Recent content by BGreenWolf

I know we generally try and keep our dealings under wraps before signing a player, but I don't see any way that we've made it to five hours before the window shuts without so much as a whisper and get something over the line. Brownhill's the absolute best case scenario.

Even on the assumption that all of the signings are good players that improve us (hope springs eternal, I suppose), we're horrendously understocked in midfield. We've replaced Traore and Doyle with no one at all. God help us if Andre or Gomes are out, never mind both.

Big day ahead, one way or another.

Setting aside the obvious personnel issues, it's extremely worrying that we're four matches into the season, and Pereira has set us up palpably wrongly in each and every one of them. Short of something completely unforeseen in the next few days, we're heading one way, and one way only.

To be fair, you can tell that it's too late in the window to be making sensible attacking player purchases by the fact that Newcastle are apparently willing to pay twice Strand Larsen's actual value out of sheer desperation.

It's not my money! In any case, spending money on a player who looks like he'd be an oven-ready improvement to players we've got and could offer us options in a few different positions strikes me as good business in and of itself, regardless of what else in the squad we still need to fix.

Two things can be true: Over £60m for Strand Larsen would be absolutely outrageous value for us, and involves a perfect storm of Newcastle being absolutely desperate in the market and being willing and able to pay wildly over the odds for players that may never come about again; and Selling...

I'd probably argue that Bournemouth and West Ham are, as well.

There's been a really clear and worrying stratification of the market this year, way beyond what's normal.

The most humdrum, bogstandard Prem campaign for us is wildly more exciting than the Championship ever would be. Dross football against dross teams. I hope we never go back.

Isn't he on enormous wages?

Not having Guedes and Silva loafing about the place is an inherent win in and of itself, PSR be damned.

Easy peasy. Right at the heart of the pitch for talented young players we're trying to bring in is that the club will not stand in their way when an elite club come knocking if they do their bit in the meantime. Fabio... hasn't.

From David Squires' cartoon season preview: Well, it's always nice to see a bit of optimism.

We dance this dance every window, and it's never the case.