Coco

We'd all be in the Hague.

You posted in good faith that you wanted something done about a silly joke at your expense? Or you made a snide comment about alcoholism in someone's family, in good faith?

He's a forum admin, not a fucking priest. Confidential.

That wasn't really my assertion at all. It was simply a crude analogy of how most of us can rationalise and tolerate a thing we love doing something that we don't agree with, while at the same time pointing out how ridiculous it would be for us to actively encourage the worst type of behaviour. Skirting around the PSR limitations is one thing, but the selling stuff to yourself, BlueCo nonsense that Chelsea are doing is an extreme that I don't think many fans would be very pleased to see, let alone actively champion for.

Take your straw man and shove it up your hole, you delusional weirdo.

You just can't stop spinning your wheels, can you? Is it possible that you're so high on your own opinions that it's impossible for you to recognise when they're bad. That's not a healthy trait to have, and make for a really tedious discussion. As for the "examples" you've cited, no, none of these things went unchallenged by the fan base at large. There is a very distinct difference between not caring and recognising that you have zero control over events. Let's say your partner has an affair, sleeps with someone behind your back. You definitely care, but you can't do anything to change the events that have happened. Perhaps you still love them, you have kids, memories, a house, whatever laundry list of emotional attachments that mean you are willing to reconcile things and continue the relationship. An extreme example, granted. Now, your argument is that in this scenario you may as well pimp your partner out at this stage. Tolerating something is essentially the same as advocating for the absolute worst version of events, right? No, that's nonsense. You are nonsensical. Everything you've tried to use as an excuse, to justify your own cynical, corporate capitalist viewpoint is dumb and has no merit. I'll ask again, and for the final time, because I'm starting to lose interest here. Why are you a Newcastle fan? You seemingly have no love for the club or connection on a base emotional level. Wouldn't you be much better served following some other Balance Sheet FC? You present baseless, poorly formed opinions as facts, then spiral off into nonsense when challenged. I can understand if it's just an ego thing, and you get off on sounding clever and talking with authority on topics you know precious little about. But that can, and is, done all across the internet. Why here? Why us?

More irrelevant guff. Are you incapable of addressing a point? Maybe you'd be well suited to a career in politics. You conflate what you want with what other people want. I don't know any real fans who want us to be part of Magpie Football Inc, with teams in every league. Nor do they want us to be Chelsea or City, and spend lavishly on perceived instant success. It's cliche, but football is tribal. It's more than a club, it's part of our identity and day to day lives. They don't want what good there is in that identity to be stripped away by greed and excess, so that some guy in Riyadh can say he's number one. People do care about the moral quandary of Saudi ownership, but recognise that we live in a world where we have very little say in what the uber billionaires do with their money. You revel in it though. You act like the best course of action is to jump in the mud with all the other pigs, and you're completely oblivious to what that would cost. Like I alluded to before, I question why you you even support this club, because it's abundantly clear that you don't have an emotional connection to it. If you did, you'd realise just how moronic you sound when you keep spouting this nonsense.

I'm sure you think this was a suitable rebuttal of what I said, but you're really just confirming my post. A load of barely tangential guff about the Saudi state, tax loopholes and pensions. Utter twaddle. My main point wasn't about the principles of the game. It was that you behave like someone with very little genuine attachment to what truly makes the club special for so many fans. You champion an approach that would alienate the regular fans and make us just another soulless business enterprise, run by moneymen who are happy to stab their own mother's for a profit. At times I wonder if you even enjoy watching football.

It's comments like this that make us all look dumb. You actually want the club to do scummy, underhanded deals, so long as we get a quick fix of success? You've kept going on about your disappointment that PIF aren't pushing the limits more and you applaud Chelsea fuckery. If anyone still hasn't got the message, and thinks your opinions are worth a damn, you demonstrate on a near daily basis that you are in love with the worst aspects of the modern game, and quite frankly, you don't align with the core ethos of a team like ours. Aside from fluffing your ego and an incessant need to be heard, why are you here? Why do you actually support Newcastle?

Generational talent.

In German, generally, ei is pronounced like eye, and ie is pronounced like ee.

You mean a high floor, not a ceiling.

What the fuck does this have to do with other clubs' transfers? Every thread gets polluted with waffle.

If the Taliban are in for him...

Why are we so attached to the seahorses? I admit, I love them on the current badge, but what's the symbolism of them that necessitates them being shoehorned into a new design?

It's fucking hideous.

Only quotes I can see... “People should realise what they did to Roma,” Postecoglou said. “They did it in Rome as well. “They grabbed my attention back then – before we knew we were going to play them. “They have an outstanding manager and they play an aggressive, expansive style of football. It should be a cracking game. “We are in a heavy schedule of games but at the same time, we are in a good moment. We’re in good form, players are fit. “Bodo are similar to us when we go in to our Champions League qualifiers as they are in pre-season mode at the minute. That could potentially work both ways. We have the match sharpness, but they could have a freshness about them. “I’ve got no doubt they will both be cracking games because of the way they play – and we won’t change our approach. “We are heading to the Arctic Circle so even the Scottish weather will go out of the window. “That’s the beauty of European football. For me as a manager, that’s what gets the adrenaline pumping. Testing yourselves in different conditions against different teams and different types of set ups. “Going in to the Conference League, we can test ourselves against some great clubs. “Bodo/Glimt have been Norwegian champions these last two years and they play aggressive, expansive football. “I can’t wait for it.”

Is Elliot not a scumbag? Am I misremembering him being involved in something off the pitch?

I recall overhearing a Liverpool fan ranting to someone on his phone about Zubimendi. Apparently he would be on his deathbed, miserable and alone, regretting the decision not to join Liverpool. Delusion isn't a strong enough word.

Kaiz, I say this with the best of intentions. Put your phone down, turn off the computer, walk away from the internet for a while.

It's not really a fair comparison. I think Brighton seem content to keep taking punts on lesser known players and flipping them for profit when the time is right. It only really becomes a problem for them when it consistently fails, or they overextend. It's much more of a club strategy, akin to the RB model, than using a transfer tactic to close a gap to clubs above. That club is built from the ground up to be a cohesive system. They're not reliant on any one player, manager, backroom staff, or DoF. They don't seem to be desperate to push on, break the top four, win trophies, etc. I'm not saying they don't want those things, but it definitely seems like their ethos comes first.