Unbelievable

True, but it’s not unexpected is what I meant

That image of both Tripps and atonali cramped up. Intensity is our identity

We’re playing arguably the best or second best team on the planet like

Willock

Phew

Think he’s in the naughty corner for refusing to move

Gordon hasn’t stopped trying today

Almost scored like

William Osula, your time has come

Tonali wtf

Looked more a pen than the other one that

Get in!

Aye, should have slotted home

That’s a dive imo

Not sure about that decision mind

Fuck this ref

Trippier and Burn turned far too easily

Great goal tbf to then

Such a bad pass

We’re in their face from the first kick. Love it

Good start this

Howay the lads!

“It is perhaps not the “winning lottery ticket” that former owner Mike Ashley told friends he believed a PIF takeover represented but few could dispute they have transformed Newcastle, injecting hundreds of millions to transform the academy, playing squad and club infrastructure.“ ^ that about sums it all up. It will be a slow process, but we’ll be much better off for it in the long term since they’re building us up to be a sustainable football club operating at the top level.

By "off the pitch" progress I was referring to the perceived willingness of PIF to invest in our long term future. I have zero doubt that they will, and perceive FFP/FMV a much bigger stumbling block (hence concern), as well as the more short term risk of not qualifying for CL again, and thereby failing to rise our commercial profile sufficiently in order to improve commercial revenue to catch up with the biggest clubs. Failing to qualify for CL will see many of our best players leave and essentially a reset of the entire project. I understand everything is tied together, but between our owners' willingness, external conditions and (looking at current performance level) the ability of manager and players to pull off what I think we need short term to keep the momentum going, the former is the least of my worries.

Probably the worst thing they could do is draw attention to it by saying there is nothing there. As for your unwanted child of a broken relationship theory, I'm sure PIF would buy out the Ruebens if the working relationship wasn't working for either party. I'm not at all worried myself about our off the pitch progress. It's a distant third on my NUFC concerns list behind the shackles that are FFP/FMV and our mediocre performances so far this season potentially derailing the project where this season really CL qualification is almost a must if we want to push on.