Unbelievable

And good on them for not coming out and saying such things. It would be held against us and increase the other clubs' resolve to keep implementing shitty rules to stop us. The Saudis are in this for repuation. They will likely not want to be seen as these disruptors that come in, flash their cash and flaunt the rules. They want the respect to be earned for operating sensibly and with resolve. Really, where does this sense of entitlement and urgency come from all of a sudden? Let them build the way they see fit, unless we're clearly going in the wrong direction, which we obviously are not.

You must have missed Eales' and Howe's repeated comments about how PSR is restricting us. Do you want them to add that it is all very unfair? I think they're playing a blinder by pointing out it is restricting us while letting others, be they journalists or representatives of other clubs, point out that the rules are creating an uneven playing field. Unless you think it would actually be beneficial if our public figureheads started slamming the PL (and the clubs who voted for this) publicly, instead of that being counter-productive to our cause?

How is that their fault though? Would you like it if our owners just flaunted the rules to buy the Real Madrid squad and win us the CL immediately only to see it taken off us after years of legal proceedings for breaking the rules? Hell, they have the funds to do it. If that's what they were after, they might as well have bought Real Madrid itself, and let us drift aimlessly under Ashley...

Why would you blame the owners of our club for playing by the rules, while at the same time challenging them, sometimes publicly and also no doubt behind closed doors? I think that is worth applauding them for, and Man City, PSG, Chelsea and the like deserve criticism and penalising for breaking the rules. Also the "throwing money around is easy argument" is lazy. Our owners have put in place competent people and vastly increased the number of people we have working in vital areas like the commercial department, scouting, player conditioning, etc. They're building us from the ground up, because there was basically just a skeleton of a Premier League club when they arrived. As for infrastructure, those plans take time. I really don't see how anybody in their right mind could look at what's been achieved in the less than three years since the takeover and think these owners are not committed. Have you already forgotten what "not committed" looks like after enduring it for 14 years?

I've not seen any sign to suggest our owners aren't committed to us becoming the best we can be. They've invested the best part of 400m (on top of the 300m it cost to buy us) to date, they are working on plans for a new or developed stadium, they are working on a new training ground and if it wasn't for a set of artificial rules they no doubt would have invested more. They are doing everything you could reasonably have wished for when we were crying out for a change of ownership a few years ago.

This. In any case clubs in SA shouldn't make their transfer business dependent on how it may affect Newcastle United. It's nonsensical to think this way.

Nobody said he's shite. Just not a generational talent, as in clearly on his way to becoming a world beater.

You could have, but then we could call hundreds of young players all over the world "generational talents". I mean, that term to me signifies level of future ballon d'or winner. A bit early to suggest Chris Rigg is on that level, innit?

What's happening with this kid? Not going out on loan? He turns 20 this month. Surely needs some first team football if he's going to amount to anything?

Bellingham (the real one) is a generational talent. Chris Rigg is a Sunderland player in the English Championship.

Weak as piss from Casemiro

Get in

Great result

Krafth is seriously underrated

Book the cunt

Gordon man, what was that?

Bruno

Great tackle BDB

Gordon is so far off his best

Come on, let’s hold on here

What a ball from Joelintin

Brilliant from Murphy that tbf

Yes!!!

It’s like a shot at goal a minute atm

This is hopeless now