Rich

https://theathletic.com/1707021/2020/03/30/nick-pope-england-burnley-charlton-bury-southgate-pickford Seems a good egg, based on this.

Is the truth not just that both Botman and Ekitike are on their jollies and there are column inches needing filled?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2022/06/21/exclusive-newcastle-united-close-signing-goalkeeper-nick-pope/?utm_content=football&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1655807892 "Closer to signing" than either Botman or Ekitike according to Sewpa Luke, so probably time for a thread.

Surely Lingard's demands are going to start coming down the longer he goes without a club? Could still see mileage in that, especially when we know we were bidding for him until the last day in January. Adarabioyo was linked a fair bit then, too, was he not? Nice to see some new (old) names chucked about, anyway, after what feels like eons of Botman and Ekitike.

It's not just us with this shite, thankfully, and it's actually better here than the other places I've scoped out this week. Plenty of West Ham fans are going fucking mental over Aguerd, because it's taken "six weeks" from when it was first mooted (I don't think our supposed attempt at a hijack helped things, mind), and a load of Man Utd fans are the same about anybody that goes anywhere else that they think they should've been in for. It's a people thing, not a NUFC thing, though I appreciate it still makes for difficult reading. I reckon he'll be here for his medical within the next 10 days, it has to come to a head sooner or later and there's no way Milan will pay what Lille want.

Big assumption, but if we were to get Pope, Botman, and Ekitike in addition to Targett... a] Would we need to sign one, two, three, or more players? b] Which position(s) would you prioritise? c] What level of signing (examples encouraged) would we need to make in that position/those position(s)? ...for you to be a 10/10 for satisfaction with our summer business? For me: GK: Pope CB: Botman LB: Targett AM: Paqueta LW/ST: Ekitike LW/ST: Danjuma I know I'm a greedy fuck, but this would be it for me from the players we've been linked with more than once. If there were only two more coming they'd need to be Bruno level. That'd leave us with the old "on paper" strongest XI of: Pope Trippier Schar Botman Targett Joelinton Guimarães Saint-Maximin Paqueta Danjuma Wilson With a "backup" XI of: Dubravka Krafth Lascelles Burn Lewis S. Longstaff Shelvey Almiron Willock Fraser Ekitike And four spares: Darlow (no worries if Gillespie), Dummett, Murphy, Wood.

I think we saw how fast we can switch to alternative targets (Targetts) in January, more than once. Not worried, personally. While it's nice to get your first choice, naturally, I'm pretty sure we'll be at a point now where there are three or four alternatives that will still improve us significantly (and perhaps allow us to improve more positions by costing less).

Have we ever had an England international goalkeeper (current) on our books?

Fixtures 2022/23 - Nottingham Forest (H) first game - Full Fixture in OP Rush job because I was so offended by this formatting, use of caps, and the lack of "s" on "Fixtures", sorry.

Holy fuck, that'd be a decent signing.

Only surprise is he's not posting it at 5pm on a Friday

We've got a cracking tickets section on here now, largely thanks to @SteVand @tommo: https://newcastle-online.org/forum/6-tickets-travel. Anything related to tickets and membership will be covered thoroughly in there, and it's a cracking place to pick up spare tickets from existing season ticket holders/members too. I got help a few times when I'd missed out on the sale due to the online queue being insane.

By the end of last season it had been set at two per membership, yeah, because demand was so high. It had scaled up or down depending on the opposition before that. Like with season tickets, there's been no news on 2022/23 memberships (even for existing members) just yet but now the fixtures are out it can't be far away. Impossible to say what a membership would look like next season, unfortunately, or if there'll even be memberships at all.

Can someone please be kind enough to give us a little update of where we're at with this one? Last I saw was Romano (I think) saying it could be in a few days?

We’re not stalking again, surely?

There couldn’t ever have been a month like that these days, nobody to be fearful of at home.

It’s the second most stupidist thing I’ve seen, aye.

100% record, then.

Thought he was losing his edge a bit towards the end of the season, which was no surprise given he barely had a pre-season due to Brucey and then was playing with a groin injury throughout. If he's able to get himself to peak condition before next season, I can only see him kicking on and getting better.

Would love some Svenwashing today.

Cole for me, as well, supplanted by Ginola.

So aye, Chris Wood. Anyone remember the last one Edward’s was first to?