The Official Silly Season Summer Transfer Thread 2018/19

[FulhamStu]

Fabri a very good signing and an upgrade.  Can't believe Mitro will not be with us soon.  Right sided centre back now a priority.  Left back and right sided striker next priority.  Then squad fillers.  I think we are well covered at right back.   If we don't get a left full back we can rotate Sess and Max so that is not a massive priority.  Centre back is...where have I heard that before !

[St. Andrews White]

Krul's gone to Norwich. Another one bites the dust. between losing out on Plea, Krul, Rolan and Malcolm, its hard to justify our lack ambition at the moment.

Ummmm.... we just signed Fabri..?

Fabri > Krul

+1 big time. We signed someone significantly better, and timings of both announcements makes it seem as if maybe Krul was out backup option if we didn't sign Fabri?

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[DevonFFC]

Fulhamfc offering £16m for Mitro while #Newcastle want £18m #FFC #NUFC

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11678/11447492/fulham-and-newcastle-still-2m-apart-in-potential-deal-for-aleksandar-mitrovic

[FFC1987]

I'd of thought the very mention of Rolan was enough to confirm /s on my comment.....

[wheelerdeeler]

Fulhamfc offering £16m for Mitro while #Newcastle want £18m #FFC #NUFC

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11678/11447492/fulham-and-newcastle-still-2m-apart-in-potential-deal-for-aleksandar-mitrovic

I know some will say we're being tight etc. but it makes perfect sense if you think about it. Newcastle need to sell to buy, they want Rondon as the replacement for Mitrovic, Rondon's release clause is 16m so we don't want to pay more for Mitrovic than Newcastle will for Rondon.

[Twig]

Fulhamfc offering £16m for Mitro while #Newcastle want £18m #FFC #NUFC

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11678/11447492/fulham-and-newcastle-still-2m-apart-in-potential-deal-for-aleksandar-mitrovic

I know some will say we're being tight etc. but it makes perfect sense if you think about it. Newcastle need to sell to buy, they want Rondon as the replacement for Mitrovic, Rondon's release clause is 16m so we don't want to pay more for Mitrovic than Newcastle will for Rondon.

I'm not too bothered if this is a late deal. Mitro can slot in quickly.  I am much more concerned about the other 4 (or so) signings that we urgently need to make.

[Milo]

Fulhamfc offering £16m for Mitro while #Newcastle want £18m #FFC #NUFC

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11678/11447492/fulham-and-newcastle-still-2m-apart-in-potential-deal-for-aleksandar-mitrovic

£17m? So poor old Mitro doesn't need to suffer a few days of NUFC training with this big cloud over his head?

[rusty shackleford]

Im more worried about the fact mitro has been on the sauce in Marbella or wherever for the last month!

[grandad]

I thought the Mitro deal was done & dusted at £20 mil & personal terms agreed. Just waiting for him to return to the UK for medical & signing documents. I don´t believe we have gone back with a lower offer.

[Luka]

If Welbeck has a 16m price tag on his head then 16m for Mitro is doing Newcastle a favour.

[Milo]

If Welbeck has a 16m price tag on his head then 16m for Mitro is doing Newcastle a favour.

Eh?

I think Welbecks overrated personally. Mitrovic is the future!

[cookieg]

Krul's gone to Norwich. Another one bites the dust. between losing out on Plea, Krul, Rolan and Malcolm, its hard to justify our lack ambition at the moment.

Are we/were we ever interested in these players?? Krul maybe but we have a better keeper than him now.

[St. Andrews White]

I'd of thought the very mention of Rolan was enough to confirm /s on my comment.....

Lol whoops, I did think you'd been on the sauce mentioning Rolan!

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[Roberty]

I thought the Mitro deal was done & dusted at £20 mil & personal terms agreed. Just waiting for him to return to the UK for medical & signing documents. I don´t believe we have gone back with a lower offer.

There was no agreement with Newcastle - just with Mitro

Newcastle would like to take TK's trousers down and spank his bottom - sadly for them - they need to sell more than we need to buy - we have the cash to move on to someone else - they don't have two pennies to rub together

In any event he was worth bugger all before he played for us so 16m is a good premium for them

As W C Fields said - never give a sucker and even break

From Sky
MORE FUNDS FOR RAFA?

An MP has launched a Parliamentary petition calling on Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley to invest in the club - saying Rafa Benitez needs more support from the man at the top.

Chi Onwurah, Labour MP for Newcastle Central and a lifelong Magpies fan, is raising the issue of the Sports Direct tycoon's stewardship of the Premier League side which she perceives to be failing manager Rafa Benitez.

Her action follows a separate fan-led online petition titled If Rafa Goes I Go where supporters threaten to withdraw from the club if Benitez is not satisfactorily backed by the owner.

[Barry@ENF]

I thought the Mitro deal was done & dusted at £20 mil & personal terms agreed. Just waiting for him to return to the UK for medical & signing documents. I don´t believe we have gone back with a lower offer.

We can only be described as going back with a lower offer if we offered a higher figure in the first place - which I doubt in all the circumstances. If we'd offered £20m I'd imagine NUFC would have grabbed the cheque and gone shopping.

[GJB]

I'm struggling to see how our recruitment team can be seen as lacking in ambition?

Malcom has gone to Barcelona, after being prized away at the last minute from signing for Champions League competing Roma - surely that's ambitious in itself that we even considered we could sign him when clubs of that quality were also going for him. We have bettered Tim Krul with the Fabri signing. Plea shrugged off every Premier League club and ended up at Borussia Munchengladbach, which suggests he didn't desire to play in England. Rolan has ended up at Deportivo La Coruna after only scoring 5 goals last season who ended 16th in La Liga, which suggests his quality isn't that high.

So far the players we have signed have Europa league and Champions League experience, which in my eyes shows enough ambition that is necessary for a recently promoted side.

The speed of signings appears to be more of an issue than ambition. In fact, maybe it's our ambition that has stopped us signing more players at this point?

[toshes mate]

I thought the Mitro deal was done & dusted at £20 mil & personal terms agreed. Just waiting for him to return to the UK for medical & signing documents. I don´t believe we have gone back with a lower offer.

I catch your drift, grandad, and subscribe to the 'Don't believe anything you are told about transfers anywhere other than on the official site', because you'll only be disappointed otherwise.

[The Rock]

Fulhamfc offering £16m for Mitro while #Newcastle want £18m #FFC #NUFC

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11678/11447492/fulham-and-newcastle-still-2m-apart-in-potential-deal-for-aleksandar-mitrovic

If this is the case, and we are bidding 26m for the Willian fellow with Mitro already on the cusp, then it appears we are looking for 2 versatile target strikers, and that would be massive.

[Tabby]

We are in for Oğuz Kağan Güçtekin according to Daily Mail.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-5987129/Fulham-monitoring-Turkey-19-captain-Oguz-Kagan-Guctekin.html

[Stevieboy]

As the Mitro saga drags on it is now reported that we are 2m adrift from Newcastle's valuation.
It seems reasonable to summise that the supposed 16m we want to pay was to his value when we took him on loan.
As, thankfully, he didn't light up the World Cup and is not proven in the PL I think this valuation is still reasonable.
The fact that we want him probably lit up the £££ signs in Mike Ashley's eyes!!
However in the grand scheme of things in the mad world of transfers what is 2m....probably just goes into the losses for the season.

It's either a done deal or the 'facts' that are being reported are wildly inaccurate (as if  064.gif)