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Great kicking from Ramsdale.

Just awful from Wissa. 3 chances where just one of them has to be a goal at minimum.

When we went down 1-0 I thought I just want to see something out of Woltemade or Ramsey. So far that has also yielded few positives.

Easily my least favorite player of the Howe era. He's approaching some Ashley era players for me.

Ramsdale Please leave this man in Manchester.

If you watch Ramsdale through the lens of a comedy sketch then his scrambling backwards becomes quite amusing.

As dull and unfortunate the first 20 minutes have been we've had two legitimate chances to score and failed. That is the story of our season.

Genuinely, what's the alternative? Murphy?

90% sure he clears away the heavy touch. But Ramsdale was desperate to win his one man race to the goal line.

Same old Ramsdale, always retreating

Totally fair, it's very easy to view his resume through two different lenses. Assessing from the outside very much feels like put up or shut up time in terms of his career. He might be spectacular; it might also just be really easy to close deals for Real Madrid and to raise revenue in New York City.

His title was different, but he essentially had the same role as now with MSG.

Rested would be the appropriate term. And he should absolutely be on the pitch for Brentford at home.

Zero faith in Ramsdale and seriously hope this is a one off. Otherwise I like the team and just pray that the back 5 comes out unscathed.

And he still gave a semi-evasive answer. I think you're focusing too much on a very binary trophy / no trophy outcome when it's impossible to have that expectation in any sport. You can't guarantee you finish first at the end of a season or a tournament, but you can (especially as CEO) create the conditions where it is a legitimate ambition.

Absolutely fair to question how that could be possible when there won't be a new stadium within the next four years and maybe, at best, we're opening a new training ground by then. I'm sure there are opportunities, but it is hard to see how they add up to hundreds of million in annual revenue. But that's for him to figure out. That's the line to hold him to though IMO. Competing for all of the trophies regularly means you're not relying on overachieving year over year, which means your revenue needs to be in that competitive space.

A lot of overreaction in here as per usual. Other than when pressed at the end with a very pointed "you're telling us by 2030 Newcastle will be PL champions" which he countered with "that's our ambition" he's not really talking about specifically winning this or that. Obviously that is the hope and the end goal. But it's quite obvious this man is living in one world and that is the world of making more money. I'm quite certain there's some document or slide deck floating around that doesn't say 2030: Newcastle win Premier League; it says 2030: Newcastle eclipse £700m in revenue or 2030: Newcastle in top 10 of Money League. He's talking about being somewhere in here: And if you're in there you can win things if you recruit well and you have a good manager. It's fine if you think he's talking out of his ass -- he might fail spectacularly -- but that is our CEO's league table and it's the right thing for him to be focused on.

Time will tell. But promising for summer flexibility. Also a big risk for the here and now.

Chelsea winning would be beneficial if we're playing them in the CL R16.

I think the odds are high you'll be disappointed based on that.

We're either going to have an extraordinarily busy summer or an underwhelming one.

That's not what I meant. I'm not saying that if Elanga is terrible it's not Eddie's fault because we didn't have a DoF. But read that quote and then imagine the roles we had various people scrambling to fill. People negotiating with slimy agents with minimal experience. The whole thing was likely a gigantic clusterfuck behind the scenes and who knows what turns out different if it's not. Different could mean many things - different players, same players for different money, same players but sooner, literally anything going better with Isak, etc.

Multiple threads revisiting the Chris Wood debate. Please no.

I haven't tried to run any numbers in awhile. It's all become very complicated, especially without the 2024/25 accounts yet. I think we're likely totally fine with room to run by the current PSR rules, but I do wonder if we don't actually have much flexibility using SCR. Presumably we passed UEFA's version for 2025, but it's possible it was quite close as the estimates using 2024/25 and their adjustments on Anderson, etc. had us failing before the summer. I have wondered if we've become very conservative in our planning after June 2024 in which case you'd be thinking: The CL revenue is a one-off If we're not in Europe the SCR threshold becomes 85% but obviously we have European aspirations every season, so we need to remain around 70% If we finish the season around where we are now that's around £20m less in PL merit payments than last season, which would offset roughly a third of CL revenue So I think the pessimistic explanation is maybe it's a little tight and we're pretty risk averse. I think the optimistic explanation is we're going to blow away our revenue records this season and we do have some money to spend, but we have a list of 5-10 (making up numbers) players we're really excited about and we decided we'd rather wait to pursue them in the summer then close those possibilities by signing someone else we're not as excited about. A lot of words to say I really have no idea.

This is probably a highly underappreciated factor in everything that went on in the summer: You could blame Eddie for that if you want to, but I'm not buying that. That's on PIF and Eales for making a number of missteps in the aftermath of Ashworth leaving.