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Isak's record in the PL is better than 1 in 2. If there's interest in January or the summer then we should have absolutely no qualms in asking for a record-breakingly high figure. I think you can reasonably discount Chelsea's lunacy when trying to define the market, but Darwin Nunez was signed for around £80million. If that's a guide price then I'd expect us to be asking for £90-100m.

Annoying, was coming here to say something like this. Away wins last season and this: 8-0 vs Sheffield United 3-0 vs Man Utd 3-0 vs Sunderland 2-0 vs Fulham 3-1 vs Villa 3-2 vs Forest 1-1 vs Blackburn (won on pens) 1-0 vs Fulham 4-1 vs Burnley 4-2 vs Brentford 1-1 vs Forest (won on pens) 2-1 vs Wolves 3-1 vs Forest Notable draws in both Milan and Paris, too. Not playing down the issue because clearly it's been a big one at times, but we've certainly had far leaner times on the road than this. The fucker last season was ending up with zero points so many times, when literally one would have been extremely useful. A draw at Stamford Bridge and we'd have been playing FC Noah last week.

Anderson is still pretty rough around the edges on the evidence of yesterday but I still think he's got a lot of potential. I'm glad he went and not Gordon or Bruno but still sad that we were forced into a sale.

Can I just give a shout out to @Charlies' outrageous consistency at being first on the scene in the match thread whenever we score? Dunno how he does it; what a man.

He must have around twenty PL starts under his belt? Plays with the confidence of someone with 100+. Coming on leaps and bounds atm; love the way he moves the ball.

What a beautiful finish, btw. As if he's got an RB on his swinger, ffs.

Just popped into me head to come back in here to say something to this effect. A right old fashioned piece of shit. Needless to say he was worth at least three bookings today. A fussy ref sends him off for the studs on Longstaff. Also thought Elanga was very powderpuff. There's a few of their players I'd definitely have (their goalscorer for starters) but glad we didn't drop big money on him.

Get the fuck off page 2 you utter legend. Ridiculous how solid this bloke is for us.

Pope - 7 Livramento - 7 Schär - 8 Burn - 9 Hall - 8 Longstaff - 7 Bruno - 8 Willock - 8 Joelinton - 9 Isak - 8 Gordon - 6 Tonali - 7 Barnes - 7 Would honestly argue that was the best all round performance of the season tbh, though I didn't see Man City and second half of Arsenal.

Thought we came out for that second half pissed off and utterly determined to get the job done. We knew we were doing alright but had to quicken up our attack; we did and gave them a hiding in the end. Immensely satisfying.

Absolutely adore this bloke. What a fucking player.

Still a colossus for Eddie Howe's Newcastle. Fuck, how we missed him last year.

What a brilliant second half performance that was. Twatted them.

Gtfi, man

Please don't let us suddenly do this thing where we give the ball away instantly whenever we have it. We've had the ball for the entire game, man.

A nice relaxing 20 minutes to come.

They're clearly a decent side. Usual matchday wet from you.

Immensely frustrating. Playing well but not moving the ball quickly enough at Forest's end of the pitch. The couple times we've shared a quick pass or two, we've come close, but there hasn't been enough of that. Tonali might help where that's concerned. Goal was a fucking gift. Ref wrapped it and we put the bow on. Forest have nailed the counter-attack game with infuriating competence. Someone better than Elanga in there and they're probably two up.

Should never have been in that situation but fuck knows what our plan was from that set piece. Dire.

Newcastle United: Nick Pope; Tino Livramento, Fabian Schär, Dan Burn, Lewis Hall; Sean Longstaff, Bruno Guimarães, Joe Willock; Anthony Gordon, Alexander Isak, Joelinton. 1-1: 1-2: 1-3:

Could happen. Big 5-3 win yesterday against Hartlepool. 7600 in there yesterday, including a brilliant away following (1500). Attendances have never been so high - obviously accountable to the stadium move, but great to see interest so high anyway. There's only Southend and Oldham down there with similar numbers.

Bloody Brighton.

Bloke's a cunt.

Jettisoned Haaland. I know what happens next.

I'd put Robson above him in the list of greats but was Howe the best appointment since Keegan in 1992? Just in terms of being exactly what we needed at that exact time? The turnaround under Robson was similar I suppose, though the situation was probably less desperate. Just feels like, in Howe's case, we just hit the nail square on the head in terms of what that squad needed: energy and professional standards.