20 Jul 2025 06:52:27
I'm told we're negotiating a fee with Newcastle for Alexander Isak.
Ta.
20 Jul 2025 07:47:38
Nice one Carra
He is the best on the market but I still worry about his injuries and overall fitness for the cost
If ghis happens is the Ekitike deal off?
20 Jul 2025 07:48:02
WOW. What a window this is turning out to be. Congrats and thanks Carra.
20 Jul 2025 07:51:00
Ooof and we’ve just agreed a fee for Hugo Palindrome. This is like starting a new game of Championship Manager.
20 Jul 2025 07:55:15
First off - thanks as always Carra.
About whatever price this and Hugo Palin will cost - frankly don't care.
Not my money and I couldn't begin to understand the finances.
Just enjoying this amazing window and hoping we have better money men than Peter Risdale (hopefully this reference doesn't show how old I am ?)
20 Jul 2025 07:56:00
Grab the tissues boys.
20 Jul 2025 08:00:03
Cheers Carra. let us hope you're correct! ??????.
20 Jul 2025 08:11:22
Guess I ought to stock up on tissues before Ed001 buys them all… my socks have holes in them, which can get messy ;-)
{Ed001's Note - get them darned mate.}
20 Jul 2025 08:13:09
Cheers Carra, this is astonishing! Thanks for all the updates mate.
20 Jul 2025 08:19:56
Sat having a coffee, not woken up yet, I nearly googled who Hugo Palindrome was, thought we had agreed a fee for another player. Coffee is not strong enough.
Thanks so much to all who post on here, love this community. YNWA.
P. S Remember my promise if we sign Isak. Pucker up.
20 Jul 2025 08:21:28
Carra you sexy beast ?.
20 Jul 2025 08:23:51
Shares in Kleenex rise massively.
20 Jul 2025 08:27:10
Surely not? What is going on at our club haha.
20 Jul 2025 08:38:19
Ed001 do I have permission to get excited?
{Ed001's Note - just don't make my keyboard sticky!}
20 Jul 2025 08:38:23
Are we buying both? Surely we can't pull out at the last minute for Ekitike - that would not build cordial relationships with Frankfurt.
Perhaps Hugo can be the understudy .
20 Jul 2025 08:41:02
I'm too sleepy ? just googled Hugo haha. Imagine if we go in for both.
20 Jul 2025 08:43:50
Hello ed1. See a few comments in other threads here that etikeke has played wide at times, to your knowledge is that correct?
{Ed001's Note - yes, so has Isak. It is very common in young strikers to play wide while they are learning the ropes.}
20 Jul 2025 08:55:13
I am on this site first thing in the morning and last thing at night. oh and throughout the day waiting for updates like this.
Whether it happens or not, it really does fill me with excitement.
20 Jul 2025 09:06:06
Supposedly it's just been agreed for ekitike, I suppose buying both makes sense if Diaz and Nunez are going, it just rules out a fofana/ rodrygo type signing.
20 Jul 2025 09:13:19
If all the red keep buying tissue based materials there will be another lockdown lol. ?.
20 Jul 2025 09:14:59
Eat a massive slice of humble pie if this happens.
20 Jul 2025 09:35:36
Who is going to replace isak at toon if we get both.
{Ed001's Note - Jackson?}
20 Jul 2025 09:39:15
Oh my effing lord .
This is the most excited I've been about a potential signing . since . well
. Wirtz . but before that . a very long time
Just didn't see this window coming . I knew we would spend and get a couple in . but jeez we could upgrade half a title winning team here .
This is like champ manager . only thing left is to relegate man u and it's literally living the champ life .
Is it too late to sign cherno samba?!
20 Jul 2025 09:45:59
Morning Ed1, apologies if I have missed this answered somewhere else and I have tried searching, but is this true? Is the club actually now actively trying to recruit both Ekitike and Isak, or is it a case of as if we agree a fee for Isak like Carra says the Ekitike deal falls through? Thanks as always.
{Ed001's Note - it very much seems a decision has been made to get both, while the chance is there.}
20 Jul 2025 09:47:12
Is it time for an emergency profile on both players ed1? Ah go on. You will.
{Ed001's Note - I still have to do Kerkez yet!}
20 Jul 2025 09:49:10
I really don't want to get too excited yet but I can't help it!
If we get him then the amount of Kleenex needed to clear up the vast amounts of tummy custard is going to be quite monumental!
20 Jul 2025 09:59:57
Nunez to Newcastle ?.
20 Jul 2025 10:09:28
Hampo, also some options for Newcastle to sign Nunez as part of the Isak deal.
20 Jul 2025 10:13:22
I want to believe, I just can't see it, If Newcastle were eventually going to sell, why would they do it after we've taken their target in Ekitike.
I also couldn't see us signing Wirtz, so I see a grand total of f all.
20 Jul 2025 10:18:41
OK arken, you’re entitled to your opinion, it’s wrong but you are entitled to it!
