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Which teams 'WON' the Transfer Window? Rating Newcastle's window out of 10!
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DailyNewcastle Podcast – Transfer Window Special
Michael Grahamslaw and Iain Mackay break down Newcastle’s transfer window: Isak’s £125m exit, Wissa’s £50m arrival, UEFA’s new transfer rule (already broken without consequence by Chelsea), and which Premier League clubs nailed (or wasted) the market. From Grealish to Everton to Sancho at Villa, we cover the best, worst, and most underrated deals.
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00:00:01
Speaker
Hello everybody and welcome back to the Daily Newcastle Soccer Podcast. My name is Michael Graveslow and once again i am joined by Ian McKay, my old friend. How's it going, mate? You doing well?
00:00:13
Speaker
It's going good, yes. It's a late one tonight, isn't it? but And we're going to double record, which is very exciting. and But never mind, we are nightbirds, so ah that will be alright. And by the way, you should let our American friends know that we say soccer podcast because we just love the way that they say it.
00:00:31
Speaker
not Not because we think it's ridiculous. We love it. Yeah, the American accent does ah sound a lot better on television, especially and in a podcast, than the Geordie accent, Just Ask Cheryl. Yeah, I agree.
00:00:44
Speaker
But yes, yesterday we spoke a little bit about the boat transfer deadline day. When we were speaking, actually, Yuan Wissa hadn't been done. Thankfully, that one got over the line. Otherwise, we would have been releasing something this morning that sounded ah a little wrong. haven yeah yeah but with it took It was done within 30 seconds of nine o'clock.
00:01:05
Speaker
That was when the papers actually went. 30 seconds. Talk about cutting it fine. Blimey. Doing it the Newcastle way, 100%. We never do anything the easy way. um But just to start off, I wanted to summarise our window.
00:01:19
Speaker
um So the players that have permanently left are obviously the Rat, Sean Longstaff, not the Rat, Sean Longstaff, two separate players. ah Lloyd Kelly, Callum Wilson, Isaac Hayden and Martin Dubravka. Those are obviously the permanents.
00:01:34
Speaker
um Do you think any of those should have stayed at the club or are you happy with all of those departures? m
00:01:44
Speaker
Well, back at the start of the window, i would have put my mortgage on Alex Izak staying with us. But of course, he's agitated, so he's gone. I think, to be fair, of the other five, all good servants in their own way at different times.
00:02:01
Speaker
But definitely Newcastle, the team as it is now, its goals and our expectations really has outgrown all of those players.
00:02:12
Speaker
Sean Longstaff could have stayed in the squad for maybe another 12 months. But to be fair to him, he agitated to go. So we got some PSR profit in because I think Eddie would have kept him as well.
00:02:24
Speaker
But, you know, Sean Longstaff wanted some first-team football at 27, 28. And he was man of the match against us when he played for Leeds, wasn't he? probably very wise to do it.
00:02:36
Speaker
But, yeah, the rest of them the rest of them, I think, as I say, great servants. But... For one reason or another, um it was time for them all to move on. Yeah, 100%.
00:02:47
Speaker
I think you mentioned Sean Longstaff there, and I think Longstaff, just the reaction he got off the fans after that Leeds game as well. ah if If it was, well let's say, a different player, let's say um someone who left the club, but let's say Johan Cabal, when he left ah for PSG, came back with Crystal Palace.
00:03:06
Speaker
If that's him snapping into the back of Bruno Gamares 10 minutes in, he's probably getting a horrific reaction. But even with Sean Longstaff, we were sitting there going, You know what? It's kind of what we'd expect from him. And I'm really glad both him and Callum Wilson have actually got off to decent start at their new clubs. Lloyd Kelly has as well, despite about, well, in February, Juventus fans saying he was the worst player they've ever seen.
00:03:33
Speaker
He's starting almost every game at centre-back for the old lady. One of the the greatest clubs in and Europe. So massive um congratulations to those.
00:03:43
Speaker
Doing fantastically well. And then even Marty Dubravka at Burnley. yeah Yeah, I thought he was going to keep Man United out at Old Trafford and it was last-minute penalty, wasn't it? and Just a side note on Lloyd Kelly. We will come up against him later in the autumn.
