Mikky

It’s like watching our corners - opponents end up having a shot on our goal

They’ve got some hard fixtures out of the way now and done well in them - got a good chance of doing something this season

Yeah he is - extended his ban

This - classic case of signing things that are in fashion - no long term view - makes me think signing Paqueta and Kudos may have just been lucky on their part - everything else suggests they haven’t a clue

He was a shocking appointment to begin with - never rated the guy

Feels appropriate to change thread title to Newcastle 1 - ArseNIL

Sort of linked with him last summer

Think TNT have got it spot on with Darren Fletcher and Ally McCoist

Drury drives me up the wall - hate listening to him

It makes the Barnes purchase all the more bizarre when you think we had Gordon/Joe/Joe/Anderson at the start of last season (Isak if we wanted 2 up top)

How many Simeones are there?

I dunno - there’s a bit of Stuart Pearce about him (don’t know why I think that - maybe it’s the way he passes it - all neat and tidy)

24 and under is Mitchell’s policy - which is what we need as the squad is a bit old in places

The double Joe combo with Hall is so sexy

That’s like the old Newcastle I loved watching

Who?

J David Mbuemo Arda Guler and we are cooking

My rationale is that we replace all 3 of Wilson - Miggy and Murphy in the summer Mbuemo is the no:1 signing for me - the hybrid forward (right mainly, but can easily cover 9) We then sign a winger - linked with Tom Fellows - I’d rather be ambitious and go for Arda Guler Then on the basis you are getting nothing for Wilson - you go for J David (DCL as your back up)

I mean if we can somehow grab Guler AND Mbeumo that would be insane There’s an opportunity there also to mitigate the loss of Wilson if we can secure a Bosman CF (J David or even someone like a DCL (with the comfort that we have Mbeumo and Osula to cover as well) (a bit over ambitious I know)

Ah that’s a great shout - it’s that lazy style running which is reminiscent

Can see why we boycotted the Balon d”or ceremony this week - criminal he didn’t win

One leg apparently

They (ex players) have too much of a voice imo (long may it continue) - Don’t see G Neville piping up about what his mate has done to Valencia

Play Tonali and Big Joe in the double pivot and free up Bruno

With 2 natural attacking full backs, you can’t play a flat 3 in midfield, especially when both your centre backs are slow, it leaves you defensively exposed - you should then really compensate that by playing 2 in the pivot - giving your 2 CBs protection allowing 1 fullback at least to always roam with the other inverting if needed or keeping position - its a huge tactical floor as we seem to have no flow within the team