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Botman starting is a surprise

Doesn't have to be anything dodgy about it at all. Most transfers are done in installments, but West Ham might feel like 64m today is better than 69 in a few years time, so might have sold their 69m to another creditor. Happens all the time with loans.

2 game ban for Cunha, feel like he's got away incredibly light there.

Yeah sure, but not since childhood. I'm sure Schär and Joelinton proper loves the Toon as well, but it's not quite the same when it comes from 'just' playing for us. Clearly means more for the likes of Burn

Love that we've got Burn, Hall and Murphy (and Longstaff and Miley on the bench) that are all proper Newcastle fans as well.

You had a decent 15 minutes start of the 2nd half, but bar that Maguire header you created barely nothing. At 2-0 down, you need to do more than just have the ball a bit to say you're the better side, like you said we were in cruise control saving ourselves for Spurs. The game ended on a whimper, the last 10 minutes should have been nervous viewing for us, having been SO much better first 30 and potentially throwing it away, but at no point was I nervous after 70 or so minutes.

Postecuglu levels of naivety playing that CM pairing against fucking Tonali, Bruno and Joelinton

That first 30 minutes needs to framed and put in the Louvre.

Atmosphere is turning nasty from the home crowd

We're all over them so far

Fucking VAR ruins all the fucking fun. Nowhere near offside man

Before this game, us and Villa were the two PL teams with the joint most boxing day losses. An honour that Villa now can claim for themselves

Absolutely no fucking way do I take Onana ahead of Pope like, and I'm far from Pope's biggest fan

For all the money they've spent, who are their genuine class players? Not even world class, but just players that would walk into lost teams? Mazroui looks good, and Bruno F is still a good player, beyond them two though? I'm struggling to think of anyone that would get a spot even in our first XI.

Aye

Easily get £25m for him in January now after this little run

How the fuck is that a free kick on Trippier

Villa are a bunch of dirty cunts

Always found this so strange, there can't be that many clubs that have won a cup since Spurs last won a trophy. Shite meme made by fans of the cartel fans probably.

Kelly Burn CBs for the first leg?

It worked since we still won easily and gave Hall a bit of a rest and Trippier some minutes

Not a bad shout

If it's still the same shite they proposed last time, it would ruin it it for any team not already in the top bracket in their league. When us and Villa finished fourth, we would have been out in their equivalent of the Conference League IIRC, because the top two leagues are there to protect the ones already at the top. Once in the top tier of this 'unified league' , only the bottom one or two drops out, and only if they don't finish high enough in their domestic league or something stupid like that. So for us, we would have had to have finished top 4, then finished at worst runners up two seasons in a row to get to the 'CL' Utterly ridiculous system that will never work.

After they play Leicester (a) this weekend they've got Man Utd, Spurs, Forest, Newcastle, Chelsea, Arsenal, Villa and Liverpool coming up next

Ah yes, it was supposed to have started this season right? How is that working out for you lads?