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WillInSpain said:
Spanish publication Mundo Deportivo claim Dembele is getting closer and closer to a Premier League move in 2022.

The Magpies, now managed by Eddie Howe and backed by billionaire Saudi Arabian owners, have put together a very appealing package.

Dembele will receive €15 million (£12.73m) per year in wages in addition to a whopping a €15 million (£12.73m) signing on bonus.
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I see their £50m a year budget is going to go far. Probably a 5 year deal, so that would be about £15m of it (12.7m wages plus assuming the signing on fee would be spread over the years so about £2.5m a year) gone for this year just on him. For a player they don't need, who will be hard to motivate and who will be impossible to shift if they want to free up money later. Exactly the signing I hope they make. Guessing he wouldn't accept a relegation wage drop clause either.
 

Guinness Guzzler said:
I see their £50m a year budget is going to go far. Probably a 5 year deal, so that would be about £15m of it (12.7m wages plus assuming the signing on fee would be spread over the years so about £2.5m a year) gone for this year just on him. For a player they don't need, who will be hard to motivate and who will be impossible to shift if they want to free up money later. Exactly the signing I hope they make. Guessing he wouldn't accept a relegation wage drop clause either.
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Probably just Wurzel spreading these rumours as a sportswash
 
skullmeister said:
A key thing here for the mags is that they have very inexperienced people now running the club, would you trust AS to sign the right players and to give BehEddie Howe the right support in the run in. They made a right hash of Bruce's sacking and hiring a new manager. I predict offield turmoil and a disastrous transfer window.
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This is the one thing I cannot comprehend.

Why would you buy a football club in the hyper-competitive Premier League without a well thought out and ready to implement plan?
A plan put together by managers, directors and administrators who knew football and the PL inside out?

Even with a bottomless pit of money you'd struggle to break in the top 6, let alone put together a team, squad and backroom staff ready to push for a title.
Think of the planning Man City did?
Even after they were successful they had the whole club gearing themselves up for 2 years prior to the arrival of Guadiola.

Yet you've got a PR person, her husband and property developers lurching around in the dark.
To lose out on Emery is fair enough - but in no way do you try to get Emery and have Howe as the next choice.

I've a feeling they might only have a chance of on field success if the current board humiliates the KSA with enough failures that they bin them off and hire people who know what they're doing.
 
Guinness Guzzler said:
I see their £50m a year budget is going to go far. Probably a 5 year deal, so that would be about £15m of it (12.7m wages plus assuming the signing on fee would be spread over the years so about £2.5m a year) gone for this year just on him. For a player they don't need, who will be hard to motivate and who will be impossible to shift if they want to free up money later. Exactly the signing I hope they make. Guessing he wouldn't accept a relegation wage drop clause either.
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Buying a club for geopolitical objectives doesn't necessarily guarentee that you'll spend a £1bn trying to make it successful... if anything you just might want to own and keep it profile high enough to make you look less of a medieval totalitarian state that's spent 20 years waging proxy wars against the west its allies and neighbour regimes

The mags look like puppets

Sooty and sweep for a bunch of psychos
 
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Guinness Guzzler said:
I see their £50m a year budget is going to go far. Probably a 5 year deal, so that would be about £15m of it (12.7m wages plus assuming the signing on fee would be spread over the years so about £2.5m a year) gone for this year just on him. For a player they don't need, who will be hard to motivate and who will be impossible to shift if they want to free up money later. Exactly the signing I hope they make. Guessing he wouldn't accept a relegation wage drop clause either.
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And a player who hasn't played more than 20 90's in a season since 2017 largely down to injuries.
 
richest said:
20% or so possession lol
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Commentator actually excitedly said Eddie will be over the moon with this half and I expect he will be saying more of this in second half.

Goal went in and commentator said Poocastle are surely going to have to change their style of play now.
 
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