Quote from: Dante Lavelli on August 12, 2025, 10:42:47 PMQuote from: PaulWinch again on August 12, 2025, 10:39:07 PMQuote from: brontebilly on August 12, 2025, 10:33:14 PMAwful news. Great signing for Newcastle after a tough summer. Ideal replacement would have been Grealish who we let go to Everton. 40m barely scratches the surface of what JJ could be worth. Maybe, it’s hard to know. He’s got lots of talent, but he’s also been very stop start. If it gives us the headroom to get a couple in and he wouldn’t sign a new deal then so be it.Feels like he’s been on the bench or injured for the past two seasons. Good player but if someone’s got to leave he probably impacts the first XI the least. A fully fit Ramsey is a cert on our left, sure it's been a while since we have seen that consistently, but otherwise we move McGinn or Rogers over. He was outstanding when Emery first came in. Was expecting big things from him this season. Football has become depressing. Creative accounting more valued than creative football.
Quote from: PaulWinch again on August 12, 2025, 10:39:07 PMQuote from: brontebilly on August 12, 2025, 10:33:14 PMAwful news. Great signing for Newcastle after a tough summer. Ideal replacement would have been Grealish who we let go to Everton. 40m barely scratches the surface of what JJ could be worth. Maybe, it’s hard to know. He’s got lots of talent, but he’s also been very stop start. If it gives us the headroom to get a couple in and he wouldn’t sign a new deal then so be it.Feels like he’s been on the bench or injured for the past two seasons. Good player but if someone’s got to leave he probably impacts the first XI the least.
Quote from: brontebilly on August 12, 2025, 10:33:14 PMAwful news. Great signing for Newcastle after a tough summer. Ideal replacement would have been Grealish who we let go to Everton. 40m barely scratches the surface of what JJ could be worth. Maybe, it’s hard to know. He’s got lots of talent, but he’s also been very stop start. If it gives us the headroom to get a couple in and he wouldn’t sign a new deal then so be it.
Awful news. Great signing for Newcastle after a tough summer. Ideal replacement would have been Grealish who we let go to Everton. 40m barely scratches the surface of what JJ could be worth.
We will probably replace him with Barnes.
If he wants to go and won't sign a contract, then the club doesn't really have any choice, other than to optimise the situation.You'd hope/expect that there would be an "English Tax" on the Transfer fee - surely £40m sounds a bit light for a 24 yr old who ip to a couple of seasons ago was going to be our next wunderkind?Hope we stick a proper sell-on clause and plenty of achievable add-ons.And we need to piss about so he can't play against us at the weekend.
I personally have a feeling the replacemet is already here