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Hello everyone, the flood lights are on at St James. The sensible opinion is that they're removing advertising before the rugby starts but the outlandish opinion, and therefore the correct one, is that the new lads are tearing the Sports Direct signs down with their bare hands before we see them holding the shirts tomorrow.

They cheered one of them tbf.

I'm not sure I would want Robben or Mata. In their prime I would have taken them obviously. But our squad is built on hungry players giving 100% and fighting for each other. Chucking a superstar looking for one last big payday into the mix is only going to cause issues. We don't want to go back to the days of buying castoffs from big clubs (Owen, Parker, Duff, Geremi, Butt etc.) Most of them got us relegated and fucked off when we went into the Championship

they’re clean as a whistle

Haven't you got windows to lick?

I think you should apologise for hoping

So this is going to be the week when Mike Ashley can rightly say he is getting the hang of this football lark. By selling up and fucking off. And all this while the the big bucks TV money rolls in. Of course it hasn't been delivered without pain, but few revolutions are smooth. We will rightly hear all sorts of praise for dynamic duo this week and once again our club will be heralded as the blue print for most clubs to follow. So where now? What about the next few years? How can we as a club take advantage of this solid foundation and become a regular top four challenger?

I'm all in on enjoying this for what it is, a possibility. Fuck knows if this goes through, if it does he might be no better than ashley, but for now I can amuse myself talking about the possibility of signing Juan Mata or whether I'd take Arjen Robben at the club, its better than nothing!

Ozil would put Rafa in a cardiac ward

He’s posted some mad old shit on Twitter for being a lawyer talking about us signing Mata, Robben and James Rodriguez. Therefore, with him being confirmed as a lawyer, they’re coming in. Off to get Robben on the back of my manky new home kit.

Thick as fuck ex-footballers with lazy ill informed opinions. The pundits never get any better.

Bellamy will all of a sudden embrace his NUFC time and remember all the good times I'm sure. Camel face Ferdinand can get to fuck the absolute phoney cunt.

Aye, I go to the Gateshead one, precisely because there's never any fucker in. That goes for the rest of "Trinity Square" as well tbh. Who knew that building a massive shopping complex 5 minutes walk away from a city centre wouldn't work?

Top bloke is Jonas. https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/newcastle-united-jonas-gutierrez-ashley-16330151

Actual footage of it.

I wonder what kind of tearful farewell we'll get from him if it goes through It'll probably include 20% off at SD stores that will mysteriously become irredeemable at time of purchase.

“I’ve never touched flange” quality tbf.

Your pursuit of drug cheats has gone too far this time.

Cheers pal, I didn't take that into account, however it doesn't matter what attendances you had before..... FFS even teams like Brighton and Bournemouth (no disrespect meant) sing it to us! Everyone will forget what happened before you had money, in fact Newcastle will only have history from the point of takeover. Forget the trophies you have won before....they don't exist. The old "Big 4" don't know how to handle being overtaken with the exception of Chelsea. And they control the media so you get it from all angles. But I wouldn't swap it for anything….just enjoy the ride and hopefully you can challenge for the title with us. Be great to see you overtake United & the Dippers and watch the frothing at the mouths

If we manage to do that then I'd happily take the shit from the press.

We were all here when we were shit. We were also here when were "mint " for a while in the 90's

The difference being we averaged 51k "when we were shit" and in the Championship. In 1997, Man City averaged 27k in the Championship

I mean, I'm not sitting here with baited breath, but I do feel that this is all pretty encouraging so far. If it falls through, it falls through - I'm not going to feel embarassed about having hoped for the best though.

I think you’ll find it’s pronounced ay-rab

It's literally all based on the word of an Arab. An ARAB FFS.

Nope. Not at all. If it happens then great but I've no great expectation.

