Bruno, Tonali & Joelinton… that’s absolutely SOLID. Was shocked when I saw them linked to both Tonali and Barella because both are unreal.

(City fan here) we were rumoured to be looking at him as a replacement for Bernardo last summer. This is a great pull from Newcastle

I read an interesting article today about this signing and how nufc had it down as an aspirational signing rather than a likely one. Then a few things happened which changed the picture, so they pounced once the chairman gave the green light. This is a huge signing, and a midfield with Tonali, Bruno and Joelinton is mouth-watering.

The 2nd part of this video is so important. People recognising their gaps in ability and taking serious steps in addressing them is such an undervalued thing, so often people shy away from acknowledging them and just focus on improving their strengths. Great signing though, can't wait to see him play alongside Bruno G, fingers crossed we manage top 5 and don't go out too early in the CL.

Toon fan of 30 years here. This is the biggest signing since Shearer imo. Feels like we're building very methodically and very well. HWTL

Unreal signing, real statement, our first truly world class signing of the new era, very excited to see Tonali, Bruno and big Joe in the centre of the park next season.

Isak was obviously a massive signing in terms of talent and potential but Tonali is a different level of signing not due to the level of player but level of club he has been signed from

your comments about Eddie Howe are spot on, no ego there, he is a classy man.

Tonali is signing of the summer so far imo unbelievable for Newcastle

Tonali is a transformational signing but people don’t pay attention because he isn’t English or Brazilian

The spine of NUFC is getting very very strong. Botman, Bruno, Tonali and Isak. If they add another 2 or 3 quality players they could be really competing with the top 2-3 teams....Really good upload Rory 👍

When I first went to see NUFC in 1991, there was no roof on the Gallowgate end or the Leazes end. We were in Division 2 (championship). The club was skint and we had to play the youngsters - Watson, Clark, Howey etc. Meanwhile, over in Milan, AC were tearing Europe a new one with van Basten, Gullit and the rest. Fast forward to 2023 and we've just bought Sandro Tonali from Milan. Mental!!

The big thing is the ages of some of the first teamers - Willock, Longstaff, Gordon, Tonali are all going to improve season on season, especially against champions league level opponents. They have also been recruiting seriously promising youngsters from many other teams over the last year and the youth teams are looking so much stronger.

Had to laugh at Rory giving Howe credit when last week, he and McKola were saying he should be sacked 🤣

Great move for Newcastle United. Its a great time to be a Geordie! Big fan of Rory's content.

I think it definitely sets the tone for a new Newcastle legacy. This wouldn’t have been a consideration for any top flight player 2 years ago. Or even 12 months ago. Getting Tonali across the line and signing him is the first domino. This gives them leverage to show other top talent that they can recruit the best, and they’re to be taken seriously. I expect they will make another significant purchase before this window closes to cement themselves in the running for consistent European football in the future. The fact that the targets being leaked are also linked to the likes of Liverpool speaks volumes for how far they’ve come. 5 years from now they could be an absolute powerhouse, and Tonali signing could be the catalyst for that being true. Huge for their fans and the club. Congratulations.

Tonali is fucking class. Shades of Pirlo / Gattuso

Tonali incredible signing!

They are definitely making big boys moves, underestimate them at your own peril.

Newcastle fan here. This is a massive signal of intent style signing. It shows we've arrived at the table and also that while we can spend big we are still spending wisely unlike the previous regime. So underated as no one takes notice

Nufc are going places. They'll be a force for a long time to come.

At roughly 3 mins “Eddie Hearn deserves an awful lot of credit” ok Rory 😄

Newcastle are slowly building a team that works well together and it's all down to the manager, the players also have to believe in his ideas

I always appreciate your commentary. I started dipping my toe in the EFL, watching a bit of Tottenham. I became familiar with Son Heung Min while watching the Korean Englishman videos. What sealed the deal for me was watching Welcome to Wrexham. I have seen you not only on your own channel, but quite a few others. You are always knowledgeable and entertaining.

Absolutely spot on. We have spent money of course and we’re aware of that, but you’ve hit the nail on the head. Luring a player like Tonali from his boyhood club is just huge. Unbelievably excited to see him under Eddie Howe and how he can bring this team together even further. Karl

the premier league really is becoming a super league. The top 6 all have great players as much as we banter a couple of the teams in it, then outside the traditional top 6 there’s newcastle, brighton and villa who all spend their money wisely and make sure if any of the top 6 are struggling a bit they’ll happily take their place.

