Howay

Yeah, at least typically release clauses are 100% cash up front. It’s why Enzo Fernandez cost Chelsea more than his release clause as they didn’t want to pay 100% up front so they had to actually negotiate a price.

They’d need to offer £100m cash upfront though and there’s no way Liverpools offer was that (if it actually happened), it would have been over years of payment. We also don’t know the terms, it could be non English sides only, or only active if we aren’t in Europe for a season or two etc. I agree with Toonotl in that it protects us from any Real Madrid style tactics since we’ve now got an agreed upon fee of £100m up front. As sad as I’d be to see him go a £70m or so profit for FFP would allow us to spend a fucking fortune. If it was as you say for if we miss CL this year that would more than overcome missing out for a season.

Happy with this, that release clause is very high tbf there’s only been a very small handful of teams ever to have paid it and it’ll have to be £100m cash upfront which I would guess basically none of the £100m deals were. It’s a Real Madrid clause iyam, I doubt he’d go to Chelsea or Man U. Also, if someone did give us £100m we’d have insane FFP spending power.

The fucking state of that. They didn’t even bother cutting out the random bloke from 1983 sitting there for the first four seconds. Poor Tony missing the San Siro, those days are long gone now.

What makes it all worse is those stats would be shit if it was PL only but they’re actually boosted by spells in the Championship.

Not that it needed proving, but his constant bleating is proof all the victimization shite him and his son were claiming is utter nonsense. If he was really hurt/scared or whatever it was he was pretending by the fanbase he’d not keep dredging the subject back up, he’d just leave it well alone. The weirdest thing I find with Bruce is that he’s a freeloading, lazy cunt but he is offended by people knowing it despite the fact he’s never once bothered to put graft in . The blokes response to the takeover in the lead up to the game against Spurs was to call off fucking training for days iirc. Absolute sniffer.

I’m honestly not even angry, just find him pathetic at this point. He’s had ample time to give his side, and already has at length, yet off he goes again. We’re in a far better place now, so in a way it’s nice to see a bloke that was a shocking manager for us having a circle jerk with king pompous tangerine pretending he wasn’t a load of shite two years on after another role where he torpedoed West Broms promotion chances, while we’ve just played AC Milan in the champions league.

I think we need some rotation mind, with about 4 games in the 11 days starting with the Milan game.

Genuinely surprised people still respond, one of the worst posters this board has ever had and that’s saying something.

The best part of their plan is loaning a bunch of young players who have zero intention of signing permanently for them as well.

It’s like everything with them, they try to start banter - which is fair enough - but then can’t take it when it’s done back to them. The season we got relegated and had a season in the championship being a good example, they went fucking mad, which is fine but the issue was they got more absurd about it no matter how blatant it become that roles were reversing “we’re still one place above yas”, then once it did it become “obsessed”, “I’d rather be in the championship winning every week than in the PL”, “I’d rather be in league one winning every week than in the PL”, and now this hysteria and soap boxing over morals. They’ve long tried to point at parts of Newcastle as being dumps, made weird claims on various parts of the area as actually being Sunderland or whatever the fuck else they bleat on about, then once someone, rightly, points out that Sunderland is a dump they cry like that bloke. It’s not a superiority complex, Sunderland just is a dump, much like places like Rotherham, Scunthorpe, etc it’s just a crap town with not much going on, if they want to make themselves feel better by saying only arrogant people think this way they can feel free to delude themselves in a similar manner to this “obsession” shite. This whole thread has basically just become laughing at stuff they’re coming up with . It’s not like we’re coming up with shite like “I saw a bloke on the train in France with a toon top on and shed a tear of pride, if it was a mackem he’d have probably been throwing his shit at people but the toon lad stopped to administer CPR to a bloke who was dying on the train, proper classy lad”.

Shocking that this opinion they have has suddenly come up once we started playing in it . It’s the premier club competition in Europe ffs, why wouldn’t you want to see your club in it? Between that and the Premier League we’re seeing some of the best players on the planet, and they suddenly want no part of either competition . Nah they’d rather watch far lower quality football, because of imaginary morals.

We’re “frothing” over this chant apparently.

https://x.com/_fantasyed/status/1704078527794975121?s=46&t=ytLiTTx5wmuNZJztyLjiJg

Why are the mackems even saying they’ll be in Europe soon? Don’t they want proper football? Away from places like Milan, Paris, and Dortmund. I imagine there’s a lot of lads in Milan right now that will see the below and wish we were involved in proper football. https://x.com/roverscarpark/status/1703689731614052371?s=46&t=ytLiTTx5wmuNZJztyLjiJg

A lad in his 20’s wearing a footy top! Surely he should have screamed “mag behavior” rather than smiling?

What is it that makes Anthony Gordon a “horrific individual”? He’s a 22 year old kid that has no off-field issues, or accusations against him, seems to be a good pro and is level headed. Typical of them I suppose though, they just say something, decide it’s true regardless of any actual evidence, then get annoyed by it. It’s exactly for the above reason the whole “Durham mags are cunts, Northumberland mackems are classy lads” makes total sense to them, there’s even blokes that are themselves “Northumberland mackems” saying all the same shit about “Durham mags” . It always makes me laugh that they just disregard the fact we’re talking about an area that’s all within an hour or so drive, and people move around, as if it’s some insane concept whereby a bloke from Sunderland living in Morpeth is some big feat and means all of Morpeth is Sunderland daft.

A couple of weeks ago everything was going tits up and they were starting to call for Mowbrays sacking, now they’re back to being the best footballing side on the planet Are they forgetting when this footballing Goliath of a team met Fulham last season and had to resort to a backs to the wall job to try and cling on, then still lost?

That’s just fucking weird man. So a story about a bloke on a shit holiday that heard someone’s next door neighbor is a mackem. Not sure if it’s sadder if he made it up, or if it actually happened and he thought it was something profound. I do like that he adds that he goes to St Abbs a lot, maybe that’s to add credibility? Or is it staking a claim to the place on behalf of mackems?

https://x.com/deadlinedaylive/status/1703416078590767259?s=46&t=ytLiTTx5wmuNZJztyLjiJg Another of their favorites.

https://x.com/jordancronin_/status/1703176686764749299?s=46&t=ytLiTTx5wmuNZJztyLjiJg This bloke is a right cunt like . His team time wasted like fuck every goal kick and throw in, I understood it was part of their set up and wasn’t complaining but don’t then complain when you feel the game isn’t fast enough when you go behind. Far too many managers like this now imo, Klopp, Ten Hag, Frank, etc that will blame everything and everyone when things don’t go their way. You come up against a better side, set up for a draw and lost.

Yeah signing a 6 should have been the priority, I think Tonali become available and was seen as a stretch so they shifted plans (I feel Livramento is similar in that respect), and fully agree Alvarez would have been a great signing. Although I like Maddison 6 is the main position we miss in our midfield, and despite his really good start with Spurs they have largely had easy fixtures. My worry is I’ve heard Howe sees Bruno as a 6 despite many of the recruitment side seeing him as an 8 with a 6 being priority to sign. A Bruno - Alvarez - Tonali midfield would have been great to see.

He was suspended for the Inter game.

I know, it was a separate point that although Paqueta would be nice if we are to sign a CM we need a 6 rather than an 8 or 10.