GeordieDazzler

As much as those journalists don’t want to hear it, Eddie doesn’t really care about the Saudi ownership. If he did he wouldn’t have taken the job. The ownership have maintained a degree of separation from him that allows him to simply be focused on the football. Although as he’s the easiest target for them as he’s has to give a press conference every week. He answers their questions quite honestly. Obviously there is more to us travelling to SA, but as far as the footballing side of club is concerned the warm weather training worked last time so it would seem a good idea from a football perspective to do it again. I'm not fully comfortable with the SA ownership but it’s happened and it should have been the govt or FA that stopped it. What do they want from us? Just to stop existing as a club? They own us now and bar the govt making a decision like with Chelsea that’s not changing any time soon.

Yeah he does which is why he may wait until the summer and see what comes up. Juve and Bayern jobs not totally safe, Wolves job may look tempting too if they stay up.

Miggy or Bruno said in an interview they work loads on that ball over the top like for the Palace and Fulham goals. You can see they’ll always play it if it’s on.

Tuchel and Poch off the list. Honestly think it might be similar to Wolves and you’ll have to wait for the summer to get the right guy.

It’s on the match cam footage, absolutely catches him sleeping.

Wolves have just seen that they aren’t as an attractive prospect as they may have thought. Yes the Prem is an attractive league but it can also shred your reputation if you make the wrong choice. Tuchel may take it to keep his Visa though

Marsch should have been sacked for those jeans he wore against Arsenal if nothing else

done a million times before but who cares

Does Beale speak unexpectedly good Portuguese

I think if we get an early goal it won’t be to difficult. However low block teams still trouble us.

Wouldn’t suit our long ball game

Brighton haven’t scored with any of their last 50 shots on target.

Proper Yohan Cabaye special, was clearly a retaliatory challenge for Bruno’s earlier foul but pretended he was sorry to try and escape a card.

I felt we got very lucky at the time with the Trippier one. Didn’t think the Sancho one was a pen.

Ref had already blown his whistle before he’d put it in the net anyway so I don’t know what they expected him to do. Glad it didn’t count as couldn’t cope with all the ‘Ronaldo showing 9000 level IQ tweets’. I was pretty glad he started over Rashford as we seemed to catch him offside all day.

Yes please

We usually do this quite a lot but the majority of times we had players down yesterday they’d taken a fair whack. Bruno Fernandes doing a Yohan Cabaye and trying to break someone’s ankle then immediately apologising. He makes someone like Zaha look relatively sedate with his whinging.

Like a renaissance painting this “Froggy's Lament”

Why would we ban you if we won

Looks like a Christmas shirt

It’s gonna make us a different beast when you can bring on a quality striker instead of Wood.

I see Simon Bird has taken those last two paragraphs and ran a ‘NEWCASTLE FEAR THEY COULD LOSE HOWE TO REAL MADRID OR MAN CITY’ article. Maybe Kinnear wasn’t far wrong about him.

What on earth was Pique doing for that Barella goal? Bramble-esque!

Are they fixing the Wi-Fi?!??!!

Yep!