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He played 3.3k minutes this season over 42 games. If he's fit enough, he'll play more next season. You can bookmark this.

Yeah that is pretty ugly and dull, as well as being pretty on the nose with the whole Saudi ownership thing. Adidas kits have been pretty underwhelming overall. I really liked the last season under Castore, even the Saudi one (see picture) was pretty nice.

Don’t forget you’ve also paid for the privilege of joining queues, and refreshing the website for hours on end. Can’t wait for another season of it.

Shame there isn’t a picture of the back?

They actually have a thread now on Isak l saving for Liverpool 🤣. They will be gutted next season when he takes the piss out of them in the derbies again

Good, all look promising and hopefully they get some good loan moves and first team football experince for next year.

Sure someone found out he worked in KFC

Do you actually get anything with this or is it just thanks for the cash, good luck in the ballot (😜 lol as if)?

I personally have zero sympathy for Villa, they were 1 of 18 clubs to vote in PSR. I will have sympathy for Forest as they weren't in the league at the time and I would like to think they would have voted against it. Villa can suffer, and should suffer.

That’s normally your game, isn’t it Paully? ;-)

They said we were looking at a double figure points deduction if we didn't sort out the PSR stuff with Forest, I still can't believe the Saudis never stepped up and bought a player to save us, unless - A, no player wanted to go. B, Eales never told the Saudis to save face and they never knew we were even in trouble. C, we had a sale lined up and it didn't come off.

How does that indykaila blagger have over 400K followers

Nah, mate, that ain't happening. Isak can't do that, he needs a rest if we want him fit. Play him all the time and he'll get injured. Every Toon fan knows this, it's not even up for debate. Rodri got injured, Saka and Haaland too, it's unsustainable. You cant overplay players.

PSR working as intended. Really isn't a good look for the sport.

https://www.newcastleunited.com/en/news/academy-trio-commit-futures-to-newcastle-united New deals for Neave, Shahar and Sanusi.

Villa's in a right mess, and they'll probably offload Ramsey or Watkins. They'd prefer Barkley, but that's a no-go because of his age and wages, who will buy him? I totally disagree. Like I've said before, Villa's transfers aren't a good example to use on this forum. They made a killing on Duran, but still need to sell players. Their wage bill is crazy high. Over 90% to turnover So saying Barkley's not part of their financial problems is just plain wrong.

Hmmm, I'll have a look at this later. Squad number history if it helps people: https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/newcastle-united/rueckennummern/verein/762

In the cup so we can have the Sam Fender sponsor on the back...

That's nasty and I don't mean the Greek.

That'll look mint imo. Basically an improved version of the last Castore away which had that rubbish pattern that looked different on every shirt.

I expect a pretty heavy draw looking at those pots. Significant chance we wont be in top8, but reach top24 which gives us a playoff vs some other club who could be brutal strong but also a team where we are favorites. It would be huge disappointment if we couldnt even reach top24 and it would again mean our CL prize money lot less than other English CL clubs would get. Villa managed to reach QFs and still put up a good fight for CL places through PL so they didnt fall back that badly despite extra 12 CL games. Albeit their squad was a bit deeper than ours, so we must make the squad bit bigger and the bench to have more quality too. Will be hard to manage these CL games when on both side of a CL game there is a top6 PL opponent. like Chelsea away, Real home, Liverpool home in 6/7 days time. there will be a few of these. Howe cannot just go with same 11 in each as that will cause lots of injuries, fatigue, but we need proper bench and quality to be able to rotate better.

Nah I think JP comes in and plays regularly - largely at the expense of the 3rd CM. 70/30 when everyone is fit. Then injuries and suspensions mean they both play more. Isak will start every CL game and 95% of PL games he's fit for. Same is true for Haaland, Kane, Son, Saka, Rodri, Salah etc. Every top team has 2 or 3 players that just start 95% of game. Isak is in that bracket. He might be forced to play 60 minutes on occasion. If he's fit all season he's starting 45 games. The beauty of JP is he still gets a bag of minutes at AM and we can take Isak off earlier than we have been.

Well what I'm suggesting is looking at deals for players who are either out contract, low transfer fees or have something like a relegation release clause. The point being that without the transfer fee outlay, the wages become more affordable. There's a limit to this mind, I don't want us having Ashley Young type players who are still around at 40. I dont suspect Ross Barkley is causing Villa any problems financially, in fact I reckon that's what was so attractive about him in the first place. Ferguson used to have a canny knack of picking up an Owen or a Larsson and getting a couple of years use out of them before moving them on. Id also like to see us have more Lewis Hall typed deals. Spread costs around.

Barkley was a 2-year deal with Villa have an option for a 3rd. Villa have Onana, Kamara, McGinn, Tielemans at CM. With Europa League football, they probably don't need him and could use the FFP saving on his wages. Jorginho was initially signed on an 18-month contract. - Aggresively reduce age of squad - Requalify for CL - Not run into PSR issues next June I don't think all 3 is possible personally.