Howay

Got a feeling our lot will be getting fairly irritated now.

I hope they do bid and he picks us over them, then in his presser he talks about what an amazing, mahoosive club we are and even though other offers were higher he sees a project to go to the top here. Then he specifically says he is buzzing to live in Newcastle, he thinks Birmingham is what Trippier told him “a total shithole”, then he does the People’s elbow on Edwards by saying he alone cost £50m.

That Trippier interview is class. He comes across well and you can tell he’s a leader. It’s also brilliant that he kept saying “I wanted to move back to the North”, absolutely decimates that wanker Agbonlahor with his “why would anyone go to Newcastle” spiel.

Tough one for me this. Do we put out a strong side since we haven’t played in a while, or do we focus on the Watford match and put out the youth?

So Villa have followed us into interest in Coutinho, Digne, and now Botman, not sure this tactic is going to be feasible for long. Botman only has interest in us as he views us as the next Man City/PSG level project, if it was just money he’d not be interested - which is what Villa would basically offer as tbh their “project” isn’t going far especially with a manager that’s practically begging to manage another club. If they want to pay out the alleged £275k a week in wages to Coutinho and Digne to consolidate their mid table finish more power to them. I look forward to leapfrogging them next season if we stay up this year.

He’s not been much use since 2018. He could of course be class but I don’t get the fanfare as if he’s definitely going to be brilliant - contrast this to the coverage of Trippier starting this season with a drop in form (seemingly not alone at Athleti this season) after having perhaps his best ever season prior to that. I agree with Wykiki that if we had signed Coutinho it would have been an avalanche of negative comments. Of course we do desperately need someone in that creative midfield role….

The Knight Ryder putting in the hard yards to give us the news everyone was on the edge of their seat waiting for.

Ralf Rangnick was moaning about it as well apparently (not necessarily about us), has that bloke done anything since arriving besides fucking whinging? Starting to feel relieved we didn’t get the moaning bastard. First he wants the League Cup to be binned and now this.

The whole “bigger club” shite makes me laugh. Villa have still won objectively fuck all, the same that we have. Sure both clubs have won cups, them more recent, but still come on man it’s completely meaningless and irrelevant. It’s like Manchester United fans screaming at Man City fans that they’re bigger, meanwhile Man City fans are currently watching some of the best football in the world and winning cups while Manchester United are pissing and moaning about how shite they are. They can enjoy being a bigger club than us if they want. We will just crack on with being the biggest spenders over the next few years as we rocket past them up the league eh? Additionally both clubs are miles bigger than Sunderland in basically every metric if the mackems want to start this, they’ve been a third division side for going on half a decade meanwhile two of Europe’s premier up and coming talents are allegedly desperate to join Newcastle.

Btw, why is the picture of Trippier our media team keep using the one of him clearly meaning to point to the badge but pointing to his shoulder? why use that one?

This is all absolutely mint eh.

It’s weird how wrong Luke Edwards was that we’d only have £50m to spend this window isn’t it? It’s almost like he knows absolutely fucking nowt.

Add Denis Zakaria to what I said above btw. The issue is huge agent/signing fees on this one.

Aye definitely, it doesn’t feel real yet. Right, pinch of salt time lads as I’m just passing along what I’ve heard so take it or leave it. Botman and Diego Carlos want to sign, we want both, Howe wants Botman in first. Umtiti the alternative if we can’t agree Botman fee. Digne deal is dead in the water and we’ve moved on. Unlikely to sign a LB, may rely on Lewis and Manquillo. Vlahovic…. Wants to sign for us. Like Botman he wants to get in at the ground floor of the project and fears knocking us back now would mean we wouldn’t ever come back. Club not sure about the price (55m) as still fear relegation. Other alternative here is Isak who has been looked into today. Nothing in Ramsey or Coutinho stuff. Laters,lol

Agreed! I’d love us to sign him, I thought similar with Gini but then I thought about the PSG owners. Maybe it’s not a problem and it won’t be like that? I think he’d be perfect for us as imo we really need to improve CM. Like I get the defence is poor but we can’t get any sort of handle on teams as our midfield is a fucking sieve. It’s been better since Joelintons reinvention but he can’t do this on his own for 19 games.

My only thing about this is he’s at PSG isn’t he? I’m curious how much business we will ever do with them given the relationship between the owners.

Tbf when I mentioned him a while back Diego said he was shite. Said he was basically Lascelles.

At least he’s athletic, I imagine Clark struggles to put his own socks on.

Think it lost them the game as Lukaku was an inter player.

He’s on par with that Burnsey idiot. So I would discard his stuff tbh.

He’s crossing Edwards now.

The real source these journos use. Even when he’s stood right there at the scene he’s still incorrect, it’s almost like standing outside a training ground is pretty worthless.