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I never understand why negotiations take so long. January moves fast. We have lots of games. We need a LWB. Just do it. 

 
ozboy said:
I never understand why negotiations take so long. January moves fast. We have lots of games. We need a LWB. Just do it. 
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Agreed. Chilwell is the long term first choice but we need immediate competition/another option for Alonso and will need back up for Chilwell going forwards who is better than Alonso. Digne is a better option than Alonso as a wing back and suffers the same weaknesses as a full back. But he has Premier League experience abd is a much better player than we are currently seeing under a Benitez formation than he clearly isn't suited to. I think we should move quickly and sign him on a permanent deal.

 
I can understand why the club might be hesitant to sign him permanently. We can’t  be having 5 left backs at the club. That’s ridiculous 

 
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ozboy said:
I never understand why negotiations take so long. January moves fast. We have lots of games. We need a LWB. Just do it. 
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That is to say we are actually interested in him. Could be his agent using us to make another deal happen.

 
JM7 said:
I can understand why the club might be hesitant to sign him permanently. We can’t  be having 5 left backs at the club. That’s ridiculous 
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Alonso, Chilwell, Emerson, Maatsen. Ah got you. I was wondering who the heck were the 4 left backs we already had.

If Digne is as good as I’ve seen him then I’d sell Alonso and Emerson, have Chilwell and Digne, and see if Maatsen can force himself in.

 
Newcastle next signing priority is expected to be Lucas Digne, once the signing is Kieran Tripper is completed.

 
axman2526 said:
Newcastle next signing priority is expected to be Lucas Digne, once the signing is Kieran Tripper is completed.
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Is this basically a rehash of what's been reported earlier or has there been some sort of breakthrough from Newcastle?

 
ozboy said:
I never understand why negotiations take so long. January moves fast. We have lots of games. We need a LWB. Just do it. 
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To be fair its going to be difficult getting a player who will accept he will be 2nd choice as soon as Chilwell gets back, but who is good enough to come straight into the team, fit the system Tuchel plays, impact on future squad development (youth players on out on loan etc) etc. Theres a lot of background work goes into signing players now, their personality profile etc, goes way beyond "is he a decent player". We`ve seen the impact of brining in one wrong player can have on a squad, you can then be stuck with someone you cant pick and who can have a negative influence on the squad. 

 
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JM7 said:
I can understand why the club might be hesitant to sign him permanently. We can’t  be having 5 left backs at the club. That’s ridiculous 
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It would actually be SEVEN ! We've got 4 left backs out on loan :-) 

Chilwell, Alonso, Emerson, Rahman, Maatsen, Castillo, Digne

And if you also count Azpi's verstaility, then you could even argue Digne would be #8 LOL

If we get stuck, Colwill and Sarr could also play that position, and we've also seen Reece James playing there recently.

So Digne could give us a much needed 11th option LOL, as long as we don't count TT experimenting with CHO and Pulisic !

 
dkw said:
To be fair its going to be difficult getting a player who will accept he will be 2nd choice as soon as Chilwell gets back, but who is good enough to come straight into the team, fit the system Tuchel plays, impact on future squad development (youth players on out on loan etc) etc. Theres a lot of background work goes into signing players now, their personality profile etc, goes way beyond "is he a decent player". We`ve seen the impact of brining in one wrong player can have on a squad, you can then be stuck with someone you cant pick and who can have a negative influence on the squad. 
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True enough. My thought was you'd wait and see how well Chilwell does come back, let em compete for a season and may be  sell Digne on. The personality part's important I suppose, maybe thats why he went from PSG to Barcelona to Everton. I dunno about the youth players but Azpi is going to play less and less and Alonso is now 31. Emerson and Baba aren't coming back.  CHO, Pulisic and Mount aren't really going to be wing backs or at least not natural ones. 

And all the while the next game is coming right up. So accepting its hard I still think fortune favours the bold and its better to be decisive and straightforward early in the windows rather than waiting to the end trying to do something clever. 

 
dansubrosa said:
Alonso, Chilwell, Emerson, Maatsen. Ah got you. I was wondering who the heck were the 4 left backs we already had.

If Digne is as good as I’ve seen him then I’d sell Alonso and Emerson, have Chilwell and Digne, and see if Maatsen can force himself in.
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ozboy said:
True enough. My thought was you'd wait and see how well Chilwell does come back, let em compete for a season and may be  sell Digne on. The personality part's important I suppose, maybe thats why he went from PSG to Barcelona to Everton. I dunno about the youth players but Azpi is going to play less and less and Alonso is now 31. Emerson and Baba aren't coming back.  CHO, Pulisic and Mount aren't really going to be wing backs or at least not natural ones. 

And all the while the next game is coming right up. So accepting its hard I still think fortune favours the bold and its better to be decisive and straightforward early in the windows rather than waiting to the end trying to do something clever. 
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YOU CAN NEVER HAVE TOO MANY LEFT BACKS!!!

 
When you look at the playing characteristics, Digne is definitely a better proposition than Dest, even allowing for "potential" and resale value in the latter ... 

Much better in the air, better at crossing, and above all much better at defensive contribution.

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Watch us sign Dest LOL

 
Digne is a better player for sure. Not sure why is it taking us so much to sign any LB to be honest... Imagine Newcastle beating us in signing Digne while also casually bringing Trippier, Ramsey, Wijnaldum... 

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I know it is difficult to judge Lewis Hall against non league opposition but I would say stick with him. Tuchel will have an idea if he can mix with the big players by watching him in training. 
 

I don’t think we should be signing another left back on big wages who is 28 years old. Doesn’t make sense. If Tuchel doesn’t want to use Hall, we should sign Kounde and use him to mix things around. 

 
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