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Aye “there will be no surprises” in the squad selection Southgate has said, so basically it’ll be in line with recent friendly squads. Feel bad for Shelvey as the lad looked like he was buzzing when asked about possibly featuring for England after the Chelsea match. The reality is Southgate won’t have even gave him a second thought, which is pathetic. What is even more pathetic is that a horrifically limited player like Jake Livermore will be selected over him. Tbh he’d probably select Wilshere over him despite the lad only playing about a third of this season and his issues with injury being likely a bigger issue than bad discipline from Shelvey (as tbh Shelvey hasn’t been bad 2nd half of the season with that and would likely only be a 2nd option but at least he’d be an available plan B unlike sick note).

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What a fucking wanker he is. Everything he ‘hopes’ to happen is well within his power to ensure happens all he has to do is be honest with Rafa, give him a budget and stick to it. “Pantomime villain” stop fucking acting like one then you joker. I can’t wait until the club is eventually rid of him.

Aye, they’ve been bringing up the HMRC raid again ffs some of the knackers honestly think it’s going to end in a large point deduction for us, fucking obsessed tiny little lower league tramps.

Aye you just have to look at the results in the games he missed and compare to the games he played to see his importance. I’m fairly sure he was injured in both the matches we lost by a 3 goal margin (our biggest deficit). I agree with ewerk in that he wouldn’t be fazed starting for England, he had a bit of a rough start to his NUFC career with many (myself included) being unconvinced by him early on but it didn’t bother him and he actually grew when given the pressure of captaincy. The dream is the club gets taken over by a group with some ambition, we keep Rafa and then build around Lascelles. I think he’ll be fairly in demand though as he’s a very competent, intelligent, and young English centre half which is very rare. For me he’s better than the likes of Maguire, Keane, and co but it’s good for us if they keep getting more attention (although I’m not sure how much longer that will continue).

It’s mental having a side with pace of Sterling, Lingaard, Kane, and Alli up top and not wanting to bring a bloke that could lay on some great balls to them in favour of three players that would wince at the thought of attempting a pass over 8 yards. He’d be a great option in a game where the team is set up to play on the counter, or a 2nd option to if we are dominating possession but can’t break down a team sitting deep.

Only 13 days in the bottom 3, and even then never lower than 18th. Brilliant season, Ashley should be breaking his neck to keep this bloke it’s not even like Rafa will be asking for a fortune.

I love that none of them see the irony of saying we are obsessed with them, or that they are everything to us in a thread where they’re all sat watching our match, which is a complete dead rubber match, when there are 10 other games on (I know we were the one on Telly but howay). Almost as funny as a post I saw on there earlier. A bloke called us the most deluded fan base around, then in the next paragraph said that Newcastle are now what they have been for the last 10 years a mid-table PL side . They managed the dizzying height of 10th once in their 10 year stretch the daft cunts barely had a sniff of anything higher than 15th ffs.

Class performance and a great way to end the season. Agree with those saying these sort of performances highlight why Shelvey should be going to the World Cup. Sadly the manager is a bloke who would say his favorite drink is water, so he’ll take Livermore, Dier, and Henderson.

Ross Barkley seems to enjoy playing against us so bit shite seeing him start, hopefully he’s completely out of form/fitness given how little he has played though.

You tell them essembee, we should all still be on a high from the mackems decline. I get what Fish is saying but I think to be fair to Leicester in that particular season they were the best team. There were factors such as the usual top sides having an off season and usual service has since resumed. Still astounding that a defence as shite as Simpson, Huth, Morgan, and Fuchs won the league mind, but as Quiff mentions they do have quality such as Vardy, Mahrez, Kante, and even Drinkwater (albeit excelling in a very restricted role). I do absolutely go against Fish’s comment about Navas being better than Mahrez, in fact I demand an apology for that one. Navas is the poster boy of not having any end product whatsoever. I’m a big fan of Sterling though and have always thought he was quality, in that particular season Mahrez was better but overall I prefer Sterling.

Gary Johnson is a fucking lunatic as well tbf. Fairly sure he also said he’d basically get rid of every single Government department because according to him they don’t do anything, then when given examples of what they do replied “okay yeah well I would keep that department”

Much to his dismay the staunch work of the South Koreans, and Chinese as well as the accident at the testing site undone his year of simply abusing and goading Kim Jong Un. As yourself and PL have said he now needs a new distraction from basically everything else he is doing wrong/has done wrong being news. Of course everyone could be upset about this completely transparent and very dangerous action but Donald Glover made a music video so that’s far more important to get angry about (despite Glover being spot on and rather depressingly having his point made for him).