00:03:59
Speaker
He's coming back to St James' with Juventus, isn't he? No, no, we don't have Juventus. Why? What am getting wrong? What am I getting wrong here? We said we said we wanted Juventus.
00:04:10
Speaker
and We got Juventus. Yeah, we got Ben Fieger and I will ever choose. ah you're You're right, Michael. I am sorry. and It's okay. You see, when you stay up this late and you're existing on not enough sleep, sometimes the daydreams turn into reality.
00:04:27
Speaker
ah If our would dream of seeing Lloyd Kelly back at St James' Park as well, I can't blame you for that one. Let's let's get them in the quarter-finals. That'll do. Yeah, you to be honest, you might actually be right. you've just correct You say you corrected yourself. You're just mystic. You've seen in the future. Newcastle Juventus quarter-final. Get us in the semi.
00:04:46
Speaker
Happy days. ah But yeah, on to the players we got actual money for. Obviously, we mentioned Sean Longstaff. That was just £12 million. And alex Alexander Rezac...
00:04:57
Speaker
Yep, him. was £125 million. Are you happy with both valuations, or would you rather have seen us try and hold out for a little bit more money for either player? yeah No, I think Sean Longstaff's fair, he doesn't owe us anything.
00:05:13
Speaker
He's put what? He's been there since he was nine. um And £12 million pure profit coming in is actually... Does that mean we can spend £60 million?
00:05:24
Speaker
and then do a five-year contract and write it off over the next five years, something like that. So that was that was good business. I have a little bit of a sour taste in my mouth because we were never going to sell unless 150 was made right up until last day when um ah it seemed to be everybody knew 125 was going to be enough. and ah Does that make us look weak? I mean, I'm glad it's happened because he's gone and we can move on.
00:05:50
Speaker
And actually got two really exciting strikers to watch this season now But i yeah, i think I think he's gone... i know it's a British record transfer. We shouldn't be too greedy, but I think when he he was 150 mil from way back when, but probably when Arsenal were asking it, Christmas, they were quoted a ridiculous price.
00:06:13
Speaker
I just think that we we haven't got full value for him. 100% agree. And that's what we were hearing all summer, wasn't it? Oh, it's ah it's a British record transfer.
00:06:24
Speaker
Right, well, I'll be honest, I know alex Alexander Izak isn't as good as Lionel Messi, but if someone offered £100 million for Lionel Messi back in 2012-13, are people going, well, it's a British rank record transfer fee, it's got to be was accepted?
00:06:39
Speaker
No, some players are just simply worth that much. And I'll be honest, if Johan Wisse for one year is worth £50 million, Alexander Izak for three, you know, Izak did match him last year for goals,
00:06:53
Speaker
um So, a well, goals from open play, should I say, um not penalties. So, realistically, 150 is probably the going rate. um But we do have another striker ourselves who was going for an inflated fee, it looked at one point, on a transfer deadline day.
00:07:11
Speaker
And that was ah William Asula. Was rumoured to be departing for for Frankfurt for £28 million. But there was a transfer before that. um which sort of struck me with the element of surprise when I heard about it, that Aston Villa had inquired about William Assula, but the deal was actually blocked by UEFA. Had you heard about that?
00:07:32
Speaker
I mean, is that the UEFA psychiatric team coming in thinking that the Aston Villa board have actually gone nuts, offering 30 million for him? bit harsh. i I hadn't heard about that. I didn't know that...
00:07:46
Speaker
that' ah Villa were in for Osula first. I think I was so stunned to hear that Frankfurt were. And I went for four or five hours thinking that he'd gone. But that that term apparently fell through at the last minute with Frankfurt. So what was the block for Villa taking him?
00:08:05
Speaker
Yeah, so I've got a quote here from David Ornstein, and he says that Villa were pursuing Osula from Newcastle as a potential loan. He didn't know if it had the option or obligation but it feels pretty well known that Newcastle wouldn't have been interested in a straight loan, which likely means there was an obligation to buy behind it.
