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Is Ranieri even any good? The Leicester thing was obviously remarkable but it unravelled quickly without Kante. Seems to go from job to job a lot

Farke took 4 points off Bruce of course

He was an excellent journalist before he joined The Athletic. When he wrote for a national I felt he tried really hard to portray the frustration of following this stupid club and it felt like he would go out to bat for us in the same way somebody like Daniel Storey does now. Now he’s at the Athletic though he knows the majority of his work is for Newcastle fans, he’s effectively sold out and needs to keep contacts onside or he won’t get anything. Chris Waugh is a good bloke and has started to overtake him despite being pegged as Sidekick Simon/Captain Waffles in the god awful podcast they do. I still think Douglas has got the most to offer but the Chronicle is, well, just try and read an article. A dead duck basically. What will be interesting is to see what happens IF we ever get taken over. I don’t blame some of them for being a bit shit right now, imagine having to cover this shitfest 6 days a week? Try to make a story about the club that barely exists. The only thing they’ve got to write about is the past and sadly a lot of online readership are of an age where they don’t give a shit about the 90s. So if there’s new life it might reinvigorate some of them, when the going is good you want to consume as much content about the club as possible but right now it’s a cesspit.

Nobody in the world (of Twitter) pays for that site but he tweeted this earlier:

Oh sure now you want to know

If you have Trent you can probably peddle him for someone £3m cheaper and get Lukaku with the change. West Ham are playing Antonio tonight so it’s only a matter of time before some part of his body falls off

I think it helps our argument to say they have stepped away - probably part of why they withdrew in the first place. Obviously Staveley and co have made noises that they will come back but nothing official from PIF

Weird that basically everyone is reporting today went fairly well for us except Luke Edwards. Almost as if he’s got an axe to grind

Other than when that lad talked bollocks for an eternity I’ve found this quite gripping

The usual naysayers have already written it off but in reality we’ve heard one side of the argument (repeatedly) so I guess we’ll see how our part goes

This is supposed to be what NDM is good at so I’m hoping for some sort of Jim Carrey in Liar Liar routine

I think we’ve got to just trust the court process. I’m not overly sure if this morning so far is positive or negative overall, if I was a judge and one side is desperate to go through in private I would be suspicious as to why

That Simon Zekaria is live tweeting it incidentally if you can’t watch

What an odd view. They were formed in 1997 and have just won in Madrid. This might be as good as it ever gets for them

It will not change the narrative one bit. It’ll be kicked down the road to 2022 and people will either continue to be ambivalent about it or start looking forward to the new year. Still, at least the pigeon said we would get news tomorrow

It will be tricky to catch up but not impossible. There’s a big spread of premium players and you can’t have them all so if you can pick your way through (for example Chelsea now have a nice run of games, people will probably gamble on Lukaku for Ronny or find a way to get both) you can make ground

Is it not just Burnsie? Some of the things he says are very similar

Is he Darren from ProtestNUFC? Sent me a DM asking if I knew of any failed takeovers outside of the top 6. I don’t, incidentally.

There was a time a fair while ago when Bailey had a few Ashley exclusives. He used to write for someone more prominent but was presumably binned for a reason

There’s a ref who was born in Australia who has been reffing in the Championship/football league since moving here a few years ago. He may even have done the playoff final, can’t remember. Anyway, he got promoted to the top tier of refs and his first top flight game is this shitfest

Lots of rumours that Harrison and Raphinha are both out for them

If you hear Inner Smile by Texas and aren’t immediately transported to some early round Carling Cup exit are you even a football fan?

It was amusing earlier he went from saying the companies house update was nothing to his sources telling him it was significant in the space of about 20 minutes

Tell you what mind the extended highlights on the site are a triumph.

I always harp back to this but Hayden was so good towards the end of Rafa’s tenure. Pressing high up at times and helping us turn over possession quicker. Never had the opportunity to recapture that form under Bruceball