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Related parties to our owners. Again these comments are on the basis of the big talk and the follow through.

Following the party line. His Cartel paymasters wouldn’t have it any other way.

Not seen much of him myself, but that Guessand sounds handy.

Ah OK, see what you're saying. I'm not sure I believe there are companies queuing up to sponsor our training ground or training kit mind. That's very low profile stuff. And I don't want a stadium sponsor if it means changing the name.

What a melt.

No training ground sponsor, no training kit sponsor, no stadium sponsor etc. It just points to our owners not being invested to the point of us being number 1, because if this was truly the aim we can't afford to leave anything on the table.

Wait until you find out how many posts Sima made on the SMB, I think it was in the thousands.

There's no point even judging it at this stage as the team at present is going to be nothing like the one that starts the season in 6 weeks time. We need to recruit incredibly well to even have a sniff, The window so far however is showing promising signs.

Have we? How do you mean, by turning down people who wanted to sponsor us?

A keeper, a CB and a RW to actually challenge and by challenge I mean be within 10 points. But depth is just as important as those 3, and without it you wont come close especially with the CL schedule now. Isak being somewhat regularly unavailable is a big hit to those aspirations as well. We are at least 3/4 seasons away from a squad with the ability to do that.

Because of price, and our tight budget. Honestly the stats you put out here doesn't actually scream of a great signing at £40m? Not sure what you mean. The other signings were obviously better, but Barnes is okay. Not saying it was a bad signing by any means, everything doesn't have to be either great or bad.

Ah sorry, didn't quite read your post clearly!

Double post.

You are a sunderland fan who has made over 300 posts on a Newcastle United forum. I wonder what your mates on rtg think of you ? I'm slightly worried for you.

Citation needed. We have left a lot of sponsorship money on the table regardless of APT.

Do you know anything about this Romulo that Fulham are looking at? These smaller clubs have to be creative when it comes to signings, if they have good scouts we are in a position to blow them out of the water same way Chelsea are doing with our first choice targets.

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