Howay

“Ashworth will be responsible for the club's overarching sporting strategy, football development and recruitment at all age levels, and will work closely with head coach Eddie Howe, academy manager Steve Harper and head of recruitment Steve Nickson.” So I think Sporting Director is more that side of things, whereas Technical Director is more infrastructure of the club, like facilities etc. Bit of a guess going off that statement mind.

I also enjoy that he’s so “committed” he goes and buys shite Castore clobber which is wildly overpriced purely because they’re the kit manufacturer.

It’s funny that our fan base constantly gets called deluded, yet this is the absolute dross some other fan bases come out with.

I genuinely can’t believe they’re still pumping out articles like this, and he’s still fucking crying and bringing up his time here - if he’s so upset then shut the fuck up about it? Everyone would have moved on. The bloke basically tries to pat himself on the back for keeping us in the league as that meant we got the takeover, and the writer says “Newcastles loss might be the Baggies gain”, even calling West Broms play off chances a long shot (they were 5th when he took over). The bias in this blokes favor is absurd. One of the worst managers in PL history and they bang on like he’s a top manager getting harsh criticism.

Spot on, I thought the loan itself was telling iyam. We know he was low down the list, all of our other signings were first or first alternative on their lists (other than Wood but there was zero chance of a loan) and we bought them. I think we got him in on loan with option to buy in case we went down, now that we’ve not only stayed up but finished in a solid position the level of player we can attract is far higher than it was in January (plus clubs are more willing to sell in this window).

👀✅🤝 What a nob he is. He will be fuming btw.

Southgate is a nob like. Three right backs starting, two more on the bench, starting Maguire and Pickford.

So if we got the back 4 from players we have/been linked to: Trippier - Saliba - Botman - Lodi Fucking hell man, I know it's only links to three of those but this is bonkers.

Oh aye, last time I was home (pre-COVID) I was down North Shields fish quay, in The Ship's Cat, when Fender walked in. The place was empty but got canny busy once he come (assuming it was after a gig) I had no idea who he was but one of my mates was banging on about him. Anyway, at one point I was getting a drink and he stood next to me at the bar. I told him it was good to hear of a local lad doing well and I'll look out for his stuff. He said thanks, but after getting his drink he gave a look over both shoulders and lent towards me before saying "actually I'm not from here, I'm actually from South Shields which meant I was a massive lads fan but I switched allegiances as a 1992 bandwagon jumper despite that being two years before I was born, FTM" I was a bit taken aback but after thinking about it it makes sense given it's literally impossible for anyone to be born local to Newcastle and support them, everyone is born far away and bandwagon jumps provided you have any type of success in life.

That’ll show him.

New friendship? I’m assuming they are actually MLFs

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I think their angle was he’s not actually from North Shields, I guess he’s lying about it and of course in true mackem style it’s an argument that while completely illogical is hard to verify since anything short of him supplying evidence he was born at Rake Lane would be disregarded as fake, even a birth certificate would be fake tbh as there’d be some MLF nurse who was there that day they’d know that didn’t know of any patient under the name. I genuinely don’t get this craic from them, why not just accept people actually are Newcastle fans? Have a go at him, call his music shit, whatever else but the lad’s blatantly a Newcastle fan.

Before doing all this itk bollocks they should also know that not everyone at the club knows everything that’s going on. Meaning scouts know who they have looked at/positions that have been discussed, but generally don’t know bid/contract details other than what they may have briefly discussed with a players rep, unless Nickson tells them - which is rare. They don’t know sponsorship details or things like that either, so to have this type of itk knowledge they’re basically claiming to have multiple people (of pretty high seniority) telling a bloke that works at the angel pub, and one that claims to be a freelance journalist, all sorts of contractual details most of which aren’t being divulged to the majority of people that work at the club .

He loves revisionism doesn’t he? His point at the time was that the Saudi bid was a load of bollocks and the Mauriss bid was genuine, what in that article does Luke think backs that up? It sounds like exactly what everyone said at the time - a bloke that’s a chancer. I don’t remember people saying it didn’t exist just that it was clearly fucking bollocks, which again it’s proving to be since his exclusivity has lapsed and he’s still not providing any documents. I’m not sure why Edwards constantly tries to twist on this topic, he couldn’t be arsed to look into the emerging takeover when he was flying to Baku for the Europa final so he wrote the whole thing off. Then he heard of this bullshit bid by Mauriss and basically backed it as the genuine, most likely bid simply because he needed to cling to something, he was completely wrong on both points. It is fairly interesting that Sheffield United’s owners seems to be looking to sell mind.

I think he’s honestly just coming out with shite because it makes the £60m - £80m spend he had heard about confusing to him as he doesn’t have a fucking clue how FFP works.

Didn’t specify a time frame on when that team should compete

An article about what he’s like: https://breakingthelines.com/player-analysis/hugo-ekitike-the-diamond-in-the-youngest-team-in-europes-big-5-leagues/

They’ll never understand it but if it’s done right at the time of takeover they’ll go all in without questioning any of it.

“PR guru? You’re fucking joking” you lot were the ones who called him that and were excited about that . They’re an ungrateful bunch, Donald and Methven took them over when laden with debt, cleared that debt, and went on to get them promoted before keeping their word and flogging them (hopefully to meth head). Closer to the truth than how they talk about Ashley’s ownership of us.