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Daily Newcastle - Transfer mash up
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Jo & Iain get frustrated at the lack of action in the transfer window... Their usual happy clapper attitude is dwindling. Is it purely down to no transfers or is now the lack of communication from the club... We miss Amanda and Mehrdad even more right now
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Transcript
Jo Returns to the Podcast
00:00:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello and welcome to The Daily Newcastle with GSPN. My name is Jo and I'm actually coming back to join the boys for a bit because I appreciate it's been a bit of a week where Ian and Michael have had to host everything basically because everyone's just busy.
00:00:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
um But they've done a grand job so thank you very much. Tonight it is just myself and Ian so hi you Ian, how are you doing dude?
00:00:33
Iain
I'm all right. i um I am very pleased to be able to sit back and watch you do all of the work and just interject with your sigh, drone and sarcastic comment.
00:00:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Wonderful. That's just, yeah, this is what tonight's going to be about. Or today, whenever you're listening to it.
00:00:52
Iain
but No, I wouldn't do that.
00:00:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's going to be a me setting up Ian. Ian's going to grumble and I'll just set him up for something else and he's going to grumble more. But it's all right.
00:01:00
Iain
won't do that.
00:01:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
We'll keep it lighthearted. It's fine. It's all right.
Tragic Accident of Diogo Jota
00:01:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
um I will obviously get the serious note out of the way first um because obviously there has been some very tragic news today in the football and world.
00:01:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
Diogo Jota and his younger brother unfortunately lost their lives in a tragic car accident. I think the more I see about it the sadder I get about it it's just it's horrific isn't it really I mean you've got to think about the family he's got three kids he's just got married and yeah from the looks of it because everyone again jumps to conclusions oh he was speeding his Lamborghini and all this sort of thing but I think it's turned out that it was genuinely just an absolute tragic accident where he's went to overtake someone his tire has blown out and unfortunately
00:01:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
it's went from there so we'll not go too much further into that but again as I say tragic news that you never like hearing about and I think the whole football and world is kind of banded together in that sense as well so I think I've heard I've seen a few people kind of grumbling which I find a bit weird about people saying all rivalries and aside and all this sort of thing I think it's you know you've got to take stuff like that with a pinch of socks I mean and and know people say rivalries aside but I think that's just a kind of term or phrase.
00:02:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
don't think anything horrible is meant by it, if I'm honest. But anyway, I will stop because don't really want to talk about too much sadness because, yeah, as I say, tragic.
00:02:17
Iain
I think the right i think of rivals is what makes football special. but don't think there's anything any problem in being rivals not enemies that's for sure and not a hateful enemies but certainly keen rivals that's what gives us the competitive edge that's why we care about it if there was no rivalry we wouldn't really care would we?
00:02:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
I know.
00:02:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm. Yeah.
00:02:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
00:02:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
Absolutely.
00:02:35
Iain
and
00:02:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I think most people.
00:02:36
Iain
One bit I heard about was to say one bit I heard about the the accident was that
00:02:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:02:43
Iain
He's in the car going to catch the ferry to come to England for his pre-season training because I'm not sure it's him or his brother who didn't like flying.
00:02:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
yep
00:02:54
Iain
So he should have flown. He shouldn't even have been on that road, really.
00:02:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, it wasn't. it was It had nothing to do with not liking flying. Apparently, Jotter himself has just had a lung operation, I read. um This is directly from the Daily Mail, I believe i've read it in. I've read so many different articles, I don't know, but I think it was one of them.
00:03:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
But apparently, because he'd had a lung operation, he was advised not to fly. So he was told to drive.
00:03:15
Iain
All right.
00:03:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
So that's how he drove. His brother was joining him. was going to be going to Liverpool. They were going be getting the ferry. They were supposed to be leaving today at 4 o'clock. They would have arrived on Friday morning, apparently. And that's why they were driving.
00:03:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
So that's, again, just like added to the mix of...
00:03:32
Iain
just adds to the strategy, though, isn't it?
00:03:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's what I mean. It's just literally an all-around tragic event, isn't it, really? Because like so many different factors have kind of led to this happening, unfortunately. And, yeah, I think for how horrible and how quickly it's happened, they just had no chance of being saved.
00:03:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
So rest in peace to both of them, actually. So, um moving on,
Chelsea's Transfer Strategy
00:03:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
because as I say, otherwise I'm upset or something here at this rate.