Feels like the gambit to force Labour into backing a second referendum has won the day. Corbyn seems to have basically endorsed the position now. In part I think we've also been helped by Farage - the prospect of coming up with some kind of deal has been torn apart from both sides, so now Labour can't deny that it's No Deal or No Brexit. The question from here I think is how firmly and visibly they're going to back this. If Corbyn just comes out and says "yeah ok, second referendum on any vote but let's talk about domestic policy" then he may as well not bother. It needs to be loud and furious - "The Tories are trying to take us out with no deal to the detriment of the entire country, and it is imperative that we get a second vote so that we can stop this damage before it is too late - the Labour Party will immediately begin campaigning for this outcome". I suspect it'll be somewhere between the two, but I hope it's closer to the latter..

If he has an investment portfolio, the point of it will be to 'invest and grow', unlike Ashley whose primary motivation beyond getting a bit of love initially was to advertise sports direct. Also, he was going to buy Liverpool using £1.25bn from his own backers. So I think we could roughly state that the level of money he has available to throw at the project after the sale is anything up to about £1bn.

Has everybody got the same abiding memory of that film? The middle aged woman literally pissing herself outside M&S in Sheffield when the 4 minute warning starts?

I'm not sure if you know this but...

And if that doesn't do it then Robbie Savage commentating on them will.

This is a telling glimpse of what those proposed Super League games would be like. Flat atmospheres translating to boring matches in front of 85% corporate seats. It’s that shit that it should kill the idea off for good.

FYP

Lee Ryder didn’t spend his five years of high school dunking Charnley’s head down the shitter to be mugged off with ‘no comment’.

Never a truer word said in jest. Here's Edwards with that implied bombshell he promised from the PL about the takeover. "Neither have the Premier League, who told Telegraph Sport on Wednesday afternoon they would not provide a “running commentary on a takeover that may or may not happen.” https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2019/05/29/newcastle-united-takeoverbin-zayed-group-claim-have-provided/

I love Steve Van Zandt (Springsteen's guitarist and star of the Sopranos) on Twitter. Constantly going wild about what a fuckup Brexit is. He's fucking class.

I'm pretty sure nearly all the public's grievances with the EU are imagined. But to tell them that implies that they're stupid (which they most certainly are).

Mackem Rap for Major Major: Ahm a lyrical gangsta from Sunalin way, Never quite sure what ahm going fucking say, Whatever it is, it'll make no sense, Mackem logic, real nonce-sense. About the Mags and Wemb-er-ley The checkatrade and division three, They've never been there since 1999, 2000, 2018 or 2019? I've lost my rhythm, marra, where was I at? Ahm a fucking lower league fan It's as simple as that. The Don is here, he'll sort us out, And what about Methvin, give him a shout! He said Charlton had more fans than us, Said their lads made all the fuss, I reckon a Mag got in his head Made him talk all that shit instead, Cos you can keep your Rafa and your Awab Sheikh, We've got the Don and Charlie and Jack Ross, mate. Ahm not obsessed, ahm not a loon, Ah only wish I was from the toon, Ah shit! ah've said it, it's coming out, Ahm in me muthas bedroom, Knocking one out, In her boyfriend's nufc top, And it's no joke, Those black & white stripes, man Ahm on the vinegar stroke.......Efffffffffff Teeeeeeee.......Emmmmmm.......(flap, flap, spurt).

But we have the issue that Johnson's popularity is possibly increasing not despite him being taken to court as a proven liar, but because of it. And this popularism is reflected globally. Brexit is symptomatic of a much deeper problem imo. I've been slow to wake up to it and fuck knows what the solution is.

The cup final/wembley talk is amazing, they got to the final of a cup we've never been low enough in the league structure to be entered into and a playoff final for a league we've never dropped to. Lost both and think thats something they can hold over us

You could’ve just stopped after your third word, NJS.

I am Spartacus... err ... Nostradamus.

Best description of Corbyn I ever read was "a 70 year old student activist".

US energy department rebrands fossil fuels as 'molecules of freedom' https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/may/29/energy-department-molecules-freedom-fossil-fuel-rebranding

I'm in two minds whether this fucker is actually having us on and is actually quite a funny bloke. Hard to tell with them.