Novocastrian

What do we think the budget is? In my mind, and based on absolutely nothing, I’ve imagined us dropping around £120m. About £80m plus £40m from sales. As I say I’ve just plucked those figures out of my arse.

Olise is being courted by the ESL conspirators, we are finding it difficult to go head to head with them for players. The value for us is on the continent, we can then turn those £20m/£30m rough gems into £80m players.

The next time he has anything to do with NUFC he’ll be upside down in the box, wondering how the fuck he got into that position, as Isak side steps his challenge and strokes the ball past the keeper to put us 4-0 up.

Disappointing but it seems the ‘free transfer’ element of the deal was key. He’d obviously been profiled but would we have been interested at £30/£35m? He’ll now sit on Chelsea’s bench whilst Howe would have got him into the England set-up.

Needed some new running kit and I’d always favoured Nike t-shirts and shorts. Just started buying Adidas replacements. I’m a marketing man’s dream me!

Willock was a better player than Gordon not that long ago. He has a high ceiling, he needs an injury free season in a settled team to continue progressing. No way I’d sell him.

His reputation does seem to exceed his current level.

If Leeds are having a fire sale would anyone consider Meslier? He’s been one of the most highly rated young keepers for a few seasons.

Don’t know the veracity of these latest claims but if Bruno leaves for City he’s not the man I thought he was.

This is the system the ‘Red’ teams built for their own self aggrandisement. City turned the tables on them and are maximising their advantages. Now it’s ’not fair’. They could allow teams like us and Villa to actually compete by allowing our owners to spend but that would further endanger their little club.

The only two players I worry about with the ball at their feet are Pope and Burn. Even Lascelles has improved a lot on the ball. Probably a bit unfair on Burn but when he’s at LB he’s more exposed and we’ve seen how much better Hall is at taking the ball and picking a pass.

Always surprises me how high Tony Cottee is on the all time list (17th). Post war, only Greaves, Shearer, Lofthouse, Rush and David Herd are above him. Although Harry Kane is one goal behind him.

Been a member almost continuously since the memberships were brought in before the ground expansion. The promise was you would get first dibs on a season ticket which was true I got a season ticket after the re-development. I miss the days when a membership got you a nice gift and almost guaranteed you a ticket for most matches. Last season I got to one game and bought three memberships (two adult and a child).

Leeds are amongst the biggest cunts in the entire football pyramid. People just forgot because they spent almost two decades in the Champ/L1 and Bielsa made them enjoyable to watch for a time.

I don't generally get attached to players but from the outset it was clear he was a bit different. I'll be gutted if and when he leaves. Saying that the Carroll transfer hit me harder than Gazza, Beardsley et al, it was just so totally pointless and the player was worth more to us than the money we received. I started out in the morning laughing at the links with Liverpool and followed the saga throughout the whole day, broke my heart.

I hope so because it would be spectacular, I’m just wondering where their thinking is. A total rebuild on the same site or an extension to Gallowgate and a clever re-design of the East Stand to take us to 60k+.

Just slapping an extra tier on the Gallowgate and tarting up the East Stand would seem like an opportunity lost but do we really believe PIF are going to invest upwards of a billion quid for a state of the art stadium?

Hopefully they’ll avoid Castore’s total ineptitude, such as not having any shirts in stock for the first game of the season.

Klopp getting well and truly sucked off on Sky. The ‘net spend champions’

Are Arsenal ‘chasing’ Haaland and Foden too? That’s about as likely as them getting Isak or Bruno.

Came on here just to say this!

It’s the inconsistency I don’t get, so frustrating, from battering Spurs to this

The Liverpool/Arsenal meltdown on Twatter is epic, will keep me going for days in between Teams calls next week.

City are benefiting from being ‘Big 6’ but they didn’t build the system - they gatecrashed it. They were fairly half hearted ESLers in fairness. I’d always prefer them to the American Red venture capitalists.

Even though the game was gone those Argy twats were trying to wind him so he got a card.