00:08:24
Speaker
ah They weren't able to proceed because it was characterized under UEFA accounting methods as a swap-like deal. And by that, I mean the player had already gone from Villa to Newcastle, that's Jacob Ramsey, for what they deemed a significant profit.
00:08:41
Speaker
um So it would have been seen as a trade-off because both teams have made a profit from the deal. Even if they're seen as independent, basically, if both teams make profit from two deals, then they don't allow it anymore. um If both teams are gaining from it, and we've seen that a lot with Villa, with Chelsea, we did it with Nottingham Forest, with Odysseus and Anderson, although they seem to have made a lot more of a profit from that 35 million sign in than we did from the 20.
00:09:10
Speaker
ah But yeah, apparently, that's not allowed anymore. New ruling in. ah you're not allowed to swap players, which means, I mean, the the biggest case was Inter Milan-Barcelona, Zlatan Ibrahimović-Samueletto.
00:09:23
Speaker
That, in the modern day, just couldn't go. Baffling to me. What you've said is, because it's it's strange, when Manchester United, cash-rich Manchester United, apparently, even though they're skinned, um wanted Martinez, who is a premiership-proven goalkeeper, Yeah.
00:09:44
Speaker
um and And that looked like that was going to go through. And they've ended up settling from some chap from Belgium who, he might be great. I don't know. He might be the next Matt Sells.
00:09:56
Speaker
But that would that would have intervened there if, at the same time as Manu are trying to get hold of Martinez, Villa are trying to get hold of Jadon Sancho.
00:10:08
Speaker
Which is, it's another interference, isn't it? if As long as it's fair and market value for those two. But then, The sensible thing would have been for it to be a swap deal. Did we not talk about bringing Harvey Elliott in as part of the EZAC fee?
00:10:24
Speaker
Presumably that's not allowed. and That's the thing. i ah I mean, from the sounds of things, it's only if two teams make profit on the deal. So I don't know if it's if you're actually included in the deal, it'll be okay.
00:10:38
Speaker
um maybe if our listeners have looked into the ruling a little bit more, they can tell us I'm just going off um sort of what Onsene is put But basically, it looks like if two teams are making a profit from transfers, they can't go ahead. Now, Sancho was bought for an extraordinary amount. So there was no way Man United would make any profit from that.
00:10:59
Speaker
But Martinez was a little bit cheaper. I don't know if maybe Man United would, well, Austin Villa could have still made a profit on him. um Or if it's a loan because it's just money going straight to Manchester United, if that's something that benefits them as well. It's it's it's a really strange ruling, in my opinion.
00:11:19
Speaker
And it feels like one that, again, is there to sort of not stop teams from going for the top six. Because let's be honest, if you're a top six team, you're only selling someone.
00:11:31
Speaker
because they haven't hit the bill. They haven't got going. i Chelsea aren't going sell João Pedro in January for 30 million after he's you know pretty much won them the Club World Cup alongside a lot of others and then had a good start the season. um So it's one of those where you're sitting there thinking, this is literally there, so we couldn't do what we did with Forrest.
00:11:54
Speaker
Aston Villa can't do what they've done with Chelsea. And there's countless other examples in the Premier League. So I don't like it, but how do you feel? i i'm so I'm shocked.
00:12:07
Speaker
I'm surprised. How come that change in the rules hasn't been publicised before the transfer window has closed? Presumably that type of deal would have been in everybody's mind through June, which is when the teams with the struggling with PSR have got ah react before the end of June, haven't they? That's when they That's when they do the final reckoning.
00:12:32
Speaker
um I can't think off the top of my head but of any deals that went through like that. But, I mean, if it if that is purely... I mean, is that not a bit tinfoil hat, Michael, to say it's just been introduced purely to...
00:12:49
Speaker
entrench the top six even more. i don't think that's the deliberate um I don't think that's the deliberate cause of it. But what I will say it does kind of feel like another thing that is there to just push teams down.
00:13:03
Speaker
Because... yeah you know we If we buy a player for £50 million, it doesn't work out. That's crippling for us. If Chelsea buy Mudrick for £100 million and then he gets a doping ban after being terrible for three years, they spend another £100 million.
