The College Dropout

I think that is why. And also, we are getting bigger fees from transfers. This is Perez money + Perez wages I assume. How much more?

Posters defending Ashley and the club sound like Russian bots. Haven’t seen them around here before. Football fans in general are absolute idiots. We have many. People are sitting on their laptops computers and phones to compare us to Brighton FC. BRIGHTON. But let me entertain this. Tony Bloom is a life long Brighton fan. Born and raised in Brighton. Had family involved with the club. I’m sure his interest in the club is a marriage between love and business but all the fans know there is genuine love for the club there. From the outside looking in, he’s attempting to maximise that clubs potential on the field. He’s been Owner for 10 years. In that time they have built a new stadium and have continued to expand it. You know growth. Something that costs money and is a risk. He’s also taken them from a league 1 club, to perennial championship promotion contenders, to 3 seasons in the PL. Growth. Since being in charge the club has come on leaps and bounds. Can’t bemoan their achievements. These will be seen as glory years by their fans. Certainly the best in living memory. If you support a football club or anything for that matter without regard for what you’re actually supporting, you’re an idiot. A man is using the club as a promotional vehicle for his business while doing the bare minimum to maintain the club. Look at every club in this division and their owners. It’s probably only us and Arsenal that have people running the club that have owners with less ambition than the previous owners and are happy for the club to move backwards. And at least Arsenal have the excuse of 2 clubs bankrolled by oil money messing with their clubs potential. Anyone putting money towards this club is a complete idiot I’m sorry. Definition of pissing on you and telling you it’s rain. A better club wouldn’t stand for it. Rangers would have run him out of town, they already did. This wouldn’t fly at Liverpool, Man U. Incompetence is one issue and that’s even fine. But not trying is unacceptable. Most football clubs have owners that try. Most are incompetent but they try. We are Newcastle United. We are a giant football club. We should compete in the higher echelons of English football. European football is our level. To not be there is fine. But to not try is unacceptable. It’s not as if we are entirely powerless. If we stopped turning up, Ashley would eventually leave.

McArthur’s a decent player.

Senegal all the way. Mane ballon d’or. Let it happen.

Feel like Mane should be in the running for Ballon D'or if Senegal win AFCON. Golden Boot in PL. Major part of CL winning team although he didn't score many. I'd always favour attackers over defenders for the competition if poss.

And ruin his career? Nah, he's better off somewhere else. Precisely. If I was a serious football professional (coach, physio, player, whatever) i'd look to leave NUFC. Not interested in improving at all

Don’t care.

Kovacic was a disappointment last season but I was impressed by him in EL final. Real Madrid tend to get excellent transfer fees. Hazard fee basically covered by Llorente and Kovacic fees. They’ve somehow messed up with James Rodriguez though. Seems like Carlo wants to take him again.

Hope he goes. Good on the lad. From the little we saw of him he looked a real player.

Agree All the foundations now being ripped apart with Rafa, Rondon, Perez, Longstaff likely leaving. Mike Ashley sending the club back years this Summer. Been sending the club backwards since he stepped through the door. Get the cunt out

I felt the opposite. Pardew was a distraction someone to hate and blame. Rafa just made the ineptitude of how this club is run even more obvious than it ever was before because he had actual ambition. While performing well on the pitch he's made it much harder for Ashley. All of the other cronies ineptitude makes us concentrate on that. I felt this was inevitable unless something substantial changed and it didn't.

Just confirms what I’ve known deep down the entire time. This football club is dead. Rafa was a flicker, an Amber of hope. It’s gone. Good bye Spanish rose, May you ever grow in our hearts. Thank you.

Empty. This was inevitable. Let’s stop going to the damn games.

Name a manager with as little experience as Frank Lampard that has succeeded in the PL, let alone at one of the top clubs. That's probably why! Not the Premier League but Zidane and Pep had only Spanish B team experience behind them before nailing the Real Madrid and Barcelona jobs - a single season in Guardiola's case. tbh, when you see what is happening in Germany, maybe clubs in England need to be a bit more adventurous with their manager hires. I would say this. Both inherited teams that won the CL 18 months before. And both seem to be generational talents as managers. Pep certainly so. I also think managing Real requires a certain type of manager and Zidane is it. Chelsea's squad is as weak as it's ever been since Abramovic has been there. Best players: Kante Azpi maybe? Willian RLC Luiz Most exciting is RLC and he's made of glass.

I cant agree with this, Chelsea have an amazing squad and have already signed Hazards replacement in Christian Pulisic, Zouma will replace the outgoing Cahill, If Lampard goes there and they dont finish top 4 with a good run in the Champions league and the cups its a massive failure Replacing Hazard with Pulisic is a downgrade. Cahill wasn't getting in the first team anyway. Pretty confident Lampard will fail and i'll love it.

PSG. Don't think de Gea is rated that highly in Spain. Has lost his place to Kepa now for them I could see him going to PSG. They are the only big team that probably need a good goalkeeper. Maybe Bayern I guess depending on how ruthless they want to be with Neuer and his recent decline/injury history. Juventus as well, how's Szczęsny doing? Sign Ronaldo but have wor Szczęsny in goal, makes no sense. Don't think Szczęsny, Can or Ramsey are good enough for their ambitions.

Messi and Ronaldo have changed perceptions of what a top player is. Think Zidane, Figo, Iniesta, Nedved, Rui Costa etc. didn’t score loads but were considered the very best. Hazards a top player.

Saw somewhere that it actually results in less goals overall. I can see that.

I would like us to actually win one tbh

In today’s game I reckon he would play more centrally.

He’s been poor. Think Man City need proper first team competition for the fullback positions. Both Mendy and Walker are talented but shouldn’t be comfortable #1s.

Such a graceful player. Slightly under rated based on last season. Ability wise he’s right up there with the best this league has had to offer

Football is slowly turning into having a career at the most 'glamorous' places/best money - as opposed to the teams with the best sporting prospects/money. In a worldwide talent pool, that’s always going to happen to some degree. All else being equal location is a defining factor in any job.

Thanks and best of luck fella.

Terrible final.