Alex Crook backtracking instantly under the slightest questioning from Simon after claiming Newcastle were under strict FFP pressures nearly had me on the floor laughing 😂 The bloke is a complete chancer.

@alexlanemusic

5 ай бұрын

Agreed. Constantly back-tracking. Every time I hear his voice on here I turn off. Waffle.

@josephkerrigan733

5 ай бұрын

To be fair I'm pretty sure that's what the club have said and leaked out that they're up against FFP and would struggle to spend to a large degree. I don't know if it''s true as I'm not really that knowledgeable about Newcastle's financial situation but I'm sure I saw from a couple of articles that "Sources within the club suggest that they would struggle to spend large in January due to FFP...etc".

@eddierxx124

5 ай бұрын

If you ever feel like you’re bad at your job people - just remember Alex Crook is paid to talk about football transfers. 😂

@cockoffgewgle4993

5 ай бұрын

He's more right than Simon. Newcastle have a net spend of over £400mil the last 2 and a half years. What "prudency" existed prior to the last 3 years is irrelevant for FFP. Plus big wages on top of that £400mil.

@Reina5342

5 ай бұрын

@@josephkerrigan733 They said that from the 2nd transfer window. Yet we've spend 350m since.

Alex Crook got his position as chief correspondent by pulling rumours out of thin air from his lounge chair and stalking Fabrizio Romano's twitter, almost everything Ive heard from him are total bullocks.

@dannytallmage2971

5 ай бұрын

That’s how everyone gets those kind of jobs. What else do you want them to do? There’s no investigate journalism it’s all just leaks so you pretend to have sources until you are big enough to have actual sources.

@lconnerz100

5 ай бұрын

Do you care how he gets the information? I can’t be arsed my self to check peoples twitters or instagrams for information that he’s getting from there, so glad he does relay it.

5 ай бұрын

Hes a clown but TalkSport seam to be happy paying him a lot of money for stalking Romano

@skacel7

5 ай бұрын

So he's the living proof of "fake it till you make it". Fair play to him I reckon.

5 ай бұрын

@@skacel7 pretty much

The thumbnail made me think Newcastle sacked Eddie Howe and hired Wayne Rooney... dear Lord.

Crook is not a reliable source 😂

Newcastle like Aston Villa can't just go & spend loads of cash on players,cos their revenues are nowhere near the clubs that have been consistent over the last 10-15years,a clubs revenues are tied in too what you can do with the FFP regulations & it doesn't matter how rich your owners are,clubs can only spend what comes in legitimately. People seem to forget about these FFP rules when going on about a clubs perceived riches, Newcastle's & Aston Villa's owners have bucket loads of cash,but they cannot put in anymore than the current regulations allow,EPL Clubs are allowed to loose 105: million over a 3yr period. Newcastle & Aston Villa had a yearly revenue in the last set of accounts approximately 215 million each over a year,where as Chelsea & Spurs had approximately 450 million each for their yearly revenues in the same period,with Liverpool,utd & city taking more income than the fore mentioned examples. All Villa, Newcastle can do is work smarter & hope the higher revenue clubs waste income, catching up bit by bit over a long period, that's why the current rules suck & FFP just protects the so called big 6? Lol & doesn't allow fair competition,FFP has created a small clique of clubs that monopolise football & are a complete farce. I believe that the regulations should be staggered dependent on level of club revenue & allow clubs with less income more leeway over a period of time in order to catch up,but that'll probably never happen,a fair playing field is alien to the powers that be,cos the people that make those same rules probably get very rich keeping the status quo just how it is. Corrupt fuckers!.....up the mighty Villa!!!!!

@Fmfcg

5 ай бұрын

Aston villa still splash 100 million a season

@chuckyjudy

5 ай бұрын

Spot on mate. Ironic they call it financial FAIR play when all it does is prevent clubs from challenging the big 6

Wayne could be a great appointment at Man United! 😂

@CSTam-vy7bp

5 ай бұрын

My thoughts exactly! He needs to come home.

Crook got word of it early????? He is a total chancer. Just another London United fan boy.

@TheGeneral_LUFC

5 ай бұрын

He reads romanos twitter page

Steve Cooper has had 4.5 season as a boss - Swansea POs....Swansea PO FInal.....Forest PO WInners....Forest 17th in PL.....and 18th at time of sacking last month. By most measures, that marks him down as a good manager for the level BCFC are looking at. Birmingham could do much worse - and I am a Forest fan.

@User-ei7eo

5 ай бұрын

Birmingham literally couldn’t do any better than Steve cooper, nevermind much worse 😂 he’ll pick up a premier league job soon.

@bernardm2528

5 ай бұрын

​@@User-ei7eoEustace is the stand out candidate he's already done it, with these misfit injury prone players. Just not sure our owners have the brains or vision to bring him back. We were 2 points off 3rd. Sure Cooper would also be good but we won't get him. Anyone else is just another huge risk, and 3 managers in a season results in relegation known fact. KRO

5 ай бұрын

he aint going there mate .Hes staying in the Prem

Simon, what brand are your spectacles? I love them and would like to purchase a pair.

Alex Crook, one of the worst journalists going. Pretty sure he hasn't got one fact right about Newcastle and transfer business. The bloke constantly backtracked when questioned by Simon Jordan. Stealing a living

Not sure that microphone is big enough

@MarkWalmsley

5 ай бұрын

I looked after your comment lol

Does Crook actually have an exclusive of anything? we could all do what he is doing.

@BlackBeltNob

5 ай бұрын

It's my understanding, from what i've been told, that he's a complete chancer

give it to gabby till end of season

@rhysthomas4341

5 ай бұрын

Behave ya villa bench warmer 😂

@Hawkins123

5 ай бұрын

@@rhysthomas4341one thing for certain any villa bench warmer would stroll into blues’ starting 11😂

@Elst07896

5 ай бұрын

😅😅 Good God no! He'd have us languishing down at the bottom of the National League North if he could...lower if possible! 😅😅

The commercial side of things is the most significant aspect for elite clubs. Truth of the matter is, Newcastle just don't have that just yet. They need to expand their commercial side, improve sponsors, win trophies, qualify for European competitions. Make huge profits on player sales etc. It'll take time. However I do believe it's not just FFP that stops the Newcastle owners because I think they're sticking to a very strict financial plan that isn't as risky as what the likes of Chelsea and Manchester United are doing. This might be because newcastle don't want to make too many changes to the relationship dynamics amongst the players, look at Chelsea, they bought tons of players and are now finding it difficult to make them gel together. So Newcastle are clearly going down a slower route. It's a 5 year plan, last season was over-performance and put them ahead of schedule.

@lconnerz100

5 ай бұрын

Well it is strictly ffp, Newcastle can’t spend because the rules that are in place, you’re right they’re sticking to a strict financial plan…but that plan is there because it coincides with ffp. If Newcastle are to spend money then they will either need to wait or somehow sell dead wood for some sort of considerable fee.

Re NUFC FFP. ashley left the club with no debts but also no infrastructure and the sponsorship levels never increased for 10 + years. Also the squad the new owners inherited had very little sell on value.

Newcastle selling Bruno would be a bad move- maybe sell on tonali instead

Newcastle might have the money but I don’t think they have the pull to get the end game players they want. Rather than spend big on 2nd rate elite players, they need to stabilise in the champions league but adding 1 or 2 each season with potential to grow. Once they are always in the mix, the players will want to come. Right now, I think they’ve dropped off a little bit from an extraordinary run of form last year. They can see the mistakes Man Utd and Chelsea are making. I think Newcastle are being smarter. They are not chasing it, they are working towards it.

How can Newcastle be under such strict FFP restrictions? Everybody else seems to spend big and keep their star players. If we have to sell Bruno for funds then we might as well still be under the Ashley regime.

@shamrockballs1066

5 ай бұрын

Shocking isn't it? The more I learn about the rules of this the more I come to the conclusion there's a top 6 mafia keeping the rest of us down. Its becoming a joke.

