Come on, let's just call a spade a spade. Back up, rotation, squad blah blah... it doesn't matter. Unless they play two up top, he's second fiddle to a fit Isak.
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Come on, let's just call a spade a spade. Back up, rotation, squad blah blah... it doesn't matter. Unless they play two up top, he's second fiddle to a fit Isak.
The 442/424 thing could work but they're 2 very similar strikers, and then they'll need another one to be backup to that as well.
The midfield is their strongest area and a cornerstone to how they play so I can't imagine they'll just rip up the formation and lose midfield strength. Joelinton is the obvious one to drop, but then you slightly blunt tonali. Having the 2 wingers stay wide, as they're likely to do it theres 2 strikers in the centre, means you're then blunting what elanga and Gordon offer of direct surging runs in to the box as that area now becomes very congested.
It's more likely (for me) Ekitike is the backup, with a long term plan to replace Isak.
I am still holding out hope we'll go for Julian Alvarez
Would be ideal, but that's gone ridiculously quiet
Doesn’t look like Ekitike is the top choice for us as a new nr 9.
Think it’s more likely Gordon leaves.
I dunno, he ticks a lot of boxes for a striker we'd like. I think the interest cooled because we can't be arsed negotiating with Madrid after they slapped on a 160m sticker.
Newcastle’s foundation for success has been the 3 man midfield with Tonali, Bruno and Joelinton.
He did, but not now I think. We need another type of striker profile.
Well, I’m having some cake to celebrate today.
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It's all very quiet, which is what I find weird. Same for a centre-back, despite having already sold Quansah.
I think that’s partly because of us wanting to shift some players first but also because of what happened to Jota.
No doubt the noise will pick up again in the next days/weeks.
So we'll probably do 1 last push for Isak in the next day or 2, hopefully get a response, then act.
Potentially for next year. I just don't think we should wait a year. It's never worked out for us doing that
We are mugs if we sell Diaz or Konate, we've fucked with the squad too much already, any more and we lose effectiveness next season, it becomes a transition season. I'd rather lose Konate for free next season than get even £40million now, yeh a year left, but practically it's a pretty poultry sum for the quality of defender he is.
We should only really be entertaining a new striker, and a replacement for Quansah at this point. Nunez can go, and Harvey if we absolutely must, but you don't completely gut a side that was arguably second to only PSG in the world last season and expect progress, instead you build on it.
So far I'd argued we've done that nicely, but we're one stroke of the scalpel away from going too far, I hope management can see that as well.
We should only really be entertaining a new striker, and a replacement for Quansah at this point. Nunez can go, and Harvey if we absolutely must, but you don't completely gut a side that was arguably second to only PSG in the world last season and expect progress, instead you build on it.
So far I'd argued we've done that nicely, but we're one stroke of the scalpel away from going too far, I hope management can see that as well.
this is how you end up in sticky situations with the squad.
we’ve lost our 3rd choice cb and it looks like we’re waiting on palace to blink which might not work out as we hope.
the #9 position is even worse, it looks like we might be letting the club who owns our first choice sign our second choice as his replacement. never mind the fact we actually might need two players and we’re struggling to offload darwin at an acceptable price.
hopefully this is just doom and gloom and we’ve actually agreed or have good alternatives to isak and guehi ready to go
we’ve lost our 3rd choice cb and it looks like we’re waiting on palace to blink which might not work out as we hope.
the #9 position is even worse, it looks like we might be letting the club who owns our first choice sign our second choice as his replacement. never mind the fact we actually might need two players and we’re struggling to offload darwin at an acceptable price.
hopefully this is just doom and gloom and we’ve actually agreed or have good alternatives to isak and guehi ready to go
Are Kerkez & Frimpong backup, or are Robbo and Bradley the backup?
It’s the “fit Isak” thing that I’d also pause on.
As injury prone as Isak is, I'm not staking my development on his fitness.
As for our fullback situation, it's a poor comparison.
You're describing a backup role though?
But he would start every game if we signed him. We don't have any strikers.
We’re negotiating…he’s leaving
I’d suggest that Gordon would be our replacement target…homegrown, loves Anfield, can cover LWF and striker in a fluid attacking lineup.
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