Mr Logic

Surprised to see Senegal still 3-1 considering game so far. Just lumped £50 on them.

The bigger teams used to get more than their share of favourable decisions. For every one that has been questionably wrong (matter of opinion) many more have been right. It should become better with time.

Chris Waugh from the Chronic reckons Thiago Maia or Badou Ndiaye most likely replacements. Don't think anyone has a clue currently though. If its true in the other thread regarding the £50m due mid-July to trigger spending then we'll be leaving it too late imo.

Seem to recall Rafa knew his father and their connection went way back. In fact isn't his dad one of his advisors rather than just agents? I guess the lad is hungry for first team football and Rafa couldn't guarantee it, I can't say I blame any talented youngster for wanting more playing time but working with Rafa for a few years may have served him better in the long term. We shall see, suspect we will see him playing for Spain at some point in his career.

Ha! Most accurate piece on Ashley I've ever seen. Fit and Proper Person test needs some srious re-evaluation for the current times. If Ashley had his way footballers would find themselves part of the 'Gig economy'.

Just saw that 'handball' incident. Never a penalty in a million years. If VAR is going to work the Referee has to understand the decision is still his. Ball to hand all day long.

Individually there's a lot of good players in there, they're just not a team. Ultimately I feel that is down to the coach. There's no unity there, maybe some players have bought into their own media hype, I don't know. That wasn't a well drilled side playing for each other, or for a nation come to that. I'd love to pick Rafa's brains on that performance. It was horrific. Don't want to take anything away from Croatia though, they played well, cleverly. (Thought Argentina were way dirtier than Croatia to someone who suggested they were cheating higher up the page).

Couldn't help but laugh at this line in a Chronicle article. "It is around this time of year that many fans experience moments of anxiety as clubs engage in player trading." 'moments of anxiety' ' Moments of Anxiety ' edit: The article continues....

Again It's so rank. He's a professional, good guy getting dicked around by a bunch of chancers and cunts. Pisses me off That's probably why Ashley fucks off on holiday every transfer window, just rubbing the salt in nice and deep. Despicable cunt. (Ashley)

When was the last time one of our players divided opinion so much. (Not counting Ben Arfa).

No way Peru should have lost that game. Guy who missed the penalty must feel as low as you can get about now. Pundits talking crap about a moment of quality winning the game, all the quality I saw was Peruvian.

FFS, I just put on a multi less than 10m ago with Guerrero to score, both teams to score, Peru to win.

Doesn't that economic profit figure include the impact of player purchases? (I assume its final profit loss everything included). While in the Premier League over the course of those 7 seasons shown we've spent about £250 and sold about £170m. Its really the idiot getting us relegated twice that's meant we've had to sell more players to cover loss of TV money (we obviously sold far more than we spent in the two Championship seasons). This current season our revenue should be between £160m and £170m. Thats £30-£40m higher than its ever been before and twice what it was in most of the seasons included in that chart. I think as long as we're in the Premier League he has no excuse not to provide cash to Benitez on top of player sales. I really don't know if it does or not. I'm just posting the info really - with a filter applied. I'm commenting on what I think I understand from the figures whilst filtering out everything I don't. The most obvious thing is that Ashley's team have presented these figure in a very positive light for the masses. The real accountants, and anyone doing due dilligence that understand the football accounts business, will see a very different picture I fear. Ergo we're not getting sold anytime soon.

https://www.acast.com/thechronicle/lookingatthoseplayerswhomightleavenewcastleunited-mikelmerino-chancelmbembaanddwightgayle Looking rather doubtful that we can keep Merino. I hope we do as I feel there is a very good player in there long-term.

If that was true, he'd have sold the club by now. I think you might have to read the whole article to see what those figures actually mean.

(paraphrase) Rafa will continue to get every penny the club generates. If we go by economic profit that's basically nothing, - so just player sales then. But I guess most of you had figured that out already. https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/after-amanda-staveley-ended-talks-14767143

Fuck this shit, I had Mane anytime scorer and BTS.

Liverpool's pressing is going to win this game, .............or lose it. (grin)

Its a question of a moral compass. Charnley is supposed to be a Newcastle supporter, right? He sold his soul as soon as he started kowtowing for a better wage and ignoring the damage. I doubt I am unique - in similar circumstance I'd have objected to his plans, lost my job, and told all to anyone who would listen.

My bets fucked.. Over/Under First Half 1.5 1st Half Over 1.5 Goals

Some of this Madrid side is getting on a bit aren't they? Modric is 33 now I think... Really fancy Liverpool to win it, and I'll be a bit poorer if they don't.

Liverpool + Fulham win - 7.8

Rashford man!

One thing that I never caught during the actual game was who the player was standing miles offside just before the third goal. I was thinking wtf is he doing? It was only on watching the highlights that I realised that was straight off the training ground. Lascelle's was there as a marker for Shelvey. Thought it was brilliant.