00:13:20
Speaker
um so oh that Or they can just make a deal with someone and end up getting just as much money back. I mean, look at João Felix, did the deal for him. um He's been terrible at every club he's been to since leaving Benfica, but they've always managed to sell him.
00:13:34
Speaker
I think they managed to sell him for a profit. which is insane. But yeah, I could go on about this for years and but it would be, this podcast would just be titled Michael's rant about PSR and Chelsea. oh I think okay chapter another chapter in your rant ought to be, because I have no idea what's happening here, two Chelsea players not sold to Strasbourg, sold yeah to the Blue Note management company.
00:14:02
Speaker
So are they not with a club? They must be registered with a club, but somebody else bought them. I just don't understand that. ah I don't know how that can happen.
00:14:13
Speaker
I thought and so they tried to do that in South America and Tevez and his pal who came over. Javier Mascherano. Yeah, but there was't there there was a case, wasn't there? Sheffield United wanting to sue West Ham for staying up when they got relegated.
00:14:30
Speaker
I think they might even have got payout on that. I don't know. It's very weird, though. How could a company own owner a player if you register to play with a club?
00:14:42
Speaker
Yeah, it's one of those. again well I don't know. it's it's It's not a club that needs to have their wings clipped in UEFA's eyes. Therefore, it's allowed. Yeah, it's a mental one.
00:14:54
Speaker
um But with that, um I'll ask you just quickly to finish off. and We went through the outgoings there. Obviously, we brought in Johan Wiss and Nick Vultemar. Anthony Alanga, Jacob Ramsey, Malik Chow and Aaron Ramsdale.
00:15:09
Speaker
Give me a rating out of 10 for that transfer window for Newcastle. um At least eight. I'm delighted with the six players we brought in. And I think if you look at the upgrade on each of those players, ah who they're replacing, and if you allow me to add Isaac and Wilson together and compare it to Valtamade and Whissa, I think we've massively upgraded in every single area.
00:15:38
Speaker
Ramsdale for Dubravka, um Longstaff replaced by Ramsey, Alanga for Almiron, Chow for Kelly.
00:15:48
Speaker
These are huge. It's not just ah incremental step up. this These are big steps up. And that's right through the court. Some of them are first-team starters. and thought I think when you look at it, all four the players you mentioned there,
00:16:02
Speaker
maybe even a Langer as well. I do have to go and check, but Ramsey, Malik Chow, Ramsdale, they've all got Champions League experience as well. And that's something from that, you know, other long staff will have had it. It's we're bringing in players with that sort of pedigree.
00:16:16
Speaker
I do agree with an eight. um I will say, I think it's a been a great window, but to make it a higher one, I do think weve Leeds emphasised the need for a creative midfielder, and I would have liked to have seen the Isaac drama ended a little bit earlier.
00:16:31
Speaker
They're the only things that could have went a little bit better. I think the Isaac drama overran a little bit, but to be honest, so is the first part of this podcast, so I do need to get a bye-and-eke before I get told off.
00:16:44
Speaker
Go.
00:16:45
Speaker
just I'm stop.
00:16:49
Speaker
Absolutely fantastic. So we've mentioned the transfer window there. We are going to continue talking about the transfer window in part two, but I am going to ask you, do you want me to give you a list of teams to choose from? Or, i mean, I haven't even asked you the question yet really, but a list of teams to choose from, or do you just want to go for your own back for the question of which Premier League teams have had the best window? Right.
00:17:13
Speaker
um I thought... Because I saw your Premier League predictions, Michael, and they were there were there were predictable predictions. but So I think the Premier League teams with the best window clearly are Liverpool.
00:17:31
Speaker
Yes. and I've got four written down. ah Liverpool, Arsenal.
00:17:41
Speaker
Oh, look. I forgot I did that. That's a bit scary. and
00:17:48
Speaker
I'm going to say Chelsea because they've offloaded Nicholas Jackson and they've brought Jao Pedro and De Lapp in. yeah probably were over And they were already stacked in midfield.
