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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.

For Wilson and Miggy this was definitely the case. The principle is sound but it’s very close to ‘sell your best players’ so it’s hard to be too critical when we don’t do it.

Man, we've been through this so many times. We needed a whole new first team, would we expect there to be no issues left? If we'd signed a RW first we would just be complaining about a gap somewhere else. No merit in that argument at all?

Does nobody think that Gordon should play LW? I honestly don't know what the best setup is at the moment, but it's where he's played best.

If you can’t trust Kurt Leyland, who can you trust?

Bad thing is we’re not consistently playing well, good thing is neither is anyone else.

Tend to agree in hindsight but at the time I thought we didn't need Joelinton's defending out wide and he wasn't offering anything going forward. TBH I just expected Barnes to come on and us to score a couple of goals fairly easily.

I was going to say, it's quite rare to win 3 in a row.

Agreed, we didn’t have a fully developed football staff anyway, for obvious reasons. I’m not saying we can’t improve, I just don’t go so far in saying Howe made loads of mistakes.

We are challenging top 6 TBF, in fact we're challenging for 3rd.

Ah right, I see. Not sure there's enough of them to affect the atmosphere mind, but it is annoying.

PS Great to have this debate again

If all your players are injured it might be slightly difficult to give everyone the week off. Unless we just started skipping matches or something.

How are content creators part of the problem?

Wanting to maximise performance and make improvements doesn't mean Eddie Howe drove our players into early graves by asking them to run.