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Has Fender ever actually tweeted, said or sang anything anti-Sunderland?

He's a very good player clearly but crazy money if it's upwards of 100 million IMO.

€150m?!

The winner of a European tournament gaining access to the competition above it the following season just objectively makes sense. Removing CL dropouts from the EL was also a good change in the context of the old format. However there are new problems both self-inflicted and complicated: - Expanding the CL while removing EL consolation weakens that competition - There are 6 clubs in Europe that match England's top 6 in revenue. There's another four around Newcastle / Villa. After that you have the likes of Marseille, Roma, Napoli, etc. who are effectively no different than any mid-table PL club. This means the CL is the only European competition that is even remotely financially fair when looking at England vs. everyone else. - The number of extremely rich English clubs now outstrips the number of European places available. It's already off-kilter that any PL club could financially compete with Tier 2/3 European clubs, but when Europa and Conference League spots are being taken by Man United, Tottenham, and Chelsea (all top 10 in revenue) then you've completely distorted the fairness of the competition. All of that is why the ECL and even the EL feels like its lost its prestige. If you're looking at it from the perspective of an English club winning it I think you can absolutely argue that the domestic cups are more difficult at this point.

Give owa man try being around when we lost to them in the playoffs that’s sickening, would love them to lose tomorrow but won’t ruin my weekend if they do.

Where is the 50m coming from? Given we paid a lot for him and his standing is a lot higher now, 70m is a minimum.

Madness this lad isn't in the England squad, btw.

Feel physically sick that they might be a Premier League side this time tomorrow. They're shite but Sheffield United aren't much better, and Sunderland looked just as good as them in the league. Still debating whether to watch it or not, think I'll avoid it and check the result, will piss me off far too much to watch them win, would outweigh watching them lose, in terms of the biggest risk. Fuck em, stay down forever, no chance we want to be playing these freaks next season.

Is Wirtz all that? Only seen him a couple of times ( @joeyt disclaimer!) and thought he was ineffective for Levekusen and Germany. Clearly must be a talent. Thought Atalanta for example took him out the game easily.

They won’t be signing Isak if is right

£50m would be a joke, deffo a load of crap. Bought for £32m, 3 years left so £19.2m left You can't buy a player even half as talented as him for £30m

Ah. Did I no want to hear that.

I've loved his game for awhile now, nice to see so many others rate him highly aswell. His current ability, alongside his age makes me think his ceiling is up in the clouds. Zanetti vibes?

The media never even bother checking what we paid for someone who is being linked to other clubs. They don't care.

Hate the toon, hate Fender but love a pic in our train station when nobody’s around.

Exactly. Bar a couple of pen saves (one which was his fault anyway) he’s never had anything resembling the type of game(s) against us to be fearful. If anything at SJP he goes full ADHD, and it goes the other way (albeit he has been less twitchy the last couple of times he’s been).

What I wouldn’t give for a Ornstein exclusive:

They are cunts. Nothing more to be said

Always a dangerous scenario when one team is under pressure to win and the other has zero to play for. Think they’ll play like their life’s depend on it Sunday and it’s up to us to show we truly belong on the CL stage next season by dispatching the scouse mackem cunts.

95% of their flags have some reference to Newcastle United. We simply consume them

Weez Keys mentioned Pickford upping his game against us in her match preview thing and this seems to be getting banded about as pretty much conventional wisdom. Have I missed a game since he's been there that we've lost or drawn against them primarily because of him and not just us generally being shite/not at the races? Feels like we're dying to get into our own heads before Sunday for any number of reasons when the most likely and plausible outcome is a routine win

Getting drafted in for Isak?

So we've taken a huge punt on him considering he had an ACL and paid a fee of up to £40M, and they want to pay £50M? Right..