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Yeah I know what your saying and I agree. As I said coming up with measures to increase fairness is easy, the issue is the league has absolutely no will to do so.

The whatabouttery doesn’t cut the mustard here - the flag is banned by FIFA for starters; it absolutely is the equivalent of the swastika or the flag of the confederacy for much of Asia. There’s plenty of crimes in the annals of the British empire, no doubt about it. Kitchener was in charge of the SA campaign, and usually gets much of the blame for the concentration camps (though the Second Boer War was not the origin of concentration camps). You’ll have to show me the history books where beheading competitions by British officers took place, or the organised mass rapes. I’m yet to see any serious objections to the UK being represented by the Union flag by those outside of the UK, including those nations which were subject to British rule in the days of empire. Not at all looking to be an apologist for the British Empire - but all things are relative. The club’s media team (or adidas’s, whoever the fuck put that video together) wants shot with shit. Personally, I’d fire them - but then I think having kit launch videos is the most banal and pointless thing imaginable.

Yep. For anyone who follows the NBA, the owners have effectively snuck a hard cap into effect in all but name with the second apron nonsense. The most hilarious/depressing part is they even hoodwinked the players association to ratify it in the last deal. If the Premier League owners put their mind to it, there would be nothing stopping them achieving the same outcome over time.

Oh dear. The only way they can get any positive feedback from giving him ajother contract is to announce it at the bottom of the final paragraph where they announce a Trafford, Elanga and Balerdi triple signing.

Or else.

I’m talking about what is fair rather than what is realistic. But from a purely technical standpoint, there are plenty of ways to implement a salary cap where the players would not be making any less money in the aggregate.

Not so simply sadly, the PFA actually have an agreement with the premier league and the FA preventing this. Believe me, the owners of the clubs would love nothing more than a cap on how much they have to pay. Solutions are very easy but ultimately want happen because the members lack the will to implement any.

It would be no different from PSR. Just run revenue numbers for the clubs the same way, but instead of setting a separate ceiling for each club, you add everything up and divide it by twenty. Presto, there's your salary cap.

I suspect the PFA would have the PL in court in a heartbeat if they tried introducing a salary cap

It's been a long and winding road, but happy to see that you Brits are finally coming around to salary caps.

Happy to wait, but I’ve seen numbers bandied about on here like they’re fact

#wait

The thoughts about the owners playing games with FFP need to stop tbh - it’s not going to happen. If they’re serious about their stated ambitions, it’ll be done by the book - the stadium plans will tell us just how serious they are. The talk of a multi-billion pound stadium just looks like pie in the sky at the moment.

We know why our owners are being whiter than white when it comes to the old end of year balance sheet. They’ve a much bigger picture in mind than little old Newcastle, we were just their foot in the door. Fuck knows what their overall strategy for the club is (if there is one at all) but what’s certain is it’ll take an age to implement and reap the rewards from. Im not moaning like, I’d much prefer the situation we’re in now to Ashley but by Christ it would be nice to see us properly kick on and turbo charge this squad.

Simon Jones was first on one of our transfers since the takeover I just can't remember which player it was

It should also be noted all of these ffp workarounds are inflating the transfer market as well. If we or anyone isn't doing these things we in a worst position than you would initially think due to the second order affects.

Which is all fine and well until you factor in that we tried to spend £65m+ on Guehi last year. So somethings amiss. Maybe our PSR position hasn’t been quite as dire as has been played out.

Yep - and there’s nothing to suggest that the rules are going anywhere. Ultimately you do run out of assets to sell, and find that the club doesn’t actually own anything. Sales of stadiums is the next step.

What's all this Dibling hype about, then?

He’s got some lofty (and pretty outrageous) ambitions left so he won’t stay here to pat the lads on the back like Ritchie or the National League Nesta over in Carlisle. Him staying means something has gone pretty drastically wrong, if that happens. I don’t want to be remotely negative but he’s never been an impact sub, clearly will never be fit enough to start games - we know how that story ends (for several weeks if not months) - and what does he give you on the pitch anyway? His place in the side was always about goals through physicality, pace and sharpness and at least 2 of those aren’t coming back.

So the bloke with zero connection to the area or team that chose to support us because Alan Pardew planted his Tony and Guy quiff on an opposing player ten years ago turns out to be a bit suss (assuming it was his flag of course). Who’d have thought it?

Probably be Samuel holt Andy Dunn 😂

“About 25 years ago on ‘Hold the Back Page’ Martin Hardy told Brian Woolnough that the London and Manchester press were complicit in writing disparaging articles about Newcastle. Aghast, when Woolnough put this to a young John Cross (Arsenal fan) he said yes.”

Has that been confirmed? Didn’t think they’d chance it but pleased they are if so.

You’d like to think we’ll have two in (one being Trafford) before we play Celtic and certainly before our trip to Korea. Not that short term optics are that important you’d think the club would be keen to showcase a few new players on tour. Goes without saying EH will want them in ASAP as long as it’s the players he wants.