ChrisMcQuillan

Mail+ Exclusive. What a joke.

Oh FFS.

How TF could it be financially challenging if we sell Isak for £130M+?

Bit like me ruling myself out of contention for the "Newcastle-Online Most Optimistic Member Award".

What if you didn't find her, but Ornstein tweeted suggesting she might be looking at other men?

This is honestly what I mean. Writing was on the wall as soon as the "Newcastle rules" were brought in in a panic. I actually have no problem selling Isak, if I knew we had a team of top recruiters ready to use the money properly. But we don't, because we were left to rot for 15 years under Mike Ashley and no one cared - all while the cartel clubs stitched the league up so it couldn't be competitive anymore. Could £130m (or whatever it turns out to be) be transformative? Sure. Every club that has risen up the league has sold talismen at some point when the price was right. I just don't trust us to handle it properly on the evidence of the last year or two. The entire thing is rotten to the core.

We'll find out very shortly whether the Saudis are serious about owning a football club or not.

Fuck football.

Is that true?

Flashbacks to Vurnon Anita.

God, I'd love to be such a prima donna. Imagine a recruiter phoned you up while you're working at your £100,000 a week job and asks if I would be interested in working somewhere else? I then walk out of the office because I am "unsettled by recent developments." Where do you go after that? Home? To try and settle? All of this rubbish is just endless, mindless waffle.

I don't think I'll be renewing my membership either. Won one ballot in the last two seasons, and I just don't have the time to have to go through the meandering maze of steps you have to take to try and get a ticket.

Must've been some great drugs at that party.

100% fully agree with every word in this.

You're brought up to believe there's a general correlation between wealth and ability/competence. Growing up is realising that there rarely is.

Unfortunately that does seem plausible after those quotes. I’d never have said that before. I just can’t understand why Eddie would come out and say what he’s said otherwise.

That’s a really odd thing to say, even if that’s what really happened.

I honestly think part of the problem with pre-season friendlies is them starting to monetise and stream them. You pay money to see something, you develop (rightly or wrongly) the expectation that you might be entertained. Bit different to reading in the Chronicle back in the day that we got thumped away at Arbroath U11s.

All the best, Sean. Really decent lad.

I have work in the morning ffs.

Bloody horrific penalties all round.

Listening to Carragher and the Scousers pronounce his name is gonna be like listening to a typewriter falling down some stairs.

Urgh.

Noticed their fans on Reddit saying we'll have to sell, or they'll just take Ekitike and we'll be shafted by PSR. Not sure that makes any logical sense, as presumably we'll only run the risk of being shafted by PSR if we don't sell Isak and sign Ekitike on top.