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I mean, it's The Sun. However... Maybe this is why Ashley sees him as the best fit? He knows we'd have no spending power after the club is sold and it's like one last way for Ashley to put us down.

He's ripped the life out of the club, and the city. How this bloke can be a "fit and proper person" to run a football club, even at this point is an absolute joke. Everyone involved in allowing Mike Ashley to step into our football club without any protection for the club, or the club's people can fuck right off and hang their heads in shame. He's absolutely destroyed our reputation not just on home soil but throughout Europe, destroyed our hope, and even destroyed our ability to care anymore. Newcastle under his ownership are the definition of a "zombie club", just simply existing to let him take every penny out of it. Sad times.

Agreed. Might even be worth converting into a left back at this point to utilize his strengths, without having to rely on him to be the provider for Rondon or whoever it may be.

Was more bothered by the Wolves defeat. Still, losing regularly and scraping points is not much fun. That and the draw with Fulham (which felt like a defeat). Defeats like this to bigger clubs are just totally numb nowadays.

It's because he's playing at his level. He scored 6 goals for us last season. Sure, he might get a few more with a better midfield creating chances but I think Rondon brings more to the table.

Put a club legend's name over the top of each one.

Absolutely tragic day all-round yesterday God bless.

Should have lobbed a couple of stink bombs at him. Could have stunk his car out on a permanent basis like that episode of Seinfeld with the b.o.

Summary of today's game

That 4-3-3 was brilliant man. Martins doing the leg work and Owen/Viduka poaching. Just imagine where it could have went if Keegan was backed that summer

We got the poison. We got the Kenedy.

Sports Direct.

Fantastic effort that. Well done to all involved.

Definitely.

"Rafa can have every penny the club generates" x 2. Rafa surely has enough evidence for a constructive dismissal case, should he walk! Sorry to be so blunt, but people saying this kind of thing have no clue as to how constructive dismissal cases work. I hate Ashley and what he's done to our club as much as anyone, but him refusing to spend money is not in any way grounds for a constructive dismissal case. He is well within his rights to spend nothing, if he so desires. Here's some examples of what constitutes constructive dismissal, from a prominent law firm's website: a unilateral significant reduction of your salary, or the threat of a reduction ; being demoted without good reason; allegations of poor performance which are unfounded; disciplinary proceedings which are manifestly unreasonable; a complete change in the nature of your job; harassing or bullying ; stress at work, that has not been properly addressed; failing to make reasonable adjustments where you have a disability; being forced to work in breach of health and safety laws. Literally none of those apply, and certainly "being generally useless, changing his mind about funds and being a bit of a smug cunt" simply aint on the list. He's a shite, even horrific, employer and totally incompetent and leaching the club dry, but I can't see where a constructive dismissal claim would come from unless you want to illuminate me? See Keegan, Kevin. Such a nonsense response. What happened to Keegan isn't automatically the same as what's happened to Rafa. Sure, they've both been fucked about by the same shit owner, but to suggest that because one successfully claimed constructive dismissal the other has the same claim is palpable craziness. Don't get me wrong, maybe Rafa *does* have a case, I'm not saying he doesn't, but if he does it's based on what's been said to Rafa, not what happened with Keegan. And what's been said to Rafa has been said in private and we're not privvy to it so to claim he's got a constructive dismissal case is just silly. We simply don't know, and to go further on the evidence we have got there's no case to answer at all. Lied to about transfer funds and offered out to Spain. Rafa has been told he had to sell to buy, whereas if he'd known he wouldn't get the money back then no doubt he'd have kept what he sold. All Ashley does is lie. The minute Rafa started speaking out on the club needing to spend, Ashley has wanted him gone. Keegan wanted Schweinsteiger. They low-balled the offer (just as they did for Hyypia), then pocketed that money when the offers were rejected. Same thing is happening with Rafa.

Same here, gone for Arnautovic for the goals. And hope that West Ham might be decent after the money they've spent. Yeah I ended up going with Arnautovic as well. I've convinced myself that Fulham might put up a good fight against Palace, and West Ham could be a bit of a slippery one for Liverpool.

I'm torn between Zaha and Arnautovic at the minute.

Fucks sake, not that hairy Thwomp-looking moron again. Clearly on the wind-up for some Twatter activity. Nobody in their right mind would present that list of shite as "facts".

The Great Outdoors is another classic.

I really like it. Good contrast to the away kit in my opinion and it looks much better in the full shot. Can't remember the last season I really liked all 3 kits.

Favourite Goal? Coutinho vs. Switzerland Favourite Match? Japan vs. Belgium. Both teams made it so entertaining to watch with the way they played Favourite Player? Kylian Mbappe. That kid is gonna be a real stand-out over the next 5 years. Favourite Moment? England beating Colombia on penalties, and then seeing the Dixon/Wright/Neville celebrations in the studio My nerves were absolutely shot after that but what a feeling man. I don't think I've experienced anything quite like that in football since I was a kid watching Euro '96. Maybe Bellamy against Feyenoord but it's totally different circumstances. I thought the Senegal fans were great to watch by the way. Even though you could only see a really small portion of them bunched in there, they made constant noise, never ran out of energy and brought a great carnival atmosphere to the world cup. For me I think I would say that it's been the best world cup since Japan/Korea in 2002.

I get where you're coming from, but as a loan I would be willing to take a crack at it if we could get 11 goals from him.