00:03:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
um We're going to talk about transfers, yay, and the lack of them, yay. ah So, first of all, i might just say how sick I am of Chelsea, but I think everyone's sick of Chelsea because Chelsea just like to buy up everyone.
00:04:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think someone's in for a player, right? Chelsea step in and they just take them. So Chelsea now have just got a gazillion people up front. um I saw something great where someone had put that Chelsea's formation next season is going to be 2-1-7.
00:04:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
I would say that's pretty apt based on who they've been playing. um And Ian, you made a great point actually before we came on the pod as well um of the lack of goalkeeping prowess they have.
00:04:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
What's your thoughts on that one?
00:04:37
Iain
They still haven't got a goalie. They must be it must be assembling a squad that means the entire game is played in the opposition's half. But even if I might score against them, or hit the bar anyway, because, yeah, I don't think anybody rates...
00:04:54
Iain
um don't think anybody rates Sanchez very much. and And they sold Tepper, who I thought quite did quite well this year. He's playing for Brighton, I think.
00:05:06
Iain
um I thought he did really well. felt Probably Arsenal have bought him for five million.
00:05:15
Iain
Goalkeeper. World-class goalkeeper for five million from the Premier League and where scratching around wondering if we should go over the 30 million to pinch the deal for untested, unproven, but full of himself, James Trappard.
00:05:32
Iain
What do you think about that deal, Joanne? Why is that gone so quiet?
00:05:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, oddly enough, that's literally my next little thing that I had written down. Are we ever going to seal the deal for Trafford? Because it honestly feels like it's the longest deal ever. Apparently this is something that's been in agreement discussions with since last season.
00:05:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Apparently even personal terms have been agreed. I appreciate there's the fee that they're constantly battling over but I think it just needs to come to a head at some point it's either going to happen or it's not it's yeah I think I think it's just getting a bit ridiculous personally the whole thing but if they want them take them if they're not willing pay and they're being ridiculous and demanding a ridiculously high fee like 40 million or something tell them to get stuffed and we move on it's my honest opinion
00:06:13
Iain
Well, I think, don't know if they need 40. They want 40 and we're offering 30. Then we offer 35 plus some additions to get to 40.
00:06:25
Iain
And if the additions are met, then we'll be getting our money. So that's how he's supposed to do it.
00:06:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah yeah
00:06:31
Iain
I just don't understand. really don't understand why we can't get it done. If he wants to come and we're that close, Why are we faffing around until Celtic suddenly think, oh, shit, we haven't got a goalkeeper?
00:06:44
Iain
Because they haven't.
00:06:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
yep yep
00:06:47
Iain
and Phone him up and have him talk to in 15 minutes and find out that he's on the train down from Burnley to West London. I do think we we're sitting on our hands and I'm not sure it's Mitchell leaving or it's Amanda and Murdad leaving.
00:07:07
Iain
Last year with Eddie Howe in charge, it was
00:07:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:07:10
Iain
equally well it was that it with the day he started it ended up with nothing wasn't it last summer. I don't know. We're starting to look like jump Joanne and that is what my fear is because as I ruminated myself last night all of the players out there in Europe, South America, in the Premier League or watching the transfer window
00:07:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, don't know.
00:07:39
Iain
They're watching who's buying who, but they're also watching who is trying to buy and being turned down by players. So, you know, if if we do uncut, say we go for that centre-half, I talked about that tonight, Bayardy already was told.
00:07:57
Iain
The Argentinian at Nase, I think.
00:08:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:08:03
Iain
and Yeah, but if Fulham decide to fancy a centre-half and go, then there's no bad press in relation to Fulham yet. So you just think, blimey, what effect does have?
00:08:18
Iain
What effect does us looking like who have on the current mindset of all of those players that we might be going for?
00:08:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
yes
00:08:28
Iain
Which is why I'm saying let's meet a transfer demand and make a signing. At Elangat, we know Forrest won't talk unless he gets to 60.
00:08:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:08:37
Iain
sixty but we've offered 45 and we've offered 50 and we've probably gone and offered 52 and a half and a bit more.
00:08:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:08:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
I know.
00:08:45
Iain
Just, I mean, I want Alanga. He's the international winger to link up with EZAC.
