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Definitely. I can't believe Serie A clubs overlooked him too.

If we could sell him and replace with a versatile forward like Thuram it would be an incredible move.

The +22 goal difference has appeared by magic.

So Maxi doesn't hit the target with his crosses. Joelinton doesn't even attempt to cross the ball from that position, man We all know he offers more than that obviously (particularly centrally) but you need other things to win football matches. At the moment our squad is far too limited to not at least have Maxi as a twelfth/thirteenth man IMO.

As good as we've been this season we can't go on playing Joelinton as a wide forward in home games against weaker sides. Especially if Bruno is injured. We need more creativity in and around the team. It was great to be able to bring Maxi and Isak off the bench and offer something different. Both were not at their sharpest but made a very positive influence on the momentum of the match.

Lack of creativity in our current line-up when Trippier’s crossing is shite is massively noticeable. It nearly cost us again today. Maxi made a positive difference in the second half. It’s nuts to suggest otherwise.

All of the top four leagues have had four guaranteed places since then with no qualifiers. Shite if you ask me - but suits us if we get in.

This season? The 4th placed clubs haven't played a qualifier since 2017

Conference League these days, I'm afraid.

I'm usually a defender of him anyway but thought he was really good today.

Yeah I like Longstaff but he's been dreadful as the deepest midfielder every time. Negates everything he's been doing well. We need a signing there now for sure.

Christ, that doesn't look good for Bruno. Can see him being out for a little while unfortunately.

Think our biggest problem at the moment is actually that Trippier and Wilson have gone off the boil quite a bit.

Definitely need a midfield signing. Just the thought of Bruno getting injured is horrifying.

Prosaic this. Still not a fan of this left hand side at home.

Lovely quotes from him. Glad he's doing well in the PL.

Cracking player but doesn't seem like the kind of signing we'd make tbh. You'll know if there is anything in it early tomorrow as they play at 11:30am

I believe this incident further underlines the need to extend the metro line to Ponteland and urbanise the lot of it. Who knows just how many are drink driving to get home.

Personally don't see the point in going down like if you don't have a ticket. Either go to the match or watch it in Newcastle.

Really poor. Know loads of people who do similar mind. As far as I'm concerned it's a total cunt's trick.

He'd give us something different to most of our midfielders apart from Bruno tbf. He's a good technical player. But I do find his lack of athleticism really stark.

Very good performance all round that.

How do you know it was definitely him? I can't buy for a second he was anywhere close to getting in the France squad tbh. He's never even been suggested for a call up. There were players who have been involved in recent squads (IE Diaby) who didn't get called up.

Keown said well machined oil during the game yesterday

One thing that I have noticed having spent time in both Bradford and Leeds recently is that you do see lots of Liverpool and Man Utd shirts - and people openly supporting them in pubs. Certainly to a far greater extent than I have ever seen in Newcastle tbh.