Would be nice to end the season on a positive result.

Aye, good summary of the situation. Your facts back up just how hard it is to return. I suppose it makes sense, when you drop into the Championship the longer you stay in it the more Championship standard your squad becomes. They’ve dropped again so their issue is even if they do manage promotion next season (fwiw I don’t see them doing it as I think there’s going to be too much upheaval, there are two sides dropping that came above them, and honestly I think their owner is a right fucking charlatan) they’ll firmly be a lower end Championship side quality wise (at the absolute best, they’ll be weaker than that iyam) so any shot of a double promotion is shot right there, especially with their owner Del Boy completely incapable of bankrolling them and their pathetic ticket sales not bringing in a good enough revenue. Imho this bloke will recruit a League One manager, look to sell off any sellable assets, and aim to have the manager play the youth and/or sign some League One players. There won’t be a “war chest” like some of the mackems think, or a big promotion push, he’ll have them stabilize down there to stop the rot and decline. The plus for us is this could see them become a proper League One side. I agree with Stone cold Stephen Ireland that we’ll not see these pricks in the PL in an awfully long time (personally hope they never return).

Sissoko is absolutely fucking wank.

They all seem largely obsessed one of Stewart’s mates that is involved is a pr bloke. Apparently that’s class and is just what they need, they do know most clubs (likely including their own) have pr staff, having one as an owner is no benefit.

Aye not much to care about with this one, I’d like us to finish top 10 but that would just be a nice finish to a good season. Chuffed that this one is a dead rubber fixture for us mind.

Aye it’s a weak league as they really are hitting the bottom rungs of the Pro tiers (think the average salary is something like £50k-£100k a year) so I could see them stabilizing down there. The issue for them will be getting out of the league tbh, as the longer they’re in it the harder it’ll be. They should fucking forget about the PL though as they’re a million miles away from that now.

I reckon he’s going to sell what he can (Borini, Lens, and whoever else is out on loan, maybe Kone for 500k etc) and he’ll use that money to essentially cover the contracts of blokes on massive wages. That obviously leaves them in a rough position of having the same wank, unmotivated squad with fuck all to spend. This is where “the Don” works his magic, switch the lights off, no free bottles of water, etc and they’ve got themselves some transfer funds. Honestly I have no idea how any of them are positive, they’re fucked.

Aye that’s what this blokes plan is. Stabilize the spending, and try to get them up. Of course as you say it’s big if’s as getting out of League One while trying to run a profit is very difficult (and will get harder after 1 year when the next 3 drop from the Championship). He will then aim to sell if he can get them in the Championship. I know the mackems think there’s some mystery backing but imo this bloke is it. Who the fuck would have the owner of Eastleigh as the frontman? It makes no sense. I also agree with Quiff, Short hasn’t fucked off without clauses. He will have took the remaining parachute payments, it’s also possible that he’s took ownership of the stadium and will lease it to Del Boy Trotter. Obviously it’s all guesswork but I find it canny hard to believe the bloke will essentially write off £130m (plus what he paid for the club since he gave it away) after 10 years of utter hassle and abuse.

Aye they’re in full on denial mode. In that thread a bunch rail against the bloke saying Stewart doesn’t have a lot of money, then one goes “you think £300M isn’t a substantial amount of wealth?” They then all liked his comment It’s clear as fucking day this Stewart and his mates have nowhere near that ffs, they’re collectively at around £10M according to the (albeit limited) information available.

I know what you mean, I do think he’s one of them where you hate the bastard because he’s on an opposition team but we’d like him on our team. He’d be well worth 12M but as KD said it’s be hard to get him if that’s how low his clause is.

Aye, that smug cunt Wagner has piped down as well.

The mackems seem to have found the possible holding co set up to be given the club (since I still reckon they were given it for nowt). It lists Stewart, his Mam, a PR mate of Stewart who’s worth about £4m, and another 37 year old One of them started saying he’s heard this is just the initial consortium and the Spanish group (this Spanish thing is being treat as fact now ) will come in with financial backing ‘when’ they’re back in the Championship. He heard it via a PM from someone else on the forum but of course couldn’t say who who needs TV when we have this lot of fucking plugs to watch. What sort of Consortium would be set up like that . League One must be shaking, a powerful consortium of two blokes who would be bankrupted if they tried to buy Gayle and one of their Mam’s. I hope this makes the Netflix documentary.