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Rafa's style of football was fine, and was good when he got a player like Rondon in.

He'll still have the pressure regardless.

Glad I'm not the only one who thinks this.

If it were possible to mothball the club and re-emerge when he's sold it, I reckon most fans would take that. Football is supposed to be enjoyed. It's just an utter chore for us.

The clubs you mention I'd still choose Newcastle over all of them if I was that player, I get what you're saying about the goons in charge, but money talks players don't usually come here nowadays to play for us Palace or Villa, they come for the money first, then to show their worth and make the next step. Once upon a time Southampton had Van Dijk,Mane. Theres nothing to say we would offer more money than them.

Wasn't Miles Starforth the journalist with the BNG scoop from Chops? Not exactly highly credible as a source. He didn't say it would happen.

True. If I was a professional footballer, even as a fan I think I'd be looking for interest elsewhere.

Would be a decent signing.

The only impressive statistic for me for Morelos is his Europa League goal haul last season. 14 in 16. In the Premier League he's just about a goal every other game and is always awful against Celtic. I watched him toil against Livingston recently. Don't think he'd hack it at our level personally.

Doubt you'd get much more then £5-7m for Joelinton.

Yeah they’ve ticked a box and fuck all else, however Jamie Driscoll and Newcastle City Council are responsible for driving investment in our city. This takeover presented investment on a plate and they haven’t even stirred themselves. It’s an absolute disgrace which should be duly noted by thousands of voters who are desperate for this to happen. Like Driscoll would ever get involved. The guy is on another planet and is there because the cranks in his wing of the Labour Party put him there. He'll be too busy writing another essay that barely anyone who doesn't already think he's great will read.

Notice that Turnbull at Motherwell has signed for Celtic. Sure we were after him.

Can't wait. Zzzzzzz

A standard player for a club looking to achieve 12th to 17th. A dependable try hard with little quality.

I think that's supposed to be a supportive article of him, but all it does is depress me and wind me up.

He doesn't even spend any money on the club as its self-sufficient. The club spends what it makes and he just owns it. The only time he's put money in over recent years was when we got relegated and he added it to the debt to him. Tbh, I'm quite happy with the club being self-sufficient, its the fact he doesn't allow it to grow, never mind reach its potential.

Qatar didn't buy Man City. People keep saying this on phone ins too.

Not in the slightest. Not blaming him for anything other than neglecting checking on his sources. In this case Amanda has told him things and he's put them out there without checking if they are true or not....at least not that anyone can see If he's going to be publishing stuff with regard to the take over of course he should have been digging deeper to confirm what he's been told, and not look like Staveley's lapdog mouthpiece You're point is still nonsense. Regularly a journalist will report what a source says without having to go and check if what they say is true or not. There are plenty of stories which simply report, for example, what Boris Johnson says about something. His comments still get reported by journalists whether hes talking shit or not.

Unfortunately it's a low bar. A really proper good journalist wouldn't rely on a single source, or would at least do the leg work investigating what his source had told him. George doesn't, he reports what he's told to report. It's a shame he's been reporting what we wanted to hear, but surely he should have been banging on the Reubens door to confirm, or talking to someone from PIF too. Not too say he hasn't been trying, but just spouting whatever Staveley has told him is pretty weak, and not too different to tabloids. That's bollocks tbf. He reported what he was being told, and said as much. He didn't make any bold predictions either way. It's not the job of every journalist to analyse the whole deal at all points. Why's it Bollocks? Never said anything about predictions at all or analysing the details of a deal. Just saying that a journalist should follow up on what they're being told is true before reporting it. If i were a journalist and was told from a trusted source that Donald Trump was actually a replicant from the future, I think i'd want first hand confirmation or evidence from second source before putting it in my paper. Not really. If I was a journalist and say, someone close to Joe Biden told me that, of course I'd report it. There's nothing wrong with reporting what a source tells you without delivering an opinion on it whether you think its ridiculous or not.

Unfortunately it's a low bar. A really proper good journalist wouldn't rely on a single source, or would at least do the leg work investigating what his source had told him. George doesn't, he reports what he's told to report. It's a shame he's been reporting what we wanted to hear, but surely he should have been banging on the Reubens door to confirm, or talking to someone from PIF too. Not too say he hasn't been trying, but just spouting whatever Staveley has told him is pretty weak, and not too different to tabloids. That's bollocks tbf. He reported what he was being told, and said as much. He didn't make any bold predictions either way. It's not the job of every journalist to analyse the whole deal at all points.

Stopped last summer. The only game I've been to under Bruce was at Hibs as I can literally see the Easter Road from my flat.

So the Premier League did fuck it then. Cunts.

6 weeks until the season starts, the team is shite, the manager is worse and no decent player is going to join a club in this state. We're fucked.

Edwards was ridiculous on that podcast. Bizarrely trying to push through that Bruce had improved Lascelles over the course of the season.

The lack of information out there about this Mauriss is seriously worrying. None of the journalists seem interested in finding out anything about him either. He sounds like a total fraud.