@samroberts6697

5 ай бұрын

Because they don’t generate huge sums of money yet. I don’t think it’s a big 6 mafia keeping anyone out it’s more the Uniteds, Liverpools, Arsenals that are scared clubs like City and Newcastle will be able to compete with them. City have proven it can be done and that’s why they’re after them 😂

@PutSomeDsonThatBlink

5 ай бұрын

I think that's why Man City are just going to take the fine/point deduction and see what comes of it. It was Gary Neville who pointed out that FFP benefits Man Utd the most out of all clubs.

@shamrockballs1066

5 ай бұрын

​@@samroberts6697yes and they are continually making clubs like Newcastle jump through hoops and putting obstacles in the way. You know its bad when Jordan's confused since hes been against the NUFC regime from the start. Your Man United's and Liverpool's didn't have to compete with FFP, they were allowed to build. Now its a problem. Could you imagine opening a shop, you have £10m in your bank account and you can't bring in 500k worth of stock to grow build and expand because your turnover is only 100k 😂 Its an insane and artificial rule to keep your Man Uniteds, Liverpool's, Arsenals, Chelsea's and Spurs at the top. It could keep Newcastle within their 'limit' for decades. From a business point of view it makes no sense.

@01bigtrev

5 ай бұрын

They need to do what the villa have done with their youngsters, sell them for 10-20 million with first option on buy back

Maxi was sold because he was inconsistent and a one tricky pony, newcastle didnt need 20 million to 'balance the books'

Alex Crook 🛎️ end

Simon - “this is my field of expertise, what’s your source Alex?” Alex - “trust me bro” 4:44

I totally agree simon , if offered 50 mil for cg he should be sold .He will not be missed ,no problem replacing him at all .

Steve Cooper??

Scott Parker to replace him? Good in championship

Seems very strange Newcastle would have to sell … when Saudi own … but Chelsea spend over billion with USA owner who borrow cash from Saudi

What about Paul Jewell?

Mowbray or Cooper. Thats the only 2 we would want

@user-kh9ql7si6g

5 ай бұрын

I'd take Rowett on 18 month deal. Just about getting points on the board now.

Steve Copper would be a great manager .

Why is crooks mic the same size as his head.

Name brilliant players who went onto be brilliant managers?? Very very few over the years. If any in my view. Fergie, Wenger, Mourhinio, Klopp, Clough, Paisley - all average players. The list goes on and on. Pepe stands out as a recent exception I guess. Dalglish comes close but even then, he kind of inherited it all. Souness?? Apart from a two horse race in Scotland, he certainly didn't set the managerial world on fire. Lampard and Gerrard certainly didn't. Viera kind of stuffed it too. The list goes on and on. Keane to name another.

Lingard would be a great signing for Everton!

This fella sounds like the bloke down the pub

If I ran a football club and had an announcement, I would deliberately wait until Jim White was off air to make it. Can't stand his constant sucking himself about breaking a story

so basically alex is just making it up about newcastle lol soo theorising on what they should do rather than in reality what there going to do

I would go for Mullin from Wrexham fc

Time for transfer rumours with Peter O'Hanra-Hanrahan

Billy Davis ?

Neil warnock or big sam

Why hasn't the name of Steve Cooper been mentioned to replace Rooney?

@indiansfever11

5 ай бұрын

I have a feeling Cooper will hold out for a chance at Palace.

Not a chance they would sell Bruno

After the season that Bruno has had then theres not much chance anyone is likely to pay enough for him to make it worthwhile to sell him and Isak at the moment isnt even worth what we paid for him. We need to get rid of the bit part players and replace them with people the same quality as our first team not sell our first team players.

@New-ye2fl

5 ай бұрын

Isak has looked class

@st4rskream

5 ай бұрын

Isak has a lot of potential and thats why i wouldnt sell him but for now he plays well one match out of three and hes injured a lot so i doubt anyone would pay more than what we did for him. @@New-ye2fl

@uniq6998

5 ай бұрын

Isak is worth tho. He plays really well and dribbles past whenever he could.the few games, he's really messed up,he was half fit/injured . He performs if he's given chances. Wilson is terrible tho. Always wasting chances whenever he gets the ball.

