[Albion] Yankuba Minteh SINGS on 5 year contract

[dazzer6666]

A possible record signing at 1am with no fanfare, we are a strange club at the moment.

……….or simply completed very late yesterday with few or none of the people around needed to create the ‘fanfare’, but club wanted to get the news out. More to follow I would think. We are a strange fanbase at the moment

 

[Justice]

……….or simply completed very late yesterday with few or none of the people around needed to create the ‘fanfare’, but club wanted to get the news out. More to follow I would think. We are a strange fanbase at the moment

Makes perfect sense to me simply because people knew this deal had be done by midnight last night.

 

[Guinness Boy]

……….or simply completed very late yesterday with few or none of the people around needed to create the ‘fanfare’, but club wanted to get the news out. More to follow I would think. We are a strange fanbase at the moment

Or we have one strange troll who stayed up to 1am to tell everyone how disappointed he was.

 

[sussex_guy2k2]

I’ll always get excited by speedy wingers being signed. I do find it a strange one based on all we’ve heard about our new manager playing 3 at the back, but maybe this signals his desire to play with proper wingers still. If so, I’m totally in.

 

[Han Solo]

I’ll always get excited by speedy wingers being signed. I do find it a strange one based on all we’ve heard about our new manager playing 3 at the back, but maybe this signals his desire to play with proper wingers still. If so, I’m totally in.

3-4-3 isn't played with three central players up front. Or very unusually at least. Think we've done it once in five years with Connolly, Welbeck and Maupay all starting against Liverpool in 2020. But normally you want wingers in a 3-4-3.

 

[Hugo Rune]

A possible record signing at 1am with no fanfare, we are a strange club at the moment.

Newcastle probably insisted that we announce it as soon as possible. The narrative needs to be that we purchased the player in June.

 

[dazzer6666]

Newcastle probably insisted that we announce it as soon as possible. The narrative needs to be that we purchased the player in June.

The announcement timing would be irrelevant…….it’s the contractual date that would govern the PSR impact.

 

[Hiheidi]

 

[dwayne]

……….or simply completed very late yesterday with few or none of the people around needed to create the ‘fanfare’, but club wanted to get the news out. More to follow I would think. We are a strange fanbase at the moment

The club didn't need to announce at 1am though. I'm not moaning I'm just saying it's odd.

 

[Springal]

Hope this is a good move. The Athletic article suggests from this from Lyon rumours

‘

• Minteh was seen as part of the solution for weeks, but Lyon’s £40m offer led to Newcastle holding out for that valuation, despite the player being reluctant to move and the club aggressively attempting to convince him to’

 

[elwheelio]

May he take his place amongst the Albion Eredivise elite of Ali J, Locadia, Roland Bergkamp and Danny Holla.

 

[dazzer6666]

Toon forum includes speculation that they’re only selling us Minteh because they’re going to make an offer for Joao Pedro (or Ferguson), and that they’ll have buy-back and/or sell-on clauses for Minteh

 

[dazzer6666]

The club didn't need to announce at 1am though. I'm not moaning I'm just saying it's odd.

I don’t think it is…….they know we’ve got a whiny, impatient cohort of bedwetters desperate for news, any news, on signings. If they’d waited until later today or tomorrow (when we’ll probably get an interview and the usual other stuff) people would have been complaining that it wasn’t announced earlier. Damned if they do, damned if they don’t

 

[dwayne]

Or we have one strange troll who stayed up to 1am to tell everyone how disappointed he was.

Yep I "stayed up" until 1am and then waited another 3 hours to post about it.

 

[Rookie]

According to the Athletic it seems we were also interested in Anderson and both Everton and Chelsea were after Minteh

 

[Han Solo]

The club didn't need to announce at 1am though. I'm not moaning I'm just saying it's odd.

Well either you announce it or you have dozens of journalists calling you in the morning and probably a few thousand incontinent-born fans flooding social media with doom, tears and piss.
If Minteh wasn't announced last night we would already have seen five or six posts in this thread wondering if "the club failed again!!!" etc. The club is probably well aware that the human species is a sad, sad lot, and they have to act accordingly to avoid a bunch of extra hassle.

 

[ConfusedGloryHunter]

Yep I "stayed up" until 1am and then waited another 3 hours to post about it.

To be fair, you do seem to be complaining about the colour of the petrol in our shiny, new Porsche.

 

[el punal]

Wintergreen (off Stuart Henderson's thighs) and pipe tobacco smoke, that had a whiff of custard.

Was he smoking bananas to go with the custard?

 

[Bozza]

……….or simply completed very late yesterday with few or none of the people around needed to create the ‘fanfare’, but club wanted to get the news out. More to follow I would think. We are a strange fanbase at the moment

I think I was still up, but I didn't see the email drop in my inbox at 00:49 embargoing the story release until...00:50!

So it was a surprise to see it there this morning!

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

Does this mean we have a pink away kit next season or is that just a training top?