sturla
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Should have gotten Maddison instead of Barnes.
Gordon was a stupid buy and wont amount to anything.
We missed the boat with Tielemans.
We overpaid massivly for Isak.
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5 hours ago, The College Dropout said:
Who were 4th in that period? Liverpool?
1. City 60
2. Arsenal 53
3. ManU 52
4. Liverpool 51
5. Villa 49
6. Newcastle 47
7. Brighton 44
8. Brentford 44
9. Spurs 34
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21 minutes ago, Gazzaschicken said:
Don't get how Villa are now this feared wrecking force who are going to finish above us. Also Liverpool, a new midfield and still the same defensive issues as previous couple of seasons.
We are notoriously hard to beat and we have improved with some quality signings and the young prospects stepping up. I think top 5 is a high probability
Villa had a good spell from when Emery took over in November. From that day Villa were the 5th best team in the league acquiring 49 points vs 47 acquired by Newcastle (in 6th). They have also recruited very well in this window with Diaby, Pau Torres and Tielemans. I think people are just recognizing that they have a proper setup now and will push for top 6. Still think we will finish above them.
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1 minute ago, Decky said:
How is it that we got bought by the Saudis and the team we're competing with is Aston fucking Villa?
A lot of people seem to think they'll finish above us too.
Villa have been pouring money into the club for many years. We are still catching up and they seem to finally being run properly so they will be a challenging the top6 along with us.
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11 minutes ago, simonsays said:
He would be perfect at left back in the system we play. He is comfortable as a left centre back but offers much more going forward that Dan Burn
Doesn't he have a terrible injury record?
For my part stability of the defense is more important so injury prone defenders are not my favorite
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2 hours ago, Conjo said:
Think you can also add "bairn" to the list. Norwegian "barn", Swedish "bärn", danish "børn"
You are all just speaking polluted Icelandic
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1 hour ago, Kanji said:
Positive goal difference would be great. Feel like I don’t even remember the last time we had that!
We managed it once under Pardew in the Ashley era, before that once under Roeder.
We did it regularly under Sir Bobby!
I sincerely hope that those days are returning but for next season any top half finish would be a good progress.
Not expecting us to keep the same form when we start the next season, but still an improvement on next.
It's the first time in many years I look forward to the summer window!!
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Brilliant article you've written @WillDanceForChocolate , Thanks for that!
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7 minutes ago, gjohnson said:
So it resets after 3 years then gets ignored?
Didn't know that was how it worked
It doesn't reset, it's the past 3 years, always.
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Probably been posted on here already:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg6Q9ezQA30
For those questioning his signings I think we need to account for where he was and the strategy set by Bournemouth.
It is discussed in the video above, Bournemouth not competing with the top half of the PL but rather target younger players not fulfilling their potential at a top club or a excelling player at a Championship club.
They go into how especially the younger PL players would take time to get the best out of them.
Not sure Howe would go for the same strategy for Newcastle in terms of player recruitment.
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Everton vs Villa sure is boring
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Haven't seen much of Villa but always quite impressed with Douglas Luiz. Could be a decent pickup for a Prem club next year if Villa go down
Agree, like him more than Gerlish. Was the best player on the pitch against us imo, and has been the reason Villa are still hanging on.
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Almiron is fucking useless.
Don't choke on the sock please
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Not those agendas again.
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Swiss ramble with his analysis of our accounts:
Summary:
Even though income fell by 2m and expences rose by 2.5m Newcastle still returned a very healthy ebitda (56m) and profit (41m).
Player amortisation relatively low for a mid-table club and our wage bill is 14th highest in the PL (was 5th highest before Ashley bought the club). This reflects Ashleys strategy and ambition.
Also, Ashley is still skimming us with stadium advertising.
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So has there been any plausible reasons as to why a mega rich business needs partners and would effectively give up 20% to have two other stake holders? Is it because they wish to remain silent and not have to deal with day to day operations? Is it because they haven't invested in a club before? Is it because it apportions the blame if it goes wrong at times?
I am really curious to find out not sure if they will ever say but surely it will be a question put to them at some point.
The Man City ownership is the same way.
78% Abu Dhabi group
12% China Media Capital
10% Silver Lake (American investment group)
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I'm definitively not welcome in any cliques after starting this argument.
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PIF have bought shares in Disney, Facebook and Starbucks.
Great, now the human rights activists can quit facebook, not watch Disney movies and never drink starbucks (along with not using Uber).
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I'm just a bit gutted that I might get lumped in with the rest of these 'new members', I've been around on here for years... albeit this isn't my original login profile.
Does it matter if you are a new member or not? Haven't noticed any attitude towards new members, albeit that might change if the forum will get flooded with new members if the club becomes successful. But that is to be expected, change will always rattle people (me included).
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It's already done, they just haven't announced it. Just ask The Sun:
Image appeared in a story related to lower league takeovers.
Aren't Man City owned my a sovereign wealth fund in part. I'm sure I read somewhere that their resources were similar to PIF (300bn odd) are just just showing Mansours wealth for dramatic effect there?
Man City is 78% owned by Abu Dhabi United Group for Development and Investment (ADUG). It looks like it is a investment fund specifically for Man City and is owned by Sheik Mansour, not by Abu Dhabi.
It was news to me that the ownership of Man city is similarly constructed as PCP is planning for Newcastle. 78% by Abu Dhabi group, 12% China Media Capital group and 10% Silver Lake (American group). I've seen a lot of comments (many on other clubs forums) about how the construction of ownership of Newcastle being questioned as opposed to ManCity being owned 100% by Sheik Mansour, like it is a hint that PIF don't mean business with Newcastle.
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Two weeks to go!
I have 1.may in my mind so 1 week ..
Newcastle United 1-0 Arsenal (04/11/23) - Post match reaction from p. 46
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I expected something about them backing up our statement about being against racism after the abuse on Willock and Bruno, but instead going into the mud-fight with Arteta.