Howay

More agenda driven bullshit from the Italian media too.

Sounds like Ekitikes agent is the hold up in that deal, according to Hope.

“Trooo pryduh in a seyyson where lads fans turned up in lowah numbahs until layytah in the seyyson, weeeyah hounded out the manager, and gayyve the owners reyyyt abuse. Then when the new manager come in weeyah says he wasn’t a lads fan and wasn’t up to the job, then when he managed to squeak into playoffs we ripped the maggie coonts off. Reeeeyud nearly 150 pages of scrawl detailin the level of abuse we subjected all members of the club to, bits of threads claiming anyone and everyone is shite for hundred odd payyges until wuh decide their weeerld class. Now weeeyah back in the big leeeyugh, none of that premeeyah shite (unless wuh ever get back there), other teeeyums will see wuh as a trooo scalp after fowah seyyysons in leyyguh wun. FTM”

Now convinced we’re all right with this absolute helmet on the other side of the argument (FWIW I don’t think Southgate deserves abuse, but it’s clear from the rest of the tweet that Holt doesn’t have any issue with Southgate’s tenure).

I think the major thing is all of the top athletes are drawn to the sports most popular here, American Football, Basketball, Baseball, even track, before footy. It’s also a sport that you really need to start playing young (rare exceptions I’m sure), until that interest at a young age changes they’ll be what they are now - if it does they’ll have a Lebron James type athlete in nets, in which case aye we will be fucked.

I think he made a comment that basically all of Englands goals are Kane or Sterling, he said it as if it’s some mystery and nothing he can change. He’s a pathetic manager tbh, he’s a coach and is probably good at that but his game plans and tactical changes are poor. He plays an incredibly stifling way in tournaments and it basically relies on players like Kane, or Sterling to be clinical and finish the meager chances created - or just draw and claw through the group. As he’s got such a talented group it’s hard for most international sides to break them down, even though the players are clearly struggling with the formation. Your post mentioning how boxed in our attacking players are is spot on, there’s basically no movement, it’s so stagnant. He constantly brings up the defence basically being poor which annoys me too, firstly focus on your fucking strength rather than basing your entire plan around trying to lessen a perceived weak area, and secondly that weakness is massively overstated - Walker, TAA, James, Trippier, Stones, Guehi, Tomori, Chilwell, even fucking Maguire and then the avalanche of players he never gives a chance are perfectly fine and better than the vast majority of international sides have available to them.

I see his legion of defenders are blaming tiredness (as if the Hungarian players are immune to it) and that the game is meaningless. I’ve said for a while now he’s not a good enough manager to take the team forward. He played his role well (along with people like Ashworth), but it’s time for him to go as his tactics hold the side back. He’s got attacking weapons like Grealish, Kane, Abraham, Mount, Foden, Saka, TAA, Trippier, Reece James, Chilwell, Sterling, Sancho, etc and yet we don’t create any fucking chances and never have under him. At the WC basically all of the goals come from set pieces, the Euros we were again very low scoring, in both instances we didn’t exactly face the top sides until we were knocked out (and in those games we were absurdly negative). It’s also worth noting that shit managers like Di Matteo have won trophies like the CL, so I don’t understand why constantly bringing up where we finished in tournaments is seen as some bullet proof defence - he has a very high standard squad available to him. I think that’s now 6 games without a goal from open play, and we’ve not created many clear cut chances. I keep seeing comments like “maybe the players aren’t as good as people think” sorry but that’s bonkers, these are players managers like Tuchel, Guardiola, Mourinho, and Klopp play and aren’t looking to replace. I’m not suggesting we should win tournaments, or walk in as favorites, but have a fucking go man, and the team absolutely should be playing better football than this.

Trying to tempt him to reject West Ham it seems.

If Spurs added Eriksen and Bissouma to their midfield Chelsea and potentially Liverpool (without Mane, especially if Nunez doesn’t hit the ground running) probably should worry. Conte is such a quality manager and he’s still got a lot to spend this window after adding two quality players for a relatively small outlay.

Possibly, but it’s a bit early in the window for that surely? Our supposed back up options like Badashielle and N’Dicka haven’t moved, and it’s increasing the fee by 20%. It’s of course their prerogative, but it’s unprofessional and if true I kind of hope we just walk away, or just say (as it looks from the title of the article we have done) accept the offer you’d accepted already or we’re off. Plus the flip side of this is why bother increasing the bid and putting in more work when you already know their word isn’t worth much.

I don’t understand how that’s even ‘Newcastle tax’, that’s just fucking people about. If you accept a bid you accept a bid, what’s the point in then late rejecting it and adding more on when no one matched or beat that bid? If they wanted more than the bid then don’t accept it, just state your price.

Shots fired.

Spot on. Btw, Howe and Ashworth have decided that transfers will be very under wraps - so apparently it’s only them two and Nickson that really know who they’re actually bidding on etc, unless it’s the odd bit that Nickson tells the scout team (obviously scouts will know who they’ve been told to watch but doesn’t always equate to further interest), or they tell actual journalists things. In short these ITKs are full of it.

It’s typical Liverpool bias that suddenly the press are drawing comparisons between the two. The same huckles hadn’t even heard of Nunez until January, Nunez may turn out to be a class player but he’s had one good goal scoring season in Portugal, meanwhile Haaland has been scoring an absurd amount of goals for years now and he’s still only 21

Having a true ball winning midfielder would free up Bruno, and help us increase our possession. Shelvey simply isn’t the answer in that role. I agree that RW and CF are vital, but a ball winning midfielder is so important for us, we need to be increasing possession and having a more solid base higher up the pitch allowing us to create more. As much as I like Joelinton his range of passing is a bit limited and he’s still fairly raw with his defensive positioning especially on set pieces.

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/newcastle-united-linked-ibrahim-sangare-24203693 Targett, Botman, Sangare, Paqueta, Ekitike, Raphinha. Maybe stuff of fairy tales but imagine that for a window.

I agree with this tbh. I don’t buy the Italian press narrative that basically Lille want to sell to us but Botman doesn’t want to come, it would be weird by our lot to keep spending time on this if he had no interest in joining.

Another we can expect to be bringing up how much he loved playing for us in a couple of year to get on radio/tv. Class player, but also thick as fuck. As Alex said his lifestyle was to blame, shame really as he could have had a really amazing career.

His son plays for Wales U21’s, hopefully he’s using it as an excuse to watch Botman mind .

Aye, first transfer window since Almirons been at the club that his agent hasn’t pushed for a move. Almiron’s one I was hoping we’d sell, we really need to improve the RW and he offers the least out of the group we have.

It deflated Cabaye so much he put in a transfer request.

Right, putting together all the bullshit for a nice conspiracy theory. His agent went to Milan with what they wanted, Milan couldn’t meet it, so his agent has went to Newcastle, Sky Italia hearing the banter have moved to get ahead of the gazumping and have claimed our bid went up. Have to admit it’s a lot funner to follow than the Choudrey updates.

Disappointed CT didn’t post about this, the plane was in Milan Tuesday, then flew to Paris last night before flying to Newcastle today. The plane perverts are all sure it’s Botman’s agent .