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4 minutes ago, Ben said:

 

Might be available tonight 

John Carver too, would like to see that appointment - Just show the owner his "best coach in the Premier League" interview and jobs a good 'un for him 

8 minutes ago, andycap said:

The Premier league should be looking into that mind fair market value would be what we were getting. They're bottom of the table dross. 

Dont think its an APT, even under the new vague & wide ranging rules introduced in feb, so FMV doesn't apply  

15 minutes ago, KennyUtd said:

Hahaha fkn tragic. 

Sad, in fact - Maybe time to rename/rebrand themselves to something more fitting:  SMB AFC perhaps 

1 minute ago, Groundhog63 said:

If Carling made summers

 

Heard he was holding out for the ManU job, now that's off the table with Tent Peg staying this could be a goer 

2 minutes ago, mattypnufc said:

The Spanish journalist has 250k follows…

Almost 200k more than Puke 

1 hour ago, timeEd32 said:

Isn’t ours 30 + sales?

This guy quoted said it was £30m base + sales (he estimates £10m worth).  Nee idea if he's ITK or not, never heard of him until today. Most other reports seem to say its nearer £40m/yr base.

12 minutes ago, joeyt said:

He was playing in that infamous FA Cup game when Tranmere brought on a sub for a player who had been sent off

 

Peter Reid was raging

Lol, forgot about this, hilarious 

4 minutes ago, geordie_b said:

 

Associated Party Transaction restrictions were brought in after the date period of their charges i think. This case could probably bankrupt the PL though

Article states Premier League legal bill has quadrupled from £5m/yr to £20m and their "legal team" have been exclusively focused on a response to this charge rather than working on the 115 charges

Just now, madras said:

Could possibly explain why some of the more obvious sponsorship opportunities for us havent been taken yet.

Indeed - club's being playing the long game here 

Quote

"The claim says the rules were imposed at the instigation of certain rival clubs reacting to the Saudi takeover of Newcastle, with the aim to “safeguard their own commercial advantages”. They say rivals were seeking to limit deals from companies in the Gulf region, citing a quote from a senior executive from another club."

There we have it, what we've known all along - sod competition unless you one of the mostly red cartel  

7 minutes ago, Charlies said:

Can someone supply the details beyond the paywall please? 

https://archive.ph/glPMX

2 hours ago, madras said:

Anyone know what he'll actually do ?

Improve the queues in the east stands and gallowgate strawberry corner 

2 hours ago, Wandy said:

Exhibition was actually a pretty decent drink. Everything else that came from S&N though was absolute piss.

 

The best thing to come out of the Scottish & Newcastle brewery was this advert for McEwan's Lager. Absolutely epic & simply wouldn't be made today.

 

 

Canny ad, Always liked this one for Exhibition 

Wondering if any player would be reluctant to make the move to Man City this summer, with the 115 charges hearings due and the potential of possible relegation?  Bookies have them at 25/1 so they're covering their arses, so I'd expect players moving there to do the same.  Bruno needs to get a buy-back clause to us inserted if he does go 

Meaningless game but feel sorry for those who paid to go and those who chucked £4.99 to watch online 

I know it was a low key friendly today, but had another good game.  Having a proper pre-season with Howe will hopefully work wonders for him - Looking forward to see how this lad progresses next season. 

9 minutes ago, Bimpy474 said:

Christ my first impressions of him were completely wrong, what an absolute and utterly fantastic human being he is. If you can't love such a great lad you'll never love anything. 

 

 

 

Same!  Knew the kid had ability but thought his attitude, albeit seen from afar, looked very suspect. How wrong I was an will happily admit it.  Top Top player and great person.  Quite a deep thinker as too as the recent overlap episode showed.  Potential future NUFC captain imho.

3 minutes ago, JonBez comesock said:

PBG

Wow

1 hour ago, tgarve said:

There will be plenty when the prices are jumping 30% for people who were on the 10 year deal

Be more than 30%: £467 -> £764 (assuming another 5% average price hike next season) so that'll be near on a 64% increase for a seat in the gallowgate for those coming off the "10 year" deal

2 hours ago, Mattoon said:

 

Now we've got our own media gaslighting us

Likely some Manc twat in Reach's sports hub probably wrote the tweet, several people including me called them out on it and now the tweets been deleted 

2 minutes ago, toon25 said:

Will the likes of Dummett, Hayden and Hendrick still be in contract this summer?

Hayden contracted until summer 2026 

2 minutes ago, Colos Short and Curlies said:

I think a 6 month covenant has a good chance of being seen as reasonable, especially if it was restricts to premier league clubs.

 

if it was 6 months notice and 12 months restriction or worldwide then it may well be seen as restricting his ability to work

It may not even be the entire premier league, just "direct competitors" within it i.e the cartel 6, Villa, & West Ham possibly.  As you say have to be careful with RC's as they can be challenged if deemed unreasonable  

1 minute ago, Erikse said:

 

I don't want to give people anxiety here, but didn't Liverpool try to buy Caicedo for over £100m last summer, and then go for a much cheaper Endo instead? Did they spend much after that? Also, clubs can still sell players at the beginning of the window to free up funds? And also, there is an amortization system, so how much does it really affect this years books? Don't know that much about it.

 

 

 

True, but them selling relies on a club having the financial clout being able to buy - I see something similar to January, unless there's 3rd party intervention (Saudi clubs possibly) The cartel 6 clubs (possibly excluding man city) will struggle to offload players before the FFP/PSR deadline to "smaller" clubs as they will be restricted in their spending until july 1st.   

2 hours ago, Keegans Export said:

Basically means that we can "lose" £105m/3 years (current system) plus about £80m (estimate) from selling Bruno.

 

That £80m to spend isn't on the transfer fee, it's the transfer fee split over the length of the contract, up to five years. So if we signed someone for £50m on 5-year contract it would only "cost" £10m/year plus wages.

 

Added complication is that they're potentially changing the £105m/3yr thing anyway....

Yeah its £105m losses over three years allowing for £30m/year owner "investment" without it the allowable losses are only £15m over a rolling 3 year period. The new changes to squad costs as a % of turnover are much worse as it doesn't allow (at least it looks like that to me with the current information out there) for that investment, just purely what the club "earns"