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    Joelinton

    If true they’ll need to buy a replacement now.
  2. I find fees and player values totally abstract, and am so confident in the corruption of football that I don’t think any of it is true or matters. Against that background I don’t give a rat’s ass about fees, if a good player who looks likely to fit our style, manager and dressing room is there and available I’ll happily take them. I don’t know enough about Phillips to answer confidently, but I reckon he’d fare well based on the player he was and personality that I understood him to have. Not playing matches regularly for 18 months surely can’t render him ineffective or somehow low value? He’ll still have been training every day with one of the greatest football squads in the history of the sport and one of its most celebrated and decorated managers. Howe’s system is complex so I look at it as: 1. It won’t be alien to him in concept 2. he’s shown previously he can handle the demanding fitness aspect 3. he clearly fills an obvious gap that we have (not just defensive minded midfielder, but also just another warm body for the midfield rotation, especially with joelinton twanging muscle fibres every other week). From an armchair pundit and detailed observer perspective, it looks such a sensible move.
  3. The inaugural hat-trick of incompetence? own goal, give ball away for tap in, blatant penalty
  4. The message I really want the players to have is that, if they play their game and concentrate, their talent will win out.
  5. Phillips would be great both short and long term, so truly not sure why there’s consternation. Definitely a better player than Longstaff, who starts regularly. I’d say he’s on a par with / better than willock. Offers us something that no other midfielder we have does (defensive responsibility). No idea re finances but don’t buy the argument that the signing would be too short-term.
  6. It's too early to say whether Barnes is transformative or not, he's played about an hour for us in total. He may well be - not many Newcastle fans rated Bellamy when we signed him, and his career to date wasn't particularly compelling. Barnes may end up being brilliant in how we play.
  7. Marge? 20 years ago is on the phone.
  8. Sorry I need to step in because this is anti-factual dribble. Bournemouth was our worst injury hit game, Dortmund we had loads out both legs. Milan was a good point for a team most of whose players have never played at that level in that kind of atmosphere. Brighton away was poor and wolves away was disappointing but they played well!
  9. And players well accustomed to it. And, to emphasise, they haven’t had to do it with half their squad missing.
  10. The players do look broken physically, emotionally and psychologically. I feel really sad for them, it’s just a horrible, horrible confluence of circumstances.
  11. That’s as obviously wrong as the mbappe pen. It’s not feeling like coincidence anymore, it’s ridiculous.
  12. It’s concerning how consistently second best in every aspect of the game we are in every match. I can’t find anything positive to say about us.
  13. I reckon they got that to make up for joelinton not getting one. Inconceivably bad call otherwise
  14. Victim of his own success and I think people are ignoring or downplaying the physical and emotional fatigue. The players obviously look tired because they’re not running as much or as effectively and they’re losing control / skying chances where they wouldn’t normally. I remain of the opinion that I’m not sure what else he was supposed to do bar train and play less intensely prior to the injury madness, but a good number of the injuries dont seem to be caused by physical intensity. I’ve seen managers sacked for less in this insane industry, but to bin off Howe now would be to delegitimise the ownership. I hope he’ll be fine and think he still benefits from massive caveats.
  15. Absolute freak show of a season. All the statistical anomalies happening every match against us. Of course Wood scored. Of fucking course Wood scored.
  16. We’ll end up beating Liverpool and villa away and twatting Sunderland. I’m high on the confidence of multiple pigs in blankets rn
  17. This is fair. I’d have thought our players being more talented might have counted for more today.
  18. In my view we disgraced ourselves today. We were not at the required level to win a match, we were outfought and outthought. I consider that to be a disgrace.
  19. I’m sorry but I consider it unprofessional if a football team persistently can’t pass to each other. We weren’t executing basics - that’s why I said unprofessional. It also did look a bit lazy to me, we didn’t seem to really push for anything. Second to most loose balls.
  20. Is it fair to ask whether he’s considered having to adapt and play a different way? It looks like we’re trying to but not succeeding. I’m not going over the top in my opinion, that was a poor performance and we’ve not looked competitive in quite a few matches in a row.
  21. Good teams find a way to get results. We are not finding that way too often to claim to be a good team right now. Questions to answer for manager, squad and club in January. Petrified of the mackems match now.
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