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Which just makes it pointless. If you have VAR, then might be a good idea to use it. All they had to do was advise the hopeless cunt of a ref to go and have a look at his screen, they didn't have to directly overrule it. He could have made his own mind up after viewing, same as they do in so many other games.

Is the barrage of nonce/porn stuff still going on then? It's hardly any wonder so many of you post with avatars of stained pants. I remember when I was over there for a month I used to have to deliberately avoid certain threads and try to find something related to football.

I'm not surprised the way Spanish press conduct business. Whatever you think a value is, you can bet it will rise £5m a day exponentially as the negotiations drag out.

Don't think I've heard a single opinion from anywhere around England that it was anything other than a penalty, and we've got someone in a black and white shirt arguing it.

That deal's collapsed now though.

I know Zapata is ridiculously expensive for a nearly 31 year old, but really think if we signed him we'd be guaranteed safety. He looks absolute top level.

Yeah enjoyed that.

And there you go.

This is how it works here: Our lad goes down in the box, it's a penalty no question. That's it really.

I suppose it depends on who else is in for him though. We know Arsenal are leading the race for Vlahovic, so that's a non-starter, does Kamara have other clubs in for him who might be ahead of us at this point?

Aye I'm livid just thinking about his dancing now. The fists are clenching.....

Fuck me, can we not revive Toontastic and kick this one back over there?

I read somewhere that the loan fee is more like £5m so you're probably right.

They'll get him in the summer for free. They aren't going to chuck the sort of money we are able to, just to get him in this window.

My god, they're all turning up. This will be like the Alan Pardew thread Mk1 at this rate.

I think for their mental health that's probably a good perspective for them. They will probably be dreaming we get relegated, they beat us 9-1 in the derby next year sending us down to the third division while they take their rightful place in the Premier. Who needs drugs?

We're not giving up in a hurry, got to like that. Botman sounded like it was dead in the water, but who knows? Maybe if we chuck enough money at it....

You'd think so wouldn't you? But every time a fee is supposedly agreed, a day later the Sevilla chairman pops up and tells us to fuck off, the price is another £30m on top.

Al Sorour will join Al-Rumayyan, left, and Stavely on the Newcastle board EPA Martyn Ziegler, Owen Slot Monday January 24 2022, 5.00pm, The Times Share Save The Saudi Arabian owners of Newcastle United have ambitions to make the club the focal point of a global sports and football portfolio. Saudi Arabia’s immensely wealthy Public Investment Fund (PIF), which owns 80 per cent of Newcastle, wants to mirror the multi-club approach taken by Manchester City’s Abu Dhabi owners, but is also considering investing in other sports too. That ambition will be given impetus by a move by Newcastle’s owners to appoint Majed Al Sorour, the chief executive of the Saudi Golf Federation who has led Saudi Arabia’s drive to bring the world’s top golfers to play in the Gulf kingdom, as a new director of the club. It is understood the appointment has been passed to the Premier League for approval under its owners’ and directors’ test. The PIF is chaired by Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and sources say that it wants to have a global presence in sport far larger than just its £244 million investment into Newcastle. The fund manages assets worth £355 billion at the moment and has outlined plans to increase that by another £200 billion by 2025. The City Football Group owns 14 clubs in ten countries — four of them partner women’s clubs including Manchester City Women — and is valued at more than $5 billion (£3.71 billion). Executives at the group say commercial and marketing expertise, technology, scouting and other services can be shared among all the clubs. Costs that may have had to be borne solely by City can also be spread across the group, which may help hit financial fair play targets. In Spain, Atletico Madrid also own a number of feeder clubs. The Saudi PIF may look beyond just football, however, as part of their sporting investment plans and will consider any opportunity seen as worthwhile. Amnesty International has said it believes Saudi Arabia is using “sportswashing” to improve its international public image in the face of the regime’s “appalling human rights record”. Newcastle’s squad are in Saudi Arabia this week and Amnesty said it feared the visit will turn into “another PR opportunity for the Saudi authorities”. Al Sorour is a close associate of Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the PIF governor who is the chairman of Newcastle. Al-Rumayyan is also the chairman of the Saudi Golf Federation and Al Sorour, a former professional footballer in Saudi Arabia, has been seen with him in the directors’ box at Newcastle matches. His appointment will mean there are two Saudi representatives on the board, alongside the minority shareholders Amanda Staveley and the Reuben brothers. Al Sorour is an adviser to the PIF and has been on the board of the football club Al-Nassr in Riyadh. Last month Al-Rumayyan was appointed president of the Asian Golf Federation and Al Sorour as secretary general of the organisation. The PIF is sponsoring the controversial Saudi International golf event next month which will feature more than 30 members of the DP World Tour — the rebranded European Tour — taking part following months of negotiations. The event near Jeddah carries huge appearance fees and the field is expected to include players such as Paul Casey, Tommy Fleetwood, Sergio García, Shane Lowry, Henrik Stenson, Ian Poulter and Lee Westwood.

It's all relative isn't it? Chris Wood looks like the biggest £25m dud in the history of football, but we took four points from six since he came into the side, so could argue it was worth wasting £25m.

He looked fantastic for a while at Man U, then went right off the boil. But he always seems to look good playing for England, and we saw what he did at West Ham last season so....

How the hell was he playing so aggressively with a groin injury? He was running twice as hard as the rest.

Fat chance of him turning up then.

Three months isn't a bad stint tbf, they usually go through 5 managers a season.