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B365 offer on for Arsenal vs Man City on Sunday!

Where's the money gone? Questions Ashley and Charnley MUST answer http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/money-gone-14-transfer-window-15011709#ICID=ios_ChronicleNewsApp_AppShare_Click_Other

Fulham have broken our 13 year old transfer record four times in two weeks FFS

Well at least Keith Downie mentioned the £20m profit on transfers! Twice as well! Poor Rafa yet again FFS - utter fat wanker

Schar in for Clark and I’m not sure that Rafa will rush Rondon straight in (utter idiots taking ages with the deal FFS) so over to the JOS!

Rafa playing them perfectly - no SD shite in the background and the dump of a training ground on show!

Alan Shearer speaking to Talksport: “I do think Rafa Benitez will stick around (for the time being). “He will stick around in the hope that one day someone might come and buy the football club…I know for a fact he realises the potential of it. “He knows there are fifty two thousand fans who love this football club and who are crazy about football and want to have hope. “I think it is his wish that he can give them that one day, so he will stick around BUT if nothing changes come the end of the season, that will change I’m sure. “Nothing changes at St James Park, does it? “Rafa is obviously angry and upset, because the owner promised him all of the funds that were generated to spend on the team, and that hasn’t happened. “I think at the minute it is a profit of around about £25m on transfers (this summer)…that is very difficult to keep going, when you are making a profit on transfers year in and year out, when all your rivals around you are spending big money. “I understand Rafa’s frustrations totally, and the fans frustrations, they want to have hope. “They work all week in Newcastle to have a good time at the weekend, spend their money, and a good time is going to St James Park and watching their team, being loyal and supportive and being encouraged and having hope. “They don’t feel that at the minute but they have got a top manager and that will give me hope that they will avoid relegation again this year…because of him and what he did last season.”

Were Hebburn the team that was going out of business last season? 18 months ago mate – unbelievable turnaround! https://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/appeal-to-save-105-year-old-football-club-as-it-faces-extinction-1-8386802 A few local lads with a few quid behind them bought the Ground and have vastly improved the boozer (with big changes still ongoing) and have big plans for the Ground And obviously the football team! The boozer is constantly heaving and it’s great for the area! This was the starting XI and bench last night; Taylor, Storey ©, Ghillespy, Groves, Wallace, Fairley, Kerr, Richardson, Dibb-Fuller, Sullivan, Armstrong Subs: Spence, Kanda, Bramley, D.Smith, Mallinson

Hebburn 3-2 Ashington last night so two wins out of two! Hebburn were 3-0 up and should have been out of sight by half time - very good team now and promotion is a must! 237 there but it looked like a lot more! Fans of others teams who visit will be amazed at the transformation of the place!

His lies just keep getting exposed! Apologies if already posted! https://www.nufc.co.uk/news/archive/united-announce-new-training-ground-plans 30th November 2013 United Announce New Training Ground Plans Written by Newcastle Utd Newcastle United have announced plans for a stunning new state-of-the-art training complex Newcastle United Football Club have announced plans for a stunning new state-of-the-art training complex as part of a multi-million pound redevelopment of the Club's existing 35-acre training ground site. The current intention is that work will get underway in May 2015 and when complete in early 2016, the Magpies will occupy one of the finest training facilities of its kind in Europe. While existing training pitches and a modern indoor training hall will be retained, the Club's current Training Centre building will be demolished and replaced by a much larger, high-tech structure. It will accommodate newly-designed changing, training, rehabilitation, medical, leisure and catering facilities and will also introduce the latest aquatic technology to the site, with a 20-metre swimming pool, a hydrotherapy and fitness pool and specialist equipment to aid injury prevention and recovery. The new construction will also create a fitness centre double the size of the Club's existing gymnasium, as well as administrative space, a presentation suite for match analysis and a new media suite. Newcastle United director of football, Joe Kinnear, said: "This is a hugely exciting development for Newcastle United. We have one of football's great stadiums and we are delighted to now be announcing plans for a training complex which will rival any in Europe. "Top players and top teams need top training and medical facilities. Our current training ground has served the Club very well but the new complex will give us all of the ingredients that we need to continue maintaining and enhancing the performance of elite footballers. "It will also be an added attraction when we are looking to recruit players." The new training complex has been designed to fit within the Club's impressive environmental policy, building on the Magpies' achievement of becoming the world's first carbon neutral football club in 2012. The new eco-friendly building will be made from cross-laminated timber (CLT) sourced from sustainable forests and will produce its own energy from a combined heat and power (CHP) plant room. A formal planning application is to be submitted shortly before a tender process begins. For exclusive images, click here. The Club's official website, www.nufc.co.uk will continue to bring supporters exclusive updates on the project as they happen.

Love this! https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/newcastles-top-brass-should-making-13045431.amp#click=https://t.co/HAOzu0MkHM

Absolutely brilliant this from Luke Edwards on Talkshite!

Luke Edwards is on Talkshite at 3.45

It’s soul-destroying to think that we’re going to lose this man in nine months due to a complete and utter wank-stain of an owner;

Two changes for TV; Sat 06.10.2018 Manchester United (a) 5.30pm Mon 26.11.2018 Burnley (a) 8pm Note for the Burnley match – they might be playing in the Europa League three days later so it MIGHT get moved……………..what a farce!

Shola is one of the Sky Sports pundits - I'd love for him to tear into the fat wanker but I doubt he will with his work for the Foundation! I doubt 'Craigy' would allow any nasty words to be said against 'Mike' either!

Gayle was magnificent in the Championship season – if he’d stayed fit all season then he’d have probably broke the 40 goal barrier! His record was ridiculous – one every 93 minutes - especially when he didn’t take pens after missing at home to Huddersfield! All the very best to him – I loved his celebrations of winding up opposing fans after goals – Leeds and Huddersfield away were tremendous!

Some interesting results when you Google 'Richard Keys tarmac'...............

https://twitter.com/gallowgateshots/status/1026545175680540673?s=21

Ha ha what an imbecile!

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What a clueless bellend Richard Keys is! I got a lot of stick for offering Benitez advice last week. I stand by it. It’s so tiresome to hear him bleating on. “These are the facts – Mike Ashley isn’t going to change. Benitez will get the money the club generates – no more. Ashley isn’t going to put it back into the mess he inherited. It’s stable now. “It’s in the PL and they’ve got enough to be competitive with. Competitive? Top half – maybe a Cup. “Benitez won’t get a better job if he walks and he knows it. Newcastle is a fantastic football club. If he delivers silverware his stock will rise even further. “Forget top 4. It’s not going to happen. Keegan over achieved and for a while so too did Dalglish and Bobby Robson, who both delivered CL football. “Newcastle fans should stop their fight with Ashley, bite into some realism, get behind their team and demand their manager does the same. He won’t walk – not without a pay off. “Which leaves one last question on this subject – is he (Rafa) trying to get the sack? If he does go – trust me – Newcastle will survive.”

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2018/08/06/mike-ashleys-belligerent-refusal-change-keeps-newcastle-locked/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

