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Of course not, we were owned by Mike Ashley There's very little at Newcastle airport TBF, one small JD sports and a couple of other shops IIRC.

There’s a big difference between needing a sale for FFP to be selling your best player in the most important position. The FFP points deduction would probably be equivalent to losing Isak

Very sustainable.

Hopefully that’s on the radar, should be one in Metrocentre, Durham and probably others too.

Hmmmmm.

I would ask Sala to play LB against the average teams, thanks to the bizarre choice of LBs in the squad.

I think it would’ve been good for him to be asked to play deeper and do a job for the team. I think Kane is the most dangerous player in the England team, followed by Foden maybe. Building it around Bellingham is a mistake because it creates too many compromises elsewhere.

Oh I know, but I meant the original claim about Mossad didn't mention Jewish people. Might have the wrong end of the anti-semitism, it's easily done

This is correct but I'm not sure that's what was happening here, was it?

Do they have a mechanism to do that?

Yeah, I can't see anyone paying anywhere near that unless they can get him off to Saudi.

Yep, unacceptable titling.

Both will be absolutely brilliant for us soon. Hall could easily be England's LB in not too long, and Tonali will transform us compared to Longstaff.

Wood is the only questionable signing IMO, and even that was fully understandable based on the circumstances at the time. And we got our money back. I would say our transfer activity has been very good to excellent so far. Just sit back and enjoy.

Yes, it's exactly what he was intended for.

But our side players are terrible TBF.

I hadn't picked up on that, but I was saying that if we had a third striker it would be much more comfortable. Same if Wilson stayed really, he can't be relied on to be available when Isak needs a break.

I'm not against it if the club thing it can work, but I do have worries. I was kind of hoping the Wilson replacement would be a safer or more exciting bet. I can see him doing damage in the cups TBF. Maybe we still see Gordon as someone who can play in the middle still. And of course we have a few (although not many) less games to play.

Murphy's probably not 'that rich' for a footballer yet, he'd probably be on the plane before you'd finished your sentence.

Speaking personally I haven't really seen him play this season, certainly not regularly. I'm mainly going on his reputation for being injured a lot. You're right he has some basic attributes that are good though.

It's a luxury lifestyle, I imagine you'll live in something like a 6-star hotel or apartment complex with your every need catered for. You can't get a drink but you can't drink anyway because you're a professional footballer. Go from your air-conditioned home to your air-conditioned training centre with twice-daily dips in your private pool. I think it'll be bearable. You're right about the career of course, but if you're already on the wane it might be preferable to dropping down a division in England.

Is this ‘we overspent’ argument new? What would have been the difference if we spent less last summer (preparing for a busy CL season) so we could spend more now? I’ve heard doubts about a few of our signings here and there but I haven’t heard the argument that we spent too much overall.

We can talk again when we sell a productive first team player then I guess.

My basic starting point is that people like Minteh were bought to sell. Of course he’s been good in Holland which makes it harder to accept, but I assume it was always the plan.