Somebody on twitter with no links to Dan Burn, his agent, BHAFC or NUFC says the second bid was 10million (plus addons) and it was rejected. Whatever the second bid was, this might be the point in negotiations where Tony tells them the asking price (20million), or he may just let them carry on...
If that chart is meaningful it suggests that both Webster and Burn are better than, for example, Mings, both in aerial ability and progressive passing, whilst Coady is a total donkey. Seems fairly accurate.
According to the NUFC experts on twitter he has a 9.5 mill or 9.8 Mill or 10 mill release clause so they will just increase their offer to 10 mill and it is done, especially as he's a local lad and would crawl over broken glass to get there.
You may be right but Muzza has no interest whatsoever in returning to his northern roots and Bruno doesn't seem to be in a hurry to move to Spain, admittedly both now retired.
The key question is would the club be offering him a new contract now, or soon, if there was no interest from the murderers? If not, and if he's not asking to go, then why would they? Of course, if he and his agent are playing their cards well, against a world-class poker player, he may get...
In Newcastle's case it doesn't matter whether he's got 18 months or 18 years left on his contract. They need him now, not in the summer and not next year. £20 million or no deal. No need to offer him a new, improved contract to stay either. Why should the club increase their costs just because a...