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Why don’t you rate the best striker in the Championship? It's not that I don't rate him, I believe he's overpriced. He missed 16 games through injury last season, 28 the season before, anywhere within that range this season for our main striker equals relegation. In my opinion, he's not the profile...

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Won’t be too gutted if we missed out on Sargent. Don’t rate him anywhere near £20m, and he’s hardly a solution to our striker situation.

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Commy wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 07, 2025 10:52 pm
Parker seems to be being backed a lot more than Dyche was. He had to scrap around for free transfers and cheapies mainly.

Dyche was allowed to break our transfer record 5 times.

Gray, Brady, Wood, Gibson, Weghorst.

The only "more backed" manager we've ever had is Kompany.

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Chris Boden said we 100% weren't signing Steven Defour and Joey Barton, so I wouldn't read too much into what local journalists are saying.

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Sargent is far too lightweight for the Prem. You’ve got to be world class to carry that frame nowadays.

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'Insider' says we want Soucek on loan with a guaranteed sale if we stay up. The writer has said he has spoken to someone in Soucek's camp. With a loan fee he would probably cost us about £10m so it might be worth paying the £90k a week for a season as he could make the difference. https://www.clare...

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NewClaret wrote: ↑
Mon Jun 23, 2025 7:54 am
Yes fair point. I always thought they parted amicably though? Dyche spoke highly of him after his sacking.

Think Dyche is being professional about it. I'm sure I heard him say he thought the timing was bizarre and also he believes he would've kept us up. I agree, I think he would have.

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dermotdermot wrote: ↑
Fri Jun 20, 2025 2:27 am
Those tattoos worry me. A little over the top.

He can pull up wearing a clown wig and a strap on, as long as he performs on the pitch who gives a toss what he looks like.

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Mitrovic could be heading back to the Premier League :o Feels plausible (even for Talk Sh**e). Would seem financially way out of our league, but if moves higher up don’t happen, due to the Parker connection, one never knows. Would be perfect for us, even at 30 years old. https://talksport.com/footb...

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Spijed wrote: ↑
Tue Feb 04, 2025 10:25 pm
One point off averaging two points per game, which guarantees promotion.

We need to stop with this rhetoric, two points a game may not guarantee promotion. Leicester City and Ipswich first top 2 last season with 97, and 96 points.

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First defeat in 10 for Oxford United by the way.

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Fee agreed for Trafford according to a few sources. 20million. I'm happy just to get our money back on him.

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RVclaret wrote: ↑
Fri Aug 30, 2024 6:23 am
Nixon reckons the whole Whittaker story is nonsense and there’s nothing in it. Weird one.

We've clearly made an offer, Rooney all but confirmed that in his presser.

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https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/newcastle-united-set-to-launch-final-transfer-offer-for-burnley-james-trafford/ Why would we all of a sudden knock £10m off? I can understand lowering it if he was kicking up a stink, but he doesn't appear to be as he is no. 1 at the minute. Unless it's Whittaker m...

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Got to be time to take a calculated risk now. Get Whitaker and Flemming in for the cost of selling Odobert.

If we're adrift in January, Luca is there to balance it out if needed.

These loan to buy deals are just insulting clubs and making us look ridiculous.

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My worry now is if Foster stays we dont have another No 9 to compete with him.We saw last night and on Saturday v Sunderland that Jay is absolutely finished in even the Championship. Hountondji -well I cant make him out but he seems well off the mark, and the way Foster has been behaving he could c...

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Going back in for Morgan Whittaker

https://www.teamtalk.com/news/clarets-l ... er-sources

This is our marquee signing, especially if we keep Luca.

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burnley007 wrote: ↑
Thu Aug 29, 2024 12:18 pm
He was crap 2 seasons ago, he has declined a lot since then.

He was excellent 2 seasons ago, first 17 games he was contending for the golden boot. He got injured, which has always been his problem.

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Row x wrote: ↑
Thu Aug 29, 2024 9:34 am
What time do players have to be registered in order to be able to play on Saturday?

Noon tomorrow

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If that's the case it shouldn't present a problem putting back what's taken. Spot on. 48 hours left and all quiet at the moment is not encouraging. Having said that Parker basically guaranteed there would be incomings, it's just a case of what level these replacements are. The only one I've been ex...

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GodIsADeeJay81 wrote: ↑
Wed Aug 28, 2024 11:55 pm
*facepalm*

All this because the team lost to Sunderland and the club are busy selling AND BUYING players as per their business model

Honestly some of you need to touch some grass

Sold 20+ players. Signed, two who look good enough, Hannibal and Worrall.

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Pace - "How much do you want for Morgan Whittaker?" Plymouth - "10 million" Pace - "How about zero, and if by some miracle we get promoted, then 10 million, if not you can have him back with a year less on his contract and probably in the league below because you'll have no money for a replacement" ...

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123EasyasBFC wrote: ↑
Tue Aug 27, 2024 7:19 pm
Some imminent Hannibal announcement, whoever it was that said that it was coming

I think they wanted to announce all 3 at the same time to try and negate the backlash. If they announce him today it's going to be met with a lot of angry responses, especially with Sarmiento starting at Brighton.

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Amdouni signed for Benfica for loan and €15m obligation to buy, we paid €18m for him, so it's not even about profit anymore, just whatever we can get for people.

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D8BFC wrote: ↑
Mon Aug 26, 2024 12:35 pm
Are we saying Koleosho is priceless?

If the fee is going to be about 23m - is that not too good to turn down?

Not that he's priceless, he's still going to be worth that or more in 12 months. We don't need to sell everyone for a quick profit.

