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Changed my captain to Alli. Too fucking risky to leave it on Aguero.

He’s still my captain but I’m definitely nervous.

Strong rumours that Aguero is going to be rested.

Why was the keeper up in a 2-2 game?

Unlucky, leffe. If City don't concede then it's a pretty good start for me. Took a huge risk in not having Kane or Salah. When Salah scored I thought he'd get more and would ruin my week. Their GW3 is home to Brighton, going to be another risky match if I don't have him.

Yedlin’s season is done. I really think it looks like an ACL injury.

That could still be an ACL injury. You can walk gingerly on a torn ACL.

Let's fuck them up. Window is done, we know what needs to be done re:Ashley (target SD, target SD investors, target Newcastle corporate customers). That is at the moment unrelated to what happens at the match.

I’m guessing a 3 year deal since he’s 29 already.

A Brazilian in any other position on the pitch and I'd be full on excited. A Brazilian at CB, though.

SD’s stock price would be affected if his investors pared their holdings.

Target his investors. He will be even more bothered by that. Send emails, complaints, questions to them and Ashley will react even more.

A strong attack would be questions directed to SD investors. I’m sure we can see SD’s biggest shareholders. Questions directed their way regarding SD’s practices and linking Ashley’s investment in Newcastle would definitely affect Ashley. If his investors are bothered by all of this then Ashley would react even more.

This campaign has been brutally effective. He only cares about money, hit him there. It’ll hurt. The best thing would be a story about SD that takes their stock price down. He’d really hurt from anything that is damaging to Sports Direct.

Our squad is thin. Last year we got lucky, we didn’t suffer a long term injury to a key player. If we’re unlucky this year, we’ll be in a relegation battle. Kenedy has a hamstring tear, maybe Lascelles suffers a broken foot or something like that and the lack of squad depth will be obvious.

But you're doing it because you have no money but I'm not sure why they're doing it. They're very strong financially.

He's old, though. His legs might go this year. I don't see any reason for them to buy old players. They already have many old players.

Exactly. Like pretty much all material things in life, superior things cost more.

Feels like this is the fifth or sixth year in a row that there’s an issue over this.

Ki is retired.

This is beyond laughable, such a piss take. Conveniently even though Sissoko was mentioned above there was no mention of the installment we'll be due for him and Wijnaldum. We're the only club that operates in such a shitehouse manner. Why can't we sign players and pay in installments? Spend 20m and pay them using Mitrovic's incoming installments? The club hierarchy need to be challenged on this.

Rondón is fine. He’ll be replacing a striker who played 89 minutes for us last season. He’s mobile and strong, looks like the type of striker that Rafa prefers. I just wish we were more ambitious and spent money in the areas of need. If we cheap out and get Rondón on loan or as a swap with Gayle then it would be great to spend £20m on a winger. Then we would have improved in 3 first team positions compared to last year (Rondón, Mutō and new winger). Compared to the beginning of last year, we would have an improvement on 5 positions (Dubravka and Kenedy). This would be positive and I’d be optimistic about this year.

Ings has scored 4 goals in 3 seasons. He would be a disaster of a buy for whoever doesn’t have an alternative. I would only take him on loan with an option because there’s so much uncertainty with him.

I agree with this although I think Ki is the replacement for Merino and we’re done there. Preferably a LB that can challenge Dummett and a striker. Ideally another winger but that ain’t happening.