00:08:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I'll take a longer very happily.
00:08:51
Iain
um What's not to like about that?
00:08:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep.
00:08:55
Iain
Pay the extra money. We're five million short for it.
00:08:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
I agree.
00:08:59
Iain
Pay it.
00:09:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
and know. It is getting kind of ridiculous at that level.
00:09:02
Iain
Or wait for Aston Villa to come.
00:09:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, yeah, exactly. I mean, if you're willing to pay 50, 55, you've got to be willing to pay 60, surely. and If that's going to be the clincher and 60 million's where he's going to... Because apparently Alanga's in... He wants to move as well.
00:09:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
So... But again, you don't know how much of this is speculation, do you? Because you hear far too many rumours. It's been the same all the time in Newcastle. And it's been even worse since we've got taken over. But you make an excellent point with regards to Mandy and Murdad, I'll be honest. I just think, I said it at the time, that we haven't seen the backlash when they actually left. I mean, I see as we haven't seen the real backlash of this yet.
00:09:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think we're starting to see it now. The kind of lack of structure, lack of organization when it comes to recruitment side of things. I think they did a job that realistically wasn't even supposed to be their general skill set. you know what I mean? She broke us deals for God's sake.
00:09:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
She doesn't normally go out And structured, like, you know, actual getting players in or anything, but she had the Midas touch, so to speak, didn't she really, in terms of getting some really amazing players in who made a massive difference to us, like post-takeover, like the months and years that followed for them then, but I don't know, like...
00:10:13
Iain
And the great intangible, the great intangible is that she could deal. She could sell the project to a Bruno, to a Botman, to an Izak.
00:10:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
Exactly.
00:10:28
Iain
And that's why they came, you know.
00:10:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep.
00:10:31
Iain
and We still have the same project. It's gathering pace and it's definitely going in the right direction.
00:10:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
00:10:38
Iain
But I don't know if anybody is able to
00:10:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep.
00:10:43
Iain
able to get players into the bubble of desire and close them right when they get into it so they've got to come, so they know they want to come. but You listen to Anthony Gordon after he joined, he didn't want to go anywhere else.
00:10:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep.
00:10:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah.
00:10:56
Iain
And I don't know, you know, Alanga probably doesn't want to go anywhere else, but he's kicking his heels, twiddling his thumbs, wondering whether he's going to start pre-season training with Nottingham Forest before he's going to come up and have a medical.
00:11:07
Iain
It just looks like amateur hour.
00:11:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
yep
00:11:12
Iain
Sorry, Eddie. We do trust here.
00:11:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:11:16
Iain
I don't understand, Joanne, why we're just focusing on the Premier League.
Newcastle's Management Challenges
00:11:20
Iain
um You know, Steve Nixon and the scouting team throughout Europe have shown that they can unearth gems time and time again.
00:11:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
00:11:29
Iain
At least value for money.
00:11:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:11:31
Iain
we look, I can't remember whether it was Bruno was 30-odd and Bottman was 40, Isaac was 60. I mean, they've more than doubled the money on those three buys.
00:11:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
00:11:42
Iain
They've doubled the money on the Gordon.
00:11:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, God, yeah.
00:11:45
Iain
So, you know, they must have a long list in Europe of players who they think are going to excel. We've got a first team squad. We just need that sort of high ceiling youngster to develop.
00:11:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
00:12:00
Iain
And, you know, if if they cost him 25 million, they'll be worth 50, 60 in two seasons time when they're first team players.
00:12:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep.
00:12:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
00:12:11
Iain
and Because I think, you know, I think we've got more than a season to get out of the star and ah Dan Burnham. Still, Jamal LaSalle will come in.
00:12:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, yeah.
00:12:19
Iain
He's still got something to So, yeah, it's a very general moment, isn't it?
00:12:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
It is, but it's it's stuff we've said before, but...
00:12:27
Iain
Based on not knowing how anything worked, but just really observing how poorly it seems to be working now when the takeover first happened.
00:12:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
I know.
00:12:39
Iain
and Amanda and Mirdard were smiling from our TV screen. We've got things done. We've signed five players in the four weeks of that January window when when the takeover had been done.
00:12:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's amazing.
00:12:52
Iain
Kieran Trippier signed on the 2nd of January.
00:12:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. I know.
