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Tremendous statement from Wolverhampton.

https://www.newcastleunited.com/nufc-tv/latest-videos/lewis-hall-weve-proved-people-wrong/#t=10:39 Really good interview, I'm very pleased to see it. Comes across as credible. Handles himself well, goes 16 minutes without hitting Andy Sixsmith.

Think the theory is he'll have a career somewhere but it won't be at our intended level so we're creating space for younger kids who have a better shot.

Which vid?

Is that what came of Crumpy?

Even playing along with the idea hypothetically, the drawback is he could be here for another year or two and we'd still get the same fee most likely, if not more, with additional FFP profit to boot. So there's no hurry at all to have this conversation. As much as I don't like it, there is a logic to the idea that Bruno is approximately at peak financial value for us right now.

Selling Gordon is a daft idea.

What a start to a new season

Ah, fair enough... The clip I watched must be too short because I can't see anything dodgy in the final three or four passes. I mean... It sounds like the definition of something I don't think people should carry a deep grievance about. Certainly not so deep that the entire game needs to be altered to fit around it, at any rate. It's VAR that's made the philosophy of placing an offside line so painful. Beforehand, defacto, if it looked like an unfair advantage was gained it was offside and if it looked immaterial it was onside. And the game worked stunningly well.

Just watched the goals. Not sure what we're talking about - is it the guy who played the cross in leading to the penalty? Totally cool with it. Just like the 97% of footballing history that made it the most popular spectator sport in the world. The rules should function as deterrents and pace setters rather than as instruments of torture. Leave that to the Olympic triple jumpers.

Largely agreed, but the same can be said of most of the Saudi purchases, if anyone wanted to kick off about player valuations.

I think it's roundly agreed that Trippier was an absurd bargain for us... Not something to base off as a typical deal.

I'd put money on that being what it is. No pun intended.

I forget how it was phrased, but I remember it being said - I think by Eddie - that he's not allowed to access various areas of the stadium on matchdays which is why he's never in dressing room photos and such.

More confident about this than I was Brighton. Envisaging a good win here.

We're in no position to quibble about £20m

It's this simple, kids I don't really use it, but you're undermining the ignore function if you spend pages dwelling on someone's posting habits.

Think there's an extremely strong argument for Guimaraes, in fairness, who ticks most of those boxes. But I think Gordon is the right winner.

Not even sure Isak makes the top 3.

Player of the Season: Anthony Gordon Young player of the season (21 or lower): Tino Livramento Season to forget: Many candidates 1. Sandro Tonali 2. Sven Botman 3. Our medical team 4. Sean Longstaff 5. Needs to be forgotten so much that it's already been forgotten - Matt Targett Most Improved: Anthony Gordon Unsung Hero: Externally - Fabian Schar, Internally - Jacob Murphy Signing of the Season: Tino Livramento Goal of the season: Fabian Schar Vs Paris Saint Germain Moment of the season: 25th Nov to 2nd Dec - three heroic performances and results (Chelsea, PSG, Man U) that finally snapped the rubber band and heralded a dark winter. Low point of the season: Victory away at Fulham in the FA Cup, 27th Jan. Realised that in spite of the result we had a long, difficult season ahead. Manager rating (Out of 10): 7.5

People said the same thing about having Sports Directors over managers once upon a time. Rotating first team players more often than injury or form demanded, too. What he said was very strange but it's not as ridiculous as you're making it sound. It's dystopian, but if multiclub models became more entrenched, I could even see groups moving managers between their clubs like corporations move employees between departments.

We might get relentlessly booed for what we've done to him

The perineum to be precise, nicely nestled under their ballbags.

I'm 80-90% of the way with you but, with respect, I think you're mixing up the closeness of either decision being accurate with the closeness of the players' bodies. I think you're massively overestimating how much acceptance there'd be of decisions from the Artetas and Arsenal fans of the world. The real problem is enforcing either decision with VAR. We'll just end up with fractional decisions about whose shoelace is where. Or, more likely, MUCH deeper defending, with the emphasis on keeping your opponent in front of you, making the offside rule quasi-obsolete. I don't necessarily think that's a terrible thing, by the way, it would open up a lot more space in the middle of the park which could be interesting for a while, at least. To be clear, I'm against technological solutions and pro-90s style refereeing. I think we've made a total mess of the game and are making it gradually less appealing to kids. But if there was a technical fix, it would probably involve sticking tracking sensors to the seat of the players' shorts. That's approximately where you'd gain overall acceptance over whether an attacker has received an advantage or not.