@Michael-wk1kj

5 ай бұрын

Isak has the same amount of goals as Watkins and only 3 behind Son and Solanke playing many fewer games and inbetween a long injury layoff. He’s absolutely class.

@st4rskream

5 ай бұрын

I didnt set out to be critical of Isak in my post, its more a point i was making at TalkSport saying we could sell one of our 3 best players to raise cash when really their stock has dropped this season and the money we could potentially get by selling one of the three would never be enough to replace them with a player even as good never mind better. @@uniq6998 @Michael-wk1kj

I don't get why Newcastle just don't go out and spend to buy the best players take the FFP 10 points deduction? Surely the players will be able to recover that??

@tonyshortland8812

5 ай бұрын

I'm astonished by your logic Imran. Have you studied the rules, financial fair play, is to protect football. Wait till city's legal smokescreen clears, then toons will be up one place

@imranali6090

5 ай бұрын

@tonyshortland8812 Will City have all their trophies taken off them? Will they get relagated? Will all those magical moments be erased? No they won't!! I am fed up of going through all the stress and anxiety of watching newcastle and as the way things are going it just reminds me more and more of the traumatic cashley years. Money can do magical things

@tonyshortland8812

5 ай бұрын

Don't get stressed about it Ali..! Only 22 millionaires running around, after a bag of wind! They won't have to give their money back.. haha.. as jurgan klopp says, it's only the most important, of the not important things... Happy new year

Never convinced Alex Crook actually knows anything.

Yeah they will be fighting FFP. Looking at transfers alone.... 21/22 season -130M 22/23 -171M 23/24 -108M already averaging -136M for last 3 seasons. Everton by comparison +42M so far this year, +30M 22/23 and +16M 21/22 ==> to go further back 20/21 -70M 19/20 -33M 18/19 -71M 17/48 -77M Obviously I dont have other expenses or incoming revenue

Why don’t Newcastle just do a city and get Saudi Arabian airlines to sponsor them for four times what a normal sponsor would pay.

@ismith9826

5 ай бұрын

it’s gunna happen

@ismith9826

5 ай бұрын

it’s gunna happen

@ismith9826

5 ай бұрын

it’s gunna happen

@ismith9826

5 ай бұрын

it’s gunna happen

You have to be impressed by Alex crooks continuing dedication to never talk about Liverpool.

Crook just reads the sun and repeats it😂

😲Nonsense Newcastle has hardly spent any money they cant do business because of FFP🤔really. Something wrong with the accounting here.🤷‍♂️

@MarkWalmsley

5 ай бұрын

They don't earn big money which is the problem!

@Chris-oz9qx

5 ай бұрын

Hardly spent any money??? They've blown 400 million since they bought the club only 2 years ago and recouped about 40m of that. Not to mention they've got low income from global support and sponsorship.

Until Newcastle are accepted into the rich 6 club they wont be able to ignore the rules! Im still waiting to hear how you can spend a billion quid and not fall foul of FFP, even if you're handing out 10 year contracts..?!?!

Eddie Howe can do a lot better than Newcastle

Why did Birmingham city sack their previous manager when theyvhad a great start and had good outlook but then ruin it with rooney , as good as he was a player hes not a manager . Hes been terrible

If Newcastle are genuingly snookered with FFP then Premier League is going to become very boring. No other club will be able to compete for more than 1 season before hitting the FFP buffers. Will happen to Villa next year….Brighton look like they have given up and look happy to be chelsea’s feeder club and beyond newcastle & villa none of the others have revenues anywhere close!!! FFP was always going bite eventually. Will kill competition given Everton’s punishment. Nobody going to risk that One thing it does point to though….does it highlight that City had to have cheated at some point to get revenues of under £100m to over £600m all during FFP! Does make you wonder

Sell Almiron longstaff & a defender n a youth talent

Crooky is back, Fabrizio Romano must be posting on twitter again so

Alex crook is clueless.

