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49 minutes ago, Lesta2014 said:

3 in 4 games this pre season, starting the season in form. This would be disastrous and require us to fix left and right wing in 5 weeks. 

...there is a lot of Right footed LWs out there so replacements may not be so difficult!!!

He does tend to look down on the ground a lot, he has a strange body language and could be introverted, but watching him today, you just wish he had some joy in his game.

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5 minutes ago, foxfanazer said:

I wouldn't want us to sell at any price currently. Think he has the talent to break into the England team and then his value will rocket

 

Plus we've not even replaced Mahrez yet so how could we possibly weaken our left side as well?

I wouldn’t want to sell either mate. Not so much that the money wouldn’t be great, but that we’ve not got anyone else. And I don’t trust Rodgers to spend wisely 

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Just now, Col city fan said:

I wouldn’t want to sell either mate. Not so much that the money wouldn’t be great, but that we’ve not got anyone else. And I don’t trust Rodgers to spend wisely 

We'd end up with Nathan Redmond or something 

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7 minutes ago, Col city fan said:

He can be great mate, or awful at times. We all know that.

I think this is another example of kids having a bit of a dream fest

The market is actually starting to stabilize out a little. Wages are becoming more salient than pure transfer fees

But again, hope I’m wrong..

 

Home grown tax counts for plenty and PL teams are far richer than the likes of Benfica so he should go for more than Nunez. 

 

Everton needed to sell to an extent as they wouldn't be able to buy without the money because of the FFP limits. Sterling older and in the last year of his contract.

 

Is Barnes worth £70m to many clubs? Doubt it. Is he worth that to us? Fair bit more than that. Certainly wouldn't back us to find better for £50m and that playing be interested in coming. 

 

He's still got plenty to improve on but he's a known quantity for us and we have to take a punt on somebody else to replace him so a pointless move on our part.

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Harvey way too important for us to let go now. He’s not the finished article yet (decision making / being a bit too greedy some times goes against him) but he’s clearly come on leaps and bounds and is class. Really helps stretch the play for us and we have no one else who can do that. 

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£50m feels cheap - 3 years left on contract, England international and with our recent recruitment record I don't back us to adequately replace him.

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3 hours ago, Sankey93 said:

50m 😂 I’d sell immediately if this was legit! We could replace 2 times over with this.

 

He's well worth £50m.

 

Careful what you wish for as we'd just bring in someone of a worse standard and the slide to regular relegation battles begins.

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What concerns me, is that we take the £50m and replace him with bloody Lookman. 

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5 hours ago, Col city fan said:

What did Sterling just go for, or Richarlison? 
And someone on here thinks we’ll get 70 mill for Harvey Barnes

Oh dear..

Over the past season his goal ratio in the league is 1 in 4, and he virtually guarantees 8-10 assists also.

 

he is 24, a proven premier league regular starter in a side that has been pushing for champions league regularly (until last seasons injury hit season) and an England international.

 

As others have said, sterling was in his last year of contract and Man City wanted to sell, also Richarlison is inconsistent and Everton wanted to sell.

 

£70m for a player that will average around 20 goal and assist contributions a season in the league, is not a crazy fee when you think about it.

 

He may have quiet periods or moments of indecisions in the game but we have to keep him.

 

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6 hours ago, Col city fan said:

What did Sterling just go for, or Richarlison? 
And someone on here thinks we’ll get 70 mill for Harvey Barnes

Oh dear..

Sterling had a year left on his contract.

Everton HAD to sell allegedly due to FFP and balancing their books.

I’m not saying that anyone offers 70m for Harvey but thought I’d just comment on your other two examples as it’s not completely impossible it doesn’t happen.

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Weird to say, but half the people on here demanding 70mill+ plus, will be demanding we offload for 20mill the first time he has a bad game.

 

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7 hours ago, Ric Flair said:

Can't think of many wingers that score and assist as many as he does at this level that would be available for under £25m.

I’m not his biggest fan I’ve got to admit. He’s a one trick pony and last season Lookman was better on the left most of the time. When Harvey’s on it he’s very good but he’s not consistent enough for me. Like some people have said in here tho be careful because you know what BR is like and his replacement would be probably be a downgrade.

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5 minutes ago, Sankey93 said:

I’m not his biggest fan I’ve got to admit. He’s a one trick pony and last season Lookman was better on the left most of the time. When Harvey’s on it he’s very good but he’s not consistent enough for me. Like some people have said in here tho be careful because you know what BR is like and his replacement would be probably be a downgrade.

And when I say replace. It makes me wonder no RW links and BR does like his 3 CB’s with the wingbacks! Could see other players come in that would suit that system.

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It doesn't matter what other players have gone for. The question is how important is he to us and how much do Newcastle want him. 

 

I would say he's vital to us as we don't have anyone like him and he consistently assists and scores. 

How much do Newcastle want him? Well let's see...

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His numbers say it all whether he plays well all the time or not. No way would I sell for that. 
 

To cheer people up, here is a Newcastle fan suggesting they sign Barnes, Maddison and Vardy.

 

 

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Agree that selling Barnes would be madness. Also not convinced that any of our best players would want to go to Newcastle at this point - give it 2 or 3 more years when they've bought their way into top 6 contention and that then becomes a much bigger risk, though. 

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There is definitely a perception problem with Barnes. He gets nowhere near the respect he deserves from our fans let alone anybody else. I’m sure it doesn’t help that he looks like a rugby league player - he doesn’t play football with any particular grace (albeit he’s scored a few very nice goals) but the stats speak for themselves - he is a very effective wide forward at this level.

 

 

Comparing him to a couple of recent transfers at £50m, last 3 seasons in the PL:

Richarlison 30 goals, 11 assists in 100 games (0.43 g/a p90)

Jesus 31 goals, 21 assists in 91 games (0.78 g/a p90)

Barnes 21 goals, 22 assists in 93 games (0.63 g/a p90)

 

Richarlison has scored 4 penalties in that total and Jesus 2 (Barnes 0).

 

All roughly the same age but Barnes is the youngest by about 6 months. Jesus was in the last year of his contract.

 

Over the last 3 years Barnes has only got 2 goals/assists fewer than Maddison who everybody seems to agree would fetch at least £75m if he was sold today (and Barnes is a year younger).

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Simple answer absolutely no way should we entertain selling Barnes or Maddison for that matter,  as I genuinely believe they would be irreplaceable for what they bring to our team for the money we would receive, they are so critical to how play and when they are on it we are at our very best

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