Optimistic Nut

I missed Adam Armstrong going to WBA during the window. He couldn't score a 94th minute winner in the Play-Off Final against the Mackems, could he?

Easier for the officials to show bias towards the "big 6" when they don't have to try to use VAR to rule out obvious mistakes like that.

Got a few this year. April : The Darkness/War Of The Worlds Musical May : Ocean Colour Scene June : The Enemy August : Oasis

Major trophy wins February 1974: Newcastle : 11 Liverpool : 10 Major trophy wins February 2025 : Newcastle: 11 Liverpool: 46 The comeback starts next month...well until Liverpool pull away with another 2-3 trophies in May, but it starts now.

FM25 cancelled.

We've already knocked out the rest of the top 4 so may as well beat these too like. If we win it, can't see many tougher routes to winning it in history.

We're only getting to the Cup Final because we're rich seems to be the gist of what I'm seeing, even though 3 of the clubs we've beaten on this cup run have outspent us since our Saudi overlords bought us.

I think Joelinton did a similar sort of job up here against these when we beat them 1-0, albeit on the right? I'd be happy with this as our "first choice" XI, with Joelinton able to play the Hall role as cover.

Think that's the formula moving forward. Hall LCM/LB and Burn LB/LCB with Botman back in was superb.

Targett also.

Has there been any outrage about Bournemouth signing that kid from their sister club Lorient and loaning him back? Ah wait, it's little old Bournemouth, they won't threaten the big boys long term. If this had been us and a Saudi club however...

Minor criticism is he seems a stickler for "same again, lads", after a win. I thought before Bournemouth he should be bringing Botman in for Burn. Burn's done well this season but it's one area we could have freshened things up in the first XI and had an upgrade... "Like a new signing" almost. I can see the merits of not changing much when the form is good, but I also think it freshens things up a bit and keeps everyone on their toes every now and again, too. Especially when one of the players out of the XI at the moment is probably the only one who improves the XI when everyone is full fit.

I wonder if we'll fudge the figures to show we make more than we do, the opposite the lower clubs do.

Clearing the decks for a big summer.

Considering Brighton spent £200m in the summer they've gone backwards like. Rutter is the only "hit" I reckon. Obviously the usual will happen when we rock up at Brighton later in the season and they look like world beaters.

Wish Forest would just fuck off.

Unless we can get SJP above 65k, it has to be a new stadium? Ideally Leazes Park near the current stadium, the site where the Arena is would have been a good number 2 option. Big no if we're heading out Gosforth way or the outskirts.

Ouch.

The Mirror linking us with Mbuemo.

A right-sided version of Gordon (first choice RW but can cover up front) would be ideal. Not sure both need replaced if you could sign that. Basically a 23 year old version of Salah if that's not too much to ask. If we could somehow get Trafford & Guehi in the summer I think we'd be sorted on top of the RW.

Sky Sports are literally unbelievable. Pulling a clip from 5 years when he was still a Brentford player. https://x.com/SkySportsPL/status/1884918219980324965

Oh aye, they'll still have threats, but Duran has been a literal game changer first half of the season from the bench.

You get Chelsea, Villa & Everton passing academy players around each other for £15-20m, here's us releasing ours to Hartlepool.

A lot of pressure on Watkins. They won't have the luxury of Duran coming on for 20-30 minutes when they're chasing a goal now. They'll probably sign someone as back up but someone who's had Duran's impact is going to be hard.

Bet the delay of FM25 is really so they can suss PSR/FFP like the rest of us.