Howay

“Type of character they need to reignite promotion bid” the last bloke had them 3rd it makes total sense getting a bloke that hasn’t managed in a decade and it went tits up back then though. Fucking hell first Defoe and now Keane, they really do think it’s 2011

Is that the bloke who shakes boxes of rice as backing noise for the insane chants he makes up in his mams attic? He’s a danger that bloke.

Just saw this, aye this is where I am too. He’s doing a job, and he’s preferred to Longstaff/Hayden etc, but I’m still not sold on him. Kind of similar to Fraser for me, except I think replacing Fraser would be priority for me over improving Joelinton if I had to pick.

He’s fine for this season, and then a squad player going forward but IMO unless he suddenly improves his on the ball ability he’s not good enough for where we’d aim to be mid-long term. He’s strong, quick, hardworking, and has done a good job giving energy and determination in CM while lazy bastards like Longstaff and Shelvey just shrugged. But on the ball he’s immensely limited, because of his likability due to working hard people tend to shrug it off when he whiffs chances in games now when in the past they’d be frustrated. I understand where NJS is coming from, I’ve seen people putting Joelinton in the front 3 or behind a striker in these “this is how Newcastle line up” but honestly man he’s not good enough on the ball for that, again maybe he will improve but we’ve seen enough of him on the ball to know he’s not exactly a brilliant passer, and his finishing is poor (if I’m being kind). I agree he’s not a striker, he’s more than proven that, he’s shown he can be a PL player as a water carrier and is adept at breaking up play - but in the summer if we can get a better quality defensive midfielder to take that role for him then we should.

Funny there’s no mention of the style we deployed under Steve Bruce, the rarely used ‘nee block’.

A Simon Gwynn moment narrowly averted.

I just don’t understand the point in having him on. His opinions are so bad they don’t even get people wound up enough to respond in the way people like Simon Jordan do, it’s just utter drivel.

The man himself obliged. Someone get this over to Ryder ASAP he could get at least 3 days worth of articles out of this.

Apparently Merson just said Arsenal had a better window than Newcastle, despite them not signing any players and losing Aubameyang for free.

Interestingly he’s blaming the fans while ending by saying he only took the tweet down as his company asked him to while they investigated it . So it was possible he was headed for the bin anyway. I totally get Gem’s point about posting ropey stuff btw, I think the difference is he’s posting it from a verified account that notes he’s attached to that company so you’re always on for a shit time there tbh.

Yeah, that’s how I felt when I saw it at first but he’s been a prime bellend right back so hasn’t covered himself in glory. From what I gathered when people were going through his tweets he’s made similar tweets in the past regarding that topic. The fact he’s asking for NUFC ownership to ‘take action’ after accusing them of being rapists is lunacy. The NUFC probably did end up going further than needed but he made that rod for his own back with a tweet that is not only immensely insensitive to the victim, belittles the incident itself, but is also imo a bit racist - if you are going to accuse our owners of things at least link them to things they have done/are accused of doing, don’t just call them rapists.

We just need to stay up. Wood was more than happy to join on a 2.5 year deal, he immediately walked in and helped us get 4 points from two games, regardless of how we can project others may have done better in those games we got the points. Morelos isn’t good enough, anyone from the SPL is a risk, players like Boyd, and Miller scored by the hat full up there and we’re shite in the English leagues, similarly players who scored less than them came and did well, it’s a risk we aren’t in a position to take, the bloke is also a walking red card, and at 25 would see it as a good chance to get a nice 4 year deal. Id have taken Mitro but as Fish said we don’t know how much he’d cost, that would mean negotiations, meanwhile Wood had a clause and we could immediately get him in. He’s a complete short term move, they tried to bring in better afterwards and didn’t succeed but he’s better than nothing. If our team can create any fucking chances (which hopefully with the refreshed back line and improvement in CM we will) he will look better as well.