Bruno Guimares is good but 100m ???? Nah, not everyone is Todd Boehly overpaying for the likes of Enzo and Caicedo

@andrewwright4195

5 ай бұрын

It a relause clause

Led Csrsley Hickingbottom

FFP = only certain clubs can spend money.

What I don't see anyone talking about is why in the world does Simon Jordan look so much like that farmer in Shaun the Sheep. It's a mystery I cannot solve

@koeman1873

5 ай бұрын

lol

Jim is so bad at hosting

Not the thing to do at all sell Bruno and get who?😂

Breaking: Wayne Rooney has been appointed manager of Mogadishu Mullahs.

Newcastle used to spend money back in the day, they broke the world record transfer fee in 1996, it's time they ramped back up again.

@kennyw218

5 ай бұрын

Ffp

I might be wrong but hasn't E. Howe spent over 300 million He spent 27 million on Chris Wood sold him for less than half that and if I'm right didn't he comeback and score a hattrick That bit of business alone would get a manager sacked.

@kooler8586

5 ай бұрын

Payed 25 million for woods Eddie did not what to sell him that was above his pay grade Think they sold him for 15 million if I recall

Aaaw poor thing Rooney . Oh well 6 million makes itbetter lol

Newcastle will win nothing with eddie howe in charge.

Lets face it the American owners don't know what they are doing even since Hicks & Gillette.

@martynrollinson

5 ай бұрын

Obviously your lacking knowledge.... Do some research on the 49's, they are no mugs...

@JamesJohnAgar

5 ай бұрын

@@martynrollinson I don't need to when it comes to the Premier League(which we are talking about, different model) they know nothing about our game. Why do you think Hicks/Gillette left, because they had no idea!

Crook ate alphabet spaghetti as a child

I don’t see why Newcastle should fall foul of FFP. It sounds like journalists talking about finances without actually understanding how accounting works. I am no expert by any means but as I understand it what they’ve spent doesn’t show as an immediate loss on the balance sheet it gets amortized over the length of a contract but a player sale does show as full revenue. Take Botman for 35mil over 5 years will show as a 7mil loss every year. Selling Saint Maximin for 25mil will cover nearly 3 players in a similar price bracket for a year. They also have large broadcasting revenue like every Prem club. If they’ve posted profits in the last few fiscal years they have to lose a lot of money to fall of the 105mil loss over 3 years.

@cockoffgewgle4993

5 ай бұрын

They've spent over net £400mil in the last 2 and a half years.

@hellalive8973

5 ай бұрын

@@cockoffgewgle4993 doesn’t mean anything unless they’re posting a loss

@cockoffgewgle4993

5 ай бұрын

They are. They aren't making anywhere near that or they'd have been spending that for the last 20 years. They posted a £70mil loss in their first season under the new oil owners. And their wage to turnover ratio was 96% last season.@@hellalive8973

They won't sack howe all the injuries and Liverpool still needed to cheat at home

@jameshall6061

5 ай бұрын

All what injuries? Liverpool didn't need to cheat they could have had 8.

@Bareknuckle1

5 ай бұрын

@@jameshall6061 Liverpool were shocking in attack no composure as bad as the penalty and offside desicisions

@Bareknuckle1

5 ай бұрын

We would of never heard the last of it if it had happened to Liverpool of klopp, he should take a leaf out of howes book get of referees bk and have more respect for the game, if I was Salah I would of refused to take it

Anything that upsets the mags can only be a good thing!

toney is not a 100 million dollar striker.

@tevildo45

5 ай бұрын

Dollar?

There is no shot Chelsea will sell Gallagher for 50 mil or less. It would have to be crazy money

@andrewwright4195

5 ай бұрын

He average

Alex Crook..loves the sound of his own voice and believes his own bs...its funny when Simon Jordan puts him in his place.

eveer thought that bruno guimaraes aint worth 100 million what makes they think they can command 100 million for him?

@Michael-wk1kj

5 ай бұрын

There not many player like him out there. He’s top class but is playing out of position as we don’t have a 6 but still does that extremely well. He has it all, tackle, defender and dictates games, spraying the ball around the pitch. If you don’t think he’s a top, top player, you’ve not watched him enough.

@andrewwright4195

5 ай бұрын

​@@Michael-wk1kjI take him at liverpool Edwards wanted him 21 and enso before they left for Chelsea and Newcastle instead of giving Milner and Henderson new contact klopp said no Edwards left

Birmingham shud get David Wagner! He took Huddersfield to the Prem playing great football for Christs sake!! It's not Rocket Science!! Wayne Rooney was an American Joke attempt at making an impact! He's a name that Tom Brady had heard of due to his MLS mediocrity managerial attempts! We all know Wayne's great decision making! He probably took the blues lads to his favourite brothel with the older prossies he visited as a player, followed by beers n pies as a team bonding exercise! Up The Villa!😂

Anybody wanna buy a gambling eyetie?

I still dont know what crooks job is

nobody is paying 100 million for Bruno G

@New-ye2fl

5 ай бұрын

Bruno will leave Newcastle for 100m +, obv not right now but it will happen

@cockoffgewgle4993

5 ай бұрын

They were stupid enough to pay it for Rice. Why not?

I’ve heard 4 Newcastle players have been using a certain Newcastle hotel to take girls back wonder why trippers suddenly went off the boil 😳

Crook just got cooked 😂 i can’t stand that bloke anyway, he just spouts stuff you can read on sky sports 😂 funny that ain’t it

Eddie Bowes been sacked

Newcastle are a small club

@Cyber_Jar23

5 ай бұрын

So? The club is big to its fans, same with any club, beyond that who cares? Who is the biggest club is astrology for football fans

@koeman1873

5 ай бұрын

Well said Sir.@@Cyber_Jar23

When on earth is a top team going to snap up Summerville from Leeds !?……he’s fantastic

Some Newcastle fans will be happy with Eddie sitting in division one, while the smart fans see well into the future Lose to the mackems and he's sacked let's see how much he really cares about his job.

@ELNinoLuke

5 ай бұрын

Get outta here with that nonsense. 'The smart fans'- do me a favour...

@Cyber_Jar23

5 ай бұрын

Well said, if we lose to Sunderland I want him out, would be a disgrace. Can't accept saudi money and expect them to be sentimental because we used to be shite

@uniq6998

5 ай бұрын

​​@@Cyber_Jar23Saudi money ? name some established newcastle player , u can't. There is very few like trippier who is an established right back. Joelington is a flop who turned the tides. Gordon was considered a steal for everton. There isn't much notable players really. U can't expect a high position with players like almiron who is severly limited with his left foot. The ffp rules are strict. Saudi money is rather useless except for infrastructure and management of the club

@Omnipotent-Q

5 ай бұрын

⁠​⁠@@Cyber_Jar23 “Saudi Money” - yet has a team with Longstaff, Almiron, Lascelles. There’s no quality in that team. Other than Joelinton, and you’d all written him off before Howe came in.

@tevildo45

5 ай бұрын

They’ve pumped 400m into that squad ffs

Got excited thinking the title was about Newcastle sacking Howe. Can only be a matter of time now. Joke of a manager and we deserve so much better. Howe Out. HWTL

@zacksmith9864

5 ай бұрын

The only joke is this comment, never refer to Newcastle as we again, you don't deserve too

@michaelmckie9164

5 ай бұрын

Mackem clearly.

@danielphillipson5453

5 ай бұрын

Crook face when Jordan questioned him. Like mate you have no clue what your talking about 😅

@hardpaper3192

5 ай бұрын

dirty makem troll

@skacel7

5 ай бұрын

If anything he's a Bournemouth fan as he played and managed them. I've seen nothing to think he's a dirty Mackem. Sure, he's a terrible manager but I do not believe he is a Sunderland fan.@@michaelmckie9164

Carlton Palmer!!??😂😂

I like talksport its always so negative and moaning

Newcastle players aren't going anywhere 🤣