As a Napoli fan I used to fear Tonali, so glad I have one worry less next season lmao

It"s crazy Newcastle might have the best midfield in the prem next seazon. Guimeres & Tonali it sounds crazy 🎉

The two main reasons we didn’t push for the title last year was lack of squad depth so we couldn’t change the game effectively with our bench players. The other was we lacked quality against low blocks the likes of Longstaff could really deliver real quality from that right half space. Tonali has a fantastic delivery on him, carries the ball well and commits defenders - huge Lomgstaff upgrade. Add to that Harvey Barnes and Frederico Chiesa who are heavily linked - watch out as we’ll cook this season and compete for trophies no doubt about it

Tonali, Bruno, Joelinton That midfield is a problem. A nightmare to play against.

Love how he says 70 mil for tonsil and 57mil for Jorginho. One was €70mil the other was £57mil. Such a big difference after how many years in this inflated market 😂

Tonali is just another small building block, there is so much going on behind the scenes at Newcastle, they are not building for a season or two of success, when success does ultimately arrive it will be sustainable long term success, that is the key. A marathon not a sprint I believe is the saying. 5, 10, 15, 20, and 25 year plans, the Saudi's don't play for second best.

Love you Rory from a Newcastle fan think you are a proper lad

Great signing!

rory hasn’t spoken about liverpool once😭they just signed mcalister and domonik and are linked to get thuram n lavia😭😭😭and i still get nothin???

bruno G, Tonali, Joelinton as a midfield 3 is gonna be a madness

Tonali fills one of our gaps. It is a very good signing which will help to reduce the matches we lost or drew last season

your honesty is wicked refreshing! Newcastle is my club but I dont want them to win everything because the Saudi money. 😅 I'm still hoping Apple buys Man United so they have the hot seat.

When you been through the heart ache of many years like we have it absolutely beautiful to see these players come to my club ⚫️⚪️⚫️⚪️

Am a toon fan. And think this is the kind of signing that we all want, especially with CL football next season. But I have to be real, if there is anyone to be weary of, it’s Arsenal. What a side they are building. For us to be considered PL contenders this season, we need to be signing more players to meet Arsenal, Chelsea, when Poch gets his ideas across and players in, Liverpool, Man C etc… Tonali is definitely a good starting point though.

Thank you for recognising the potential of Newcastle, a lot of analysts aren’t even mentioning us as a threat. Us fans are under no illusion that European involvement could burden our team this year, but when we make more smart sensible signings we may have enough in the tank to cope with it. You deny the other big 6 teams will bounce back, but I still think we will be there or thereabouts. It should be an exciting season and if we finish top 6 we’ll be ecstatic.

Newcastles midfield for next season. Bruno Guimareas -£34 million Big Joelinton - £40 million Sandro Tonali -£55 million Total £129 million (not bad for that midfield 3)

Please post more Your content is second to none

great video and yes makes a lot of sense what you said , Newcastle have some player on there hands now with a serious set of skills

As a NUFC fan, I got the feeling that Botman, Bruno, Burn, Gordon were bought to cement us in the top half & POTENTIALLY challenge for Europa/Conference qualification. Isak was probably the jewel. Now I feel the board are rewarding Howe for achieving CL qualification much sooner than they expected. I think PiF & Staveley want to show we are going to make a point while in Europe & have a good run. I forsee 2-3 more Tonali level players, be it on loan, free or bought.

What a battle for a top four finish it’s going to be this coming season and I think Newcastle are one of the contenders

Tonali is a box to box player bro

As a Newcastle fan, extremely excited by Tonali, & it does seem like a massive statement of intent in our project to go to Milan and take their prized asset. However while I accept the potential moral issues with our ownership I really struggle with everyone that takes such an issue with our project when they have come in and spent within FFP and made shrewd smart decisions and haven’t come in and spent 700m in one season only to put 10 up for sale the very next season so they can do it all over again

Good video, thanks. I agree that it is a defining signing both in terms of his value to Newcastle and the statement it makes to the soccer world.

Great video! What does it say about Tino Livramento that Newcastle are chasing him??? Would like your thoughts Rory. Myself as a Saints fan I think Tino will have a stellar career, he just makes it all look easy somehow plus is a great athlete. Seems a top lad too.

I agree Rory ❤

as a die hard Geordie I'm loving this we are playing it quite clever in the market eddy WOW what an under rated manager master tactician now watch your space pep haha up NUFC

Liverpool's England midfielder Jordan Henderson and Chelsea's Gabon striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang are two of the possible signings being lined up by Al-Ettifaq after the Saudi club appointed Steven Gerrard as their new manager

Quite a swift and timely deal tbf

You've forgotten they signed Shearer too, absolutely huge at the time. But agree, in 2023 this is a big statement. Premier League is going to be nuts next season, all teams making top signings- Brighton, Arsenal, Liverpool, Villa, even Spurs. City, Man U and Chelsea bound to get involved very soon.

