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I disagree… I think it paints is as the club been shafted by the corrupt premier league and in turn the “big” 6

Murphy... The humour I think

I think anyone in football or anyone that has played the game will agree that what Schar did, although stupid, didn't warrant a red card. Then they will say "but that's the letter of the law" in relation to the rulebook. What they have just done is prove to themselves and everyone else that the rulebook is wrong and needs changing to punish the blatant cheating that is happening. Because nothing is happening to these players who are effectively bringing the game into disrepute.

I agree in hindsight sometimes it's better to play the longer game.. Sometimes in hindsight it's not. Hopefully the club has this all under control in the background and I, like a lot of people, are just being a bunch of fannies. I will definitely hold my hands up if we sign a couple of quality players and go on a good run. I think it's just ingrained in me to think on the negative side of things after what has went on in the past. Maybe seeing us lift the league trophy this season will rid me of that feeling next year

Not really, the point was that I had hoped we would have been further along with our signings by now, considering how long Eddie likes to bed people in. So surely having players in as quickly as possible would be a huge benefit to him because of this. I know it's not as easy as we would like to sign players, it's just a bit frustrating watching on and knowing how much it could help us in the early part of the season if we had everyone in and up to speed.

To be fair I started my post by saying we shouldn't rush in and buy somebody for the sake of it.

Although I agree we shouldn't just rush in and buy somebody without making sure they are right for the squad, the fact is we have a favourable start to the season. Are we not missing a trick by trying to have a couple of quality players in and hopefully having a flying start to the season? I would have hoped that the club would have also thought this after the fixtures came out. Leicester showed what a good start and momentum and belief can do if things fall right for you.

This is Fucking criminal from Southgate... One enforced sub after 83 mins

Truly the Steve Bruce of international football

A touch of Lua Lua about him from those clips

I know it'll never happen but I would love Newcastle to send an open letter to the premier league asking them to answer various questions, such as how can a rule that was brought primarily to stop debt be used to stop investment from the owners of clubs with enough money to cover that investment hundreds of times over. Also as it's been mentioned, how can they then allow certain clubs to take up debts of close to or over a billion pounds? And if they were to say that future revenues of said clubs would cover the debt, how is that any different to an owner putting money aside to cover any expenditure for their club? I would then love them to put it to them that the only reason this rule has been brought in is for the benefit of the richer clubs. Never going to happen unfortunately.

What an absolute shitshow the premier league has created. I like most people am absolutely sick to the back teeth of hearing about ffp and all that. this is the close season, we have the weathiest owners in the world and we are in the news not for which players we are trying to attract, but instead for either having to sell some of our best players or face points deductions.. And what for? Because after 14 years of having our revenue and club stripped away while the premier league watched on and done nothing about it, we spent in the grand scheme of things, a fairly reasonable about of money to try and rebuild some of the damage that had been done, and challenge once again. Plus we have had to cope with new regulations brought in within days to try and stop us at every turn. The fact that some people at certain clubs can't handle the thought of competition makes me wonder why they bought into the clubs in the first place, as that is what football has always been about.... Competition. Sorry for the rant it's just depressing that this is the narrative and the media is taking such glee in desperately trying to sell our best players to any of the so called elite. I would have thought that the media would love the story of one or two new kids on the block to disrupt the status quo... But I guess they are all too much in the back pockets of a handful of clubs.

Is it just me or is that genuinely the fastest I've ever seen him run?

At my age I was thinking more the Duckie Boys from The Wanderers

I'm sorry but that was a pen all day long

How the premier league can say with a straight face that there's no bias towards the so called big six wankers is laughable. Actually no it's disgusting. It makes me think that the premier league know that at the minute those six clubs have the biggest support worldwide, and in their small and self preserving minds they think that if their darling clubs are knocked off their perch then the global brand will suffer. Only thing I can think of as nothing is ever done about this blatant corruption.

The more noise there is about it makes me think the premier league will make some watered down changes before a challenge in court happens. Just enough to cloud the waters of a challenge, but not enough to upset the cartel and at very least slow down any threat to them.

Mate's with Ashley though isn't he?

Why when I read one of his tweets, am I always hearing it in the voice of Droopy?

While every article in the press like this is a very small step forward, I do believe it's going to take a club to challenge ffp before anything will be done. The premier league won't want to upset the "big" clubs unless their hands are tied.

Would love Gordon to score then pulls out a black curly wig and and moustache and proceeds to give a Harry Enfield Scousers impression of calm down calm down

Surely Gascoigne has to be in?

Haven't read through the thread so probably been mentioned before but Southgate is totally just a younger, more media friendly Bruce. They both have no clue with tactics and rely heavily on individual moments, more so than the average manager. I don't care what anyone says, with the players at his disposal we should be playing so much better. He constantly picks his favourites regardless of form (or where they play).

Hmm I wonder why they didn't do this when Watford were doing it