Unbelievable

Colwil is some defender

Everything about this club is top class nowadays

Pretty sure that kid was shown from the F1 pits on the world wide feed from Silverstone today wearing his NUFC shirt.

He’s more bound to win them games. He’s class.

HH or 88 (H being the 8th letter of the alphabet) are neo nazi code. Weird choice to put on your wall, especially in black and in that font, even if it matches your own initials. Can only presume the lad isn’t aware of its historical significance.

That HH sign on the wall Reckon he’s aware of its significance? Anyway, good to see another recruit in scouting. Becoming more and more like an actual, professional football outfit.

All this talk about a Saudi move… I’d be surprised if ASM was even remotely interested in going there, what with being a Christian and probably feeling he has stuff to prove in the PL.

Fuck off Chelsea

Urgh no

What is “CL good” anyway? We are in the CL on merit, beating teams like Chelsea, Spurs and Liverpool over 38 games. Our lack of coefficient will hurt us, but still I wouldn’t be surprised if our current crop of players would make it to round #2, and perhaps even to the knockout stage. There are a few teams obviously better than us, but I’d suggest we’re easily in the top 50% quality of teams qualified for next year’s CL. Obviously we’ve already strengthened CM significantly and with a bit of luck we’ll get a few more good players in, allowing us to stay competitive across multiple competitions, but I’m not at all worried about any lack of “CL level” players. We had about 15 of those on the books already.

Some “race” this?

Kudus is nothing like those two in the games I’ve watched like

I’d say it’s clear he was never fond on coming here. Spurs is a good fit for him and he’ll probably do well for them. Most important for us now is what alternatives we were considering and whether they are achievable.

Barcelona will happily oblige, as they have with Messi’s dad.

As if they’ll not allow him to take a break after a long, taxing season. My guess is he’ll arrive late for pre-season training and Eddie will ease him in very slowly, which he would probably have done regardless.

Pretty sure that was fat Mike

Yet he still featured in 14 of our 18 games since the January window closed…

Should have gone last season. With the extra games and the homegrown requirements in Europe I don’t think we can afford to let him leave on loan. Besides, he was getting plenty of pitch time towards the back end of last season, so I don’t think he’d stagnate here to be honest. Big question mark about his potential in any case. From what I’ve seen of him and where this club is going I doubt he’ll ever become a first team stalwart.

No way is Elliott going on loan anyway. Don’t think AA is such a bad shout as a cheap, pure backup striker, who counts as one of four club home growns for Europe if we’re struggling with budget (due to quite rightly prioritising other positions) and to fill our squad out.

Alvarez is just not very good imo, never was.

He’s easily worth double that imo, especially to us with his dressing room influence.

100% this. It may have started as a business endeavour for PIF, but their chairman visibly and evidently fell in love with the club and the stadium the first time he stepped foot in Saint James’ and he still has that sparkle in his eye. Absolutely loved the response to that first question if they expected CL and a cup final in their first full season. These are not here to make up the numbers or accept anything but supremacy. They will invest in top class infrastructure, grow revenue year on year and then reinvest every single penny they can into the squad. They’re basically the polar opposite of what Ashley was. I still need to pinch myself from time to time to ensure it’s real and I’ve not made it up as some coping mechanism to deal with the neglect.

We’ll be the ones knocking them off their perch when Pep leaves and the rot sets in.

So this “ban” would only involve transfers between Chelsea and Saudi clubs?

Makes you wonder if he realises how racist such a proposal even is, even before getting into such basic things as footballers being damn well able to decide what’s best for themselves?