Howay

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.

Reece James is injured which is where this rumour has sprung up from. The chilwell injury has created the “omg Chelsea are in for Digne” rumour. I honestly think its all lazy reporting, they’ll likely move Azpilicueta to cover James and recall Emerson or loan a LB to cover Chilwell.

Agreed, I think it would also have a higher likelihood if they were really close in the title race but now they’re 11 points behind they won’t want to make that type of move when the chances of them overturning that is fairly slim.

Has he complained about it yet?

They’re not shelling out £20m+ on a 31 year old right back to cover for the 6-8 weeks that James is out. They also have Azpilicueta as back up already. It’s from a Sun article too btw. I could see them being more of an issue in the Digne deal if he decides to go there on loan to hope Rafa gets sacked, but even then with Everton buying a LB it probably motivates him for a permanent move.

Aye that’s it really. I don’t think it’s racist I just think it’s a lack of foresight and something they put out of mind until it becomes an issue for them again. For example Liverpool made that choice when they assembled their team the way they did, tbf I don’t think I’ve seen any whinging about it from Klopp which is out of character for him. Watford’s move is disgraceful iyam, and I’m not sure why we are getting dragged over coals for postponing a game yet they seem to be getting away with this unscathed? Personally I’m all for doing away with International football altogether as it’s wank and generally disruptive to the club schedule (see the 2 week international breaks). I understand there are plenty of people that love it but that’s just my personal opinion. I’m honestly surprised it’s lasted as long as it has given the money involved in the game now and wouldn’t be shocked if some time in the future clubs start challenging releasing their tens of millions of pounds rated assets. I think FIFA’s absurd push to increase the volume may prove to be the tipping point in this.

Interesting. How do they get around that? Or are they just expecting a fine or something minor?

I’m hearing about Bissouma too (although he has the sexual assault allegation / charges(?)), still hearing Diego Carlos, Botman, Digne as well. Schick, Nketiah, and Dembele (Moussa) as striker options. Fingers crossed we can get some of these lot in.

I do enjoy fans getting riled up and telling us basically exactly what we are doing as if any Newcastle fan gives a flying fuck. We definitely should just really hamper our own chances by not using the option made available to us. We should also do this to maintain the fairness right? Playing sides like Southampton who voted in a cartel to block our club legitimately getting new sponsors. Funny how when the rules help us everyone wants to cry despite their clubs willingly manipulating and bending rules to try and hurt our club. I hope we buy a whole new squad and batter these wankers 5-0.

This is when we buy James Ward Prowse from them tbh. I’m getting a good laugh at all the people saying Southampton have a point - nah they’re just trying to gain their own advantage by playing a side that has about 11 outfield players. I just noticed too, Everton got shafted by this I forgot we hadn’t played them yet this season so they have to play us twice post January.

Anything fresher than the above Ant? As I think it’s all just bollocks.

I like that when anyone brings up that Trippier has had a poor start to the season compared to last season it’s completely ignored that the same applies to pretty much the entirety of Athleticos team. He’s a good player and a good pro, fucking light years better than we’ve had at our club in 15 year. I’m buzzing if we sign him, anyone that suggest anything other is wrong.

We currently go between Javier Manquillo, and Emil Krafth in that position. Even if he’s having a poor season by his standards he’s a huge improvement on those two.

They’re so fucking odd. When we were in the Championship for a year I genuinely paid no mind to the PL or what they were doing in it, yet here they are nearly half a decade in the third tier and getting bent out of shape about us having a game postponed despite every other side in the league besides us Man City and Southampton having games called off. Why bring up weird fucking stuff about Boro? Are they now friends? It’s also a weird club to select since Boro are another that conveniently had a fixture abandoned for snow despite there being no snow years back…

Taxi Tony I wonder what enlightened views the poor fuckers that step into his taxi have to be subjected to.

We’re all just well jealous of his HUGE earnings: https://socialblade.com/youtube/channel/UCbXlSJHSuY1nNHoxSElKiIA