Kanji

Keep Thauvin for his fit lass. Make her the face of the marketing department for the club. Sorted.

Forgot we still technically have Cabella and Thauvin, christ almighty.

Naw. No way. Trust our man 100%. Still wish the old kernt would retire but whatever. I'm sure he will sooner than later.

I wanted him gone but if Rafa is cool with it so am I

Should just follow his nice manager wherever that fella goes. Wherever he goes I want him starting so we can enjoy him fucking wreck people weekly God bless let him go to the euros man. Genuinely want him to take the Piss out of people at the tourney.

Aye what a stupid article by the echo. We've signed him up for 3 years ffs, all speculation is useless waste of words at this point. He's ours and we're going to have some fun for once.

Ah man i am so shocked those footy headlines leaks were so close to the real leaked pics.

Rafas family was the main reason he came here. Don't kid yourself. The main reason he's here Is that his emotions supported this decision. So while you're right you're sort of discounting him. His Family, our fans, club history, and potential legendary status all factored in. He's not a lap dog to anyone. He'll do what he well pleases for his own ambitions. This is your club too by the way, there's no need to downgrade its capabilities. Don't let 2009+ NUFC cloud what we're truly capable of my man.

Best manager that it will ever see.

Will be nice tot getting back to wanting us to win, enjoying football and not having all this built-up apathy in my mind. I want to be proud of the club I support, and for about a decade we've been embarrassing to sport. My distrust of Mike Ashley will always remain, but knowing what he's capable of, hopefully he stops meddling on the negative side and only gets active with OK'ng whatever it is Rafa wants to do that will lead to us winning.

Been some talk in the press that some of Rafa's staff has been looking at places to live in the north east. Would be surprised to see them leave, but even if they do, I'm sure Rafa will get someone of equal calibre in. I read that in terms of ADDITIONAL Staff. But as long as Pecchia stays I'm good. Love seeing him go bezerk when we score.

1,000,000x this.

INCREDIBLE.

The way some people talk about the championship is nuts, it's just a league full of limited teams, we heard all this guff last time we went down. They talk about it like it's a 15 round fight with a grizzly bear. We walked it with Alan Smith as main midfield stalwart

Would love to know this too

Will be celebrating at the Orlando City match tonight, going to drink all the beers

Will any of the radio stations cover it? like Talksport or something?

Come backkkkkkk

Please go on in the Pep discussion thread.

we don't win anymore, he's going to make Newcastle great again. Going to do the best deals, we're going to be huge. That deal for Shelvey? Worst deal in history. We're going to get the right people in to do the best deals.

I'd add Simeone to that list, too. Better than Rafa? Klopp & Wenger it's a no. Ancelotti & Simeone maybe. Lets see how Guardiola goes in the PL, I have a feeling he will struggle. Simeone maybe. Wenger no. Klopp yes. Ancelotti definitely. I'd rather Benitez than Guardiola too. Benitez over Pep. I might revisit this in a year but aye he is. Pep has been handed teams that are some of the best ever. Benitez has won trophies with second tier sides. Won the CL with f***ing Liverpool ffs. How comes Barca only got success again once they signed Neymar and Suarez then? absolutely ridiculous some of the criticisms he gets tbh. Only man in the history of football i can think of that consistently wins league titles and gets to at least the CL semis and if he doesn't get the treble it's not considered enough. Don't ever recall Ferguson, Ancelotti or Mourinho ever getting the same level of expectations or criticism and they had some pretty f***ing amazing teams too, hell Ancelotti won the league once with Milan. Shut it Mole, Froggy is trying to be nice for once and support our move and you're trying to correct him.

How on earth will Pep tactically deal with long balls up to the big 6'4 lads?

Aye I agree 100%

I've only ever been to Leicester, London, Liverpool and Blackpool. Hoping I can erase the memory of walking along that pier and seeing some horses or donkeys shitting all over the beach. However, I highly doubt I'll ever be able to do that.

Going to start thinking / planning my trip to see a match at SJP this upcoming season when this is officially confirmed and the schedule is released.