Howay

What a fucking throbber. It’s absolutely impossible that the sky sports lads got similar information eh.

Someone has been told off.

Aye, he fell out with Rafa over tactics and Howe has been driving this deal as he did with the Trippier one. I’m just glad we’ve thrown a bid in, especially one Everton will surely accept (covers the fee for their new left back as well as gives them a player Rafa wants), now the onus is on Chelsea and West Ham to match it if they want him - I can’t see Everton accepting a loan deal if they have this offer which will pressure Digne a little. Hopefully we can get in Botman, or I’m hearing Umtiti is climbing up our radar, as I think having names like that alongside Trippier would help to convince if we are the only option besides staying.

I’m reporting Downie, maybe Edwards was right about him.

Preparing to sell Vlahovic?

I don’t think it’ll happen but could you imagine the fucking explosion of hatred towards us on Twitter especially if he scored from a Trippier cross against Southampton.

Reading my post it sounded a bit ITK, I’m not ITK it’s all basically third hand info tbh. I just think a lot of these journalists make leaps they hope will prove in the long run, I can’t see how Romano has some inside track into what Digne is thinking.

Imagine if they meant Luuk.

I think Romano is fine, but I think in this instance he’s making a leap to look more ITK than he is. He’s saying this expecting Chelsea to sign him then will say he knew, in reality it’s ongoing - from what I know Chelsea have interest but it’s for a loan, Everton want to sell permanently, we have interest in a permanent deal but haven’t bid either yet. If Digne has decided he absolutely won’t come to Newcastle it would be news to our side from what I’ve heard. Again not saying he will come to us but think Romano is making a leap here for sure.

Also, what a fucking turnaround in the 5 or so seasons since we were in the championship and had them with their “weeyah still one place above yazzz”.

Good mirnung to you as well.

It’s Digne he’s referring to, I want a written apology off this chicken and wine shagging little bitch as I mentioned we were in for Digne on here fucking YONKS ago. He’s getting a second slap if he mentions Diego Carlos.

If Lille’s financial troubles are real I can’t see them holding out too much longer at these prices, additionally I think that just about sees off Milan’s interest.

It’s a continuation of this arrogance they’ve rolled over from the Ferguson era, where it’s like this assumption the club is some amazing entity and it definitely wasn’t just down to Ferguson and other staff/the set up. All this “it’s the yanaited way” shite. Ronaldo was a panic buy due to Manchester City’s interest in him, it was that we can’t let a club we see as below us get our club legend arrogance at play, so they bought him to try and prove they’re still the big boys (and thus shift more shirts as you mention). Since Ferguson has left there’s been absolutely no logic to most their signings other than to grab names, or what they saw as the upcoming stars. No attempt to buy to fit a system they intended on playing. Contrast that with Manchester City, Liverpool, and Chelsea who all identify players that fit their system - City buying Rodri a player who, while was a very good player at Villarreal and Athletico, wasn’t a superstar name but was the perfect fit for Guardiolas system, compared to Manchester United buying Pogba - a superstar name who had been playing a completely different system and role at Juve one they never tried to replicate. I think Ronaldo himself likely knows he made a bad decision electing to go to Manchester United over Man City, imo he’d have been brilliant for Pep with the way they dominate possession and suffocate opposition as he’d have just stood in the box finishing all the moves made by Silva/Grealish/Foden/De Bruyne/Mahrez etc etc. Instead he’s at Manchester United where they have no fucking system, have chop and changed the system over and over with recent managers who have brought in random players who were/are names or had a break out season, they need more from their forward imo they can’t afford to have a player remain so far forward as they don’t dominate like Man City do - I think it’s why they look better when Cavani plays as he brings a lot of energy to the position. The positive here is while it’s clearly not working, they also won’t drop him so we get to watch this brilliant melt down every week where Ronaldo thrashes out at opposition players (see him kicking Curtis Jones on the ground then pretending he was going for the ball, or wildly lashing out at Ryan Fraser before again pretending he was only going for the ball as two examples), or simply whinges at all the players around him. I find what’s going on with Barca and their whole “we are back with the big boys in the transfer market” to be a similar type of keeping up with the joneses type nonsense. Long may it continue tbh.

I assume he must think he was right and the takeover didn’t happen?

They’re right tbh, it’s clear as day absolutely everyone loves Sunderland and every player has some kind of link to them and hopes to play for them. It’s weird that they spent years overpaying for discarded Manchester United shit since surely they’d have all jumped at the chance to play for them?

Weird they didn’t copy his EXCLUSIVE SCOOP here from a year prior. Fucking divvy.

Ones also an article that Newcastle want to sign Trippier in early January, which the entire football world knew by that point, the other is someone saying we have submitted an official bid. How does he see that as the same? I’m not even going to bother mentioning how him saying Newcastle want to sign Trippier on December 28th is far from an exclusive ffs. He’s also ignoring the fact that other people will have similar sources and hear similar things at similar times. He’s such an arrogant cunt.

I’m personally not worried about the Trippier one, he seems to be a regular starter for Athletico and I’m sure they’re not bothered about selling him it’s more him wanting to move back to England, so I think it’s fairly natural they’d play him until he leaves. The bid yesterday was just a show of intent from our lot iyam, I think we will bid on Monday and hopefully get negotiations done by Tuesday, it’s fairly likely people weren’t really working much over NY’s weekend. My hope though is that we’ve got more going on this week than just Trippier, I really think we need 2-3 in by next weekend as January is a shit time to buy and it only gets worse the further into the window you get as teams get more hesitant to sell.

We will finish above them both. I’ve decided I’m supremely confident about us staying up now as all these teams are absolutely shit, if we buy well we’ll be fine. The fact we have won 1 game and are only 2 points from safety is bonkers.

Leeds fans throwing bottles. Scummy bastards to the t’end them lot

A Leeds win is fine, they’re absolutely shite it’s just Burnley are horrific. Even with a win Leeds are only 8 points above us, if we hopefully pump Watford and Leeds it could easily be a 2 point gap by the end of January (as they play West Ham away when we play Watford), that scenario would definitely have us above Watford by that point too. Fingers crossed we get the signings to back up this hope.

They get to lose to us twice still this season as well.