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I'd do a swap with Cubarsi, Yamal, Gavi and Raphinia coming the other way.

I don't think ffp will come in to it. We are averaging 10 times the attendances that half the championship are getting and only the top 4 or 5 in the WSL can match or beat our crowd levels. I think this season we will grow from 3k to 5/6k averages and will only be behind Arsenal in crowd level averages by the time we make the WSL. There is no other club that can enhance the WSL like we can and the WSL will want us to be up there. Every club in the WSL has to have cash put in to survive so they can't bring ffp in until they are self sufficient. The mens game wouldn't dare put the women's costs in to current PSR as it would shut down the WSL. The lasses will get there in a couple of years without immediate wholesale changes. I hope the club will be happy with just evolving. I know the fans are.

I know. They’d have to sell a lot of players to even reach that and I’d want £150m+ before even considering a bid.

£90m

Yeah that's exactly my take they've absolutely crushed this league, they deserve a shot at it imo. Concern is that they will see the inevitable writing on the wall regarding some sort of ffp restrictions and will want to get the final promotion asap to avoid that.

It's obvs not corruption but when you look at those 3, Young, penalty incidents and not one goes to the screen, not one. Add the Grealish hand ball, ditto then a sprinkle of Wan-Bissaka's toe and you get the sense of......er......incompetence

It's going to be interesting how she develops the team. We have played a high line back 3, in a 343 and the defence has had very little to deal with due to the front pressure and midfield block. We may have to go to a more rigid back 4 and play 433. I don't go with the massive changes required thought. I can see 4 or 5 coming in but not all starters. I expect if going 433 that the defence will be Watts , Bedeau, Potts and Cataldo. Boddy , Kelly and Stobbs in midfield with Lumsden and Barker as 2 of the front 3. That just leaves 2 starters and squad enhancers required. I will be very disappointed if 6-8 starters are brought in this summer. Palace have dropped 18 points to win the league so I hope we give them a chance and see the league at Christmas and make a transfer push then if required. We are better than most think and Becky Langley is too.

Yeah, I understand of course that it was always going to happen and I hope they go on to be absolute world beaters. I'm sure they will

Christ it’s silly season already and the league hasn’t even finished yet.

If we're being empathetic to a young lad who's had, for whatever reasons, a tough couple of seasons then bringing him back in house would be the correct thing to do. Show him he's not forgotten and get him back on track.

Apparently if Villa win the Conference league and don’t finish top 4 then we get an extra Europa league spot.

Aye, better to have an integration at Newcastle, play in a couple of pre-season games, play for the U21s, train with the first team squad, feel like a Newcastle player. Who knows, it might all just click. Worst case, we've got a better assessment on where he is and where next for him.

Yeah definitely, the coaches can have a proper look at him whilst he plays for the U23's getting regular game time. They will probably be able to make a decision on whether there is real potential during that time also. No point in having another season being on the bench most of the time.

If they're good enough they will, if not they will be moved on. They will have a pick of clubs to go to though I would imagine. The standard gets a lot higher each level you move up to, so to compete you need a higher standard of player. It's the way of football and whilst some teams can't afford to improve their squad in a big way, clubs with money and ambition (like us now), will always look to improve their playing squad in every possible way they can. I get the sentiment and I would love the lasses there currently to be at the level to challenge. Unfortunately though there are a few who just aren't.

I'd keep him half a season then send him out in January based on what we think after viewing him.

Jeff Hendrick…like a new signing.

Yeah we definitely need more pace at CB. The thing is I don’t doubt Botman will come back to a really high level but he’s not a speedster and he may even lack his previous pace for a bit post injury.

Aye, I'm not actively against Newcastle doing it for exactly that reason (everybody else with any success is doing the same). It just feels a bit hollower than I thought it would. I suppose the bigger part of me does want to see how Tyler Dodds and Hannah Greenwood and the like get on at the next level rather than just being replaced with known quantities who are ready to go, even at the expense of progression. They'll still be my team, this is where I was born after all, but the prospect of this year's lasses who have played so well and steamrollered all (well, most) comers being broken up and moved on without kicking a ball is a miserable one.

Probably a fucking red

Breaking out their milk bottle caps and Monopoly money to try and pay for him: Barcelona have joined Arsenal in being interested in £90m-rated Newcastle United and Sweden striker Alexander Isak, 24, with the Spanish club hoping to strike a deal as the Magpies look to navigate financial fair play rules. (Sun)

Neville acted like a mafia boss when his Salford FC was in favour of giving control of football to the top 6 clubs under the project big picture plans.

Fwiw it's one I think should be classed as onside, but as the law stands, it's not. How isn't it the "other side of the coin" ? People were in uproar about VAR ruling out a goal on Sunday. Here's one where it would have done it's job and disallowed it correctly. As a result of this mistake, Leicester or Ipswich might miss out on Premier League football next season. I was at the Everton game last month, I celebrated the Burn "goal" in real time. I didn't stop celebrating at the time. Was gutted when it was ruled out, but fans can still have that moment.

Comparing one of the most successful clubs in France to a club that has a Friendship Trophy with Sunderland listed in their honours.

He's 100% jumping into the crowd if he scores. Or even if anyone scores post 90th minute.

Club world cup is what Apple have bought.