Rich

Pope/Ramsdale/Ruddy/Gillespie Livramento/Trippier/Krafth Schär/Thiaw/Lascelles Burn/Botman Hall/A. Murphy Guimarães/Willock Tonali/Miley Joelinton/Ramsey Elanga/J. Murphy Woltemade/Wissa Gordon/Barnes/Soo This where we land? Looks like the strongest squad we’ve ever had to me. There’s still two PL places going spare in the 25, too…

Fucking hell

It was somewhere between £150M and £200M when I did my basic bitch calcs a couple of months ago.

Anyone who's thorough and knows their shit fancy having a crack at what the Isak sale actually means for PSR?

Douglas effectively runs PR for us at this point.

Has he not just done £100M x 3 for the rolling PSR period?

Bingo. Would still believe over TCD any day of the week out of principle.

‘Selling Alexander Isak is a medium-term “silver bullet” for Newcastle United’s financial outlook, freeing them up to potentially spend up to £250m on new players in future transfer windows. That is the view of finance experts who believe the club’s first big sale since their 2021 takeover opens up “huge possibilities” for the next three to four trading periods.’ … ‘Due to the way the rules work – incoming signings are amortised over the length of their contracts – this gives Newcastle the capacity to make five £50m signings if they are penning five-year contracts. “It would certainly be a game-changer,” Wilson says. “It gives them flexibility and headroom because any players they bring in are amortised over the length of their contracts. “This isn’t a case of bringing in, say, £120m or £130m for Isak and then you can only spend the same amount. Your capacity to spend is increased over a number of years. We know because of their revenue levels it’s difficult to spend heavily at the moment but this does unlock that, to an extent. “Newcastle fans won’t want to hear it but they need to accept that to progress they have to be a trading club for a few years – buy them cheap, sell them high. “It might mean your prized assets go but the reality is you can buy three or four very good players for the value Isak brings in and it has a material impact on the future.”’

Up with this sort of thing.

The fee will be listed everywhere as £125M, though, right?

The cuntiest of bald cunts this cunt like.

Signing Wissa after how he’s cracked on makes us look even dafter than we do already.

Hopefully announcing now means there is at least one more significant incoming tomorrow. Get the bad news out of the way, etc.

Hope the barber used a manky razor and he’s got a shocking neck rash tomorrow morning.

Absolute purgatory 24 hours. Our match, Old Firm then Forest Wham.

Nothing much, that was definitely the most interesting bit.

He plays like a wasp trapped in a bottle. There’s plenty there but his decision-making is woeful. So many times yesterday he could’ve played a simple pass after doing well to control a long ball or ball into feet and he seemed intent on going for the difficult option that got him and us nowhere.

Waugh on Pod on the Tyne saying Howe was intensively coaching him throughout yesterday’s game and said in the post-match presser he partly changed formation to get two players closer to Osula, hinting that he’s not tactically disciplined enough or capable of playing lone striker in a 4-3-3.

JSL fits the bill for me, but that’s where we disagree. Wissa definitely doesn’t, fwiw.

Has he handed in a formal transfer request yet?

From a not letting players take the piss out of us perspective. The latest comments from Howe don’t point to much genuine desire from him or the players to welcome Isak back, but stranger things have happened.

It could serve us long-term, though, which is all that matters.