 90's. We were constantly challenging for top 6 whilst Man City generally struggled. I don't mind Man City, they're getting gradually more and more repulsive now but it's fair to say they hadn't been challengers since the 70's and weren't on the same level as the Villa.

Yes I know but he's viewing Man. City through the prism of their status now here and worldwide.

Like Holloway or not but he has two promotions and a relegation from this league so he knows what state you need to be in to do well or not.

So what? He's based his analysis on a series of nonsensical comments. He's a bitter little bumpkin.

[QuintonVilla]

Newcastle are going to walk this league, we will be nowhere near them. They've now bid £4.5m for Mo Diame, would add steel and power to our midfield.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Newcastle are going to walk this league, we will be nowhere near them. They've now bid £4.5m for Mo Diame, would add steel and power to our midfield.

Let's see. I still believe they're our best benchmark as both sides had a group of players that couldn't give a shit about playing for their respective clubs and their fans hated their players in a similar way to us last season. They still have ownership issues, we hopefully (touch wood, crosses everything) have put that one to bed.

You could argue Benitez has had more time to judge his squad and make the necessary changes but hopefully RDM/Clarke took the time to watch the videos of our games to get up to speed. Garde's report he presented to Brian Little would make interesting and useful reading too. Xia has promised money this summer which is certainly needed. There's no way we can even think about getting promoted on a shoestring budget. Time will tell how ambitious we really are but now is not the time to panic. We still have a month to build the squad but it would have been great to go into the new season with the team shaping up rather than so many sad faces from last season stinking the place out.

[cdbearsfan]

The only club I can think of that is of a comparable size to us and has played outside the top two divisions is Rangers.

[ozzjim]

Is McCormack, at 13m on a 4 year deal worth it for the 25 ish goals?

Diame is good on his day, but goes missing a lot. Would be a good signing though.

I would like to have seen us get a right back, winger and striker in before the game next week then 2-3 loans before the window closes.

[aj2k77]

Newcastle have a better squad and a better manager, we won't be challenging them this season. Whose going to score the goals? Who's going to create the chances? Who's going to win the battles in midfield? Where are the voices? Where are the leaders?

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The time to answer that question will be 31st August.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Diame is good on his day, but goes missing a lot.

Typical Newcastle signing then.

[Chico Hamilton III]

I'm starting to get a bit worried but I'm not at full-on panic stage at the moment. We'll have played 5 league games if we wait until the transfer deadline to get new players in. And until then, RDM would have to be a really good manager to get a bounce out of some of the dead cats we still have in the squad. Tony did say £50m, is that right? 

[sirlordbaltimore]

Newcastle have a better squad and a better manager, we won't be challenging them this season. Whose going to score the goals? Who's going to create the chances? Who's going to win the battles in midfield? Where are the voices? Where are the leaders?

A manager who doesn't have that so called 'essential' championship experience no less ?

What the current obsession with Newcastle, who have lost good players is all about i'll never understand. They were shit last season lets not forget, not as shit as us granted but you'd think Arsenal had got relegated alongside us not Newcastle the way some folks are carrying on

I don't think for one minute we'll get promoted this season anyway. Turning around 5 years of garbage in one season is asking a lot of anybody. never mind a new manager and owner.

It's going to take time.

[mattjpa]

Maybe the mouthy little shit got some dogs abuse after he slated us and now has a chip on shoulder about us. To be fair, knowing some football fans, nothing would have been off limits - family, disability, whatever. even the most pessimistic of fans surely wouldnt put us outside of the top 10 though...

[Ron Manager]

I'm starting to get a bit worried but I'm not at full-on panic stage at the moment. We'll have played 5 league games if we wait until the transfer deadline to get new players in. And until then, RDM would have to be a really good manager to get a bounce out of some of the dead cats we still have in the squad. Tony did say £50m, is that right?

No.He said between 20 and 50mil.

[sirlordbaltimore]

I'm starting to get a bit worried but I'm not at full-on panic stage at the moment. We'll have played 5 league games if we wait until the transfer deadline to get new players in. And until then, RDM would have to be a really good manager to get a bounce out of some of the dead cats we still have in the squad. Tony did say £50m, is that right?

No.He said between 20 and 50mil.

and even then only what the manager asks for.

[Clark W Griswold]

Depending how RDM viewed the squad and whether he could 're-use' any of last seasons dross. I still think making us more solid is the way to go, if Baker is going to play a large number of games next season we might as well throw the towel in now, and certainly upgrades on Bacuna and Westwood would be most welcome.

[Chico Hamilton III]

I'm starting to get a bit worried but I'm not at full-on panic stage at the moment. We'll have played 5 league games if we wait until the transfer deadline to get new players in. And until then, RDM would have to be a really good manager to get a bounce out of some of the dead cats we still have in the squad. Tony did say £50m, is that right?

No.He said between 20 and 50mil.

and even then only what the manager asks for.

Apart from Wenger, I can't think of a manager who has asked for less money than has been set aside for new players.