00:12:57
Iain
What is going on?
00:13:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think that's the concern. concern i know we've talked about it before, but I think the only... It's scary, but what we're praying is, in the background, really hope that they're working on things that we don't know about, like they did with Tonali, etc.
00:13:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
Because they did come out the blue. I get that. I love that. And I really hope that's goingnna happen again. think it's just because we've signed absolutely no one. There's kind of no... break or there's no kind of we just feel like the ball isn't rolling I think if we just sign one player even if it was Trafford right the one that's lasted like forever even if we just signed him it's it's something isn't it it makes you feel like there's just something going on um but the fact that we're not even sealing a deal that's apparently been going on for over a year is probably the biggest concern I'll be honest but like are we could just gonna haggle and haggle and haggle forever or I don't know
00:13:43
Iain
Well, Joanne, ah
00:13:47
Iain
you're going to need to get excited by the fact that we're going to sign a England international who's currently a free agent. So for nothing,
00:13:59
Iain
um because I'm sure Callum Moulton is going to get given a contract extension.
00:14:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I was listening to that earlier on today, if it's strange enough.
00:14:04
Iain
I'm absolutely certain.
00:14:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Don't get me started, Ian, man.
00:14:09
Iain
I mean, he took his picture down. He took his picture down while we were hoping Jao Pedder's going to go. Yeah, I'm going to come. As soon he says, no, going to go there, there's a new picture of Callum Wilson in the brand new kit goes back up at the number nine in the squad position.
00:14:22
Iain
i think that means I think that means they haven't announced it yet, but in fact, they have. There's no Matt Target there, by the way.
00:14:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, yeah.
00:14:31
Iain
No Matt Target on that squad list.
00:14:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
I didn't notice that one.
00:14:34
Iain
Yeah, so maybe...
00:14:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
Good spot.
00:14:35
Iain
yeah
00:14:37
Iain
and don't know, we're guessing. Why are we guessing? Again, when Amanda and Murdad were in charge, we had what was going on as it was happening.
00:14:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
We didn't have to guess.
00:14:45
Iain
They told us everything, and that was one of the real breaths of fresh air of the bit of the takeover. And actually, it must just have been Amanda and Murdad doing that because there's nothing coming out Newcastle as far as I can see.
00:14:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep.
00:14:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
Nope.
00:14:59
Iain
Craig Hope, after a month, has managed to winkle out that we might be looking at a centre-half from Marseille. And that's it.
00:15:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:15:08
Iain
and Anything else? What we've been doing is just pure speculation. maybe they're waiting for Maybe they're watching all the YouTube channels to see who they should go for in the second part of July. Harvey Elliott, Eddie, if you're listening.
00:15:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
gods god help us you would
00:15:21
Iain
Harvey Elliott's only 45 million. He'll do a good job.
00:15:27
Iain
Yeah. Or Adi Amy. Adi Amy's only 40 million from Brucey Dortmund. Champions League final player.
00:15:36
Iain
Two.
00:15:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
Drop them an email, man.
00:15:38
Iain
Two assists in the Club Cup quarterfinals to put Borussia Dortmund through to his semi-finals.
00:15:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Tell them who they need to go after.
00:15:49
Iain
Where they play, I can't remember which way it is. Borussia Dortmund are playing Real Madrid and Bayern Munich are playing PSG and Chelsea are playing some unknown Brazilian team.
00:16:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
like that.
00:16:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Palmyra or something?
00:16:05
Iain
I know. Oh, come on. It's just, this is just, this is just all Tosin's fault.
00:16:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
well
00:16:12
Iain
We hate them now, don't we? We hate them now.
00:16:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Pretty much.
00:16:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
Just like that, they've elevated themselves right up there.
00:16:17
Iain
and seventy I know. As soon as you start thinking about Chelsea, you then start thinking back to last summer when we were going to get Tosin at centre-half, re-signing.
00:16:31
Iain
And he was coming right up until he went to Chelsea.
00:16:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
Right, I'm going to break here. but're going to listen to Ken's dulcet tones. We'll come back, have a bit more of a moan, and really keep people on the edge of their seats. So here's Ken.
Ken's Influence and Health
00:17:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
Thank you very much to Ken. like i um I've now decided I'm just going to call him Mr. Smooth. Because alongside you, Ian, you guys have got the smoothest voice in the world.
