Shak

Pretty much everywhere you look tbh. Googled "Newcastle wages by player". Of the first five results. https://m.aiscore.com/salary/team-newcastle-united-fc-2j374oiy4nirqo6 https://www.spotrac.com/epl/newcastle-united-fc/cap/_/year/2024 https://www.capology.com/club/newcastle/salaries/ https://www.goal.com/en/lists/newcastle-united-wages-best-paid-player-magpies-salary-bill/blt31dfaa58f0b58df0#csd2350432da835ebd They all say 150k https://salarysport.com/football/premier-league/newcastle-united-f.c./ This one says 39k. It's not entirely unreasonable to believe we offered him a big salary as he was a free, but 150k seems incredibly steep. We do appear to have given Targett 100k a week though so who knows.

Could a Turkish club afford his supposedly sky high wages? Pretty much everywhere I look seems to suggest he's on 100k p/w. I'd imagine he'll settle into being a solid squad player for us but if we could get a decent fee for him I'd be happy to get the quick PSR boost, get a pretty hefty contract off our books and wish him well to be honest.

Harsh

That's silly like, he's very clearly an extremely useful member of the squad.

As much as anything, we need him to show some form to try and get a decent bit of money back for him in the summer and invest in areas of the team that we have fewer options in.

Well that's shite news.

Aye, penalty had pace and was low in the corner. Fantastic to get across for it. Actually cheered the save, such a scummy dive for the penalty.

Fucking finish that.

'Quee' as in the first syllable of 'Queen' 'veen' as in the third syllable of 'intravenous'. Quee-veen.

Complaining about people misinterpreting his deliberately vague comments that he was repeatedly asked and refused to clarify

My guess is that we're confident that Pope will be back for the Wolves game, with Vlachodimos trusted to play against Bromley. Getting a bit of money for Dubravka now and bringing forward a Trafford deal that was probably pencilled in for the summer makes a lot of sense. If the plan is to just flog him on and hope that Pope doesn't get injured again then that's a different story and one that I wouldn't expect to be the case.

I think people were pleased with the 2023 summer window at the time. It definitely aged poorly early on though. Tonali it looked like Milan might have absolutely done us selling us a player that they possibly knew was gonna be banned soon for huge money. Hall couldn't get on the pitch for a team with a horrendous injury crisis. Tino looked quality but played the same position as one of our key players. Barnes was having an injury hit first season. Natural enough that people were feeling nervous about the business at the time. Suffice to say, the worm has very much turned now. Three of them have turned into automatic starters, and Barnes has been productive when he's been able to get on the field with how well Gordon has done.

He's Dan Burn's replacement in the squad. Solid second choice LCB who is also comfortable playing LB. Issue is that Dan Burn is still here, and is still playing quality football. His wages are exorbitant for that role in the squad, the fact that he cost us nothing in terms of his transfer fee helps but if the rumoured 150k p/w is accurate then it's pretty steep for someone that doesn't really appear to have a clear path to significant playing time long term outside of injury to Botman. I guess eventually Burn will move on but I thought they rated Alex Murphy, who is another player with very much the same profile? It's also possible that they brought him in as someone that we thought could be the starter at LB but Hall has just gone and completely made the spot his own.

The time to buy Mbuemo was a year or two ago. This is the whole point of bringing in Mitchell and building around him. He's supposed to find these players before they cost huge money. Have to back him to do so.

I guess I just don't see an attempt to head the ball as careless and reckless then.

I mean the angle where you can't see the contact that he makes with the ball is obviously gonna look worse for the defender

Imagine it was with the feet though. Striker and defender go for the ball, striker gets there first and tries to nick the ball towards goal. However, just after the striker makes contact the defender gets his foot on the ball too before he makes contact with the striker. That's not a foul and neither was this, if you make contact with the ball before you make contact with the player you're considered to have won the ball.

Saliba makes contact with the ball though. Had Saliba not made any contact with the ball then I'd agree with you but he does. Horrible decision IMO.

This is the most annoying thing about his whinging. We were probably just about the better side overall and definitely had the better chances. He has every right to be proud of how they played given their health issues this week but the suggestion that they thoroughly outplayed us and it was some sort of freak result is ridiculous

It's worse than a standard "the decision was wrong and completely changed the game". The vague phrasing seems very much intended to hint at there being some sort of malice at work and that Spurs have been the victim of some sort of foul play, but the refusal to say what exactly he's talking about means he can't really get in trouble for it.

He's become this season what he always should have been, a very capable CB who can play LB in a pinch and do a serviceable job there. It's a pity he and Botman are both left footed because you could make a very strong case that they're our two best CBs at the moment.

I reckon if all things had been equal it would have been a draw.

The presenter with her "K" response and Brady looking furious

Fucking Murphy is playing his dick off

I mean it makes sense to put in a few of those at the keeper and see what he's made of. Maybe stop when he looks very comfortable on the first couple? Hopefully it's setting something up for later in the game.