Newcastle United Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2022/2023

Wood Practically confirmed

• Loan till end of season with option to buy
• Conditions to make deal permanent are meant to be very realistic (£15 Million forest will pay and the contract is longer than the newcastle one he is currently on)

Over all this is great business for all, at 31 he will probably get a 2 year deal at forest, maybe extended one year depending where they are, bringing his career to an end.

He came to us when we badly needed someone for that Leeds game, we eventually stayed up and now taking a a 10m loss on a 31 year old whist saving 100K per week on his wages

win win

Yeah we have done really well, Forest similar to us last year that their strikers are injured and need a quick fix. Super work by the board getting 15m into the clause and by all accounts Wood played his last game for Newcastle the other night leveraging how easy the targets are to achieve

I'd rather not directly replace wood but strengthen midfield, rely on Isac and Wilson up top, if both get injured Joelinton can step in there.

2 midfielders are badly needed, makes the bench much stronger

Like us last year although they signed 500 players their strikers were injured so Forest needed a quick signing. I presume for us to allow wood go that the ball was in our court.

I'm sure the major stipulation is to for them to stay up, so 120m to stay up V 15m chance on Wood to help them do that seems like a no brainer (again similar to our thinking last season one would think)

Not convinced by him being a good signing either. Looked to have potential to loose the head altogether and be sent off in the few times I saw him playing but he is fairly young so maybe with some coaching he will get better at channeling his aggression in a positive way rather than just giving away stupid free kicks. Would have much preferred to see someone with a bit more creativity in their game being signed.

Initially, you would think he isn't for us, but he plays with his heart, can play across the front 3 and attacking midfielder, has bursts of pace and energy.... on paper exactly what we are looking for.

A strange one from the outside but we have been linked with him for a while, the work must have been done on him to know it is exactly what we are looking for.

Also, the main reason I believe he could come good is none of the signings have been wrong yet, so we must trust this is a decent one also.

Looked very positive in the way he played in the 20minutes alright and he almost put Wilson through for a second goal except for a last ditch tackle from a West Ham defender. I have my doubts about him being signed but it looked to me like he has made a very good start and should definitely be considered for a starting place in the next game.

Really dull performance missing Bruno badly.

Wasn't great to see our 3 subs be used because of injuries also.

Other 2 should be fine, Willock doesn't look promising.

The draws are killing us, looks great only losing one all season but 11 draws (5 from past 6) has shown the team is getting tired - same 14 used all season.

I'd like Targett to make a few starts when back, switch it up a bit.

V Liverpool id start Gordon, Anderson, Murphy

of all the teams to fall apart to its the bloody scousers.

Lots of heart but no end product, really taken foot off pedal since the WC, almiron is back to the old almiron, wilson has really gone backwards

Def were protecting karius, they changed playing out from the back quite a bit from what I noticed, and overall Karius did fine, but I feel he could have done better with the botman deflection

I think more so January, even with the WC we did well up to Jan

Our squad is light, the lads are wrecked, and to maintain the high intensity a squad rotation needs to happen. we got rid of wood and Shelvey and just brought in Gordon

With Wilson the rumour is long covid, but bar the Liverpool chance nothing has fallen to him either... we tend to be running out of idea's.

Regarding the final, we were beaten by a stronger team, not a great game but Uniteds depth could just nullify us, take for example ASM had dalot running in circles, he gets booked and its so easy to replace then with AWB.

We have basically the same 11 lads running their arse's off 90% of the season.

This weekend I'd take the hit on City and give lads a break

start: Targett, Lacelles, Gordon, murphy, Anderson

Regarding Europe we need 5 more players (without getting rid of anyone) is it worth it next year? I don't think we are prepared for it.

For me champions league or nothing and regardless what team we put out you'd expect 3 points for city, so spurs could go 7 clear with us having 2 games in hand

Another win, keeps us in contention going into the international break, Isak super, gutted for Anderson.

We are so light for squad numbers... 4 left backs on the bench the other night

the final run in is even enough with 2 games in hand over spurs, with one win taking us into 4th

Next game V MUFC is a 6 pointer, we win and they are dragged back into the fight for 4th place. they win and it should put them clear

Great win. Think 5th of better is a certainty, us, Spurs and Utd have similar run ins to the season.

Interestingly I seen a few bits about McTominay to us - whats peoples opinions? Overall Id be happy with him - he looks like a hardworking player that would fit into Howes style nicely.

Super win, Spurs result last night has helped alot.

Huge game at West ham to create some breathing space between us and Spurs.

Mctominay, I can see why we could want him, but really he is a crap Longstaff, we need more quality than that to push on.

Anyone heard of any more detail on the situation with Gordon?

Just going to butt in here as I mentioned it in the general thread, but I don't think that's the official Newcastle twitter. In saying that, his actions were stupid when coming off. So be funny if was true too