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We have no senior strikers. He's coming.

That Jota insurance money... How fucking morbid would that be but wow.

Trying to set aside the emotional aspect, and looking purely at the long term, the inconvenient truth is that if the rules remain as they are, this is the nature of our club for the foreseeable future. We get in top prospects, and if they become stars, we sell them at their peak value and then buy 2 or 3 more prospects with the funds. It's not guaranteed, it's not a science, it's a gamble. But eventually there's a point when we have so many good players that we've arrived. We're in that gut-wrenching phase of being so close yet so far, we have tier-1 players but we can't afford to build the squad around them with only a net loss of £35m per season allowed. I don't think we sustain being a CL-level PL club by buying one £35m player a season and selling nobody, assuming our turnover covers our outgoings alone. tl;dr, if Isak wants to go, now is the best time financially for the club, but we better as fk have a plan to bring in players to try to fill his shoes right now. I just can't believe we'd be going into next season without any strikers.

Could we see some minutes from Joelinton up top?

Don't let facts get in the way of a good argument now

Coming this summer to a cinema near you

I don't think Mitchell qualified his statement and phrased it really poorly (not fit for purpose). When PIF took over, we had a practically completely clean slate to go out and splurge £150m + because we never spent much in the preceding rolling period. The strategy to go out and splurge (rightly) to clear the relegation zone, catch up, and get into Europe was not sustainable, rather than 'not fit for purpose'. We needed a new strategy that played smart with PSR, more wheeling and dealing, buy low and sell high to keep generating that additional headroom to allow us to continue to buy the important first team players.

There's no way to safely enter this conversation But if anyone's going to make sweeping statements using stereotypes, it's best to back it up with clear data otherwise it comes across as just a tad xenophobic!

Fucking hell, no way they sell Wissa now surely after Mbuemo and Norgaard. That's their entire front line.

Feeding him not enough fluids maybe

Smooth as silk for me, but just got nuked with an epilepsy-inducing white screen of death. F5 fixed it

Good lord Botman and Schar's long passes are such high quality.

This high press is crippling Celtic so far

Only 5 mins in but we look very hungry, this is not the pace of a friendly

Osula forgetting how to head a ball

NUFC stream have the regular BBC Radio Newcastle commentator

Osula leading the line, we're pressing like maniacs all the way to their keeper.

Sean Neave on the bench, with no striker out would be good to see some minutes from him, by all accounts he's meant to be very promising.

Are they going to get the audio feed from BBC Radio Newcastle ? Would make sense as to why they've not moved off the stadium cam splashscreen yet and had nearly no audio comms so far.

Stream appears to have started https://www.newcastleunited.com/en/live/286890

It was sent on 9th July to my email

I followed the instructions to apply the coupon from Mags+ to only pay £9.99, but it didn't let me put the coupon code in and I've been charged £29.99. I've raised a ticket with the support email, see what happens, rather not have to raise a dispute with my bank. For reference, these are the instructions given 1. Click the button below. 2. Sign up or log in to your Newcastle United account. 3. At checkout, add your payment method and billing address. You will need to do this before applying your promo code. -- Here, you get a prompt on your banking app to authorise a transaction of 0.00. Upon authorising it, the page closes and you've been charged £29.99. I didn't get a chance to do the remaining steps : 4. Once you’ve added your payment method, apply your promo code. 5. You will then see the £29.99 pre-season match pass reduced to £9.99. 6. Checkout and complete your purchase. Just in case this catches anyone else out.

Good to smoke out city for Trafford, leaves an open path for Donnarumma

I went down this rabbit hole with Lewis Hall, still never came to a hard and fast conclusion other than it seemed if we got him in a month or so earlier we might have been able to get him club trained. Maybe the answer is just to plug it all into a FM database and let the game tell us ...