Chris_R

Can we please stop equipping our stalkers with potato cameras? It's 2022 ffs, it's time to upgrade your T68i. I've taken clearer pictures of the moon with my phone than that.

This. The transfer is done. We're just polishing our videos off before we announce it, as seems to be the case with new signings these days.

Not for a 1 month injury

Trippier's delivery is just unbelievable from any dead ball situation. Incredible player.

And first choice GK in Pope. That's a hell of a spine to the team.

I mean yes, but we were always going to sign someone in the next week.

It's a squad game. We need a solid 22 players who can all come in and do a great job. Right now we've barely got 11. Willock will get plenty of game time, whatever else happens this window.

The defender got a foot on it just before Isak hit it. Isak's shot then looped clean (I think) over the GK, but the defender definitely touched it fractionally before the strike which probably accounts for the weird trajectory the ball took. You can see that from the reverse angle from Isak's side of the pitch.

They're hilarious Player linked - "He's shit, not worth that and no better than what they've got" Deal collapses - "Hahaha, they've just missed out on someone amazing!" Literally everything that happens to us must in their eyes be bad. How they'll reconcile us climbing up the league over the next years via a continual series of bad signings is beyond me, but I'm sure mackematics will find a way.

Edwards busy frantically downing pints of water so he can piss all over it in the next half hour.

They don't need us to offer more, they just need another club to offer more. They don't care if he comes to us or not.

I refuse to watch any highlights of players we've not signed yet.

He's the king of the Barnum statement is our Luke. Loves a Tweet where however it eventually plays out, he can point back at it and say he was right.

He plays in our weakest position, so we should only sell if it allows us to get someone better in. Feel sorry for him because he seems a great guy, but he's been played RW when he's not and never has been a winger. Hard to really tell how good or bad he is, but he hasn't produced in the position we've played him.

tl;dr

2 years left, which according to everyone this summer is "near the end of a contract". Which is frankly ridiculous logic. In the last 12 months, fair enough. But not the last 2 years.

Not a lot, but that's nothing to do with him. He's not a programmer, he's just a gobshite marketing guy and, quite frankly, a bit of a dick.

If any street was named after Johnson, all the houses would have to be under 15.

Southgate may well have a squeaky clean image, but he's a sub-standard football manager.

Today, I'd say him and Potter would be the top 2 names on the list. That's not to say either would be interested, but I think they're clearly the best 2 English managers right now and both young and exciting.

I can see Howe getting offerred the England job if it came up afte the World Cup, and I don't think it's impossible that he takes it. The difference between Newcastle and England is in how full-on they are, and that's a postiive and negative for us wanting to keep him. As a positive, he loves work and loves working with players day in, day out, and improving them. He took several L1 players and made them PL regulars with Bournemouth. He won't have that level of contact with England players and they'll all come to him still with their club mentality in their heads and go back largely unchanged after each international. As a negative, he'll be effectively working part-time and as a family man he'll be able to avoid the burnout that managing Newcastle as intensely as he does is likely to bring eventually. Indeed his family may want him to take it for just that reason. Plus, it is the national team after all. I can see both sides. I just hope that if the job does come up, and if he ever is offered it, he says no.

That's why I placed Shearer higher, he could do anything with a free kick - Curlers, net busters, close in, 30-yarders. He had great variety and was a bit of a combination of Robert and Solano in that respect even though he was clearly not quite as good at either bit as them. You'd never think Solano might knock it in from 30 yards and with Robert 20 yards often felt too close provided the wall was set up well. Shearer was always a danger, so if you gave Shearer, Solano and Robert 100 Fks from various points I'd not be surprised if Shearer beat them both. All great strikers of the ball though and a fun hypothetical.

Early days in his time with us, but it'd be interesting where people think he ranks alongside our other decent FK takers... Trippier Shearer Robert Solano Ryan Taylor? Shit player but he could hit a ball Emre Liam O'Brien - Showing my age a bit now but he was always a good bet from anywhere inside 30 yards Philippe Albert - Remember him taking a cracking one vs Man U in the League Cup, time is dulling my memory on how often he took them though, I suspect it wasn't much given the other options we had Probably missed someone really obvious. I'd have Trippier at the top of that list based on what I've seen so far, think that's roughly the order I'd put them in based on a quick think. There has been a real dearth of talent in this regard for a long time at the club though. You could argue for Shelvey after Leeds, but before that he's done nothing from set pieces even though you'd think he should have that in his locker based on his long-range passing.

It's almost as if their desire to watch a sport they enjoy means they can, for a couple of hours, forget about the regime who runs it and just be entertained. Who'd have thought such a thing was possible?!