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Yep, that's what I was hinting at in my post, right? Without APT, we'd have better sponsorships, which means more money, and we'd be further along than we are now.

Honest question, what do you think of your chances of staying up next season? Do you feel like your squad is anywhere near?

I think we probably need almost half a new first team to challenge for the PL. Keeper, CB, RW and probably CM. Maybe others. That's keeping everyone fit as well, without considering squad depth too much. We probably need another 3 or 4 quality subs as well.

I think 4-7th was always within regular reach with owners who cared. But regularly challenging for the PL a stones throw away? We're at least £100m short on income and £50m short on player salaries for that.

The Airport Mags thread is absolute gold - hundreds of posts of pure jealousy that our fans love our club more than their fans love theirs ❤️

Guehi's not necessarily as good as VDV, not many people are. But I definitely think he's good enough to form part of a title-winning defence.

Maybe I have just mixed with the decent ones who got out of it

Ruxpin still waiting for that post. Yeah I post, but then again I'm not a coward and fuck off when things are going badly. You can't do that on your board though, as anyone calling out all the bullshit your lot make up, they're immediately banned. Cowards all round

I think like a sensible top club - they are doing the rebuild with key older players in situ. I don't think Bradley or Quansah are good enough to become VDV or Trent replacements. Neither is Guehi. Guehi is the Konate replacement. VDV replacement is to be determined. If there was a good fee out there for Joe Gomez, they would sell him imo. Liverpool's build is RM-like. Unless there's standouts, youth players are for squad roles. There's less "play through mistakes" squad development as a starter. You get minutes as a squad player. Or you go on loan/sold and try to come back as a starter. It's a shame the likes of Curtis Jones are getting England starts while being rotation players for Liverpool. Really good squad management from them unfortunately.

Predictions on the striker we look at next? I think we might bid for Rodrigo Muniz. Fulham have bid a decent amount on Romulo at Goztepe, another Brazilian striker, and are still negotiating. Was watching some clips of the Romulo guy yesterday as I'd never heard of him, and was quite surprised. Think he looks decent.

Questionable? Was it a good signing or a great signing, I'm not sure.

Brutey you have made over 150+ posts on the Sunderland thread alone, I'm slightly worried for you. Do you hate Sunderland more than you support Newcastle?

I stopped posting on the board quite a while back after defending our recruitment last summer, all of the replies just correlated to us being absolutely shite and how we would be lucky to stay up. I'm more than happy to hang around, have some crack and give opinions from my perspective, even more so now we are in the same league. It's pretty pointless though if there's not going to be any form of reasoned debate and all replies just compiled with innacurate nonsense.

Come on Ruxpin show me the post then. You're like a the other mackem cowards, fuck off crying when things aren't going your way. you will be going down challenging Derby's record, with your squad made up of Championship level players - you can quote me next year as I am actually saying that this time. Now you can cry off for a few months like the coward you are, actually make that a whole season as you won't be on when you're shit team are struggling at the bottom

Yeah I think they are fine for the foreseeable due to the creative accounting and the CL/CWC like you say but a couple of years down the line, either they'll have to stop buying or keep finding players like Lewis Hall/Gallagher to sell

Do you mean the summer window in 2023 here? I thought it was okay. Barnes, Livra, Hall and Tonali turned out to be good signings. Barnes is the only questionable one due to price, but I don't think he was a bad signing either. We could not do that much more with the budget.

They started to get a lot of international fans back in the Gullit, Vialli, Zola era.

Getting CL and the club World Cup have probably sorted them for another season Had they missed out on the CL it could have got interesting, but I think they’ll be fine this year at least

Alright fair play. However think about it like this. We went from being relegation fodder to playing in the Champions League in just two years. Then, we finished 7th and 5th, and even won a trophy, all while following the rules. We're so close to being a top team consistently challenging for the PL etc. A stone throws away. If APT wasn't a thing, wouldn't we be even further ahead? Considering where we are now with APT? That's the main point I'm trying to make, but I know it's all if and maybes as you said.

Nice chap, terrible signing, probably the worst fullback I’ve seen play, and there’s a lot of competition for that honour. His next contract elsewhere will be at best a tenth of that deal, total drain on the clubs resources for zero contribution. Just Hayden to go now from the bomb squad.

TBF it's in his job description to turn up to training

I didn’t know them at the time of course, but I doubt that when the sentient bog brush was talking about putting in electrified fences to stop Combat 18 and other delightful supporter groups from invading from half-empty dilapidated terraces I doubt they were on whatever passed for Twitter using a faraway team’s successes as a pitiful penis extension

That is SOME hourly rate