00:17:37
Iain
Well, it Mr.
00:17:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
So...
00:17:39
Iain
Smooth hasn't been very well for quite some time, and he's not very active anywhere.
00:17:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Uh...
00:17:44
Iain
So I haven't been able to catch up with him for a few weeks. So Ken, if you are still checking in to see how your Golden Boys up at the Daily Newcastle are getting on.
00:17:55
Iain
Golden Boys is a general term for Golden Boys and Girls, by the way. um
00:17:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
We don't take offence. Me and Nick aren't offended like that.
00:18:00
Iain
but hope We hope you are doing well, mate. We hope you are doing well.
00:18:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
We do. Absolutely. Get well soon. um Right. Ian, honestly, it's like... um i really want to be able to sit here and talk like... um miss...
00:18:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
I miss talking proper football for starters, so I'm getting bored of this summer already, right? um I'm getting bored of the fact that we've just got nothing but repetitive rumours to talk about on the transfers.
00:18:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
I sound like I'm having a moan here, but I kind of am, right? um I saw something today as well. There was another link to Kudos from West Ham. Um...
00:18:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Don't know how much there's in that. Again, i don't know whether it's just people just talking on social media or other YouTubers throwing names in the mix just to kind of get some content, like you say, because everything's up in the air.
00:18:51
Iain
but I have been reading a little bit about West Ham and about Graham Potter who Graham Potter has only made one signing and if you if you think we have a bad transfer window the only signing Graham Potter made which was to get Evan Ferguson from Brighton on loan in the January window and Evan Ferguson not only did he not score he didn't even have a shot on target during his loan period so that is
00:18:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
But... Right.
00:19:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Right.
00:19:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
Wow.
00:19:20
Iain
that That is an ineffective transfer window, Graham Potter.
00:19:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
It is.
Graham Potter and West Ham's Dilemmas
00:19:23
Iain
So he's desperate. Mikel Antonio, they've let him go. He's told Fulkeru that he's only a backup striker. So he doesn't rate him very much.
00:19:36
Iain
And Kudos is agitating to go. And I think they'd let him go because they were quoting 85 million when they first started talking about it at the start of the transfer window in June. Apparently the price is around about 60.
00:19:48
Iain
sixty and Tottenham are super interested.
00:19:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep.
00:19:52
Iain
So that makes sense, but but Potter will then get some cash in and he can go and buy the strikers that he craves.
00:19:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
I saw that, yeah.
00:20:00
Iain
Although apparently the striker that he does crave is being snaffled by Brighton, so he won't get him. So yeah, so they are keen to sell.
00:20:11
Iain
um
00:20:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:20:12
Iain
i mean, apart from Koudis, I wouldn't mind Koudis. I think he's a great player. He wasn't very good last year.
00:20:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I'll take them.
00:20:17
Iain
um but but I don't know if that's because he didn't get on with Potter. If Potter obviously can take him or leave him.
00:20:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
True.
00:20:26
Iain
um So I wouldn't mind Kudus, but then, you know, if it's Tottenham are moving in and Kudus can switch clubs and not move house. um that
00:20:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's the problem, isn't it?
00:20:36
Iain
you know
00:20:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah.
00:20:37
Iain
But we haven't shown very willing right up until now. um So, you know, I think that skips the sales, to be honest.
00:20:49
Iain
But there's some great there are some very good players out in Europe that I've heard, read about.
00:20:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
True.
00:20:54
Iain
I don't know if we're interested. I don't know why we're not interested. Adeyemi is one of them. He's at Dortmund, but he's not guaranteed a starting place anymore.
00:21:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep.
00:21:07
Iain
He is faster than Alanga. And, you know, he can set up assists and score goals in the Champions League semifinals.
00:21:19
Iain
So he's he's got all of the experience that we need and it's available for around about 40 million, apparently. Why are we not all over that?
00:21:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
yep
00:21:27
Iain
and Xavi Simon, is that right?
00:21:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah ah I was going to bring him up, yeah, from Leipzig, yeah.
00:21:33
Iain
he He is, like Leipzig, he's desperate.
00:21:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
So I'll be over the moon with him, I'll be honest.
00:21:38
Iain
He's desperate play in the Champions League. Leipzig haven't qualified this year.
00:21:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep.
00:21:43
Iain
And wants to come to the Premier League. Come on. There's only one team that haven't started. and their third third full squad, and that's us.
00:21:54
Iain
He surely listening to us if we went and talked to him, and he's a world-class player already.
00:21:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep.
00:21:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, I'd be over the moon with him.
00:21:59
Iain
i mean, ah know.
00:22:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's only 22 as well.
00:22:02
Iain
I know.
00:22:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
So...
00:22:03
Iain
and know. There are players out there that if we got off our bottom and went and talked to them, I'm sure we'd have a fantastic case for Xavi Simons. But I don't know why why am I saying that when there's a whole scouting team that who worked all year,
00:22:20
Iain
presumably through Europe.
00:22:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:22:22
Iain
and Not all over that one. I don't know. Is it?
00:22:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:22:26
Iain
It's my ignorance probably. My ignorance as to how the system works. But from an outsider looking in, that is just very odd that we are not talking to that sort of player.
00:22:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Look.
00:22:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:22:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
We all know that we're not privy to information. Look, it's it's a business after all. It's as simple as that. know we're fans. We love the club. We love the club more than anyone that's ever going to buy them. Anything like that.
00:22:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
But. Like you've said before, the communication was so much better when we had Amanda and Murdad. It doesn't mean they can't tell us anything. I'm not saying tell us everything because that's ridiculous. course we're not supposed to know everything. I don't want us to know everything.
00:23:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
I kind of like it when they do keep some things secret. I'm fine with that. But like know something. You know, like, give us something, man. We're literally craving information now as fans.
00:23:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
They know how much this club means to us, what everything means to us, I'll be honest. They could just give us something. They could, like, I don't know. Surely it doesn't have to be all hush-hush to the point. Always it's so hush-hush that they've got nothing to tell us.
00:23:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's the worrying part. I like to think of it as another one, like to think that they're not keeping everything from us and there's nothing to tell. I just like to think that they're being ultra-secretive, but... Yeah, I would like some communication, man.
00:23:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
Come on, it just makes everything a bit nicer, doesn't it?
00:23:38
Iain
Well,
00:23:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
And the women's team's just as bad, by the way, because me and Joe had a rant about this the other day. All those players got released from the Lasses team, like 12 of them. They haven't brought a single p player in. Apparently there's hell on with a new sporting director.
00:23:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
She's came in and caused absolute chaos by the sounds of it. And like, but then again, no communication at all. You don't find out what's going on. So it's just, I think it's just frustrating, isn't it really?
00:24:02
Iain
but so it's all Chinese whispers, isn't it?
00:24:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, that's exactly it.
00:24:06
Iain
um
00:24:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then misinformation, isn't it?
00:24:08
Iain
That's true. We were taking some consolation through June, if you remember. We talked several times about how Newcastle will be working behind the scenes. There'll be a surprise. Suddenly Bruno will arrive or a Tonali or an Izak, and we didn't expect any of those.
00:24:26
Iain
But to be honest, I'm not sure. We are very secretive now. and I mean, our pursuit of James Crawford can hardly be said to be cloak and dagger.
00:24:37
Iain
Neither the fact that we were after Joe Pedro or Alanga. I mean, that was just there for weeks, wasn't it? I mean, Alanga is still there.
00:24:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep.
00:24:46
Iain
Nobody's denying that we're going after Alanga and increasing the bid by 30 quid every time we go back with another one. and So none of that's secretive. Are we just doing all of that to sort of pretend that, you know, we are not very good at this transfer game? And then, what up?
00:25:06
Iain
will show that we are because of a pull three out of the hat. so I mean, I hope it's true, but I'm inclined to think that we've lost something of that.
00:25:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
I know.
00:25:16
Iain
We're working without a sport and director. We're working without Amanda and Murdad.
00:25:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep.
00:25:23
Iain
If it's Eddie, and he's got his nephew and Steve Nixon to talk to, then Eddie's got to make the final decision on that, hasn't he?
00:25:33
Iain
And it'll be, oh, oh.
00:25:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
ye
00:25:36
Iain
Is he the right character though? Is he? Am I going to make him grow as a man as well as a player? And there'll be all sorts of, I don't know, um and you know I'm starting to, my cynicism is starting to come through, and I probably shouldn't do that.
00:25:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
I know.