I think Jorginho was 57 million POUNDS? We've paid 70m Euro for TOONali, which is 55m quid, so just below the record... great video though mate! Can't wait for next season. HWTL

Thanks for your words Rory. Very generous. I just hope Tonali doesn't find it too cold in December and January. He looks to me to be Bruno mkII.

We can't challenge for the title, but we will progress as a team and as a club. A top four finish would be amazing (it'll be harder in the next season) and progressing from the group stages of the ECL would be equally amazing. Oh! and a domestic cup run obviously.

Nufc fan here nice to here that we are being taken seriously but let's not forget we are at least two or three seasons ahead of schedule I think we could give a cup run a good go but still 2 or 3 players away from CL or PL titles arsenal or man City for them

We'll need all of the new signings just to keep a Champions league place. I don't see us finishing higher than 4th and the coming season will be tougher. Last season was a "perfect storm" of Toon's brilliance and other clubs sloppiness.

Afternoon Rory, trims looking immaculate

Tottenham are also edging closer to signing Wolfsburg's Dutch defender Micky van de Ven

Ahh the wife's a Geordie, now I understand your video! Not just about the players that have been brought in, its also about the players Eddie has improved. Look at Joelinton, look at Schar, look at Krafth before that horrenous injury and Longstaff who had been frozen out by that muppet Bruce. The obvious improvement in Willock too and I could go on. He has got something extra out of all these players. He is an excellent manager, what a guy and the Toon Army love him 👍🖤🤍🖤🤍

Rory, you'll see on my channel that I'm a Mag of 43yrs. Its an astonishing signature to make, audacious and what I love about us, is that we haven't done the outlandish recruiting Keegan did 30yrs ago. I call him Steady Eddie because on top, gliding along smoothly, while the coaching team is paddling along tirelessly out of view. His first attitude to the existing players was focus on their strengths, asking them what they want to achieve. Looks at a glass half full, not look at the empty half.... How many employers would you work for if they had his approach? Oh and as for the Maddison snub? I'm sure Howe saw the lacklustre attitude Maddison showed in failing to help keep Leicester's PL status, nevermind wanting to earn £8M a year & knew "nah, not worth that amount" (nobody is).

Tonali for me is like Declan Rice on steroids and at nearly half the price

It will be interesting to follow their results and see how it works. For now, I am delighted with the signing.

100% agree 😊

Wtf he wasn't the jewel in the crown, that's Rafael Leão by FAR.

Can't believe Newcastle have signed Kylo Ren, they've really embraced the role of villains, much to the annoyance of Aston Villa.

I agree they must have made a very impressive pitch regarding the project at Newcastle.

Al-Nassr have made a lucrative offer to Cameroon and Inter Milan goalkeeper Andre Onana who is also a target for Manchester United

nufc slow train coming, and the reason why they will become Numer 1, have you seen our chairman Yasir Al-Rumayyan, this guy lays golden eggs, he is turning a fund he runs from 20 billion into 2 trillian by 2030, the guy is so switched on . he is one of the most successful men alive today.there are plenty of clubs with money like chelsea but they are run badly or ok . the people we have behind the club to grow it will be the differance , if i was you Rory I would get your kids black and white stripes 😅it will make a happy home, by the way your presentation is so very good , you have great talent

Gerrard appointed head coach of Saudi side Al Ettifaq

The Premier League is going to be an absolute dogfight this year with the established 6 doing everything in their power to retain that by throwing money right, left and centre to signings and hoping they work. I think Newcastle will continue to just plug away keeping with their methodology it may take us another few years but i believe this project will be successful, c'mon the Toon.

Buzzing with this signing

Agreed. Newcastle beating the European elite to players like Tonali, Isak, Bruno and Botman shows how attractive they are to players now. And it's not just the money because some of the players they have signed tlike Trippier have taken pay cuts to go to Newcastle.

I'm a Newcastle fan and I get the impression that maybe even I don't appreciate how good this kid might be. I've never seen so much hate from rival fans, sport bible etc milking this story as if we've kidnapped him and he doesn't want to be there. Even though he looks just as uninterested in his official Inter photos. I guess we'll have to get used to that kind of spite. But after 15 years of absolute misery, I'll take that. Videos like this are making me evem more excited to see him in the team. We definitely have an very impressive midfield at this point.