00:18:00
Speaker
I'm still not sure. they I still think they're a goalkeeper short and a defender short, to be fair. um And the fourth one, now, if I exclude everyone they've bought in um January. ah Because I was going to say Man City because I'm thinking Mamosh is great player.
00:18:21
Speaker
But they did. They got Cherky. They got Ait Nuri. but You've probably put Manchester City down, but I would miss them out. And I'd put... I haven't put Man City.
00:18:32
Speaker
I'd put Newcastle United in as fourth. Oh, I haven't done either of those. um Very interesting. Why would you put...
00:18:43
Speaker
Sunderland have been fantastic, haven't they? But I'm not sure that the overall quality is the same quality of the players that the other teams have brought in. What I would say is at the start of the transfer window, everyone said Sunderland would finish bottom and they might, just might, match Southampton's points total.
00:19:02
Speaker
Now they've got a brand new 11, 11 players better than what they had. all probably on, well, it's up from Granit Xhaka, on wages that they can probably sustain in the championship when they get relegated again.
00:19:15
Speaker
And now people are actually looking at them and going, you know what, they might stay up. And I think every Newcastle fan that thought, you know what, I'll take them and come up for derbies again, probably regretting that right now.
00:19:27
Speaker
um So, yeah, I've got Sunderland in. um So out of the fall, we've chosen that. At the four we've got there, Liverpool, Sunderland, Arsenal, Chelsea, who do you think has had the best window?
00:19:41
Speaker
um Overall. Yes, overall. Overall. I think Chelsea failed to strengthen in a goalkeeping position, which I think will be their Achilles heel throughout the season and why they won't win anything.
00:20:01
Speaker
Bold. I think Liverpool, had they got Gehi in at the 11th hour, would be clear winners of the transfer window. But they're left exposed at least until January now with a single bad injury to one of three centre-halves. Although they did buy Leone.
00:20:22
Speaker
Yeah, Giovanni Leone. But yeah, it doesn't take a much more than a a tweaked ankle and a suspension for them to be really struggling. in defence.
00:20:33
Speaker
So i'm not going to pick them. Although they have added the best striker in the world to their already phenomenal strike force. yeah and So by default, by default, I think I can't pick Sunderland on principle.
00:20:50
Speaker
Although they have got a better player in every position for their first team. So that is that is powerful. yeah But I think by default, Arsenal have won the transfer window. Really? Okay. was similar ah left Still missing on the left-hand side, though, aren't they? Although... ah i guess Eberechi, Eze will play there.
00:21:09
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, definitely Arsenal. Eze, Maduweke. Jotlores, I'm not sure about. Jury's out. He hasn't started fantastically well, although he's now banged two or three goals in, but he doesn't look the part.
00:21:23
Speaker
Yeah, only scored against Leeds. Zubamendi was a great buy. That's good, yeah. And then they've got this huge... Center half, this Ecuadorian center half.
00:21:36
Speaker
Yeah, Christian Mosquera from Valencia. Looks like him he plays football when he's time off from wrestling, is what he looks like. So if he's if he's shown the wiles of a Premier League success by Gabriel and Saliba, I think he might turn into a bit of a beast.
00:21:55
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, I do agree. I think particularly as well, um two players that weren't mentioned there, Christine Norgard their new centre-back, Piero Hincapie, I think it's Hincapie, who they've got on a loan.
00:22:09
Speaker
It looks like that'll be a permanent transfer as well. To be honest, I would agree with Arsenal if they had sold someone. So they've the players that have left are Nuno Tavares, Marquinhos, Jakub Kiwio, who, to be fair, will be going for £25 million or something in next season, and Lokonga.
00:22:32
Speaker
But they only made a total of €10 million euros from selling those four players and they've spent €300 million. euros So that's that's one for me. um i do have to say, I think Liverpool did well to get €53 million eu rows for Nunes.
00:22:49
Speaker
um But I can't say they're winners either when they've lost Trent for... less than 10 million. Kelleher was underpriced. Uh, the sale of Ben Doak for 23 million was actually really good.
