Chris_R

Anyone complaining about the Minteh sale needs to suggest what should've been done instead to plug the massive hole in our finances. Realistically done too, ie no bollocks about "sell Almiron" when no fucker wants him and he won't go to Saudi. It was Minteh, or a purple. If you think selling Minteh was wrong, we need to know which of Gordon, Isak or Bruno you'd have sold instead. We were in a corner.

Pawson has been useless, letting them chop our players down then booking Hall for touching the shoulder of one of theirs. From then on I knew we were in for a tough day. What a cunt.

Obviously I always hope we smash teams 5-0, but especially with this lineup because I want to see lots of it moving forwards.

1997

We should stay away from Chelsea players. Everyone should. You can't allow their model to succeed, which it will if people keep buying their castoffs for more than they paid for them.

Also Kelly talking about England's chronic left back shortage... I was always utterly baffled that Southgate played Trippier there when there's Burn, Hall, Targett and even Livramento who are all English and I'd rather see at left back for Newcastle than Trippier, who is completely ineffective there. Not saying any of them should have gone to the Euros, but if Newcastle alone have 4 better options,there's not a shortage, there's just a rubbish manager. Trippier wasn't the best option we had, he's just the one who was picked. Love Trippier, but he's a right back and offers nothing at all on the left. Livramento is a right back as well of course but he looks better than Trippier on the left because he has more pace and drive to get past people.

Lads, he's not playing centre back. I love Howe but he hates short left backs, and Hall is going back on the bench.

A celebration of their mining heritage. Keep up.

It's most goals AND assists, which is a weird stat to quote but might help Lampard a bit. Still scored loads though.

Guess they're not selling Clarke then

Most people are DESPERATE for him to leave us (Either for England or to be sacked) and for us to get someone lime Mourinho in and then implode with a series of shit and increasingly desperate managerial appointments. That includes most journalists who just by numbers are likely to support other teams, often teams we're looking to overhaul in the league. Always remember that everyone has an agenda.

I'm sure that soon he'll be a great player for Brighton.

What's that in relation to?

It's hard for players playing as forwards to dribble past a few players or play defence-splitting through balls, because they're so far forward anyway. Quite simply there's nobody to play forward to, and if they dribble past a couple of players they're probably clean through on goal and will shoot. Isak had one crazy assist against Everton (I refuse to acknowledge the official line of it not being an assist) but to do that he started on the half way line. Aside from that, I can't recall anything that fits your criteria from him either.

That's literally being a creative player.

Absolutely disgusting that we're in 2024 and people with brown/black skin are needing to ask openly if it's safe to attend a football match. Fucking state of things, absolutely gutting that this is where we are.

Amdy Faye Geremi Alan Smith All of them just awful in every game they played. And they played 198 times.

Why are you thankful Ashley didn't run the club well and invest in it? Seems an odd take to wish for 14 years of misery instead.

And so far our owners have done nothing that Ashley couldn't have done if he wanted to, we've spent but not *that* much. Plus it would have cost less if done years back.

Loads of Liverpool fans on the comments saying "I can't believe we turned this down, so idiotic to pass this up!" Maybe it's because it didn't happen?

The new Harris Vukic

That would make me less likely to move, not more likely. And massively so. I'd not be helping out any club that treat me like that, I'd just run my contract down and leave for nothing as a "fuck you" to them.

I think the rule is we just add a bit to his £25m transfer fee every time we discuss it, and that becomes the new figure with no further questions allowed.

Sounds to me like the MLFs took Westerhope and you just stood idly by and let it happen. You should watch your letterbox.

What a story, and so eloquently told. He should consider delving into the after-dinner speaking circuit, he'd have people enraptured with tales like that.