2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.

[OCD]

We've been the very definition of 'sleeping giant' and now this sleeping giant is starting to wake up. The way we're seen will start to change in the next few years. Those top players who choose to go elsewhere now, will think differently in another few years and we'll have moved on too. 

[john e]

The big advantage we’ve always had over everybody else, apart from MU, Liv and Arse is if you take Arsenal being the biggest club in the South, Liverpool and Man United fight it out for the North we are the undisputed king of the Midlands

It’s a massive area of potential and one where people like Dave W and others have been saying we’ve never made the most of for decades

But we still remain the biggest club in the Midlands in the country’s second biggest city
One day the club wake up and realise it

I think we're on the cusp of actually doing so mate

I’m hopeful as well

[Astnor]

Christ we need a signing.

An exiting link from a reliable source will do.

[Brazilian Villain]

Christ we need a signing.

An exiting link from a reliable source will do.

Hopefully not Emi.

[Mister E]

Unfortunately the definition of a ‘big’ club is now measured by how much cash you spend and not by history or anything else. Todays media will push a club forward using this term no matter who owns them, as long as the money is there.

And yet they still ignored us when we had the third wealthiest owners in the country. And 5th in the world. Before Bohely (sp?) picked up Chelsea.

I remember an article that I saw from The Sun where they listed the top ten wealthiest owners in the Prem, basically so they could marvel over Newcastles new wealth, & at that time we should have been 3rd in the Prem on that list.
So where did The Sun place us?
One would think third, but we weren't even on the list.
Think we are about 5th or 6th in the Prem & 8th in the world for wealthiest owners now.
Although Im not 100% sure.
We are definitely in the top ten of both.
And the media has only just started paying attention after Emerys top 3 form run.
So its not just about wealth...

Maybe a more salient point is that we are not in the top 20 European clubs for revenue - we are way below where we should be in terms of generating revenue (particularly in non-football commercial funds).

[SamTheMouse]

The big club debate hinges entirely on the criteria used to define size. And since everyone uses different criteria, the debate is completely pointless.

[Sexual Ealing]

I remember my first ever time walking to the Holte, aged nine, thinking “if this club can get into the to twenty in the world, revenue-wise, I’ll love them forever.”

[john e]

The big club debate hinges entirely on the criteria used to define size. And since everyone uses different criteria, the debate is completely pointless.

You just know though don’t you
All this criteria shit is nonsense you just know
Especially if you’ve been around football for a while you just know what a big club is and what it means

[Monty]

Like pornography, you know it when you see it.

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

I remember my first ever time walking to the Holte, aged nine, thinking “if this club can get into the to twenty in the world, revenue-wise, I’ll love them forever.”

It’s what dreams are made of!

[algy]

I remember my first ever time walking to the Holte, aged nine, thinking “if this club can get into the to twenty in the world, revenue-wise, I’ll love them forever.”

"Shit branding, my lord, shit branding
Ohhhh lord, shit branding"

"My garden shed (my garden shed)
Gets more revenue (gets more revenue)
My garden shed gets more revenue
It's got a deckchair and a KitKat
My garden shed gets more revenue!"

[SamTheMouse]

The big club debate hinges entirely on the criteria used to define size. And since everyone uses different criteria, the debate is completely pointless.

You just know though don’t you
All this criteria shit is nonsense you just know
Especially if you’ve been around football for a while you just know what a big club is and what it means

Yeah I know what you mean. But I suspect we are old and don't get the same 'feeling in our water' as the younger generation!

[Brazilian Villain]

"Shit branding, my lord, shit branding
Ohhhh lord, shit branding"

"My garden shed (my garden shed)
Gets more revenue (gets more revenue)
My garden shed gets more revenue
It's got a deckchair and a KitKat
My garden shed gets more revenue!"

"The tills are ringing for the claret and blue"

[AlexAlexCropley]

"Shit branding, my lord, shit branding
Ohhhh lord, shit branding"

"My garden shed (my garden shed)
Gets more revenue (gets more revenue)
My garden shed gets more revenue
It's got a deckchair and a KitKat
My garden shed gets more revenue!"

"The tills are ringing for the claret and azure"

Fixed

[OCD]

Should get a pool going as to when our next incoming transfer will be completed (senior players only). I'll go for the 6th July. Just seems that as far as days of the week go, Thursday must be the day where most business gets done, for us anyway.