[Albion] Yankuba Minteh SINGS on 5 year contract

[Zeberdi]

I will make sure I read every post thoroughly before replying in future.

That's insane if the 40m was sterling - even euros sounded like a huge fee for Lyon, wow. But it's very possible this is paper talk instigated by agents/NUFC to drive the price up before the 1st.

Well maybe just before contradicting a post

I agree £40m sounds high but I don’t know much about him other than from a few articles and promos vids and haven’t followed this thread until yesterday - maybe he really is something?

(also agree agents tend to be very busy during transfer windows puffing up the value of their players)

Contract with the Agent according to Fabi Romano (who presumably saw Ornstein’s early tweet )

 

[Hiheidi]

 

[Bozza]

Good business for Newcastle for a player who cost c£7m this time last year and only pulled on a Newcastle shirt for the signing photos.

All of which makes it a big help for their PSR-sanction-avoiding situation. If they've been trying to palm Anthony Gordon off, which has been reported, they're clearly in crisis mode currently.

 

[Reddleman]

Pleased with this if confirmed. Surely now our wide players and number ten position is sorted. Given we have at least three centre forwards any additional signings will hopefully be midfield and right back.

 

[Mancgull]

With the missing out to Chelsea for KDH it’s worth noting that we have beaten both Forest and Everton to Minteh.
Shows that there is a pecking order and whilst we aren’t at the top of it we aren’t at the bottom of the Premier League one either.
Our reputation for developing talent also plays a part of course.

 

[Machiavelli]

Saw him play for Feyenoord in March. Looks really exciting, scored a simple goal and was quite a handful.
The opposition were shit though!

Fear ye not. If you want depths, Coldplay are on soon.

 

[KZNSeagull]

My hope is, if we’re prepared to pay £33m for a 19 year old, we’re willing to spend big for a PL ready player. Not stupid money, mind, but big all the same.

Only if that PL ready player fits into our wage structure. Many won't

 

[Johnny RoastBeef]

We already had the most players on the Golden boy shortlist, But with this guy and Osman we will have 6.

That's as many as Real Madrid, Barcelona, Man City, Arsenal, Liverpool and Man Utd combined.

 

[Bozza]

Unless I'm mistaken, recently we've been lacking a group of overseas fans who will get all angry on social media when the club rainbow laces day and the like, so it's good the Gambians are coming on board to remind us all of the backward ways that exist in other parts of the world...

"Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in the Gambia face significant challenges not experienced by non-LGBT residents. Same-sex sexual activity is illegal for both men and women in the Gambia."​

 

[pigmanovich]

Only if that PL ready player fits into our wage structure. Many won't

What’s a wage structure?

 

[Ozymandias86]

The fee is big but his ceiling is crazy:

Yankuba Minteh is a Future Star

Some Spurs and Nico Williams ITK, a Celtic rumour, and a bunch of snark

www.thetransferflow.com

However, the story here is that Newcastle need to get money in ASAP to cover PSR issues, Minteh’s one of their best/only saleable assets, and they can probably get a 400-500% profit on their €8M fee. But to me, this is not the type of asset that you sell. This is one you develop as quickly as you can in the hopes he’s your Salah/Saka.

 

[Berty23]

Makes sense for us to get this into the accounts this month too. We have a massive surplus this season and if we signed him in July then on our three year rolling cycle it could really hurt us in years to come. I suspect that was also why we wanted KDH done asap.

 

[Hugo Rune]

Moder again?

 

[brighton_tom]

A new right wing option was very much needed, so happy with this

 

[MJsGhost]

A new right wing option was very much needed, so happy with this

I thought I'd stumbled into the Farage thread for a minute

 

[Napper]

Shame he’s not done anything other than in that noddy league

A risk , we must be convinced for that money !!

 

[KZNSeagull]

What’s a wage structure?

What a lovely reply. Look it up yourself.

 

[Farehamseagull]

Very pleased with this.

Surprised by the lack of Eredivisie criticism on here though?!

 

[Farehamseagull]

Shame he’s not done anything other than in that noddy league

A risk , we must be convinced for that money !!

I spoke too soon!!

 

[Hugo Rune]

Makes sense for us to get this into the accounts this month too. We have a massive surplus this season and if we signed him in July then on our three year rolling cycle it could really hurt us in years to come. I suspect that was also why we wanted KDH done asap.

I don’t think it matters that much to be honest.

I guesstimated that we could spend around £275m - £300m prior to Sunday and still avoid PSR issues. That won’t have reduced by much come Monday because the £33m will be amortised over 5 years and the 21/22 surplus we recorded was not significant.