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Aye remember the way they went on during the Botman transfer. As much as Edwards is a nob and reports a lot of shite in terms of links he rarely reports bids being submitted, the last being Botman? So maybe there’s something in it.

Aye I mean I don’t mind them doing it, I just love a dig at Real Madrid and their fans tbh.

Brilliant player

They booed C. Ronaldo mind. Probably the worst and most toxic fan base in football.

Likely a load of shite but an exciting link

None of it bothers them but at the same time every post explains that the Saudis will stop spending money on NUFC. They’ve done this since the take over happened . I honestly think they think more about our ownership than most toon fans.

Aye, we’ve also just spent £7m - £10m on an 18 year old who we’ve loaned out immediately, which kind of seems weird with the amount of players we need and the quoted £75m (I know it wasn’t Edwards that said that amount btw). Seems like a bit of smoke and mirrors by our lot tbh.

The mackems will be gutted about this loan, MLFs loaning toon players!

I’m fairly sure Maguire normally plays left sided CB, which we’ve locked down with Botman and Burn, we’d be looking for a right sided one. The Maguire rumours are simply journalists hoping other people take on Manchester United’s dog shit, the blokes reportedly on £250k a week man no one’s taking those wages on.

I find a lot of the reaction about Maddison on twitter weird, lots of stuff about his attitude and how he doesn’t run as much etc. The thing is Leicester don’t play that way so weren’t asking him to press like our team does, I’m fairly comfortable in thinking that Howe/Ashworth would ensure he had the right attitude and would do what was asked of him before they spent £50m on the bloke.

Does this floppy cunt ever not discuss us, did that True Geordie bloke shag his mam or something?

The first person he listed had a massive concert in Dubai, so aye.

Genuinely don’t know why people are responding and arguing with this. If their point is Sunderland is better than Newcastle it’s the height of delusion, there’s no point comparing the two as Newcastle is simply better in basically every way. It’s a group of people who will try and argue their stadium is better than SJP ffs it’s just lunacy.

Nicest kit for a while since the sponsor fits with it for a change

Agreed, we do seem to have this exact same discussion about budget every window before splashing north of 150m mind . Additionally the Hope story states we have a 75m budget then proceeds to list a bunch of midfielders that would cost 75% of that or more As Alex mentioned the club would never put out a figure. That’s why I agree with your point that it’s likely smoke and mirrors. There’s a lot of gaming you can do with FFP, if we’re so restricted by it that we can only sign the likes of Tyler adams and Kyle Walker peters we can forget competing tbh . We’re also about to drop £7m on a youth prospect, so already down to the mid£60m range . Makes you wonder how we were okay in the prior 3 year period if we are so strapped for this one despite the massive increases in TV and sponsor money

Aye that’s along the lines of where I could see it being a possibility, but it’s not what these reports imply - a £70m budget would mean Walker peters would be our starter I don’t buy it for a second tbh. As for Caulkin he’s a decent journalist but I wouldn’t say he’s more accurate than others? He’s more an opinion piece type than being right about breaking news.

Aye this is what I’m meaning, it’s clearly what the club want everyone to think rather than being truthful. We’ve got far higher revenue coming this season, including a huge increase in sponsors, even an increased wage bill wouldn’t explain a budget half what we had when we were battling relegation. It’s the same as when Edwards was being told £50m was all we had.

That floppy cunt Rory is still going? He’s the cunt that said Haaland would be a huge flop, as clueless/click-baity as they come that bloke. He should stick to watching cricket and polo tbh, leave football to people that know about it.

Personally I’m not paying much attention to what the press are saying, I think we’ve constantly played down how much we can spend each window. People are saying Szoboszlai is out our price range but we bought Isak for similar after narrowly avoiding relegation and having dog shit sponsors, and still brought in a number of others (Botman, Gordon, Targett, and Pope). If the discussion is £50m for Maddison and £60m for Szoboszlai that’s a fairly negligible price difference for FFP over a 5-6 year contract. We will be smart as we always are but these articles about us shopping the scrap heap of relegated sides is disrespectful iyam, Maddison I can accept but links to players like Tyler Adams, Kyle Walker-Peters etc are a joke. We’ve signed Botman, Trippier, Bruno, Isak, etc during relegation fight/near miss seasons I really don’t think we’re going to be heavily investing in the pool of relegated players tbh, our focus will be on quality players.

Having Botman and this bloke with Burn and Schar as our CB group would be class.

They also both played in League One at a similar age (Longstaff was 19 iirc), Longaz managed 12 goals & assists (8 goals) to Neil’s 10 (3 goals). He’d also managed about 32 PL appearances by Neil’s age. It’s of course possible Neil is actually a talent, I’ve never seen him play, but the fact mackems tend to compare every single one of their players favorably to ours makes me think he’s not actually better. As you say though it’s just fucking mental how they act like the PL and league one is in any way comparable, despite having visible evidence this season when their Barcelona style side had to play counter attacking defensive football to a fairly bog standard, newly promoted side.

He outscored ASM this season, the stats show an accurate shooter of the ball and he’s just turned 23. It’s not just a few tackles, it’s showing how good he could be in our pressing system - the amount of times he challenges/tackles in the final third. If you want to write the bloke off it’s weird but up to you really. Eddie Howe and Dan Ashworth seem to rate him, enough to spend whatever we could under FFP to get him, that’s enough for me at the moment despite him not starring so far at the club - he admitted he needed to get up to speed with the squad and has stated he’s working through the summer.

Aye it’s the glaring weakness in his game the amount of good chances he squanders. If he can become more clinical he will become a massive threat, I get very frustrated with that aspect of his game but the way he pressures out of possession and his powerful runs with the ball are huge to our game. Longstaff suffers from a similar lack of composure in his shooting, but the positions they both get themselves into have been really impressive this season.