Yorkie

Barca: emotional wrecking ball and the end of the European campaign Sunderland: salt in the wounds and left the league campaign hanging by a thread Palace: curtains Remaining six games: damage limitation/treading water

This is a really harsh take imo and an example of more weight being put on the club's actions when the finger should be pointed moreso at the external forces. The club did everything it could to A, keep Isak and B, recruit someone of similar quality. It wasn't allowed to do either. If people are worried about losing the likes of Hall then that should be because they accept the grim reality that we're extremely vulnerable to losing our best players no matter what we do. Isak proved that it's pointless assuming anyone is unsellable. Clearly there's a universe out there where we manage last summer differently and get a better outcome, but I had a lot of sympathy for our people, and the suggestion we bent over and parted our cheeks was always total nonsense.

Just a bit of banter about the fact it's been discussed to death.

Personally I can’t see why we spent more than 100m on the two. I really really can’t… We should probably look into this in more detail.

Clearly it's better for us if our players are achieving their international aspirations whilst playing for us, but if there's any truth to those claims then I've very little empathy with Hall. He's been treated anything but badly by this club, meanwhile Tuchel's decision not to take him is controversial and the responsibility of Tuchel alone.

Remains to be seen I guess; plus are we operating under a different regime now or what? Not sure on timings. PSR castrated us last summer because it enabled the cartel clubs to hoard all the best strikers on the market (including the one we already owned). There was an undeniable funneling of a disproportionate amount of talent, which wouldn't have been possible without those facilitative rules. If you were to get Tonali as well as Ederson then yeah for sure, history would be repeating itself.

Started more games in five months on loan than in four years as a permanent player. Remarkable how badly it went for him here really, which is a shame cos he's clearly a decent player and definitely could've contributed down the years. Sounds like he had a really good time at Boro so hopefully they can make that happen.

Confirmed: https://www.fulhamfc.com/news/2026/june/02/marco-silva-to-leave-fulham/

Not absolutely convinced we've seen the last of him but if you're applying an optimistic lens, if we're definitely not pursuing a permanent transfer here, it might indicate we've got our business in order re goalie recruitment. Feels like we'd leave the door open to Ramsdale in the event we got desperate again.

Fucking exactly. "Just sell your best players to the teams you're trying to catch, duh, it's not difficult." Aye alright m8.

I can't believe it has to be pointed out that "I don't like PSR" doesn't = "I wish my club had a disproportionate advantage over everyone else." Any sensible observer would agree that there should be a form of regulation when it comes to spending. Let's just have a rules system which is fair and doesn't enable a small group of teams to hoard all of the most coveted players on the market.

Thank fuck for that

Framing it this way plays into Froggy's argument about us wanting access to unlimited Saudi wealth. We miss(ed 🤞) out on players because PSR funnels those players to certain clubs.

Plus I'm as grizzly about PSR in person as I am on here. Introducing alcohol wouldn't help that.

My only aggression was towards Liverpool/Liverpool fans not around to defend themselves.

Gross and net spend are outdated metrics these days given how revenues and expenditure are recorded. Plus, those figures only present a very rudimentary picture which removes crucial context about the differences in how clubs can interact with the market. For instance, Liverpool fans could huff copium about net spend all they like - that club deserves pelters for their performance relative to their gross spend because they had unfettered access to the market and still delivered an absolutely pathetic title defence.

Not sure why your first post was so aggressive given the one you were quoting wasn't remotely critical of your team. I think, generally, you'll find complete agreement regarding the cartel and the structural inequalities which impact the likes of you and us.

Played, peeps!

Yep, Andersson was the first, number 40. Just the defender to get. Played a small handful of times under Rafa.

Correct, 41.

Yep yep yep 45, 81/67, 45 respectively.

Only six Newcastle players have ever worn a squad number of at least 40 across consecutive seasons. Can you name them? For instance, Tim Krul is not an answer. He wore 40 in 06/07 but changed to 26 and then 1 across future seasons. Clues, in order of when they first appeared for NUFC:

I can definitely understand a shout for either Bruno's corner cos it was deliberate and so unique - and Burn's, again for its uniqueness. But yeah, there's only one true winner. Fabulous goal and the best single moment of the season. Things felt more than canny at that point, two long months before the curtain fell on the season. Happy to call the poll there, folks?

Where's this from? Adidas stripes don't have the new thickness so guessing it's a mock-up?

Now we've got our big sale out the door and, hopefully, have our destiny somewhat in our hands as far as the transfer market goes - I really hope Sandro stays. Feels like we've only had a glimpse of him really given all his best stuff was in the second half of 24/25. But wow, what a fucking player he was in that spell. Give us another year son and let's see if we can course correct and do something else special. Same goes to you, @Bruno (not the Benfica fan).