Originally Posted by
Insidious
Indeed we must.
To add, no. 9s are generally very expensive and (Sid in talking about "value" shocker) we could feel that it is better business to try and do now than to see ourselves trying to compete with how silly the fees are going to get in 2-4 seasons once Newcastle have laid their foundations.
Hopefully complication-free at the negotiating table - Benfica will naturally want loads of it up front so they can invest as quickly as possible and we'll likely want to pay in smaller instalments to help when purchasing a Henderson successor (even if that isn't this Summer) and having rainy day money.
My point exactly on transfers this window and next summer, they're not going to get any less expensive, especially if/when Newcastle get themselves to a level they can realistically try to entice players top clubs will be competing for
I'm more concerned about the Fabinho replacement in all honesty and have been since it was revealed we were actually better without him in 19-20, as good as most of our transfers have been, we have an annoying tendency not to admit when we've got them wrong and blindly continue with players like Fab, Thiago and Keita, there are lots of better DMs/No6s than Fab our there and Hendo showed himself to be better in that role, replacing Gini with Thiago has not reaped the results the transfer was made to yield and given he was the same age and is injury prone, it was a poor piece of business in my opinion, one of our worst and Keita, well extending his contract if PSG are indeed willing to put up 45m for his services would be an absolute joke
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