Howay

It’s class when they make up something that makes them excited, then figure out the downside to it/why it wouldn’t happen, and then get annoyed about it. They’re beyond parody now.

Agree it’s probably time we walk away from the Ekitike deal. Shame as it seems he’s a talent but his agent was clearly causing issues. Hopefully we refuse to do business with that agent going forward and publicly walk away from the deal as I think it adds to this view building around how our lot conduct business.

Genuinely couldn’t even guess who that player is. What a fucking non entity of a club they are.

Aye, no one fucking cared when it was our last owners tat everywhere putting nothing into the club, now when the deal benefits both the club and the owners it’s a problem.

It’s also just arguably the logical next step and larger in size than what come before. For absolutely donkeys years football has had wealthy people funding clubs with their own money (wasn’t the Blackburn Rovers side that won the title funded by a trust left by their owner?), Abramovic spent insane money on Chelsea, the Liverpool of the past spent loads taking everyone’s best and their modern day owners have fucking clearly been getting deals with brands they have ties to (New Balance, Standard Chartered, loads of American brands), same with Manchester United and their 40,000 partnered sponsors for everything. I agree it’s a bit sad for the game if you have some romantic view of the past, and think it had been massively competitive but it’s been heading for this type of thing for a long time the only major change is it’s a more definitive line in the sand from the haves to the haves not, and those have nots are beginning to include ones that have for a long time been those miles ahead of everyone. It’s not been as romantic as some people (and journalists) will act tbh. Look at clubs like us under Ashley, any time we had a player do well a rich side just plucked him away like Cabaye to go warm PSG’s bench, or Carroll to sit in the Liverpool physio room. These related party sponsors are just workarounds whereas in the past owners would just directly spend their own money. I’m glad it’s us getting this, but realistically for most football fans this changes fuck all as before the takeovers of us and Man City it’s not like they stood any realistic hope anyway is it?

Gemmill must be refreshing YouTube waiting for this to drop.

The added bonus to this is Edwards was backing up his whole point about the budget being low on no new incoming sponsors about 3 hours ago . £8m-£10m is the rumoured amount, keep in mind the Fun88 shirt deal is £6m

I also love that the signing is absolutely fucking nothing like a Graham Carr signing aside from the player coming from Ligue Un.

He’s just a troll tbh. He flat out doesn’t understand how FFP works so the numbers he was told don’t make sense to him, he thinks we’ve spent nearly 65m for FFP purposes already when in reality it’s a fraction of that. Take Villa as an example tbh, they’ve spent fucking loads and have done for years, they bring in less TV revenue and less sponsorship money all with a higher wage bill (especially now). Someone like Edwards would bring up selling Grealish but they’ve pissed far more than that up the wall. For example Kamara was ‘free’ to someone like Edwards but the total outlay is something like £85m with signing fees, agent fees, and wages. Edit: There you go - to him we have spent £54m but that’s absolutely not how FFP works. He simply refuses to ever understand the thing even at the most basic level of how costs are across a contract not one lump amount. Tldr he’s a boring wum.

Think it’s more Leeds probably not willing to sell and better players being available for the prices that would tempt them.

Agreed, there’s no chance of Harrison tbh. They won’t want to lose 2 out of their front 3 and with the Raphinha and Phillips money they’d have no reason to sell.

There’s no doubt he hears things from someone at the club, the Harrison link is true as Eddie Howe’s nephew has been championing him from when he joined the club, but when he comes out with stuff like “should be quiet” he’s just trying to get a rise out of people tbh. It’s not like people at the club are going to walk about going “ok we got Botman so maybe we will all rest for a few weeks before bothering signing others”, him and the other journalists are also getting far less information with Ashworth in.

How fucking giant is the central area of our back now btw . If Burn or Botman move into RCB we’d have Botman 6’ 5” and Pope and Burn both 6’ 6”, even if Schar played RCB he’s 6’ 3” or so.

Aye, someone I know sent me that clip the floppy haired cunt is called Rory he’s a chewwwsea fan that piggy backs off the true Geordie. The times I’ve seen him he’s been fine about us, maybe that’s because TG was around and fwoffeee coffee Rory didn’t have the nads to say anything, or (which imo is the case) he had his knickers in a twist about us - and comically for a chelsea fan in particular the money we have. He bases his entire point that Sunderland are bigger on that they’ve won loads more, saying they were the Bank of England club and won “loads and loads of titles whereas Nooocarrsel won one I fink” dozy cunt, iirc one title is what Chelsea had pre-Abramovic. Fwiw I find the whole “bigger club” nonsense tedious as in reality none of the clubs listed fucking win anything. Everton, Villa, and I guess the mackems (although that nonce is the first one I’ve heard claiming that other than the nonce sympathizers) can all enjoy being definitely much bigger clubs than Newcastle over the next 10+ years, maybe they can make themselves a little cup and give it a cuddle while they watch Dave Winchester, Tom Davies, and whoever the fuck Villa have pretend to play football. Butch as well btw he really nailed his point, well done marra.

He doesn’t like movies, he prefers to just sit and stare at the beige paint on the walls.

This is just fucking weird. Some bloke has made a fake Botman twitter account, copied Botmans profile and even made a few of the recent tweets Botman has, and is now going around thanking Newcastle fans. What makes people want to do this , it’s genuinely just weird behavior

From last night obviously but look at him scrambling to make sense of this for his wank FFP points. More of his bullshit too. Fucking £12m for Ekitike? There’s not a chance that’s the fee.

They’re tragic, posting on every tweet about Newcastle but then a Newcastle fan has a pop back and they’re all going “why are Newcastle obsessed with us, trying to create this rivalry it’s going to be both our clubs pushing the “big 6” which will be great to see” I really don’t get where they’re getting this idea their trajectory is in any way comparable to ours. Them saying Botman looks slow and won’t adapt is hilarious as well, he plays in Ligue Un which is one of the most comparable leagues to the PL, meanwhile they’ve bought a 29 year old error prone CB from La Liga, probably one of the least comparable leagues (I don’t mean in terms of quality btw I’m meaning play style, pacing of games etc), I know which one is the riskier signing. Just watched a highlight reel of Botman and I’m now convinced he’s the next Rio Ferdinand (playing wise). I’ll say one thing mind, I hope we get some forward players as defensive highlight reels aren’t the same

How much is it going to ruin them if we start winning trophies.

A dance off broke out in the middle of the aisle. Stand by everything I said last night, including the bit about that exile bloke. The really exciting part of the deal, besides signing one of the highest rated young CBs in Europe, is it shows our lot can stay the course in a difficult transfer saga with heavy pressure from one of the worlds biggest clubs. When it looked many times that the deal was dead, there was so much ITK bullshit on both sides of the discussion, then out of nothing reports start breaking it’s all agreed and he’s coming for a medical.

Oh aye, also exile 1968 is a kiddie fiddler

Mate. I’m absolutely steaming on a bus home after a work event where Pitbull performed and I had no fucking idea Botman was signing but I am wanking on the bus now. Also I’ve proven I know fuck all. Although this kind of backs up my point that fucking nobody knows what’s going on besides a select few. Personally I love it.