Unbelievable

West Ham are uttetly useless here

Come on wet spam, do us a favour!

Isak out!?

Huh? I like Pope, but surely it’s not controversial to suggest we could improve in his position?

Lovely scenes. Like with us, you can see this means everything to these fans and players.

Yeah, can’t argue with that decision really

Get in!

Not buying at all that Huijsen would be willing to prove his worth at Bournemouth, but not join a Newcastle side clearly on the up. I suppose we’ll never know if we were in for him, but we definitely should have been, regardless of whether he would have wanted a release clause. You can’t go wrong with bringing in a massive talent for under the price of an average Championship player, even with a release clause allowing to make your money back four times over if Madrid come knocking. For that to happen he’d have to have done really well in the first place anyway, wouldn’t he?

Wish we’d been all in for him last summer (as per our rumoured interest) rather than fannying around haggling with Parish for the vastly overpriced Guehy. We’d have one CD position sorted for the next decade an a half for a pittance if we had.

Don’t think this is true at all. Pope is a good goalkeeper, as is Dubs, but they both have flaws and Pope’s only one isn’t his distribution. Hit him low and hard and he’s unlikely to get down in time for instance. Neither is neat world class in the way Tonali and Isak are, or even very good PL players like Bruno, Gordon, etc. I think we can improve in what is a vital position, and if there is an opportunity to do so at a relatively small fee, we definitely should!

How so? We’re competing with other good teams and naturally need to get results to beat them

No we don't

Fuck sake man

Correct decision

Never a pen

Mason Mount ffs

Fuck sake, such a lucky goal

I’m excited. A better goalkeeper quite directly can turn draws into wins and losses into draws, hence cementing us as a team competing for CL qualification regularly.

I want the win and second place. Every position is worth 3m in prize money and finishing 2nd while qualifying for CL for the second time in three years and winning a domestic cup has to make us an attractive destination in the eye of prospective players this summer. Would signal this project is going places.

Tonali singled him out as one he loves to play with (in response to a question about which players he has the best relations with). As good a season as Burn has had in his position, I think Botman is held in very high regard amongst the squad. He's in that Isak, Tonali, Bruno bracket of being one of our best players. We just need to somehow keep him fit.

GTFI, great result!

Miley’s head must be made of pure concrete

Sancho getting sent off too?

Get the fuck in!

Ref has been abysmal. Almost as bad as Barnes