when the levy breaks: summer transfer window 2019

They have made two good signings this summer and appear to be doing an anti-Newcastle which is disappointing behaviour from the Premier League's second best comedy club.

tbf, Anderson / Diop / Yarmalenko was a good summer for them last year too.

I think people are being harsh on Steve Bruce. He'll have a good chunk of the summer to make his mark on the team, assess the gaps in the squad and then spend the entire transfer budget on Yannick Bolasie on deadline day or whatever

bolasie come home

Xp irl lol Sgt

LOL I'd forgotten Bruce had been Sunderland manager. How many games do we think he'll last?

You're forgiven for forgetting that, as it's just one of the many, many reasons those poor toon fans are up in arms.

Wiki taught me chairman Mike Ashley - who wouldn't open his wallet if he had a gun to his head - "stated that he regretted buying Newcastle United, but admitted that he was "wedded" to the club." Lmao.

Bruce will be there all season, or at least won't be fired until March when it's too late for his successor to do anything about it.

Great season to be a newly promoted club, Newcastle look doomed already and Brighton don't appear to be in great shape either.

I hadn’t realised Llorente is out of contract. Fiorentina would probably be a good move for him.

twould be a good move for any of us ifaith

It was tough to settle initially, there's a language and food barrier

Wolves U-23 Ed Francis on the alien food culture of, um, the Netherlands.

Have a heart NV, I see they had him parked at Almere. Wouldn't wish that city on my worst enemy.

I'm guessing it doesn't have a Nando's

food is v bland ime tbf, like fried egg on plain pasta bland

A shocking experience for Cheshire-born Ed

lol

Netherlands is right up there for worst "national cuisine" in Europe

theyll have their fun wont they NN

hard times when two paddies have to defend british isles cuisine against the self loathing brits wha

My initial point, sir, is that the cultural difference could hardly be described as a "barrier"

not til october anyways

no need to worry about the food barrier if you're not allowed to play in Europe tbf

First trophy of the season

big Xi is wearing a Wolves top now!

still hasn't quite got the cachet of the JPT tho :p

Vincent Janssen off to my favourite Liga MX club, Monterrey!

sympathies

at what stage is zidane a workplace bully

Really don't understand what's going on here at all.

It's gonna be really disappointing when he just turns up at PSG and his career completely fizzles out from there.

i can see it as an utterly ruthless "its a lot better for me that you not be here" set of power moves.

beckham was iirc treated much the same by capello so obv at rm theres a cultural thing that possibly british players might be missing where the fuck-off-hints are expected to yield results far earlier in the process and tetchiness ensues

Did the same with mcmanaman he ignored it as well and picked up another la Liga and champs lge before seeing out his contract iirc

WHAT A GOAL FROM HARRY KANE 🔥
pic.twitter.com/HRhTqqaEiQ

— talkSPORT (@talkSPORT) July 21, 2019

Niche interest but as someone who watched an enormous amount of Australian football last season, for lack of anything better to do on a Saturday morning, it’s good to see Sarpreet Singh get picked up by Bayern Munich.

He’s one of the best passers of the ball in the league, albeit with next to no competition, but it’s difficult to judge how useful he would be to a decent team. It’ll be interesting to see how he develops in Germany over the next couple of years.

Biggest NZ transfer in history, surely? Had never heard of him before but am keen on seeing him play.

£17m for Phil Billing from Bournemouth will be astonishingly good good business. And I like the idea of such a tinpot player as him going to such a tinpot shit ground no fans club. He puts in a couple of 8/10 shifts and scores a pretty amazing goal tbf then starts thinking he's a superstar who should be at Barca. He's a total diva who downed tools and spat his dummy out when the going got tough. It probably didn't help with one of our morons calling him a "black donkey" on twitter, but he's still a total waster and probably no more than a few mill worth of midfielder at best.

if he doesn't get his move in this window he'll end up playing with the reserves, so the pressure is all on him.

We are delighted to welcome our new club record signing - Joelinton!

Full story: https://t.co/t7Qe83xUnX #JoelinToon #NUFC pic.twitter.com/wmzjHbkJxE

— Newcastle United FC (@NUFC) July 23, 2019

40m, reportedly. That is a lot of money.

Disaster waiting to happen or what?

don't know if we were genuinely interested or just getting linked to every player on the market this season. lol at Bruce with a 40 mil striker tho

jolyon ton

keeping up the proud tradition of brazilian footballers exchanging their perfectly nice real names for unholy monstrosities

Had the same goals per game ratio as James Ward-Prowse last season but maybe he is worth £40m too now.

We have reached agreement with Mexican side C.F. Monterrey for the transfer of @vincentjanssen.

We wish Vincent all the best for the future.

— Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) July 23, 2019

(xp) His scoring record doesn't suggest the new Alan Shearer.

goodbye sweet vince

lots of buzz around ISP providers being encouraged to crack down a lot harder on streams this coming season.

reason to be fearful or unlikely to be effective?

id pay except they dont offer a package to just watch one team so absolutely fuck em

Unlikely to be effective. If you've been following the footy w/ streams for years I don't see how that would suddenly change now. Alternatives will pop up (no pun intended), there will always be streamers in it for a couple of hundred quid a month on ad sales.

I've basically given up on streams, it just isn't worth it for the extreme unreliability and virtually guaranteed malware.

unless ive been living happily with malware all year ive somehow avoided that tbh.

have you just not been watching or is there a non-stream solution you're being discreet about