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First time I feel more frustration than faith today, sad to admit.

Starting to get a bit annoyed with how we can’t play well. I don’t even care that much about results.

I just don't know what it is about Tonali that means he 'doesn't fit'. I see the point being made but I don't see why.

Is the group in this thread completely different to the ‘we win more with Longstaff and it’s Howe’s job to pick a winning team’ group? Somehow the manager gets hammered for both sides at the same time

Unless Hope can read minds I don’t see where he’s getting that information.

He’s not really a year in though, he’s been banned for most of the time he’s been here.

You might be forgetting the one year gambling ban?

Previous page someone said they were both out.

Yeah, I get that and it's unfair. But if you could get 'almost' what the teams above get then you could (in theory) out manage them.

I feel like we need a setback to play our best sometimes, which hopefully is what West Ham provided. Can’t be anything other than a top performance and a win.

But couldn’t you sponsor us for, say, 15% less than Liverpool? I get the problems with the rules but I also think we need to push every avenue to the max.

Yet.

I think Miley has a role this season. Maybe not this game but I can see him playing to relieve Bruno or to help us control certain games more. Hope so anyway.

No chance it's any more sophisticated than random. They can barely arrange that.

I don't know why we're so quick to make conclusions like this, it's borderline silly. There's no way Tonali will be a sub long term or was signed as such. You may as well say "every signing we make should come in instantly and succeed without any snags". Which just isn't going to happen.

Yeah, I get the point, but we have to remember Murphy is a hangover from before the takeover. As are basically all the poor/average players in the squad. When people talk about a new RW, I'm pretty sure most of us meant a signing who would instantly come in and start every game, without much risk of not working out. They didn't mean Minteh.

Key word being prospect.

I feel like it's weird that these Fender tickets are connected to your level of NUFC membership.

More blame to the club TBH. We know we haven’t had the full complement of experts over most of the time Wilson has been here. He works his arse off, so effort and will to come back isn’t the problem.

Definitely, especially when you’re also trying to go from battling relegation to qualifying for the CL at the same time.

Isak finished his offside goal brilliantly, the left foot half volley was much more difficult.

Feels you could rebuild the entire city of Newcastle for £4bn.

They may, but at the moment they haven’t.

Nobody’s climbing away.

Not sure the Luiz sale has helped Villa mind, although it has for PSR of course. I think the problem is that players can't just be sold, they need to be replaced. So I can see a situation where you sell someone who would have had a good few years with you and need to spend again to replace them. In the meantime you finish the same position in the league anyway. No easy solutions but I get the point that, ideally, we would be able to identify players who are over performing or aren't essential to our plan or can be replaced more easily.