Clarkson is a deep lying playmaker so he would sit behind trav and davenport in that line up

Tbf how Colwick is still on the pitch amazes me

Ha when I explained to my brother how we played his first comment was so you play two strikers out wide and a wide man at center forward

Qhen Tbf at this stage in his development its an entirely fair observation we need a minimum of one striker before the window closes

While no doubt we have left it late we only recently sold arma plus prem teams are just now releasing their players due to friendly fixtures and things we quite obviously had the Clarkson deal sorted and were waiting on Liverpool likewise the Brighton boy has just been delayed due to treatment.

Kinda hoping that ot would be an additional permanent signing not just the one I'd like a permanent signing to be a striker.

From Manchester so maybe he would want to stay more local

I'd argue the two center middle in that list dogmeat now betaleb is injured and saivet has never got a lookin at Newcastle in years rather have Clarkson than either

My brother is a Liverpool fan and was saying yesterday Clarkson was fantastic in Liverpool mid week friendly. Think he's a sitting midfielder who likes to pull the strings from dm. Pair him with Travis and Buckley/ Rothwell and that could be a very good cm.

Id try for Yates from Blackpool or maybe Curtis from Portsmouth and Dale from crewe as wide men and use gally and Diaz as strikers for once

If obefemi signs we have his replacement and genuinely another player we can polish up and turn a profit on and would be very shrewd business tbh. And would see it that in reality we have knocked Newcastles sell on down quite considerably

Let's face it we got a great deal. If I was a prem team selling a player I'd negotiate a sell on or buy back in every deal

So the deal is Armstrong £15 mil atm Newcastle get their 40% after the 1.8 mil Obafemi to us free if he agrees Newcastle can't touch that its a separate deal no matter how ruthless his team is. If he fails to agree then its an extra 3mil which Newcastle will get their slice of.

I'd imagine there will be things in place that stops them just cancelling the deal I mean if thats the case whats to stop them just not sending us the payments when they are due.

Surely then you don't put the Armstrong deal through until the obafemi deal is tied up then put them through at the same time.

Douglas's wife just gave birth hes prob not with the team.

Rubbish if he was available on a free there would be a host of championship clubs after him.

Your entitled to your veiw but i feel we missed him massively when he was out injured.

Most of those mentioned will be gone come the summer Brereton has become a player for us Gally has looked hungry coming off the bench recently Ayala is good enough just had injury issues. I'd bet that most of the teams in this division have players who supplement the first team and act as cover.

I assume your imaginary get along gang would include Mulgrew Smallwood and Graham where are they all again? Its something you have completely made up in your own head he's used plenty of young players.

Not gonna lose sleep if he is out of contract unfortunately Harry Chapnans not beeen good enough to earn a place. Befòre anyone starts don't give me he is not part of the gang nonsense we have used plenty of young players under mowbray and more than anyother club this season

Harry sticking up for family i don't for one second think that Frank was not consulted on if he wanted Havertz and Werner two of the most sought after players in the world at the time. It would seem Frank was one of the only ones who did not want/rate them

Hes the source of the quotes.

Mind you that was harry redknapp saying that i don't believe a word that comes out of that mans mouth

If we can keep improving at the back which the new signings point towards with travis and dack hopefully getting better the more game time they get the playoffs could easily be attainable tho there are a lot of good teams up there so no more death spirals can be afforded. Hopefully having 3/4 cbs in squad who are fit can help address the whole death spiral thing.