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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.

What grates me with the selling the infrastructure to yourself is that we know how it ends, and it's not good. Look at Derby. The intent of PSR here is completely broken.

2nd July.......2026 Eddie finally lands long term target DCL after he was released following an underwhelming season at Hibs

Given time he would’ve been a good player for us. Howe init.

We just need a cap on player registrations (25) for players over 18 years of age, no more multi club model and all loans to include an option to buy.

To ne fair, I'd rather be in our financial position than Villa's.

Agreed - if FFP is a thing, it should be to balance the league out, not to crystallise the existing hierarchy.

Imagine if some random Irish betsite nailed our transfers, while Baldwards is just regurgitating Clavert-Lewin and the like.

It's odd, he genuinely looked a good player at Bournemouth. Don't know if it's confidence or if he peaked early in his career, but thought he might turn it around with game time.

Lee fucking Ryder.

They need a league wide Financial Fair Play ruling on what can be spent, and not linked to income if they want to be fair. The smaller clubs can naturally then put more money in to close the gap and spend their capital, whilst the top teams can work to bring down wages and fight back against player power.

He gained his fame writing articles defending the concentration camps during this conflict, describing them as "causing the minimum of suffering" whilst there was outrage at home due to the rate of fatalities there. (Only for the white Boer's though, fuck the black South African's). I mean given we were talking about Imperial Japan and their forced labour camps, can we at least acknowledge where they got the idea? And again, was my assertion that the British used them again in the 50’s in the Kenya incorrect?

https://breakingthelines.com/player-analysis/leonardo-balerdi-the-argentine-defender-emerging-as-marseilles-man-mountain/ Longer read on Balerdi if people want to learn more about him ahead of his move to Chelsea next week

July 2nd.

I remember he didn’t even stand out in that god awful game against Wimbledon, that’s when I thought he was never going to kick on.

Was weird seeing him against Real Madrid in the Club WC. And as expected he wasn't great, screw up the marking for the goal.

Can definitely see us being in for Dibling, fits the profile perfectly

They do need Saka cover. Madueke would be super team building though.

What an absolute load of shit they've created here. 10years ago if you'd said Villa fans were cock a hoop about selling their women's team to themselves to avoid financial breaches and punishment despite not being in any financial difficulty in any meaningful sense, and that it would advantage them over clubs that didn't do that and had no need to people would think they were in fever dream cos on no level, even allowing for idiocy, does that sound anything but ridiculous.