00:23:02
Speaker
Kwanzaa for 35. I did the worst thing that did well, but you've got to remember with Darwin Nunes, they had a bid from Saudi Arabia for 75 million, six months prior. So, you know, 70 million down 75 million down to 50, 20 million because they wanted to keep them another six months.
00:23:20
Speaker
Um, I can't put Liverpool down for that, even though they've made some fantastic signings. So I actually have to say that the team that have done the best, as we look at Ian's fingers on the ah on the camera, if you're on Spotify, please. I was just trying to stop it from, stop trying to fall off the table, that's all. I moved my feet and the whole table moved and the computer was going, but I saved it.
00:23:45
Speaker
It's all right. A professional wouldn't have mentioned it, but you're with me. So unfortunately got mentioned. But yes, I do unfortunately have to say in regards to the team that has had the best transfer window, I do actually have to go with our local rivals, Sunderland, because i think they got a lot more for Joe Bellingham than he was worth.
00:24:07
Speaker
They got 30 million euros. Anytime I've seen him play, he's maxed a 15 million euro pound player. um I think the sign of Granit Xhaka is fantastic. Same with Norti Mukiele.
00:24:19
Speaker
um Gertuda, the right back from Leipzig. I know he was good a few years back when he was in the Eurodivisie. haven't heard much of him since. And then the rest, they kind of just seem like standard top five Europe, you know, bottom half players. Yeah. But they haven't spent actually as much as what you'd think. They've had they've got a net spend of $130 million, which is less than we spent on Volta Madden and Wissa. so I do think it's not enough for them to stay up.
00:24:50
Speaker
And there is, I'll be honest, some players in there like Arthur Masuaku, who I do look at and go, why have you why have you brought him? um But I actually think they've had a pretty good window, which is really annoying, actually.
00:25:05
Speaker
I think they will stay up. Really? ah do I do. i think ah think brentford and wool are going to really struggle this year.
00:25:19
Speaker
Yeah. I don't think Villa will languish the way they are languishing, but I think Brentford Wolves and West Ham, they look dreadful this year. Yeah, not great at all. and And you can factor Burnley into it, and Leeds didn't look very good when we drew nil-nil with them, did they?
00:25:34
Speaker
No, they've looked really They haven't got a striker. They've got Calvert-Lewin up front. Yeah. So I think Sunderland have given themselves a fantastic chance of staying up. And then just two quick ones to finish part two.
00:25:48
Speaker
Who is your best transfer of the summer window and your underrated transfer of the summer window? hello Oh, the best transfer of the summer window.
00:26:02
Speaker
I think. You see, I've got a little bit of natural bias coming in. Um, i i think I think whoever Eze had gone to, and it looked like it was going to be Tottenham for a long time, and then suddenly he was at Arsenal.
00:26:16
Speaker
Yeah. I think Eze might prove to be a really good business at under, what is it, 62 or something? Didn't cost fortunes. Something like that, yeah. It wasn't a lot. Eze's a great player.
00:26:28
Speaker
ah he He looked cheap compared to the other players that were going for 65s and Yeah, 100%. think... yeah ham and i think ah I think Cunha at 62 looks like a wonderful bye.
00:26:42
Speaker
He's turned up and is one of the first players for 10 years to look like they were born to play for Manchester United instead of scared of playing for Manchester United.
00:26:53
Speaker
Yeah, he looks really good. I think Nick Voltemada might be one of the most exciting signings. And if he hits the ground running and does what he does on his reels on YouTube,
00:27:06
Speaker
daniel yeah then I think we might be in for a real treat. So, yeah, those three, I think, possibly, without being able to split them. And that my the most underrated, I think i think it will be ah not Reindeers.
00:27:29
Speaker
I think it will be Cherky at Manchester City because he's a wonderful player. And he came in under £40 million. Yeah, the to get the price, I think they were originally quoted 20-odd million, they were saying in the newspapers, and it was literally, I think every fan went, hang on.
00:27:45
Speaker
Why is my not my club not looking at him? It looks it would be a great sign. old starts and I must spoke there when you were talking about the YouTube reels of Nick Vontemade.