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I don't think two wingers coming in means Koleosho is going. We've already sold Odobert and Zaroury, Benson clearly is never playing another game for us, Redmond is out until god knows when and Tresor is a shape shifting crime fighter. If we sign two, then we've essentially got 3 wingers for the fir...

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midlands claret wrote: ↑
Sun Aug 25, 2024 1:19 pm
why has no one made a bid for Foster ?
that would be ok

Club's probably not willing to gamble on a player who's had a couple of mental breakdowns in the last two years. Not being horrible to Lyle, that's just the reality.

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I really like the Redmond deal. I know he can be hit and miss (name me a winger who isn't) but bags of experience, free, good fitness record - I think it's a really smart signing. He's always impressed me when he's played against us. I think it's a great signing. Bags of experience, and a great one...

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Good player is Robinson- always a bit of a surprise he's not stepped up to Premier League level because he has the ability and he's certainly the sort of central forward we could use. At 27 just coming into his prime and he's got bags of experience at this level and something to prove. Certainly as...

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I miss the days of endlessly arguing about whether Charlie Taylor and Josh Brownhill are good or not.

That was peak transfer rumours thread.

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Here's the article for reference. Apparently he has five different agencies. (Apologies, it's Google translated so it's not perfect). "According to information provided by the newspaper Record, Jovane Cabral has five agents who, with their particular requirements, make it difficult for the player to...

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I personally don't see Cabral happening. I've seen a few reports out of Portugal saying that his agent is making the signing difficult.

I can imagine a club like Besiktas pays silly money in agents fee and we wont.

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NewClaret wrote: ↑
Wed Aug 10, 2022 3:22 pm
Think I read he’d gone somewhere

Everton and West Ham were chasing him a couple of weeks ago.

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According to @ZoneFRMF Abde Ezzalzouli would have 4 concrete loan offers and he should make his decision at the end of next week: Celta Vigo, Cadiz, OGC Nice and Burnley. https://mobile.twitter.com/Sofiane_Hrizi54/status/1556772874643546114 That would be an interesting signing. He played quite a fe...

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I looked him up on Wiki last night, and couldn't see what the interest is. Hardly played, doesn't score, has created practically nothing. All these clubs mentioned sounds like a very hard working agent. Considering we need some money put by for a striker, and we already have Vitinho, Benson, Costel...

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In terms of a fee , I've seen figures of between 6 and 7 million euros. I would suggest that this is more than we are willing to pay. I don't know anything about him but looking at YouTube he seems very fast and skillful but can't cross and seems to forget how to kick a ball when he shoots. His goa...

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https://twitter.com/PsoccerCOM/status/1556835187253723136?t=5eNXD_r8he9J3wt25Wcf2A&s=19 Apparently Real Valladolid are after him too though. They’re about the same bracket as us with regards to wages. Only one player earning more than 20k a week. It’s probably going to come down to whether he wants...

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Jovane Cabral contract offer has been upped according to Portuguese journalists, Burnley still trying to convince him after deal was agreed with Sporting.

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Was willing to give Barnesy a chance as I thought he’d not really been fit for a couple of years, but a full preseason behind him and he looks so far off it even at this level. If we don’t get a striker, we’re not going to make top 6.

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yep and he is followed by Fabrizio Romano so he's legit - can't see us winning this battle as the Besikatas can offer European footy (no idea if the others can) Depends what he wants. Does he want regular football or to sit on the bench? Besiktas have considerable forward options and I can’t see an...

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He wasn't good enough in the PL and missed some big chance when he was given a place in the squad. He's coming off a bad injury, and might never be the same player again, plus he's out until January.

I don't think he's that big of a miss to us.

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I'm assuming we're going to be looking at another centre-back, another attacking midfielder, and a striker at the very minimum. I'd personally prefer we get two strikers really, given how fragile Barnes and Rodriguez can be with injuries. Looks like Bobby Thomas, and Kevin Long could be out once we ...

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"Transfer Rumours Thread - NO FINANCIAL DISCUSSION" has turned into how much have we saved on wages from outgoing places and is Charlie Taylor a centre-back thread.

This board ffs..

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Newcastleclaret93 wrote: ↑
Thu Aug 04, 2022 11:42 am
I’m still hopeful he can pull of a marquee signing for someone like Gykores or Piroe (just examples). Would show real intent to the rest of the league

Those two are pure pipe dreams. Gykores is quoted at 15m and Piroe at 20m.

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This is from the ‘ExWestHamEmployee’ account (very much ITK for them) ‘West Ham are very close to Cornet's asking price and that the player is keen to join us. He is said to know a number of our players quite well from his days in France and as an under 21s international, before he switched interna...

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First time in New York (midtown) just before Christmas and I've been looking at the various passes on offer but thought I'd get some Claret advice before buying online. We want to visit the usual sites of Empire state, 9/11 memorial, statue of liberty and maybe a bus tour. Any recommendations would...

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Cornet would surely have kicked up a stink of he wanted to leave that badly by now.

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How have you reached this conclusion? The fact that it's been reported as agreed several times, and then reported as being too low the day after. Latest figure stands at 4 million euros, originally it was believed they just wanted to recoup their investment of 3 million euros. Safe to say they are ...

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Royal Antwerp appear to be dicking us around with the fee, keep adding more whenever we match it.

Time to move on. Unfortunate for the lad but we can't be held ransom. Wouldn't pay more than 3/4 mill for him.

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You don’t quite seem to grasp “no need to reply”. It’s been debated nonstop for months and months and months. Do you have anything new to add? No. Because it’s all been said. But live in your little world of rehashing stuff for the rest of your life if you want. I prefer to move on. Why reply to me...

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