00:25:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
I miss our happy clap of ways, man.
00:25:58
Iain
right
00:25:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
Can we either just rewind time or fast forward past this whole summer because I'm done with it already. But no. um I'm looking forward. I've got tickets for the cellar cup and stuff. I'm looking forward that, I'll be honest.
00:26:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
It'll be nice to get back and... I don't know. We'll have something sorted by then, Manion. And we'll be sitting here eating our words. That's what's going to happen, right?
00:26:20
Iain
I hope so.
00:26:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
Just say yes.
00:26:21
Iain
hope so. Don't worry. It won't take Calvert-Lewin long to bed in.
00:26:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
oh man honestly ah know when i heard like rumors of that when i read the other day about him like coming on a free i thought there we go you see that's what we're getting scraps but just bloody scraps um but i don't know i don't know
00:26:40
Iain
No, I haven't heard Calvert-Lewin being linked to us. I did think he would be a really good sign of the Sunderland, actually.
00:26:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
hmm
00:26:47
Iain
They're looking for some experience upfront, which they should be.
00:26:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
theyve so They've got a bloody... They've spent 30 million on someone, then they're in the market for someone else around 30 million. Comes to something when the Maccams are doing more business and... I mean, I'm hardly jealous of them, but, you know, this is how desperate I'm getting for a signing.
00:27:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
like I'm getting annoyed that the Maccams are signing people.
00:27:07
Iain
Well, I think the players that they've signed, it's a third choice Atletico Madrid left back on a free. and the Apparently the guy at Strasbourg is just the guy at Strasbourg, he's not the guy at Strasbourg.
00:27:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh yeah, I'm not jealous of the actual board, by the way. so
00:27:26
Iain
So, they need to I think they need to get some experience though, because there will be ripped pieces without that. Which is why I think maybe maybe they could have Callum Muffin, but they probably want someone to play.
00:27:37
Iain
think Calvert-Lewin is a good shout for Sunderland, to be honest. And if he's looking for a club, lead Sunderland, one of the promoter teams will be taking. or ah because we're desperate.
00:27:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
I could see him going to Leeds, I'll be honest. That's good shout on that one. I could see him going to Leeds.
00:27:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
But again, that's it's just social media talk, isn't it? I've heard nothing's solid about us being linked to them, by the way. But that's, again, but it goes back to what we're talking about. We've got so little to kind of work on.
00:28:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's just people like us speculating on things that could happen or what we might want to happen or what we don't want to happen. So give us something to properly talk about, man.
00:28:14
Iain
Well actually and Evan Ferguson at Brighton, who obviously went on loan to West Ham and performed very disappointingly. But he's the guy who scored the hat-trick against us when they won 3-1.
00:28:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh yeah.
00:28:31
Iain
And he looked really good then. I don't know if he's been crossed in the meantime and he's not come back from an injury or not. But that I mean, that could and he's still young because he was a teenager when he did that, and that can't be any more than two years ago.
00:28:44
Iain
wasn't just last year, was it? Did we get a draw at Brighton?
00:28:48
Iain
I think we drew at Brighton.
00:28:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
He didn't score a hat trick last year, did he?
00:28:51
Iain
It was two years ago we got a hat-trick against us.
00:28:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
No.
00:28:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, anyway, yeah.
00:28:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh well.
00:29:00
Iain
So that's somebody who who Eddie might be able to remediate, if that's the right word.
Newcastle's Player Development Potential
00:29:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
Eddie could do a lot with a lot of players. I think that's the frustration behind it. So there's actually a lot of players out there that on the surface of things might not look amazing. But the one thing I will kind of still always believe in is that Eddie and the team can really kind of turn around.
00:29:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
some of the so-called maybe average to good players into great players we really do believe that so it's but it's just a case of getting some names through the doors and at this point it would just need something get the ball rolling get us excited about anything at this point would be good um and then we might believe that like i say more will happen after that so
00:29:43
Iain
you know I would be quite excited by official words that William Ossola is no longer in class, just as raw, but actually has got something to offer and is going to get plenty minutes.
00:29:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:29:56
Iain
I think Ossola is still full, powerful, fast enough to be an EZAC understudy and will cause chaos when he comes on last half hour.
00:30:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Absolutely
00:30:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Maybe that's part their plans Maybe it is something that they're thinking about But again due to the lack of communication Or anything coming out at the club right now We're just again speculating That maybe You never know Maybe they really are seeing Azula as a backup.
