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can't keep the fucker out of wetherspoons I heard.

Lionesses play at sol but: 🙂

NEW FWIEND!

I think £100m is fair tbh - I also don't see anyone paying that right now so unless he returns to form we should be pretty safe. It'll likely be down to our wage structure more than anything, that we had to put it in. i.e. he's accepted a lower amount than he may have wanted and so has this as a back door. We might just need to get used to this sort of thing.

Anyone guess where I'm off to in a couple of hours time? That's right! Whitley Bay to pick the bairn up from work.

What’s even worse with S&W is that they used to have one of those obnoxious “WE WOULDN’T DARE SHOW FOOTBALL HERE” stances to suddenly putting the games on when they realised how many people were going in The Gunner to watch us play. So even they can get under the Mackems skin and they don’t really know what’s going on other than trying to piggyback on viral Newcastle nonsense

Didn't we buy him for 35? 100 is great tbh.

Given they’d comfortably beat both us and Milan I’m surprised it bothers them.

No idea why but this made me think of a scenario where CT squeezes fresh orange juice using the apex of his cone. Maybe as a peace offering to the Brentford fans.

Fucking Brentford man . Good finish. The Saturday family picnic crowd will have had their first course of cheddar and pickle sandwiches ruined by that. They’ll be so cross at the Everton half of their half and half scarves. Maybe they can sing Hey Jude again like a bunch of tragic cunts.

Happy with this, that release clause is very high tbf there’s only been a very small handful of teams ever to have paid it and it’ll have to be £100m cash upfront which I would guess basically none of the £100m deals were. It’s a Real Madrid clause iyam, I doubt he’d go to Chelsea or Man U. Also, if someone did give us £100m we’d have insane FFP spending power.

The Geordie Nirvana

Essentially The Mackems seem to be actively looking for things to froth over at this point

Mild piss taking to cause a Mackem meltdown - YES!

"Couldn't find Brentford fans. Walked into a Millwall bar instead."

CT walks in a bar in Brentford and they all put their heads down thinking NUFCs top boy has steamed in. 'he looks pwopa nawty, that noocarsul fan.'

Frank would have broken out the paper and quill to complain again the hipster cunt

VAR nearly disallowing a goal by looking at the wrong offside.

Brentford answer the mild harumphs growing from the home crowd. Maybe offside though. There might be more letters wrote over this.

I thought this was gonna be @PaddockLadunhappy at a recent photo with him and his bairn! Great news anyways. Not worried about the clause at all.

The clause will come with stipulations such as the money up front but but it’s also likely to only be valid for a certain part of the window. It’s like when Moyes bought Fellaini for Man U he had a release clause but it was only valid until a certain date which was missed and they ended up paying more a few weeks later.

I also think the clause would give Bruno a feeling of control, having the owners we have I imagine as a player you’d feel lacking control due to the fact they could turn down basically any amount offered without blinking. Even with a clause as high as £100m upfront it gives him knowledge that if a team met that he could discuss.

That’s a fucking menu. Whereas their actual football club put adverts up in ‘Ponteland Airport’ trying to to take the piss out of us for being in the Championship when they were in the Premier League.

They’d need to offer £100m cash upfront though and there’s no way Liverpools offer was that (if it actually happened), it would have been over years of payment. We also don’t know the terms, it could be non English sides only, or only active if we aren’t in Europe for a season or two etc. I agree with Toonotl in that it protects us from any Real Madrid style tactics since we’ve now got an agreed upon fee of £100m up front. As sad as I’d be to see him go a £70m or so profit for FFP would allow us to spend a fucking fortune. If it was as you say for if we miss CL this year that would more than overcome missing out for a season.

On the flip side, it would seem that selling a player for 100m would open up a lot of funds to buy players with the way fees are amortised over the terms of the contract for incoming and instant for outgoings. I'd expect we'll see a young 6 in the coming summer window to bolster the position in case Bruno comes to be viewed as more of a saleable asset.

Fair point. Conversely, Sheffield United apparently struggle with crosses into their box, and have conceded most goals that way. I’ve been struck by how few crosses we’ve attempted in recent games - mainly due to inverted wingers and full backs who don’t overlap. Even tripper, though he’s capable of overlapping and putting a ball in, has tended to play the ball inside instead. It could be a game for Hall and Livramento in that sense. He’s going to have to rotate the defence at some point with all these games coming up, but maybe those changes come against Man City

The fucking state of that. They didn’t even bother cutting out the random bloke from 1983 sitting there for the first four seconds. Poor Tony missing the San Siro, those days are long gone now.

It is 2 and a half pages long you fraud.

I got one of them emails the other day saying basically “we hacked your mainframe, and have a video of you tossing off to porn. We will release this to everyone you know in 2 days if you don’t pay us 6000 euros etc..” I asked them if they would do it straight away and never heard anything. More people need to see it

Another thing about Bruce is that he’s had a long managerial career where he’s basically shown less interest, less commitment and has had less success the more it has gone on. The game has progressed and left him in its wake. His overall record is unimpressive as it is, but anything he has to say is rendered even less relevant due to its downward trajectory in its latter years.

Well that’s a low bar to be set All I’m saying is that there were the four lasses in SClub7, and she was the 7th prettiest

Just to get this on track but Ashby played the first two games for Swansea and now he’s picking spelks out of his hole. Another success

Hasselbaink looks like he's just finished his shift as a WH Smith security guard here.

“Madeline… go put little Parker and Wren in the Fiat Doblo please, I’ll get our picnic together. I’m just worried a bit of bother will happen”

You could hear the bums shuffling frustratedly on the seats.

Saw the beer in Sainsbury's, thought I'd give it a go then looked at it properly when I got home just to see it's made in the UK. ....

Hold up, Bruno would still have to agree and want to go. Real, yeah we know that’s a definite, Citeh would be a maybe, he’d not be the main man like here & Pool I reckon he wouldn’t want to go too. Bruno’s a smart lad, he can see who is on the decline and who is on the up.

I agree it would seem to be a "Madrid" clause. It also protects the club from Real's typical attempt to turn the player's head in an effort to force their club to do business more on their terms taking advantage of a disgruntled player agitating for a move. Instead, with such a clause in place, if business should happen between the clubs, it would appear that it'll take place on our terms because the terms are set at the outset. The player and the club have agreed upon the price. It's up to Real to meet it. For me, it simplifies the situation and protects us from Real bullshit. (This is all hypothetical, of course, because Real don't necessarily appear to be in the market for a 6 and Bruno hasn't been performing at the level and consistency that drew the reports of RM interest.)

That's why I said, "I hope the release clause is for non-PL clubs" so that PL clubs couldn't trigger it. Only the likes of Bayern or Madrid since nobody else has the money on the continent.

If someone wants to buy him for £100mil then crack on. We can use the cash to buy a proper CDM and we already have his replacement in Tonali

Weird. I thought every Sunderland match was shown in every sports bar and cafe in Bilbao, with beam backs in the park etc.?

When I get scam calls I just start talking absolute filth to them.

My obese parrot died today, sad news but its a huge weight off me shoulders