In a pretty grim ‘exclusive’ from The Telegraph’s Luke Edwards, it’s reported that Newcastle United are now in serious danger of signing no one before tomorrow’s 11pm deadline.
He reveals that Newcastle have reluctantly pulled out of talks to sign Marc Guehi after failing to match Crystal Palace’s ever-increasing demands; which are said to have increased from £60m to ‘more than £70m’ during the various rounds of negotiations over the past four weeks.
It’s believed a deal is ‘not totally dead’, but it would require Palace to reduce their demands over the final day and a half of the summer window, with Guehi himself keen on the move but refusing to force an exit out of respect to his current club.
As for where Newcastle go next, The Telegraph say: ‘The feeling is it is better to avoid making signings for the sake of it now when they can wait and get players at the top of their shortlist in another window.’ It’s believed the club are by no means ‘closed for business’ and are still exploring their options, but hopes of us making a major signing before 11pm tomorrow appear to be dwindling fast.
It’s not been an easy summer, but the predicament we’ve found ourselves in feels inexcusable when our top two transfer priorities – a centre-back and right-winger – have been blindingly obvious all year.
Edwards’ message on Twitter (X) after sharing his latest story was: ‘We have just over 24 hours left of the window. Newcastle remain active but if they don’t sign anyone, don’t be surprised’
‘They are not closed for business but will not sign players who are not high on their wanted list. Feeling it’s better to wait. Unless Palace suddenly revive Guehi deal.’
“In serious danger of damaging end to summer transfer window”!
Go and have an aspirin and a lie down!
It has been more than damaging due to the total incompetence at Newcastle with both incomings and outgoings that were desperately needed.
No other club in the Premier League have been so inept at doing business.
Joseph(Quote)
We’ve known for 18 months that we needed a right winger. So what did we do? Buy Gordon and Barnes – both left wingers. And what else did we do? Sell Minteh, the best right wing prospect we had. What should we have done? Not bought Barnes in the first place. That way we wouldn’t have had to sell Minteh, and we wouldn’t now be dealing with an unhappy Barnes, who isn’t getting enough minutes.
To those of you who say ‘trust the process’, I’m yet to see evidence that there is a process.
Jimmy(Quote)
It’ll be a blessing if we don’t sign Guehi. If we do sign him, it’ll be the most embarrassing, humiliating signing in the club’s history. We can fully expect to get bent over every time we enquire about a player in the future of this goes through.
Pull the plug on Guehi and let Palace and that idiot Parish take a massive loss in January or next summer. Guehi won’t sign a new deal and they’ll be panicking in five months’ time. He’s cup tied now anyway, so they just knocked a massive chunk off his value yet seem to be asking for more money!
Ian(Quote)
Pathetic transfer window from our hierarchy. We were only looking for 2 players and what, Nothing. It’s an embarrassment for the club.
Geordie(Quote)
I think everyone has memories like goldfishes!
Every single transfer window since they came into force has been EXACTLY the same… 90% of deals for player happen in the last 24 hrs of each window. It happens for very good reasons… Or did you all forget that little, but important fact!
1. No club wants to pay four to five weeks wages!
2. No club wants to sell ANY player unless they have a replacement agreed and in place to trigger both incoming and outgoing deals!
3. No club wants to pay over the odds for the privilege of getting a player in place early to satisfy fickle fans and their panic attitudes. In the same turn, no selling club is going to set a reasonable price, they want more and more despite encouraging a sale, they literally hope for a bidding war at the last day!
4.Every club has contingency options and deals going at several stages of development just in case things don’t go to plan.
5. Due to apparent misunderstanding of the entirety of all the above, no club opens a newspaper or a newspaper feed and says, ” who are we going to buy today?” These deals take months and months of research and development… The right player, right work ethic and right gameplay style to work with who they have already in place.
God help us all if the average Muppet fan ever gets the chance to prove how truly useless they are at the job with misconceptions and knee **** reactions such as what we are seeing from apparent “true” fans.
Sorry but it simply doesn’t work like that, never had and never will.
Grow up!
Same goes for Muppet reporters who pray on the goldfish minded fans who have absolutely no idea how professional football finance and acquisition works!
Gray(Quote)
I read a couple of days ago, Howe (I think) saying that Mitchell’s job was 90% transfers.
Does that mean that he has failed 100% at 90% of his job?
BykerBill(Quote)
There is evidence that there is no process that evidence is the boards actual performance this summer
Catalog of public press conference blunders including EH Germany
Louise Taylor at home ???
Public. Transfer business
No outgoings (actual selected )
No incomings ( significant)
Panic in June sales unwanted
There’s the evidence of no process
trevor(Quote)
Well at least in January the new manager and transfer guru will have £100 million to sort this mess out 😂🥴…,, only joking I hope!?
Mike(Quote)