I wonder if Oldham Athletic fans hound the fuck out Downie’s North West equivalent because they don’t get similar coverage to Manchester United and Manchester City. I get they’re annoyed at where they are but he’s fucking spot on that he’s not the bloke to take it out on. There’s not some secret agenda here and the comments of “that’s it then a Sky employee CONFIRMING only the premier league matters”, take the fucking red and white geps off for a second and look at the coverage other teams in your division and even the division above get. Add in Newcastle spent the most in the Premier League (possibly world football as well?) in this transfer window, it’s honestly not clicking with them why we would receive more of SSN’s attention? Like all jokes aside it’s genuinely insane they expect they’d receive anywhere near the coverage. Even disregarding the entirety of the above, why would they work much around the signing of Defoe? It’s a 40 year old bloke that’s been out of contract for a month or two? It was widely known that he was in discussions with them, and pretty much only them, so SSN are just going to wait for that to be confirmed and report it. One of their reporters isn’t going to trespass in order to film people through windows to get that ‘scoop’.

“Do you think mimicking Michael Jordan coming back is a bit much?” “Nah they’ll lap it up”.

They genuinely believe it too man, the bloke is 40 and last played in the PL six seasons ago, do they honestly not see how this is yet another attempt to placate them by their owners? Nah they’ll just lap it up like they always do.

I don’t mind Wood at all, I think if he’s given good service he will score goals or do enough to bring others into the game, my only worry there is the way we play doesn’t really give us much opportunity for that second bit as he’s often so isolated. Hopefully Bruno is the spark in CM that allows us to maintain possession higher up the field in a manner like Cabaye did. Fraser is the one that doesn’t contribute much in that front three. He works hard which is all I can ask if you don’t bring much else, but that’s where Lingard would have really helped. Manchester United’s demands were absurd though and I do agree with others that even though it’s affordable for our lot it was just taking the fucking piss tbh. I’m hopeful we have enough to survive. As I said earlier we’ve basically changed the whole defence and got the exact type of CM we were fucking screaming out for, the combination of that really transforms how effectively we can carry out Howes tactics. I think because we’ve not signed another forward it’s hard to see where the goals come from but I think we will see an uptick in chances created going forward. I’ve heard Howe wants to stick with Lascelles as “he’s the captain” I personally hope that’s not the case as similarly to Clark he’s painfully error prone, but we have to wait and see on that. I was worried earlier in the window but I feel they’ve done well overall, I do feel they got a little caught up on some players and hopefully they’ve learned from that going forward. Not getting another CB is my main concern but they’ve improved 4 of the starting 11 and given us very strong cover/back up for another position, for a tough window to do business in they’ve done well. Really fucking hope we stay up now as the summer will be very interesting if we do.

Gutted we couldn’t get this done due to his clubs demands. Maybe between him and Bruno it would have been too much balls in one side. They’d have taken up the entire video room when they tried to watch footage of Digne and his microscopic testes playing for Villa.

Aye Alli doesn’t even fit our system but at this point I’m baying for more “GAZUMP YA FUCKA” content.

We should have enough. Pretty much a new back line. A new CM that can link play, which hopefully leads to more chances.

Even if it was unfair (which to be crystal clear it absolutely is not) does he think it is less fair than the PL blocking the takeover they eventually went on to allow? If they’d have allowed it when they fucking should have we could have done all this (likely more) last summer and never been in the position of needing to use this, perfectly fucking fair, approach.

Aye I threw the towel in watching that. That Lianne was brutal enough but then they subbed her off for Paul Merson ffs.

The reason the West Ham interest is annoying is because Manchester United might not drop their absurd ask in the hope that West Ham go mad and meet it.

This is the kind of chaos we wanted tbf. The French clubs are always good value for this sort of stuff. I think he’s a summer target they moved up interest in due to the Lingard deal being difficult and west ham supposedly showing interest in Eketike.

Ekitike has shown his plums haven’t developed yet. Lingard has just slapped his on Ragnicks desk and put a dint in the wood. Get Lingard in.