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This could be similar to the run Fulham went on when it seemed like they might apply pressure on the teams above. If they hold on they might exceed what I thought they would achieve, we just need to focus on ourselves.

Exactly - it seemed Murphy had entirely lost what he was doing leading to Dawson bring free to attack the ball. Krafth is an avergae player, just before their goal he was done by Antonio after misjudging the play which might have contributed to him wiping him out the next attack they had. Naturally he will now be compared to Trippier who is clearly a superior player.

The table will be interesting by 14th March - some key fixtures to be played and will set the scene for the end of season run in. Everton play Man City (h), Spurs (a) and Wolves (h) while in comparion Leeds play Man Utd (h), Liverpool (a), Spurs (h), Leicester (a), Aston Villa (h) and Norwich (h). Brentford as mentioned above have some key fixtures against us, Norwich and Burnley. If we can pick up some promising results in this timeframe you have to feel like those three clubs above us will be dragged into it.

We started the match very well. That opening 20 minutes was relatively assured in our team performance.

They should be able to get some points in the next two weeks, could probably define the season based on results. I'd imagine they could get 3-6 points out of these. We play three games in the same time period (West Ham a, Brentford a, Brighton h) and just need to match their points - I feel like we should get 3-6 also. Brighton (a) Tottenham (h) Palace (a) Leicester (h) Chelsea (h)

Are we waiting on Dembele? Barcelona confirmed one club in England but he has yet to accept it.

Renan Lodi is an interesting one. Another former Athletico Paranaense player before he went to Athletico Madrid - couldn't see this happening in a day mind. We clearly have certain agencies that relationships have been built up with through Nickson and resulted in specific deals being arranged alongside the monitoring.

Looking at that chart CB has been awful whatever players we've had in! If you then look at our midfield we've offered very little for a few years

Progressive passer who dominates aerially - happy with that. Could we see Schar drop out?

At present is it 4 players that need to be added to the 25 man squad? You would think Woodman will not make the cut after this window, but who else gets cut/sold with just over a day remaining? You would think Howe wouldn't want 3 mixing with the U23 if they won't be around.

https://www.football365.com/news/e12m-defender-fully-focused-despite-newcastle-making-official-enquiries Happy to stay at Leverkusen, but also open to the move if meet the fee they want.

Popping a Skol in the fridge for this one

Check his tweet 2 minutes before it - scattergun.

If the deal is confirmed this will be an excellent buy. He stood out during his Athletico days in Brazil - would need to make sure the club was setup to support players arriving into Newcastle so will assume the player liaison guy will have a lot on!

Potential around future opportunities for Sports Direct within MENA that Ashley thought would also be happening as part of the sale?

Interesting other club fans kicking off with this give it must be the 16 or 17th game to be postponed (and our first). Even Norwich fans saying we are bending the rules haha!

Couldn't imagine anything in this, will file alongside that Tyne Mouth lad.

It sounds like Denayer could be a goer, although they are referencing Belgium sources in this article and he picked up an injury in early December so interesting to see the outcome with this.

I think we will definitely need another forward this window. I'd expect him to be out for a while, describing it as feeling kicked and then the pain in the back of his calf with an inability to challenge for the ball might indicate it was his achilles tendon. He did manage to walk, but it doesn't sounds very promising at all.

Fernandez, Lewis, Hayden suspended) and Dummett were all mentioned by Howe on Thursday/Friday. It would seem Darlow, Willock, Clark and Ritchie are missing - with two goalkeepers on the bench must be injury or COVID related?

It seems like Botman to AC Milan is ramping up, although has been questions if they could pay the £30m needed. That Delongo journalist is also on the Botman to Milan links so if he is right about Trippier might need to manage expectations on incomings! Denayer from Lyon linked with us as contract is expiring. This sounds more plausible and has Premier League experience including a spell with Sunderland (a relegation season).

Yeah if they gave 20 organisations £10k each should be able to provide a spread of activity across the area and it might help some of them through the January/February with charitable donations reducing usually at this time of year. It could even be open to the membership to put forward suggestions and just poll them with a series of regular updates - if you have a mailing list of 13,000 people the follow up % is potentially quite good too for these organisations to see what they're doing to support the community.

https://www.getfootballnewsfrance.com/2021/sardar-azmoun-has-agreement-with-lyon-but-deal-is-far-off/ Could see us being used like this quite often, same with the Kamara interest.

When was the last time we competed with AC Milan for a player? I wonder how close the end of contract list is to players we are looking at, might see Dan-Axel Zagadou come in since he is a left footed CB.