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It hasn't even been raining man. That's the worst thing.

This isn't safe to play on.

We are almost certainly getting 10m+ for Ashworth leaving, which correct me if I'm wrong also adds to our PSR kitty. We are also building a youth setup where we can start to see some loan fees coming into the equation. Put it this way, if Minteh heads back out on loan, I'd expect a couple of million heading our way. Every little helps in that regard.

We've paid over 40m for a player in every transfer window we have been involved in (apart from January gone). In the scenario I outlined above, I could easily see: 50m for Diomande Kelly for free 50m for a RW/Striker If we recoup 30/40m for the 3 I mentioned above, that's more than doable.

I've said this before, but it's worth reiterating... Every transfer window in which we have spent money, we have been way more ambitious than what I would have been. In the relegation zone: We signed Bruno and Trippier Following summer: Beat AC Milan to Botman and signed one of most highly rated young strikers in Europe in Isak. Following Summer: Took AC Milans future captain off them (ok, I know, I know). The point is, sometimes we are guilty of a lack of imagination. IF we have money to spend, we tend to go after real quality.

If wouldn't surprise you if Chelsea win 6 games in a row, despite never looking like doing that all season? Stiffy, this is one of those worried Newcastle fan posts, where you imagine the worst case scenario and run with it. TBF, I did it during the run last season. Newcastle will 100% drop points, possibly tonight, but we are better placed to pick ourselves up. Even if we lose against Palace, we couldn't have a better fixture than SU to recover. I'd be surprised if we don't get 3 wins, which will be enough IMO.

If he's close. It's much more likely that he waits until Sheffield U at home.

Well you can speculate all you want on FFP but the reality is that alot of us simply don't know where we stand. The club have talked about us being at our FFP limit since the day they walked through the door, in order to dampen expectations and of course to give them some bargaining power. Of course, you can look at recent figures and take a good guess but does that take into account our new sponsorship/shirt deals? As you say, we may sell players too. I can easily see a scenario where we sell Miggy, Wilson and Targett, we'd get somewhere around 30/40m for them 3 and although I have limited understanding of amortisation, that's not an insignificant number. The one thing I'm certain of, is that the club will at least sign 2/3 quality players to improve the squad. Edit: I'm also fairly convinced that we COULD have done one deal in January but decided against it, because it made more sense to wait until the summer and because we were limited in what we could do. In short, I'm sure we can find 100m to improve the squad with 2/3 players.

80m euros is 68 million pounds, which is more than what we paid for Isak, therefore I'd be highly surprised if we went to that figure. However, that's the high end of what they want. We've showed that we are capable of paying 50m+ for players we rate. Nothing to say we wouldn't do it again.... in theory.

Don't care, as long as we have more games of football.

Yep, there goes any chance of Chelsea catching our goal difference.

Like I said before. Let's hope the stuffing gets knocked out of Chelsea.

9 points will do top 7 IMO. Win our two home games and smash Burnley away. If we want 6th beat Man United at Old Trafford.

West Ham are gone, Man United are a mess and Chelsea are currently getting beat and have the most work to do.

Finally.