ChrisMcQuillan

Annoyed if he goes.

He was a symbol of the new era, a kind of "we're ready to take football seriously again" statement.

Losing him to Manchester Fucking United of all clubs is a bitter pill to swallow.

That said, he's not the only good Director of Football in the world, and provided we replace well, it's not a huge deal. Good riddance if he jumps ship so quickly.

Just now, Conjo said:

Not one for the eccentric goal celebrations, but genuinely enjoyed that one from Luiz

If that were one of our players, there's a reasonably good chance they would have dislocated both shoulders.

We've definitely changed shape here.

Trippier and Miley playing DM!? 3 at the back. 

It's all over, but definitely looks intentional.

Just now, Pixelphish said:

Honestly no idea how to call this. Could be easily be a landslide either way or score draw.

0-0 draw it is.

Burn better produce a hell of a performance. If he's rinsed and it leads to us shipping goals, it's fully on Howe and inexcusable, tbh.

9 minutes ago, AyeDubbleYoo said:

It was also nowhere near as bad as Murphy's finish

Not sure Murphy actually hit the target from one yard.  

Just now, ponsaelius said:

0.64 XG on that Longy chance  

 

Mate

Less than I thought, tbf.

Feels like Anfield, this.

Nine minutes? WTF?

Just now, Miggys First Goal said:

He certainly didn’t read that about Longstaff on here 

Just now, Jack27 said:

huh whatever happened to Zaniolo being investigated in that betting scandal

Got off with a fine, I think.

West Ham have agreed a deal to sign Kalvin Phillips on loan from Manchester City for the rest of the season, according to reports.  (Mail Sports)

On 16/08/2020 at 16:36, mrmojorisin75 said:

He'll still be here Colback-style in 4 years time cause when Bruce eventually gets jettisoned we'll not be able to get him off the books.

 

Still he'll be good for the champo.

This aged very well indeed. 

1 minute ago, Hhtoon said:

 

Defers revenue to next year maybe? If we're not buying anyone and have nailed FFP for the last 3 years, then there is no benefit to additional revenue in this period. 

Isn’t it done on a rolling 3 year basis, year by year? 
 

In which case revenue is revenue and would benefit a three year period regardless. 

5 minutes ago, oldtype said:

I continue to be puzzled by this narrative. Why do we have to sell one of our best players to “advance to the next stage of the project?” If we sell Bruno for 50m and buy his replacement for 50m how is that helping anything with regards to FFP? Why not just keep the good players we have and spend what we can instead?

I think because if you sell the player for the cash up front, you can spread the replacement across five years, and that has an accounting impact.

So selling Bruno for £50m, you could sign 3x £50m players on three year contracts.

Or something to that effect.

It's nonsense.

Edit: @sushimonster85 explained it better above.

36 minutes ago, The Prophet said:

 

Well, yeah.  

It’s total hindsight. 

39 minutes ago, Yorkie said:

 

We spent all (not 'the bulk') of our budget on reinforcing centre-midfield and full-back with CL quality, and replacing Saint-Maximin. Because that's what we could afford to do. How is it 'one hell of a failure'? What should we have done differently? Choose differently because we should've expected a ten-month gambling ban, and an apparently rare long-term foot injury suffered by a player with an exemplary injury record?

 

The transfer window wrought some excellent signings, by your own argument, we've just been stupidly unlucky. 

I’m not arguing that they weren’t sensible transfers given what we knew. And whats transpired is unlucky, no doubt. 
 

Every transfer is a gamble in football. We gambled and lost. 
 

We are happy to call transfers successful, these haven’t been for this season, therefore they’re a failure, surely?

I’m not necessarily ascribing blame to anyone in this, but I would argue it’s been a failure of a window for this season. 
 

A couple of good seasons out of those players and they might turn out to be successful long-term. 

I think a 10th placed finish is pretty realistic at this moment in time - particularly if we don't sign anyone meaningful.

Would be a bit of a kick in the teeth. As others have said, whether you consider it a failure is probably down to your personal take.

FFP has us hamstrung, and injuries have been horrific.

But we ultimately spent the bulk of our transfer budget on:

• Tonali
• Barnes
• Livramento
• Hall (loan fee/future fee/potentially)

Bar Livramento, who's been excellent when on the pitch, that's one hell of a failure of a window. Assuming we don't do much this window, this season's transfer business will be looked back on as very poor, at least in the short term.

It doesn't feel like what we wanted to do this year has come off, therefore, IMO, the season will have been a failure.

The real question is who will we end up losing through regression of that scale? You might got another season out of most of them, but would be a miracle not to lose a star or two from that outcome.

1 minute ago, Amir_9 said:

What can you even say, the injuries have absolutely finished this season. Be happy if we finish 7th at this rate.

We won’t get anywhere near 7th. 

Rodri hassling the ref on the way off...

27 minutes ago, huss9 said:

me and the bairn were among those handing out the red cards - i think they were red - got a lot of abuse outside and inside the ground.

one of the reasons we moved our seats to the gallowgate.

I was handing flyers out (I think that day).

Got some absolutely vile abuse outside the ground.

4 minutes ago, r0cafella said:

Let’s not push Our best striker to the flanks. 

Okay, cool, let's have Gordon break down instead. 

41 minutes ago, St1pe said:

I’m not sure a striker even changes much for us at the moment. Isak is clearly first pick with Wilson backup. Assuming Wilson isn’t out too long any striker is either going to be 2nd or 3rd choice. Seems pointless this window. 

Depends. Allows you to push Isak out on the left and rest Gordon, who we're really in dire straits without should he get injured.

3 hours ago, Tisd09 said:

The inconsistency with dissent is really irritating, everyone could see what Jorginho says to the ref, the ref even calls him over for a chat and yet gets nothing and of course a perfect example was the Liverpool v Man Utd game and Dalot gets sent off yet Nunez gets sod all ?

Watching it like that, it's outrageous.

1 minute ago, MrRaspberryJam said:

It’s not just Newcastle players that do it Chris everyone does?

Okay, I'll outline it if you're struggling.

1. We're discussing players in the Arsenal v Liverpool match having holes cut in their socks.
2. @OoOGazOoO asked why Arsenal players had holes cut in their socks.
3. I explained the rationale behind it, and highlighted that some Newcastle players do it as well.
4. As demonstrated above, given the context of the thread, I am aware that not only Newcastle players do it.

Hopefully this helps.