Howay

All fine, I just wonder where all of the energy for this type of change was prior to October 2021

Tbf it’s dead unfair on them as the entire league treats them like a cup final, it’s definitely not because they’re a shite club and have found their level. Looks like they’ll be playing Forest Green Rovers next year

I genuinely think you couldn’t have come up with that bit if you were trying to take the piss.

“The Scottish Rottweiler”

Aye, they’re absolutely desperate for a ‘name’ to play for them as someone else said iirc. That’s why they cling on to fairly standard/upper half players like Defoe, O’Shea, Malbranque, etc. They then weirdly act like there’s some reciprocal love like you mention, I think a lot of it is driven off players we had of a high standard like Solano, Lee etc that do care about NUFC. The bit they’re missing is that caring of NUFC is because it was their peak, they achieved great things and played in top quality, exciting sides, it’s not something inherent with NUFC like they try and ascribe to SAFC. They just simply never have relevant players that play for them. Any names they have are basically similar to when we got people like Kluivert, blokes who have achieved elsewhere looking for a pay day. I’m talking modern era, I’m sure some mackem if they saw this would prove me “wrong” by saying Aethelwulf who was the best player of his day (when the Vikings were sacking Lindisfarne) played on the far right side for them, and that King Aelle was a MLF, but honestly I don’t fucking care - they idolize Jermain Defoe ffs a one in 3/4 striker.

It was the really inherently moral and very charitable ‘invest in Africa’ shirt deal: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2167000/amp/Oil-giant-Sunderlands-20m-shirt-deal.html I think you’ll recall all of the mass protests on Wearside from the time when they entered into that deal? They’re fucking mental like, they even have a thread on there about Reyna’s son with many saying “he will play for the lads one day, he’s a MLF” . He’s more likely to play for us ffs, in fact I hope we do buy him just to watch that website crash.

Aye, I’m also going to assume his outrage about Saudi Arabia/sportswashing began when the Saudis first bid, died down, and then resurfaced in October 2021. If they want to use the horrors committed by Saudi Arabia as a stick to beat Newcastle fans with on occasion, so be it - it’s distasteful but I get it, but this indignation and constant high and mighty act some of them try and do is pathetic. As someone pointed out despite all their outrage and posts supporting Amnesty Internationals message when it came to NUFC ownership there was precisely zero uptick in the Amnesty Sunderland branch interaction/funding or otherwise.

Going to go out on a limb here and guess that one like is himself.

This knacker keeps posting his own tweets onto RTG, if this is what they’re choosing to get wound up about it’s going to be fucking rough for them.

I’ve got nowt, sorry to disappoint but this lot are doing it all themselves now. Btw, reading through the comments to the “one last dance” post Tom linked is fucking tremendous.

Maybe he is, either way he’s a sanctimonious little prick.

Aye Europa League final in Azerbaijan, he couldn’t be bothered with our takeover and hadn’t heard about it so took the angle that it was all bollocks and stuck with that. But aye he’s definitely in the know

Aye, he’s currently arguing that if people read what he said they’d stop bringing up the £50m to spend shite he wrote about as he’d updated it and was more accurate, when did he update it? January 4th yes, after we’d been in for Trippier for what at the time was thought £35m, we were in for Botman, enquiring about strikers etc, but sure Luke you called it .

Same bloke that’s never stopped whinging about our takeover and hassling Eddie Howe about who he works for btw.

His next article is going to be “how Henry Mauriss would have DEFINITELY spent more than the Saudis”

If anyone actually thought to listen to this gimp Edwards, here’s his tweet supporting his shite article which gives good insight into why he wrote it: His comments in the replies are basically the same old “the squad is bloated so they need to raise money through player sales” he said the same in January btw before we simply unregistered shite like Clark and Hendrick. Having crap players on the books won’t fucking hold back their plans . Not saying they will spend more, but there’s no evidence to support his bullshit. In addition to what we got they wanted Botman and Carlos (it wasn’t a one or the other thing), Etikite, Lingard, and bid money for other left backs - Edwards is a clueless fuckwit and rather than actually work to be good at his job he has decided to just be a wum. I’m not bothered what we spend tbh, I trust the new owners to buy well now but I do know I don’t trust a word mr nee friends writes.

Shame for the lad, but btw that tweet shows exactly why the whole “United” shit is mental especially when talking in the context of two teams called United .

Now Toonotl says it I can remember all the charvas saying “here man if ya divvint shut up I’m going to come owa there and spin on your nob”

You might be onto something, Billy nee cash has his left hand positioned like he’s demanding food.

Aye it’s absolutely textbook behavior you’d expect from someone that has absolutely zero training.

I just don’t get how it works, I also won’t click on anything by that prick Panja so will have to wait for a proper journalist to go through it. Is it simply a year to year thing in that you spend it or lose it? Or can you build up a reserve over time? If it’s the former then it’s even more evidence that none of this charade is to help keep clubs solvent, as that just encourages constant large spending. I also really don’t understand how they’re going to grade who can get what sponsorship. It might seem obvious to say well the sponsors of Man City will clearly pay more as there’s more exposure, but who is to say there’s not company’s out there that would think sponsoring Man City in some way has them lost among a flood of other sponsors whereas sponsoring another side still gives them great exposure and for big money they’d be front and center for that side. It’s just too subjective, so again it would just be a heap of bollocks intended to suit this self appointed “big 6” that want to stay there with no competition.

No one knows tbh, they’re not telling journalists that type of thing what on earth would be the point? Edwards is also an arrogant, clueless prick. If we spent that then that’s what we spend anyway, provided it’s spent well it’s a lot of investment still. I will say, from what I’ve heard with regard to targets there’s no chance it’s true. The message was and is we will spend what we need, there’s not some figure people are being told. Like I say take it or leave it, the bloke I know isn’t even told these things never mind fucking Luke Edwards . The £50m thing was Edwards too btw, and he more doggedly stuck to it and used it to have a pop at Newcastle fans. I highly doubt the £50m was ever the plan, and again if it was it’s not being divulged to journalists unless it’s simply a tactic to deflate expectations on what we will spend in the market.

Really goes along with his wannabe hard man image, being a grass. Btw this is what he posted following that one: The lad running the parody account must have a hard time. Wonder if we will see Mike Dean report that post for bullying.

Not meaning you were btw but it’s just the argument for keeping those as the three is really implying he’s partially an issue, since he’s clearly our best CM the only reason to keep him out would be that he’s not fitting in. I think it’s just putting too much weight on how good they were, only 2 of those wins (Brighton and Brentford) came without Trippier, which is worth noting as well. I just personally don’t see the evidence that the combination of Willock, Shelvey, and Joe is better, I understood keeping him out for that run but he’s more than earned his place now.