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20 minutes ago, Playmaker said:
This site has replacement northern rock Sponsors (I have never used them before but was planning to buy some of 96/97 numbers if I got a dhgate shirt.)
Fantastic, thanks man. Now to work out how to replace them….
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32 minutes ago, LFEE said:
The guy I mentioned Vickery was on about a few days ago that sounded a good fit for us…
https://x.com/jacobsben/status/1748021558310760583?s=61&t=kJE1AU_9T9TvzyV_ebeY8Q
Just a shit Freddie mercury
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1 hour ago, Yorkie said:
Think it was £4-5m but still, as you say.
No strong feelings about him really; the sort of signing that was a microcosm of last few years of the Ashley era. A cheap, lower-midtable player who did okay for us, but would never have been here had we any ambition. File alongside most of the signings made in the Championship, Ki, Joselu, Atsu, Krafth, Fraser.
He did deliver the assist for the first goal I celebrated in over two years in that Spurs game. So kudos to him for that. Hope he does well for Rafa.
Didn’t we only sign 1 of those in the championship (Atsu)? Trivia equaliser
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Another really boring question - has anyone found any way to fix / replace “northern rock” piping on early 00s adidas shirts? 3 of the 4 I have from the era, including the mighty gold/yellow sporting Lisbon disaster away, need nerd surgery
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55 minutes ago, MrRaspberryJam said:
can’t recommend that seller in the link above as I’ve not used him before. I’ve ordered the black NTL 2000 away one from dhjersey888, I’ve just checked the tracking and it’s arrived in London within the last hour. Hopefully I’ll have it next week and if he’s any good then I’ll let you know and you can use him as he’s selling 97-99 home in long sleeve too.
My man
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Underrated, good enough value for money (£1.5m, if memory serves)? Technically a lot better than he got credit for.
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8 hours ago, MrRaspberryJam said:
Could have swore there were 2 or 3 others selling them when I posted this the other day!?
The build quality is surprisingly decent, I always cold wash mine and never tumble dry them. Recommended you go a size up
Keen on 97-99 long sleeve home - links from here come with your usual recommendation? That Ajax one you recommended is still going strong
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Season from hell. I fucking hate it.
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59 minutes ago, GEFAFWISP said:
We need more English if anything, Brexit Mags. Why not Gibbs-White, ESR and Gallagher for £300 million to replace the Brazilian lads and proceed to finish 9th.
It is, without doubt, player nationality that dictates performance and results.
“He’d have finished that had he not been so English”
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1 hour ago, Dokko said:
Massive amounts of negative vibes coming out the club recently. Can't remember the last positive noise we made.
When we twatted our local rivals last week
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2 hours ago, TheBrownBottle said:
It’s literally published. £105m in FFP accounting losses over a rolling three year period. All PL clubs books are published. It’s not made up, as Everton can attest.
I mean can we be certain that the information published is true? Perhaps we can, I don’t know, I just think in football if you have money and the will you normally get what you want.
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Just now, TheBrownBottle said:
We can’t, no matter how confident you are. A loan to buy is likely the best bet. But that won’t happen until the very end of the window.
Ok well let’s mark this page and see where we land. Think the ownership has been pretty consistent at buying where there’s a need.
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2 minutes ago, r0cafella said:
You mean loan? Reckon we will end up with Kalvin P, I’m just hoping we dodge the obligation.
I’m not sure, I don’t think FFP is actually real or definable with actual numbers. I imagine it will involve us needing to bribe somebody; football is astoundingly corrupt.
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1 minute ago, r0cafella said:
We can’t, FFP.
Those low hanging fruit sponsors we inexplicably didn’t take are really hurting us now.
I’m fairly confident they’ll buy a midfielder.
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If that’s true the club now needs to act and buy a replacement, we can’t bank on miley and Longstaff to take us into Europe.
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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.
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The inaugural hat-trick of incompetence? own goal, give ball away for tap in, blatant penalty
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The message I really want the players to have is that, if they play their game and concentrate, their talent will win out.
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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.
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15 minutes ago, Skeletor said:
I think there is blame to be apportioned, but not with Eddie. The transfer window, maybe the right the players, but not at the right time and definitely not focused on what was needed which was immediate improvement to the first team squad. Realistically we only added Tonali and Barnes as first team players. Barnes is a good player but he's not a transformative one. If you only sign 2 players they need to be transformative like Robert and Bellamy were. Allocating £40m to Lewis Hall without any intention to use him whilst we're scraping the FFP barrel looks weirder and weirder as time goes on. I think the buck falls with whoever was the main person behind our transfer strategy, and as far as I can see that's Dan Ashworth.
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.
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16 minutes ago, Dr Jinx said:
Man Utd was and still is a poisonous environment yet he still won trophies and had them finishing top 4.Spurs weren’t ambitious enough for either Mourinho or Conte.. Levy has a touch of the Mike Ashleys about him in respect to not living up to promises. You can tell those managers had buyers remorse almost immediately after arriving.
NUFC is the total opposite of what they are all about.. he’d have a fan base behind him, holistic owners with unlimited resources.. they will back a manager to the maximum that FFP allows.
Having someone like Jose in charge also raises the clubs profile, making investment into the club an easier sell.
I’m not gung ho for him but I do think he’s an upgrade on EH, reluctantly I might add.. I like Eddie Howe a lot and I wish he’d sort the current situation out, I just can’t see it over the longer term this season.
Marge? 20 years ago is on the phone.
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3 minutes ago, Andy said:
Were they though? Milan, Brighton, Bournemouth, Wolves (until Neto went off), Dortmund were all very poor performances before the injury crisis really kicked in. Can only remember us playing well against Shef Utd (obviously) and we were "okay" against West Ham who mainly sat back.
We've set up differently on the road to how we do at home all season - we're much deeper, more passive, the full backs don't push on, the striker is isolated, there is no intensity etc. Could just be a mentality thing since we don't have the crowd behind us I guess, but I think it's at least partially instructional.
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!
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I believe in him.
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I think he also legit liked kicking people, which was part of his charm if you ask me.