Benwell Lad

His debut for us was awesome. Good luck Dubs.

Yep money corrupts and football is awash with it. Infantino sitting next to Trump and sucking up to him was a sad and shameful image of where it is.

"Well looks like we dodged a bullet with that Cesko kid, just a shame we didn't snap up Hoejlund when we could have got him cheap" - bloke in a pub April 2026.

To some extent we made Isak the player he is today. Our set up of a solid midfield 3 and loads of pace on the wings and pressing energy is a dream for any goalscoring centre forward. A good player will always score in this team and an Isak replacement, if needed, will prosper career wise.

Much better just waiting to go to the paper shop tomorrow morning to buy the Journal. In nett terms just the same really but minus the constant barrage of nonsense.

Smart stuff from Howe, as normal. Makes the club look strong and also helps Isak's cause if he re-integrates into training and the team. He looks like a spoilt child who has been chastised and has leaned a lesson. Makes it more palatable for supporters rather than just appearing to be being a spoilt child who got away with it.

Grammatically it replaces a full stop in Wearside English.

Please somebody roll out the Sir Bobby chicken counting quote...........

At time of writing I'd favour taking the biggest amount we can squeeze out of any club that isn't Liverpool but my gut feeling, based on nothing much, is that we will see him in a Newcastle shirt again. I reserve the right to change these opinions at any time.

Gizza job. I could do that.

Whaaat? The media instigating a story which then becomes the story they report? Couldn't happen. Could it?

I wouldn't even think it's certain that a Newcastle fan did that. A lot of opinions have been expressed but I've not heard anyone express such a daft opinion. Possibly a mischievous individual who supports a club who seem obsessed with the Izak situation ?

Although they'll claim some success in the number of deals they've done, it does all appear a bit of a scattergun approach to just get anyone in regardless of what impact it might have. Even Xhaka is a huge risk coming to the end of his career. Has it even raised them to the level of a team who could get automatic promotion i.e. Burnley or Leeds who have both been dealing themselves ? There's some kind of warped, optimistic assumption that clubs like Brentford, Wolves even Bournemouth could crash but frankly they're light years ahead of Sunderland both on and off the pitch.

Beautiful place to spend the summer. Hope he's not indulging too much in the wonderful Basque cuisine and wines, we don't want him overweight when the season starts.

Other clubs who've had to do similar things have generally kicked on after receiving mega money for their star, seemingly irreplaceable, player. we've generally recruited well, so have to do it again. We need to realise that it is inevitable that one or more of our galacticos will move on from time to time. Things evolve.

This generation's Supermac moment. Thank fuck there was no internet when he signed for Arsenal.

It's almost as bad as the one when Andy Carroll went to Liverpool

Liverpool definitely winning the politics at the moment as well as the football.

It's doubtful if their various acquisitions thus far have even elevated them to the level of an automatic Championship promotion team. Their starting point was really way below that. Unless a couple of these signings they've made turn out to be the shock signings of the season, or even decade, 19th still looks a long way off.

We are looking to improve on what we already have, it's an almost infinitely higher bar. The outrage if we'd brought in any of the players they have

It's going to be a really interesting league this season up in the North East and probably some excellent attendances.

Really ? That's taken away any sympathy I might have had for them.

Was always a lovely playing surface and nice little set up. Ozzie Ardiles took a Newcastle side there back in the day for a friendly for the opening of a new clubhouse or something.

They haven't signed anyone who looks like they will make a significant impact on their forthcoming season. Unless one of the cast offs or squad fillers they've bought turns out to be the surprise signing of the season it still looks like a squad way short for the PL and rock bottom probably beckons. Maybe Reg can work some magic, but nothing he did last season would indicate that's possible.

Figures really, if he was rated they'd keep him or he'd be on his way to somewhere other than Sunderland.