20 Jul 2025 10:27:10
Firstly, cheers Carra for the info.
Secondly, Ed1 can I join the queue in kissing your bald head once we complete the deal for Isak?
Lastly, I want to say a thank you to Kleenex for the substantial discount on my baulk order. Granted it was an unhealthy amount I purchased, but still.
{Ed001's Note - oh go on then.}
20 Jul 2025 10:31:34
If this happens I’m forever a follower of Carra just can’t see how we replace Diaz with Ekitike.
20 Jul 2025 10:38:51
I hope I'm wrong!
20 Jul 2025 10:44:53
The phrase "tummy custard" has curtailed my excitement (of everything, not just transfers)!
20 Jul 2025 10:49:54
If this happens we'll need to charter a liverpool rumours flight to wherever ed001 is for the head kissing.
20 Jul 2025 11:22:59
Ed1 what are you hearing re Isak per your sources? Is it really in progress?
{Ed001's Note - it has always been on the table, the only issue was Newcastle wanted to replace him first. He was not keen on forcing a move, he feels he owes Newcastle for giving him a platform to improve. But now he must have realised his chances of a move happening are dissipating, as he has asked for Newcastle to let him go.}
20 Jul 2025 11:31:18
Ed I’m feeling too aroused to start stitching my socks together. And if we do get Isak, it won’t be your head I’ll be kissing….
{Ed001's Note - I am going to have to make sure security keep you out of the building!}
20 Jul 2025 11:50:08
?? I was thinking the tip…. of your nose mate ;-) my bird wouldn’t let me do anything else.
{Ed001's Note - give her my thanks!}
20 Jul 2025 11:50:35
Christ on a bike. We are trying to sign both players?
I thought signing both Babb and Scales in a summer was a surprise.
20 Jul 2025 12:11:08
I know we are all happy about us potentially signing Isak, but can I just say kissing ED001 beautiful shiny bald head is on a first come, first serve basis lads. And i was very much first in the queue.
But here Ed001 does this news confirm what you’ve heard also?
{Ed001's Note - I believe so.}
20 Jul 2025 12:23:17
Love you mate, see you soon.
20 Jul 2025 12:55:14
I'll willingly join the queue for the head kissing/ licking.
If we get Isak there's no end to what I'll hoover up off a bald man's head!
20 Jul 2025 13:26:53
Carra/ ed1 At what point do you think it will leak in the mainstream media. Waiting for sky sports breaking news.
20 Jul 2025 13:40:03
Ok fine,
I’ll get in on the tip kissing too!
20 Jul 2025 13:53:10
Even more exciting than Babb and Scales, as difficult as that may be to believe.
20 Jul 2025 13:54:09
Was it summer 88 when we signed Barnes, Beardsley, Aldridge and Houghton. that was special and became iconic. this seems even better!
20 Jul 2025 13:55:20
If this does happen, their will be meltdown across social media, football fans. The internet will break.
20 Jul 2025 14:05:43
Let’s get kinky boys.
20 Jul 2025 14:25:56
Shanklys ghost, I remember that summer and iconic is the word.
Reading this thread, I think erotic or emetic may be more appropriate!
20 Jul 2025 15:22:07
So many want to kiss Ed's bald head. I'm afraid to ask which one.
20 Jul 2025 16:24:38
Was never truelly over. We just needed isak to wake up and realise they were holding his career up. Thought we might of gone in for him in January or even next summer, but obviously he's pushed it.
Feel sorry for the geordies though.
20 Jul 2025 16:25:19
It's going to turn into a bukkake party! (Poor Ed)
20 Jul 2025 16:28:12
Bit behind here ed but has Isak now told Newcastle he wants to leave? Do you think it will happen now? Thanks mate.
{Ed001's Note - he has asked to go.}
20 Jul 2025 17:40:03
Aldridge didn't sign in the summer. We bought him in the January before the summer of Barnes and Beardsley.
Houghton was signed a few months later after Barnes and Beardsley.
Oh, and it was 1987.
20 Jul 2025 17:49:57
It will be interesting to see if this does happen, I would love it. Salah, Ekitike, Gakpo, Isak interchanging.
Magico1234 I know what you mean, we have had this happen to us so many times. TAA, Suarez, Torres, Mascherano, Couthinho to name but a few. But that's football.
Clubs want the best players for the team and the players want the best for their careers. They are short careers and if Isak feels he has a better chance of winning things with us, then who can blame him.
20 Jul 2025 18:26:38
Cheers ed, is it a transfer request?
{Ed001's Note - do you mean from Isak? If so, no I don't think he has handed in a transfer request.}
20 Jul 2025 20:08:11
Cheers ed, I guess that’s the next step for him?
{Ed001's Note - I think the next step would be for him to confirm he would like to leave Newcastle. Then we would need to make an acceptable offer and it to be rejected for him to have to do that. Unless they ask him to do it to make the move happen as he would then no longer be eligible for 5% of the transfer fee.}