Howay

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Power_(footballer) Seems he’s moved on to a bigger club.

Probably, I knew they had some cunt who sounded like he was a shit battery brand. Probably the dodgy battery brand the homeless bloke that tried to buy them pours boiling water over to make Rich Energy.

I don’t understand the clamoring by a fair few mackems to see us relegated and them promoted so we could play. It would be a fucking mullering, we’d likely be the most expensive squad ever assembled in the Championship as the owners will absolutely only want 1 season there, meanwhile they’ll have whoever the fuck they have in their team, Max Power or something?

Should have put a wink, I was being a sarcastic cunt because of the lad with the Shelvey fan club badge going on about it making no sense earlier.

Grown lads man, how many days is that sad act going to stand outside that fence. Fucking content ffs

Why would Manchester United try and get a loan fee for a player that’s leaving for nowt in the summer (therefore getting some money in as well as not paying his wages), for a player that’s made a whopping 5 sub appearances for them this season in the league?

Gemmill will be happy to know Weaith has cleared the way for Adam to be loved now.

Aye it’s absolutely incredible he’s slating us for not picking a bloke that he thinks we should have picked, who then went and got another job any way. Regardless of what people think Gerrard will become as a manager it’s all guesswork, Eddie Howe has 12 years experience and has experience fighting against relegation which is something all the pundits were banging on about when we were after Emery! Samuel is a fat pig though, and he’s always been a tragic journalist - he puts as much effort into his work as he does his appearance.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-10192315/Newcastle-confident-agree-Saudi-sponsorship-deals-rid-Sports-Direct-branding.html SD signage news!

Iirc Lampard had Mason Mount, Harry Wilson, and Fikayo Tomori at Derby all on loan - looking at their careers since (especially Mount and Tomori) having them was probably a massive factor compared to the drop off since tbf. Not saying he’s necessarily terrible but I always thought him having pretty much two CL level players in the championship helped (they were lesser known but both played for Chelsea the following season).

What an absolute throbber.

It’s fucking mad that the text on the wall was very likely put there during Ashley’s ownership, the cheeky cunt . The novelty of being able to talk about Ashley’s ownership in past tense isn’t wearing off at all neither. Thank fuck we’ve saw the back of that prick.

Obviously THAT man was on the scene for the exclusive everyone wanted, getting the info none of the other cunts can get. They don’t just give out Trinity Mirror group awards to any fucker.

Interesting choice that Burt from Sesame Street was chosen to interview him.

Demba Ba btw iirc he couldn’t get away fast enough once an offer come in, now you’d think we were a club he was torn to leave. I know that’s modern day football btw but he can’t have it both ways.

Spot on, we’d let the UAE and Qatar become massive players in the world game how long did they realistically think Saudi Arabia would sit on the sidelines? I do find it interesting that any time the UAE or Qatar involvement is raised in these arguments many leap to try and twist on about how they’re different rather than try and have some actual discussion about how fucked the game has become. The Saudis are an end point to these type of owners, they’re the worst but it’s very hard to draw a line in the sand against this type of thing.

Agreed, these people are scum there’s no doubt about it and there’s no point excusing any of it as we have no reason to, but I also don’t see it as fair to put it on Newcastle fans that they should be making constant protests like you say. We had zero say in any of this, and as Rayvin said if it wasn’t NUFC it was going to be somewhere else - the same group had made overtures at Manchester United and Liverpool’s owners in the past. The coverage at times gets so absurd that the fan base is going to get prickly and defensive about it, just look to Oliver Holts ridiculous “Eddie Howe is a good appointment” “OMG look at me getting suckered in to sports washing!!! They’re so evil, did I mention the bone saw? and Newcastle fans are theeee wooooooorst” type back to back tweets as an example of it, of course Newcastle fans will want to occasionally talk football without everything constantly having to have 27 disclaimers about the owners, and quite honestly doing it is doing no good imo as it makes the defensive people say more outrageous things and it takes the impact of the awful things these people do away if it’s just constantly repeated. I think the opinion pieces are often the best place for this discussion, the Holts and Delaneys that just throw in some quip about the Saudis being bad and a dig at Newcastle fans onto any random breaking news tweet about Newcastle are to me almost as ridiculous as the fans who put Saudi flags in their profile and try to defend/belittle what the new owners do. We could protest constantly but it does fucking no difference, this is the way football has gone. This is the same game that essentially supported Qatar when they were trying to cover up that a French player living there had essentially been imprisoned due to a conflict with the club and his family had to flee back to France, the game that has sought to come down like a ton of bricks on Norway when there was a hint of possible boycott of the 2022 World Cup. If people truly want to kick this type of investment out of football that’s fine with me but making pariahs of Newcastle fans for wanting a drink out of the same trough swathes of football have been guzzling from is a bit rich imo. I know it’s impossible to support but if there was some mass boycott by Newcastle fans, what do these journalists that are so desperate to attack us over this think would happen? What would the PL do? My guess is they’d not show much support for the protests for long (if at all).

Agree on it being a short term problem. It’s a desperate, ill thought out, and short term play. Once we establish ourselves as being away from the relegation candidates there’s literally no incentive for half the PL clubs to avoid selling to us, I understand if they’re on board now hoping we will drop instead of them but even then the lower teams will know it does nothing but push the timeline back, it’s not like the owners will just throw their hands up in frustration and walk away. It’s why I always saw links to players like Tarkowski as a bit daft, why would Burnley sell us their main defender? It would essentially resign them to relegation or massively increase the odds of it coming to pass. Illegal agreement not to sell to us or not we were always going to struggle to sign players from those teams around us. The issue for me would be more the mid to top end sides refusing this season as those would have been the players we’d have been more likely to bring in. Even if the “top” sides carry it on it’s not really an issue in future, as realistically how often do they buy from one another?

Not if he keeps getting fucking SCOOPS like the below: Aye maybe he should stick to school eh.

The level of neglect of all areas of the club by Ashley is fucking tragic, areas like this will be the hardest to fix. I admit I’m not certain but I think there’s some interplay between the level your academy is rated at and the protected catchment area, I remember ours didn’t make the top tier which meant the protected area was greatly reduced which has likely allowed other clubs (seemingly Chelsea) to muscle their way in. Other clubs coming in and stealing away youth from the clubs area is fucking tragic tbh, I hope it’s an aspect the new ownership really address.

A lot of those that you highlight as not working out well they still turned a profit on I think. That seems to be what the bloke did really well at Chelsea, aside from bringing in players that had a first team impact he made them into a side that generates so much money from loan and transfer fees.

It’s fucking class isn’t it? Being actually excited and positive about incoming appointments is such a difference compared to ‘which fucking idiot is out there that’s been forgotten about or is about 15 years behind the times?’

The Knight Ryder approves.

I know it’s probably reading way to much into it but ASM’s body language throughout doesn’t look great. Couple that with his poor form since Bruce left and his message about Bruce, there’s a little bit of a thought that he really did like Bruce as he was basically allowed to do whatever the fuck he wanted and he’s going to be frustrated by the more controlled atmosphere going forward. Obviously I hope I’m reading to much into it, if it is the case obviously it’s better to have the team playing collectively better anyway, it would just be a shame as I think he could be a real star player if he can thrive in a Howe set up team.