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It's not much of a laughing matter for us I'd say. We paid £5m a little under 2 years ago to release him from his gardening leave, and currently paying his compensation while he does nothing for us. Man Utd haven't lost anything, and have managed to set us back in the process. But yeah, lets laugh at Man Utd

Hope you have a great time, and that you open your Newcastle attendance account with a W!

If you'd get pissed off by that small remark you must have an incredibly thin skin, which I doubt is the case in Botman. Also blows the "sack all the medical people"-brigade that came out the woodwork when his injury was announced clean off. Seems the medical team at the club were entirely in the right, so kudos to Howe for that bit of information.

Absolutely. Probably why they haven't stressed out doing it asap as it'll be something they have to do, but it's nothing that will change anything (unless he starts betting again that is) in practical terms.

It's not like the Italian FA would have informed him about the investigation until they had the evidence they needed to start questioning him.

You can't seriously mean that?

Seaman Dixon-Adams-Bould-Winterburn Beakham-Batty-Sherwood-Barnes Ferdinand-Shearer Low block, direct passes, get stuck in.

Shame it wasn't for us, but my favorite Cisse goal during his time with us.

Isak played the whole game. Muscle injury before 60' on Saturday incoming.

Of course not. Only Hall and Tonali. Until they come good that is.

Shortstaff & Insigne win for Toronto against Atlanta.

Flawless performance for the parts of the match I saw. Got the better of Gordon in every situation where both of them were involved too, which I'm sure he'll bring up when they return to training, but being super humble and jolly about it.

No injuries and both subbed fairly early. Can turn the match off with relief now.

Great for him. Hope it's a slow, boring and injury free experience.

It's arguably the best squad we've ever had. However, it's an unbalanced squad in that the attacking players are of quite higher quality than the defenders, which makes it even weirder that the bald freak set us up to invite pressure on the part of the team that is the worst.

Yeah, I can sympathise with that pressure. That's partly why I'd like the club as a whole to adopt more caution with injured players to alleviate the pressure on the manager. It doesn't work if we are more careful with injured players, but still have the same requirements for results during an injury crisis.

There's been people pointing at the Tonali ban and "freak" injuries like Burn, Pope & Barnes as bad luck, but have there really been many saying the other injuries are only down to bad luck, and not a crisis that has been amplified due to the freak injuries requiring others to come back earlier which has again resulted in set backs thus prolonging the injury crisis?

Of course all our injuries aren't down to bad luck. In general I think the club as a whole should adopt a better safe than sorry approach, and maybe listen less to players when they say they are ok to play. The discussion is naturally arisen out of Botmans long term injury, but it feels very wrong to have that discussion in this thread when in this instance it seems everyone has shown caution and tried to solve the injury in the best possible manner.

Surprised nobody has mentioned Souness.

Middle-class educated players @Alan Pardew

Yeah, I assumed it was optimistic, but the higher the cost, the stronger the point I was trying to make is.

They're probably not wrong. Hypothetically speaking (just pulling numbers out of my ass here), if we only expand with 7000 seats and nothing else is done: The cost for upgrading is £50m. Average income pr. additional seat £30 Average of 23 home games every season (and assuming full capacity in all games) That's an additional £4,8m every season, meaning it would take 10+ years before we have recouped the outlay, before taking the loss of revenue due to reduced capacity during the expansion period, increased maintenance & running costs and inflation into account. In reality closer to 15 years. It's a different matter with our current owners if the exercise is just to please fans and report a bigger revenue in order to increase our ability to spend more money on buying players within the FFP constraints, and the actual profitability to the business doesn't really matter that much. To Hall and Shepherd it naturally made more sense to just increase the ticket prices

It's never going to be perfect. Would prefer if they just kept the rule as it is. It's the time it takes to reach a conclusion that is the main issue.

No doubt Just don't see them as the main threat, but they are very good players that can also hurt us.

Their main threats imo are Kudus on the counter and Ward-Prowse on set pieces. Close or bring Kudus down before he's close to our box and we eliminate both threats.