Sandro Tonali

But then I, I reviewed the transfer windows during the week, and I, I didn't love theirs.

Like, I love the signing of Fernandez, but they overpaid for Tonali and Savinho, and even though I really like both players, I, I do find that a bit uncomfortable.

They've, they, they massively downgraded at center-back and at fullback.

Like, they've massively downgraded, and that's a, a big concern, and I don't know who's scoring them goals.

I don't know, but it's funny either way.

So are they back then, having spent a significant amount of money? You can argue whether it's good value or overpaying for Savio and Tonali and Fernandes and Van Hecker.

and potentially Marmouch on an option, Modric on an option that will absolutely never be taken up.

And all of these players, have they got good value there? Is it desperate? It feels desperate, but can Deserby or Dispersi, as people are calling him now after their first couple of results, can he make this work, both financially and on the pitch? Would you like me to give perspective here? Perspective? No, we can't.

You know, we're going for Elliot Anderson, you're getting Belarbi.

We're going for Tonali, you're getting Tielemans.

You know? We're going for Tchouameni, you're getting Santos.

That's basically what I think will happen.

I mean, you look at that last game at Fulham, and we know that the captain on the day had already started to try and move away from the club.

And we know Tonali didn't want to be here, all that stuff.

But the, the players were just not buying into whatever was, they were supposed to be doing, particularly off the ball.

It's almost a result to me.

And the club have taken that decision to say, "If you don't want to be here, go.

If you want to be here, w- we want you here, and we want to have this, this big sort of unified, uh, idea at Newcastle where everybody's buying into this kind of new Newcastle 2.0." And I think that's what you've seen from these first few games.

The idea, I think last season that there were games where, you know, I, I go back to the Tonali not playing at Sunderland, not playing against, um, Sunderland-

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partly because they needed the money to buy the new players and also to reduce the wage bill.

Now, the six biggest transfers when the window closed were Enzo Fernandes, Chelsea to Manchester City, $168 million, then Morgan Rodgers, Aston Villa to Chelsea, Elliot Anderson, Nottingham Forest to Manchester City, Bradley Barcola, PSG to Liverpool, Sandro Tonali, Newcastle to Spurs, Mateus Fernandes, West Ham to Tottenham.

All of those are $115 million or more.

Those top six transfers also highlight another change.

Uh, um, and in the end, Bruno pushed to go.

Tonali pushed to go.

They were all pushing us to go.

Even Eddie Howe voluntarily left.

But they've started well in the league.

But Newcastle look as if they've got over Eddie Howe and having their guts ripped out of the team, losing three of their best players, Anthony Gordon, Bruno Guimaraes and Sandro Tonali.

And they've replaced Eddie Howe with a promising looking manager from Red Bull.

It's got a highly rated and he seems to have made an impact.

and De Zerbi because he's just experimenting with the team at this point.

I mean, he started Conor Gallagher that last game and I was like, why did you buy Tonali and Mateus Fernandes if you are going to bench one every other week and start somebody else? That

has looked abysmal.

um it's not just tunali uh what's the name for man city not savio but the other one mamush has been woeful if you had seen the criminal offenses he was great committing last weekend i was i was like that's why pep was benching you and egypt too best you He's not that good as we were expecting.

It also lacks a bit of drive in there.

It sounds weird having Tonali in the midfield, but I think they're easy to get at defensively.

And do you know what? It doesn't feel like a team.

It doesn't feel like...