Howay

Longstaff has been complaining about lack of first team footy as well. Here’s hoping they both fuck off and we are “unfortunately” in a position where we’ll have to just buy Paqueta and Sangare.

I know Fish has since cleared up what he meant, but to add to the fact Paqueta creates more and creates more of a better quality he is absolutely fucking miles clear of ASM in terms of defensive work, and winning the ball back. He’s what we need imo, the type of player who is not only an upgrade in quality in terms of final ball but will also really help us retain/win back the ball, so he’s not just that flair player who is a bit of a liability.

Think you’ve got the expected assists flipped there, Paqueta creates more assist opportunities. It’s not a huge difference but it’s also not as tiny as on first glance, it’s larger than the difference between Murphy and ASM. Paqueta is a bit deeper, but he’s in a weaker league.

You don’t need to explicitly say it though, if this type of takeover happened anywhere else and the new owners come in saying they aim to be competing right at the top and want to play for titles and CL football. I don’t think that’s lowering expectations regardless of a timeline given, all anyone hears is a Man City/PSG takeover has happened and their aims are exactly where everyone expects which equals there’s tons of money available.

Fucking hell embarrassment. They should go by the copy cats instead of black cats the bunch of strap ons. “weeeeyuhhh wull just copy everythin the maggy coonts do”

I feel the often mentioning of it leans to it being trying to deflate expectations in the market a bit. I think they talked a big game when they first arrived and the market responded by charging a huge premium, so this is likely an attempt to calm that down. They want to spread payments, we saw that coming up time and again in January so I think this is a move so they can point to these quotes in negotiations and blame FFP for why they have to pay x up front with the rest coming through longer term clauses. The reality is we need a big overhaul, we can all go on like Howe can get performances out of Sean Longstaff but is that fair to Howe? He’s done an incredible job with the squad he has I really don’t see how it’s a fair and reasonable thing to turn around to him and say he has to keep starting Ryan Fraser up top for another season, especially when I’m really skeptical of FFP limits in general (see Everton who were supposedly crippled by FFP having absolutely no issue spending 30m on Alli plus bringing on the wages of that random Dutch bloke).

That’s my feeling on it as well. I’ve seen nowt like it before, I get they’re mates but the blokes went to about 4 of our matches and has made two trips over aside from those games . Meanwhile Bruno hasn’t went to a single Lyon game or went back to Lyon at all I don’t think (I read somewhere he flew right to Newcastle from Brazil to sign and had his stuff packed and shipped for him from Lyon. It genuinely feels like he’s been getting used to the area, looking at where to live etc, I’d be really surprised if there was nowt in it besides him visiting Bruno.

I just realized that plane cunt lands in London on Friday night, so have to add on a hotel in London to his “I’m only doing this to save money for my wedding, definitely not attention seeking” convoluted trip.

Some of the replies on it man . “Seething with jealousy as they’re not going to Wembley” it’s for a fucking league one play off you fucking plebs I can safely say I never hope to be in that position. That’s taking delusion to new heights.

Out of the top ones I like the middle one, I feel like the other two strip out a bit too much. I think if it was to change it wouldn’t be as subtle as the tweaks on the bottom, recent changes have tried to really simplify the logo which is definitely for branding purposes - see the Juventus and Man City changes.

“He explained that he’s only paying £28 for his hostel room and has organised a lift from London Stansted airport to Trafalgar square from another fan - and a ride home after the match.” What an attention seeker. It’s not even an original thing to do, I’d rather pay £40 for the bus there and back with all the fellow MLF’s chanting support for pedos the whole way down like Sunderland fans love to do, than have to go through airport security, stay in a stinking cheap hostel alone for a night, go through airport security again, be a massive imposition on someone else having to pick me up from Stansted on their way down to London, have them foot the parking, and then also have them drive me home all smug with the fact that it all cost me far more than the £40 bus. Then again the bloke supports nonces.

The fucking media wankfest if he manages to beat them though Hope Man City win about 8-0

Good stuff, decent lad but isn’t up to the level we need. Similarly to Lewis he couldn’t make the current squad (he likely wasn’t making it even if he’d been fit) so there was no real way of him being a part of it going forward. The comments on the post btw “really hope you stay” “would be devastated for you to leave”, I guess everyone just wants to keep the same squad they’ve all been fucking moaning about for 5 year . I’ll be buzzing to see the likes of him, Hendrick, Lewis, Gayle, Lascelles, etc gone and quality players come in to replace them. I don’t understand why a lot of our fans have to try and take it all personally, I’ve nowt against those players I’m sure they’re all canny blokes but they’re not good PL footballers so turah.

It was for a house party, my sister does Bruno’s missus’ eyelashes and she cancelled the appointment as she had to set up for it. Still fingers crossed, he’s here a lot which gives plenty time to talk to people other than Bruno at the club.

I liked the post below. Coming from a fan of a team that has Visit Rwanda on their sleeves, and Emirates the airline of the UAE as not only their shirt sponsor but also their fucking stadium sponsor sure pal your lot definitely have ground to go after that. It’ll be Man City fans saying it next.

The first post I read was a bloke saying Newcastle don’t have the tools to hurt them and the match he was worried about more was if Everton needed a result. I guess he’s not paid any fucking attention to the league this season? I’d get saying you think Newcastle might be on the beach so you fear a desperate Everton side more, but that wasn’t what he said.

I saw them whinging about a foul throw. Honestly they were fucking well beaten, that’s the best part of that result no matter what any of these people whinge or complain about we completely deserved the three points it wasn’t even fucking close man.

But we also need to improve on Krafth, these players have worked hard and shown to be solid and more capable of what we thought but we need to improve on them. Krafth is fine as a back up but ewerk was saying get both Targett and another LB, so where would Lewis fit? Even if we only got one of them Lewis still wouldn’t have a squad place unless you dropped Manquillo, someone who while I don’t rate has shown far more than Lewis. We don’t need to give these players time as AH mentioned, we can just improve and move forward. If we keep saying all these players are good enough then how are we going to improve?

Why would we keep Lewis? He couldn’t make the squad now let alone when we are able to really improve the squad. I get the point on saying Howe has improved most players but we need to capitalize on that and improve on their ability level, if we keep them all then we’ll have the same squad.

Meanwhile Targett wants fuck all to do with them: