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Also makes it easy to scupper a deal. We just have to offer minimum wage to the offered players knowing they'll reject it and the whole deal collapses.

Player swap deals are incredibly rare. There are just too many parts that need to be agreed to make the deals work. Any rumours that involve player swaps are simply bollocks.

Let's be fair, they dismantled themselves before we even arrived.

Very comfortable win after a rough start to the game. Brilliant to see injured players coming back into the team as well.

My worry for him is that he's going down the same route as Ameobi. He played far too many games whilst injured and basically ruined himself. He went from being a real prospect to being the Shola we all got frustrated with. If Longstaff has done the same, there's a chance that he'll never fully recover from the injuries he's playing with and his career will continue at the level he's playing at now which is bad for us and him both.

All over the place in the 1st half but massively improved in the 2nd and a deserved win. Not sure who the commentators were but fuck me, they were idiots. There have now been 250 goals in the Premiership between these two clubs this season. Newcastle jet off to Australia at the end of the season for a match against Tottenham in Australia. Those two were the pick of the idiocy.

Laughably bad performance from us and an absolutely dreadful performance from the referee.

On paper there's nothing wrong with the Arsenal stadium redevelopment or Chelsea selling a hotel. It just looks all a bit dodgy when you start to consider the potential ramifications. If PIF want to redevelop our training facilities, or move to a new site, what's to stop them from fronting the money for the club to then buy a bunch of potential sites in the area then allowing the club to sell off any of the sites that don't get the right permissions and banking the profit on paper for FFP purposes? It would be both a completely legitimate, football related activity and at the same time an obvious trick to increase our revenue. How do you account for an asset when it isn't counted when bought but is when it's sold?

The big loophole here is that infrastructure costs aren't included in FFP analysis but income from selling that infrastructure is included. In theory, our owners could give the club the money to buy Newcastle Race Course, which wouldn't impact our FFP figures, and then a month later the club could realise that they had no reason to own a race course and sell it to PIF for £500m and solve our FFP issues for a decade. No one really noticed the blatant flaw in the rules until Chelsea tried this with the hotel.

The ownership of Everton should have been properly scrutinized a long time ago. Farhad Moshiri owns the club but it was mostly funded by Alisher Usmanov - a man who was barred from entry to the UK even before Russia invaded Ukraine. It should have all sparked an investigation into every club throughout the country to check for any more owners-on-paper-only. I always thought it was a shame that there wasn't a more in depth analysis of dodgy ownership back when Portsmouth were shuffling between different owners, including at least one occasion where they were seemingly sold to holding company owned by the club's owner.

Even just changing the rules on sponsorship from related companies would be huge for us. No need to go around trying to find businesses willing to sponsor the club, just suddenly get sponsorship deals from PIF Golf, Saudi Airlines, Saudi Arabia 2034 World Cup, random taxi companies from Riyadh etc. It would mean an immediate boost to the club's turnover and allow the club to spend as much as they want to all within the PSR rules.

Thanks Dummett, you fucking halfwit.

Absolutely brilliant comeback.

What are the odds that we don't manage to finish with 11 players on the pitch without anyone getting carded?

Anderson is a left sided player. Longstaff plays on the right side of midfield. They are not like for like players. Playing Anderson would mean pushing Willock to the right of midfield where he's not a natural player either. Longstaff is playing because there is no one else available who is comfortable in the position he plays.

We'll certainly be doing that too but it won't necessarily be the obvious players. Despite a lot of people looking at Minteh and wondering if he could do a job for us next season, I fully expect that he'll go out on loan again next season and then he'll be sold for 20-30m to a newly promoted team. The same goes for Kuol. We'll create FFP space by buying promising youth players, loaning them out to develop them before selling them for decent fees.

He loves managing teams. At one point he was coaching an under 11s team because he enjoys it so much.

Slack defending costing us again. And fucking Longstaff. Stay on your fucking feet and stop begging the ref for free kicks when you lose the ball in fair tackles.

The guy is the double of Simple Jack from Tropic Thunder.

Commentators are really bad at recognising Newcastle players. First mixing up Miggy & Tino and again mixing up Isak & Willock.

Beautiful goal

The fuck was that?

I don't think it'll be the top teams that will challenge FFP in the courts. It'll be Everton or Forest. If either team is on the verge of relegation because they've received a points deduction for breaching FFP rules, the best option they will have will be to challenge the very idea of FFP. No FFP, no FFP breach. No FFP breach, no points deduction. No points deduction, no relegation. It'll be that simple.

I think Isak has struggled with fitness because we keep needing to rush him back from injury because Wilson is out as well.