The College Dropout

Hislop sometimes talks some real shit about us on ESPN.

Lad would turn down Barca because of the locks rivalry? I respect it so deeply.

Casemiro's going newhere. He loves Manchester.

Osimhen. Toney maybe.

Kamara is rumoured to be on £125k-175k

We could also just build the club in Eddie’s image even after he leaves. A big physical team of athletes that can press. Iraola could work with that. For almost 20 years Chelsea more or less had a team in a certain image that Mourinho built. Ancelotti made it work. The Conte and Tuchel teams were similar. every great Newcastle side plays fast aggressive football with pace. ITS THE NEWCASTLE WAY.

There's a big difference between influence (Guardiola, Arteta) and zero control (Maresca, Slot). It's not semantics. Eales decided unilaterally to change Howe's job. Pocchetino left Chelsea when they insisted on that model.

Merino, Onana, Lavia/Dewsbury Hall and Curtis Jones 4th man at their clubs. Ours is Joe Willock. It’s not going to work.

Not happening unless there’s a release clause.

I don’t think Howe expects full control. He just wants strong influence. From the Eales quotes - Mitchell was brought in to decide contract extensions, sign and sell players without permission from Eddie. Howe focuses on coaching. Howe is not a finance man. He can’t make all the decisions. Some players will need to be sold that he wants to keep. He’s aware of that. But he wants players that he wants. And he wants his voice heard when players contract are up for renewal. Eddie would’ve taken Etikite or Joao Pedro it seems but Isak was the number one target. im not sure if Eales was in post. But PIF and Ashworth were there when we decided to go from £20m on Etikite, £30m on Joao Pedro, to £60m on Isak. But it was Amanda and some degree Howe that’s blamed for the splurging. Same goes for everyone else we bought at a premium - Eales was right there.

Think the problem was Mitchell was brought in to do it a very different way to Eddie. One that would fundamentally change Eddie’s role or force him to leave. Eddie has disagreements with Ashworth but they worked well together enough that Ashworth wanted Howe at Man U. But Ashworth wasn’t a transfer target man, Mitchell is. And I do think some Ashworth era signings weren’t Howe’s first choice but Howe was happy enough to take them. Eg I just think Antonee Robinson is a perfect Howe player and we were linked but we got Hall instead - probably a higher cielinf.

We do need to get someone in that can give this lad a rest.

Bruno is the best at finding a cute pass, he was rushing everything. Howe got it right - ‘we were making wrong decision after wrong decision’. We do struggle against a low block and a decent defence that is true. We often start pressing aggressively and if we don’t score can run out of ideas in the second half of games and lose belief. But the cageyness, the rushing, the slipping, that was pressure and it was evident from the start.

Think he wanted to wait for the bounce but the bounce did him

Could be a player if he gets Howe’d. Adrian throws in the equaliser.