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The important thing is is that you gave it your best shot.

Will they be right? The i Paper can confirm Newcastle are in for Ipswich striker Liam Delap and Bournemouth defender Dean Huijsen, who have release clauses of £30m and £50m respectively. Howe has previously placed a premium on Premier League experience, although sources have also suggested the idea that he only wants domestic-based targets is overblown. He championed the signing of Sandro Tonali from Milan, for example – and he has proved a huge success. Newcastle are almost certain to dip into the overseas market again this summer, believing it offers better value. Lowering the squad’s age profile is also a target, Newcastle having renewed the contracts of most of the players coming to the end of their deals.

Ridiculous that we’ve got to a situation where a ref makes a correct decision, the VAR tells him it’s wrong, he goes to screen but doesn’t have have the bottle to stick to his correct decision, so amends to a wrong decision, all for it to then be decided he was actually right in the first place.

Yea but 51+49 and cheap tickets.

So is Mike Ashley. Not sure if anyone knows for sure what PIF/Ruebens are in it for, though we can all have a guess. Fully likely in the case of PIF they want to be involved with a successful team in the most watched league in the most popular sport. Also a chance, though, that their investment was to buy a club that's value could be increased massively. However, those two don't need to be mutually exclusive. Anyway, with the league being an increasingly closed shop to new entrants, I've been idly wondering about parachute payments and interactions with PSR and squad cost ratio. The idea of a parachute payment originally being to allow new clubs to spend a bit to compete, in the knowledge it wouldn't wreck them long term, either to not go bust or so they can rebuild the next season in the championship at unarguably an advantage to the others in the championship. And if they did stay up, they retain that crucial TV money, so could in theory carry on. But then, I'm wondering if that's the best plan - carrying on, I mean. Because if they did stay up, the season after that they don't get that one off protected spending boost and for PSR reasons may even have to sell some of their players who kept them up, in order to take their squad further, with a few gambles on who they replace them with. So actually, is really the best strategy to become a yo-yo club for a good while instead, because in the event of staying up you don't then get a second chance of further investment? If you stay up you're always guaranteed a certain amount of money and maybe if you're the one in a dozen to get it right, that just means maybe you then have a chance of competing in the lower half of the table but not going much further or breaking the next glass ceiling, because from then on, you're playing with the big teams, and it's unlikely your revenue is going to be able to compete to match. TLDR I suppose what I'm saying is which has already been discussed by others, the combination of parachute payments and PSR /squad cost only serves to maintain the status quo. Which isn't really exciting is it?

Massive boost tbh.

There's a year left on his contract, Parish might be a pompous quiff, but he's not daft. I think he'll sell this summer, and I think there's a great chance we will be the buyers.

That's exactly what Michelle Collins said on the one occasion she actually replied to my Insta DM's

Not one to knock other clubs trying, but they totally fucked that up. One side lower than the other, the end bit folded in. It can’t be that hard to do.

Targett. Kelly. Wilson. Mitchell must resign.

We’ve already did it.

I never said that? I was just disputing the idea of signing another young backup striker to learn on the training ground. I'd rather someone more proven came in.

Come on, you can’t be serious about us playing a season in Europe with just Osula and Callum bloody Wilson backing up Isak.

There's a way to talk to people and this isn't it.

Talksport. More like Talkshite If you're willing to listen to that noncesense then you should expect to have your lugs filled up with thick torrents of steaming liquid faeces

Wirtz and Musiala? Greedy fucks.

Watch it be for like 45m euros or something stupid close to that - deals between clubs never seem high in Germany - they charge way higher for overseas clubs

Same will happen in France eventually with PSG

That would make sense to me. Jota and Muniz both have around 1,000 minutes for example, with Jota slightly more. Would also say Hojland has 0.21 G&A per 90 this year in the premier leage according to https://fbref.com/en/players/491a433d/scout/12524/Rasmus-Hojlund-Scouting-Report so his blob doesn't appear to be accurate, though we don't know when this data was taken. That said his stats are still monumentally dreadful this year.

Tah off there as well it seems (sorry if already mentioned).

Eric Dier off to Monaco.

Talksport on way into work this morning. Discussion on White & Jordan about the lack of atmosphere at the Emirates last night. Danny Murphy was involved and did what all Liverpool fans do and turned the conversation onto Liverpool. How these new stadiums like Emirates don't generate atmosphere like Anfield. How the new Wembley generates a dull & boring atmosphere, and the "only time" he's seen the new Wembley bouncing was when Liverpool beat Chelsea in the Carabao Cup last season.

Bundesliga is ruined by everyone being a feeder club for Bayern. It's so dumb.

That’s where we completely differ