Great signing, we need a solid LB and RWF imo still but we should have a good season and I do trust we will bring in more signings

Good signing, but we still need ten players. We need a left back, attacking midfielder, winger and striker for the first team.

A truly measured and inspired singing , toon don’t splash the cash , you will always find that they do their transactions quietly, which can be frustrating for us fans , send out some red herrings here and there ,but when new arrivals are announced, wow , looking forward to next season , Bruno n Sandro pairing, hwtl

Tonali didn't choose to leave, milan higher ups told Tonali he will be sold because they hade issues with the FFP, once they told him he started crying.

He was their coming captain. The next Pirlo. I truly hope he settles well in Newcastle and learn English quickly 🖤🤍

Thanks for the video and your thoughts. I like the angle of NU going toe to toe with European heavyweights and managing to get their man. I think this also tells us about Tonali. As we know, ManU, Liverpool (Klopp’s a liar) City, Chelsea, Spurs and a host of others pay silly (and now unsustainable) wages. Tonali, apparently, isn’t a showy, self-obsessed social media junkie, like so many others. He’s a respectful, focused and hard-working young guy. He’s also FLUENT in English, so the NU player care team have less to do, and the transition to England will be easier. Tonali’s also from an area with similar weather to the North East and he’s played in one of the best defensive, and most technical leagues in the World. As you noted, Howe is looking for a sort of player, a player who is level headed and not up their own ar*e. This sort of player wants to grow, to develop and importantly to learn. Look at the resources available to Benitez. I know many say he was given nothing, but he had Schär and Almiron. He sold Lejeune, who was an amazing player….he let him go on loan. You see, Benitez is a manager. Howe is a coach and a manager. You need to be both. The manager is only deploying the resources in the optimum configuration. A coach is improving the resources. Imagine you’re Tonali. You see people laughing at Almiron, Schär, Joelinton etc. Last season, Newcastle, for a long time, had the best defensive record in all 5 elite leagues. It was against Arsenal, that we started to lose games. Look at the goal contributions of Almiron and Joelinton. They both hit double figures, and for Joe, he was often played in a more defensive central role at the start of the season. So Tonali, says to himself, “I’m a great player now, but I want to be a phenomenal player. Where will I get the best chance to develop? Liverpool? No, Klopp is a great tactician, but he’s self-obsessed and never recognises his own faults. Arsenal? Artefacts is amazing, but London is out, because I like a quiet life. City? ManU? Too many primadonnas demanding attention and thinking they’re the best. The only club that has a true culture based on unity and synergy is Newcastle. That’s where I’ll go.” If you think about Tonali, and I think about AC Milan fans here, he’s proved he’s a team player. He’s sacrificed himself so Milan can rebuild. That’s why Howe signed him and why he will be a massive success for NU.

0:00 - 1:18 I m a Newcastle fan and I have never heard bigger babble in my life.

I can understand people not liking’ the project’ out of fear against competition but let’s be man enough to say it as it is. The Saudis are smart and realizing they have to diversify to protect against a diminishing oil market. I can understand the human rights concerns, but no one balks at putting Saudi petrol in their car or remonstrates against the BILLIONS the UK do in trade with them each year.

Eddie Howe has been our best signing. Top bloke with the fans too

Wasn’t keen on you due to talk sport and tv, but your great on your channel shocked me.

Brazilian teenager Angelo set for Chelsea medical ahead of £12.9m move from Santos

Did you quote Pep Lynders and attribute it to Eddie?

I hate that PIF has taken over the team but the fans deserve it. Also they haven't been soending too rashly like Chelsea. So I respect them too.

Before I watch this, I swear I watched a video yesterday with Rory saying Eddie Howe would get sacked.

Newcastle had a strong midfield last season but with the addition of Tonali, they are going to be some force.

The league this year is going to be stacked 👌

Tottenham are set to sign Wolfsburg defender Micky van de Ven in a £30m deal

Sandro enables us to ask different questions of the opposition

Joelinton , Bruno G, Tonali Is actually crazy

Newcastle still need a number of players so that they can compete on all fronts. Another striker is definitely required in order to progress as injuries do happen. Looking forward to seeing the other players improve with talent like Tonali around them. Newcastle already have 2 great keepers and a great defence. Midfield of Big JoeLinton, Bruno G, Willikinho, Longstaff, Tonali, Gordon, ASM Forwards: Wilson, Isak, ?? who else??

Newcastle have guys behind the scene in recruitment that obviously do their job well. To persuade Botman to not sign for AC Milan and then persuade Tonali to leave his hometown club for Newcastle. We have arrived

How many seasons will Chelsea & Tottenham miss Champions League football?

Its £55m not £70m