From .com View from Europe: "Magpies in coma" Sounding like something off the set list of a Geordie Smith's tribute band, that's the title of this article published in German magazine "Kicker" and helpfully translated by NUFC.com reader @jens1893: How Newcastle United drives its own fans into madness Magpies in coma - a lesson from the Premier League A Premier League club that depends on player sales? "Everything is going wrong off the pitch" says manager Rafa Benitez one week before the start of the season. About a club that drives its own fans into madness. In Newcastle it seems like there's never been a record-breaking Premiership TV contract. The club made its club record signing 13 years ago and signed its second most expensive players 22 years ago. Their names are Michael Owen and Alan Shearer. And yet the club somehow valiantly keeps its place in the richest league around. This is how far it's come: A club has for years been a symbol of just about everything that's wrong with modern football and yet the consequences somehow sound romantic. Newcastle United can be compared to Hamburg a little: Trophy winners on the domestic and international stage years ago, both still possess a big and emotional fan base, but yet both have been a mocked sleeping giant for years. Although it should be noted that Newcastle of late haven't only been sleeping, but lying in a coma as one of their fans recently put it in the Guardian. Back in the day he and everyone else was still dreaming about the Champions or at least the Europa League, nowadays the only thing they want is to wake up and see the club in the hands of someone other than Mike Ashley. At the beginning, the fans liked this maniac - wasn't he one of them? Ashley, who became a billionaire with Sports Direct, has owned NUFC since June 2007, or to say it bluntly: Has had the club in a stranglehold since. And that's despite it all starting off so beautifully: The then 42 year-old met up with fans in a pub, watched games in the club shirt and even once had a pint with them in his seat, which is prohibited in England. The club back then stated the beverage was non-alcoholic and, of course, was just handed to him. Many fans liked this maniac from the West Midlands, somehow and someway he was one of them if you ignore the size of his bank account. And didn't he love NUFC like they did? Eleven years on, and one week before the start of the new Premier League season, the manager Benitez states things like "everything" off the pitch is going wrong. He had "no idea" if he was allowed to sign another player. "The fans should be concerned, I am very concerned." Newcastle, 10th in the Premier League as a promoted side a year ago, had just lost a friendly against Braga by the score of four to nil. No new signing featured. In order to sign Muto from Mainz, Benitez first had to sell In an age where Huddersfield can sign a center half from Monaco for €20m or when the pure status of being in the Premier League is enough to bank nearly €150m, like Newcastle did last year, that very same Newcastle has a transfer profit of nearly €20m. In order to sign Muto Benitez first had to sell, the other new signings, such as the ex Hoffenheim man Schär, cost next nothing or came in on free transfers. How can this possibly be the case at a Premiership club, one of the richest in the world? Let's go back to 2008, when Ashley publicly sipped a pint. When the beloved manager Kevin Keegan, one day after the close of the transfer window, was told that the club, with Ashley being at the forefront, had secretly offered some of his players to other clubs, he furiously resigned. The fans protested and called for Ashley to sell the club. He did try to do so, roughly one year after he'd bought it, when he allegedly only found it was indebted after he'd done so. He publicly regretted his purchase, called it a "disaster for everyone" and said his money was lost, but just like in 2009 and 2017 there was no prospective buyer willing to meet his valuation of at least €450m. Ashley has taken from them what they love and those in charge of the English game have no objections And as long as it stays like this, he stays. In order to somewhat save his investment, he's for years only barely invested what might be necessary to keep the club in the lucrative top flight. Finish 6th or 16th? Ashley doesn't care. In 2016 Newcastle went down because Ashley only signed off on making funds for new signings available after it was too late. Those funds would've been available at Newcastle just like at every other club in that league. And this is how one single one man has been paralysing a club, a club which drew in excess of 50k per home game even in the Championship, for a decade. This is how one single man hasn't awoken a sleeping giant, but rather knocked it out and driven its fans into madness in the process. They see what is possible with this club and with this manager, but the only person who could make their vision a reality just refuses to do so. He's taken from them what they love and those in charge of the English game have no objections. What happens when a private investor forgets, or even on purpose neglects, the interests of the club in pursuit of his own private interests? Newcastle fans know that all too well by now. Benitez could walk at any minute, many fans would now join him "People need to understand that we won't sign the player at the top of our list. We won't even bring in the guy who is our Plan B or Plan C" Benitez now openly dares to criticise Ashley's transfer policy. He can afford to do so: He led Newcastle back into the Premier League and kept them there in a remarkably solid fashion despite all problems. He could walk away from the job at any point and could undoubtedly have a new job only shortly thereafter. His current contract expires in 2019 and he only wants to sign the new five-year extension that's been offered to him when he's been guaranteed investment into the academy and the training facility. And he knows the fans are on his side. It all seems like Newcastle is steering towards the biggest power struggle of the Ashley era. Problems loom on the pitch (their final rehearsal for the season was a 0-1 home loss v Augsburg) and especially off it - a current stand-off about the squad bonuses just seems fitting considering the generally comatose condition the club finds itself in. "When Rafa goes, we go" many Geordie faithful now despairingly say themselves. But after a decade of Ashley they know better than anyone that he could very much live with that.