Newcastle Fan

What an absolute pile of bollocks, i live next to Saudi and have been traveling there for work regularly for the last 10 years, the level of reform and change that has happened to the country since MBS took over is staggering, the country and especially its women and youth are now more empowered than ever and people there are the happiest I've ever seen them since i started going, but yeah some guy wrote a book so it must be terrible over there Seeing is believing for me, I'm also in Newcastle frequently and nothing positive is ever mentioned in the media about Saudi or all the good things that MBS has done there, so i'm not surprised most people who haven't been there or witnessed the change hold on to a certain image and are actually embarrassed or think someone is either thick or a Saudi apologist if they say anything positive about the country.

PIF thinks in the best interest of Saudi and i guess like Emirates they see London as as a very strategic place to market the new airlines so it makes sense to go for Chelsea.

Its not a case of writing them off, we all hope that they will turn out to be class, but them being young and not really having much top level experience will add even more pressure on them, it's difficult to see a situation where they will not be expected to deliver immediately considering the games and tournaments we are in this year, which is why i was hoping we sign players with a bit more high level experience, unless we are willing to write this whole season off and use it as a learning experience.

Barnes, Liveramento and Hall all looked like odd signings, they would've made sense last year but this year we needed more high level proven players to be able to compete at the very high level we find ourselves at.

He was dominating midfields since he joined and even linked with Real Madrid and is a regular brazil international, despite the terrible start to the season there is no question of his quality, our issues seem more tactical than anything.

Miley should be integrated into first team football not thrown in there when the shit is hitting the fan, we are not done with Anderson yet so it'll be a while before we seem him as a first team regular.

I gave at a six and said we failed to improve on key ares and other teams around us have done better.

Lets just fucking start Wilson-Isak next game.

I've said in the other thread that many of the teams around us (Villa, Brighton, etc..) have had much better windows than we did, we are not a mid-table team anymore and what we needed was more proven top level quality players, aside from Tonali we have not signed that since last summer.

Man's watching the Amazon prime documentary thinking he's Mourinho, love him for what he did in the last two seasons but he might've got caught in his own hype at the start of this season, if he doesn't sort this shit out we are really going to suffer for this season.

So does he get any blame for taking us through an extremely important transfer window and coming out with a couple of youngsters and only one starter? it feels like he allowed Eddie to do what he did at Bournmouthwhen he went spending their money on the likes of Jordan Ibe.

After last week's disaster it would've taken something to turn up to this but this is still very disappointing

100% offside goal given to City

I don't think its too bad of a window for them, they got 4 players in including two strikers which they really needed, that Burstow kid started Chelsea's last game and they seem to rate him well. But again they have too many young players playing in quite a rough division.

I remember full games would pass by without me seeing him actually do anything, he was way beyond the level you'd expect for a premier league footballer, did somehow manage to get us 3 goals but i doubt many will remember he even played for us in a few years.

Much more exciting game happening in the Saudi Pro league, Mitro scored a hatrick and Al Hilal came back from 3-1 down to lead Benzema/Kante and co's al Ittihad 4-3

Honestly happy with that, some class games and a proper champions league experience. its already looking like this will be such a tough season but it will be a fantastic benchmark to where we are compared to the biggest teams in the world and might give the owners a good indication about what we need to do if we are to get to the top.

Villa, Brighton, West Ham, Chelsea (although they went bonkers they still go their targets at the end)

It does seem like we haven't done as well as others in this transfer market, we still have positions that we need to improve on yet we went and signed youngsters with potential.

Don't think he's done much wrong watching the video but i also don't remember the last time we had a season that did not include Lascelles punching someone.

One fucking player to mark and he let him go.

Thank you for the kind words, Nobody wants to talk about Howe at the moment but this discussion will come up sooner or later.

We seem to continue to shit ourselves every time we have a "big" occasion, he took us a great step ahead but this sort of shit like today shows that he is far from the level of manager that will win trophies, Klopp outclassed him at every level with 10 men.

We will continue to pay the price for having him in the team and not replacing him, he is not at the level we are right now.

What a fucking shit footballer miggy is.