12 Skydivers

I haven't followed Newcastle United very closely at all this transfer window.

I'm excited to find out if there's something to cheer me up.

How's it been going, Dave?

Yeah, mixed bag, shall we say.

There's been some highs, there's been some lows.

It's just transfer nonsense at the minute and it's really quite frustrating because I remember the days, and I'm sure you do too, you would...

I mean, for me, certainly, I'd pick up the Evening Chronicle, which is a local paper in Newcastle, and on the back page, I'd read that Newcastle United have just signed somebody.

And that was the first we'd heard about the business, and it was done.

Now we get the saga.

Now we get every part of the transfer deal is like drip, drip, drip fed.

You never used to get an Ornstein bomber on Teletext.

And I don't think we were in a worse world for it at the time.

I should have gone to Paul because I was setting you up there for, like, telling me how it's been utter shit because, I mean, it has been...

The little that I followed it, Paul, I'm picking up that it's been quite miserable at Newcastle United this summer.

Well, I don't know.

Some of it, I think...

We were a little bit bruised by last summer when we kept going for like really big targets and then getting beaten at the last minute.

And I think a lot of people feel like that's happening again, but I don't think it really is.

We lost out on, what's it, Munoz? Munoz to

Liverpool.

And Manzambi seems to be going to Villa.

That's fine.

I can think of every window we've lost out on players to Liverpool and Villa.

What is painful about it is, I'm not sure if I remember, maybe that is just the nature of the way the transfer industry goes now in terms of the media because of people like Romano and whoever.

Is that his name? Romano? Yeah.