00:30:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
Who knows Ian man. You know we could probably sit here all day.
00:30:27
Iain
Who knows?
00:30:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
All night. Who knows. Nobody knows anything man. 175 I last heard
00:30:31
Iain
there is and There is news today, by the way, that for some reason, the um I think it was Keith Downey said that we had 125 million to spend, and that's why we did that trip of group. But I haven't listened to all of it, but I think it's more than that now. i think there's news out that we've got more than that.
00:30:48
Iain
175, yeah. So come on, we can find the extra five million to get a langur. We can find an extra five million to get Clappard.
00:30:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
Exactly
00:30:59
Iain
Let's do it so that here in time to start preseason,
00:31:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's what we need how the thing i think again the frustration How was really kind of And he was very vocal about it which was nice About wanting to get players in As quickly as possible Getting them kind of bedding into the team Getting them going away on pre-season Tours or whatever with the rest of the team It is really important.
00:31:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think getting players at the very last second, it's given them no time at all to gel with the team. And you know what i mean? Just get used to those new surroundings and everything.
00:31:29
Iain
Thank you.
00:31:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
that They are humans at the end of the day, very much overpaid humans in my opinion, but they are still humans. um But they do need that time, don't they? You know what i mean? You can't just expect someone to come to a club and just hit the ground running like that on the odd time it does happen. But most of the time it does take a bit jetting, like kind of gelling. But...
00:31:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't know. I think this is another frustration. I think I'm sure how, by the way, is equally as frustrated. He'll just never, ever play that or show that card, will he? In terms of that, he's always very poker face, closed book sort thing.
00:32:01
Iain
Well, it's only him. It's down to him. He must be the one who is doing the final say. So if he's frustrated.
00:32:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
But is it? And that's another thing. Is it? We never know. We're assuming again. Is it
Call for Transparency from Newcastle
00:32:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
really down to him? Just because we haven't got spoken director. Are they letting Howe control?
00:32:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
or is there someone somewhere in the background that's really got the control and they're not really giving Howe the control?
00:32:21
Iain
okay
00:32:25
Iain
Well, it might be poorly Darren Eales, but he's gone very soon, isn't he?
00:32:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
We don't know.
00:32:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
Bless him, I know. I know. Oh, I don't know, Ian. I'll tell you what, right, we're going to stop it here. Because otherwise, i think me and you are just going to sit and moan all night.
00:32:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
And we don't want people to hate us, because that that defeats the object now.
00:32:45
Iain
No, no. It's still playing try like third in it. So there's two months for the transfer window to go, but there's four days before pre-season to go.
00:32:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
You're fine. Yeah.
00:32:57
Iain
And it would have been lovely to have had these two players in and starting on day one like the news new term at school with their new classmates.
00:33:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep.
00:33:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
who
00:33:08
Iain
But I don't think either of them going to be there on Monday.
00:33:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
No. You never know though. This time next week. Let's hope we're having a slightly different conversation. With a big smile on our face.
00:33:20
Iain
Well, just some movement, just some believable approach instead of pie in the sky and fingers crossed and why are we not after this one?
00:33:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
Just little bit of movement.
00:33:31
Iain
Why are we not after this one? There will be reasons, but nobody's telling us them.
00:33:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't know.
00:33:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
Right. Well, on that bright note, I will say torah and you will see you some point next week. And we will have a more positive conversation. I'm sure of it.
00:33:49
Iain
Yeah, but well, what are we on today? Is it Wednesday today, isn't it?
00:33:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
Thursday.
00:33:53
Iain
Yes. Oh, is it?
00:33:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
oh it's Thursday, man. Thursday. Or Friday as people are listening to this right now. Yeah.
00:34:00
Iain
Ah, right. OK, good. Sunday night, then. We've got the whole of the weekend to wait for something exciting.
00:34:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
We'll have
00:34:07
Iain
No doubt we'll be talking about about who's going to be there at the first day of pre-season on Monday and who isn't.
00:34:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:34:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh dear God.
00:34:16
Iain
Right, that's something to look forward to.
00:34:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
Right.
00:34:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
been a pleasure. I'll speak to you soon. you All right.
00:34:22
Iain
Doodle tape.