Interpolic

Another £12m down the drain.

Thinks he's Axl Rose, this cunt.

I really couldn't care less about this "we want to be number 1" thing. It sounds like something a child would say and I'm happy to treat it as such. Certainly not holding them to it over every little development at the club. Twice under Ashley our goal was to be #1 in the Championship. What we've seen since are our relative glory years and I'm not personally wasting them twisting, worrying and moaning about everything. The sponsorship stuff sounds a slight concern, not ideal but then you'd have said the same or worse about the training ground or stadium a month or 2 back before some news trickled out. PIF seem to operate slowly, talk a load of bollocks and that's before we get started on the horrible human rights issues etc. But as a fan all I longed for under Ashley was a club operating to improve itself, spending what it could on transfers and wages to make it as sportingly competitive as it could be. We've had that so far and then some. "Fuck PIF" when the previous 14 years we were a zombie club, howay man.

Tbh it might be partly why our strategy was to flog Gordon early, if we thought our rep had taken a hit and we needed that sorted before going on a recruitment drive. Just thinking aloud though and maybe taking it too far and talking bollocks, but the journos saying the same thing means they want the message out there anyway.

Think it's necessary for us to redress the narrative somewhat after last summer. Isak and Liverpool had their minions painting us as unreasonable and this Gordon transfer paints a different picture. I want players to feel they can come here and achieve all they want with us but sometimes it ain't going to be possible, so I've no issue saying if you're a good pro, go about it correctly and it's good for all parties we can sell. Easy to say about Gordon mind as I've little attachment to him whereas I was gutted about Isak.

"Usually" Our hit rate before last summer was very good. So what's "usually" - just last summer where the circumstances were extremely unusual? Even that window we ended up with a couple of canny acquisitions in Thiaw and Ramsey. People are really settling into their cosy little misery pits for the summer ahead, eh.

Can go wrestle-fuck the ufc if it doesn't work out for him here.

We had a period of relative level-headedness before all the fucking emos took over.

60% vowels across first name and surname, I hope he's as special as he seems to think he is.

Absurd comparison. Dalglish took over someone else's team that nearly won the league the previous season, was within 3 points of 2nd that season and guided them into 2nd. A bit of credit in the bank for him as a result but not much. We all know what happened after, in his first full season. Howe took over a team joint bottom of the league on 5 points in November and got them well safe on 49 points by the end of the season. Then 4th, 7th, 5th. 2 Champions League campaigns, 1 trophy after decades of waiting, 1 final, various semis and quarters. The scenarios aren't remotely similar.

Fans don't have enough common sense to take it with a huge pinch of salt and basically disregard it? How do they expect us to achieve that under these rules? I don't disagree his comments are fucking stupid but we don't need to match his stupidity.

Anyone who heard Hopkinson's 2030 comments and didn't think "well that's fucking stupid, I'll ignore that" is a loon. Not possible for us to create our own lofty destiny so swiftly with these financial rules. And yet we have some fans choosing to frame any NUFC development in that context. Disingenuous, thick or weird I dunno but it's bloody tedious for certain.

Gonna be a long summer in here with you miserable cunts.

Como getting into CL at the expense of Milan unless the latter can find 2 goals in 10 minutes.

People keep talking about Lewis-Skelly, surely he's not actually going to end up in the squad. He's started 4 PL games all season