00:27:56
Speaker
um And I said, oh, the less said about them, the better. I actually meant his social media. And if anyone hasn't seen his social media, um I recommend you don't go look at it because it makes you think we're saying Calvert-Lewin.
00:28:08
Speaker
ah And yeah, I'm going to go on just to give mine and speaking of Calvert-Lewin, he left Everton. My best transfer of the window has joined Everton and that is Jack Grealish.
00:28:21
Speaker
um They haven't had a quality attacking player for me in about five, six years. Grealish on loan, genuinely is enough for them to go, we're not battling relegation this year, let's try and take on a cup competition, let's even try and battle for the Conference League, because I think outside of the top six top but top six, I don't think there's a lot of teams that will be battling sixty five points sixty sixty five points. So, think with defensive acumen...
00:28:50
Speaker
He was sold at West Ham. Everton could very much push for Europe with signings like Grealish. And then ah for underrated transfer, I've actually gone for a different Newcastle signing to you.
00:29:02
Speaker
I have gone for Johan Wisser. And this is a direct response to the ESPN article ah that graded all the summer transfers, to which Johan Wisser was ranked as the worst.
00:29:19
Speaker
ah saying that we'd massively overpaid for him. And we were given a D for the transfer. Now, Johan Wissler scored 19 goals last season, not a single penalty, same amount as Haaland and Izak without penalties.
00:29:33
Speaker
um And let's be honest, we don't have a... i mean, we do have a striker in Nick Woltemard, but asking an 80-odd million, what, 23-year-old, to come into the Premier League and hit the ground running...
00:29:45
Speaker
He's not going to do it. Now, he doesn't have to do that. We can give him a year to get his feet in the ground, and you might just see him become the next big thing because of that. list Not literally, you know, he's 6'6". But Ewan Wiss's goals, if they get us into Europe, 55 million is a bargain.
00:30:02
Speaker
And everyone has looked at that transfer on the deadline day and gone, Newcastle have overpaid for him. I think you'll find by the end of this season... You'll be one of our top players and you'll be have an absolutely fantastic campaign that gets us back into Europe. I think we might have overpaid, but have come on, we just sold the EZAC the same day. We're bound to overpay for a little while, aren't we?
00:30:25
Speaker
While everyone thinks that bottomless pit of EZAC money is going to last forever. But Wissler was on the same day that we sold EZAC. and so 100%. And ah well if we've overpaid, I mean, what would have been a good price? Would have been, what, 40 million?
00:30:41
Speaker
Yeah, 35-40. So we just invented we've invested this year's Sean Longstaff money on a forwarding reset.
00:30:52
Speaker
I don't think that's bad. And I'm perfectly fine with that. Yeah, well certainly as you say, if he's if he's got 20 goals and we've finished fifth again and won a league cup, a FA Cup or whatever.
00:31:04
Speaker
got through to the semi-final after we beat Juventus in the Champions League. Give us Liverpool. No, same Liverpool till the final. Yeah, we'll beat them in the final. Isaac cries in the final. You'll love to see it.
00:31:15
Speaker
But you mentioned there, investing wisely. Something GSPN did with our next advert. Can you give me the Zencastr advert, please? No, Michael.
00:31:26
Speaker
Ian won't give you the Zencastr advert. So listeners, we've had a little bit of a mare. I say we, I mean me.
00:31:37
Speaker
Unfortunately, I've had a power cut in the middle of this recording, so part three isn't available. ah But thankfully, Zencaster does record locally. So we had the first two parts and then about five minutes of local recordings of me and Ian going, hello.
00:31:53
Speaker
What's going on? Are you there? It was like two grandparents getting their first mobile phone and deciding to ring each other in the same room. Mental. and But that is unfortunate. and We did go through who we thought had the worst transfer window and because we're daily. Thankfully, we do have something to send out.
00:32:11
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and We rambled on enough in part one and part two, thankfully. Hopefully, we get back to who has the worst transfer window later in the week. um But in the meantime, why not let us know your thoughts in the comments.
00:32:25
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00:32:44
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