Stifler

What do you expect them to do? We lost a game against a team who have had 70’s years of outspending us. Do they have to make an announcement after every defeat?

I’ve said it before, but I honestly don’t think Bruno gets a move upwards now. He’s a great player, but he’s not Real Madrid good, and at the age of 29, Man Utd should be looking at the next Bruno. I can believe rumours about Tonali, and Livramento. I can believe that some teams might look at Osula and think they can get something out of him, or some Turkish team will be stupid enough to pay us what we paid for Wissa. I can believe that there will be massive interest in Hall, although I doubt his interest in a move right now. I find it hard to believe that any team is looking at Bruno and thinking that there is value in him at £80m-£100m.

It seems like the club will be borrowing the money for the new stadium/upgrades. In that case it’s not a case of them not having the money to just spend. Additionally, it’s well known that the TV rights are undervalued, largely because of the 3pm blackout, but for other reasons as well. Once that situation has cleared, the value of Premier League teams will sky rocket. This is why Chelsea’s owners are throwing money at them hoping it sticks. It’s why in recent years the owners of Liverpool, Man Utd, Arsenal, and Spurs have resisted takeover attempts.

So this is why I couldn’t find a link, because it’s news about upgrades for now to SJP that we knew about 2 weeks ago?

Any link?

Can’t wait to spend the next few weeks hearing about how magical European nights at Anfield are.

The trouble is they could, but it wouldn’t surprise me if the Premier League came out with a ruling which demoted us, then fought it in the courts whilst we were in the Championship with them voting in new rules which state that they won’t give a Premier League licence to an ownership group who have taken them to court.

Beat Birmingham 2-0.

1-1, we win 4-5 on penalties.

Not only this, but that same person scored the winner against us and did an airplane celebration in the same season we lost 2 fans who died in a plane crash that they were on to watch NUFC.

Was Liam Rosenior ever even a club captain? Nothing about him looks to be a leader.

He turned down the job of managing us.

Didn’t someone mention that it allows us to borrow for a new training ground and new stadium without the interest being calculated towards our expenses?

Chelsea had a transfer ban not long ago for tapping up players and paying agents under the table. This should have been a much bigger punishment, new owners or not.

He’s 15 in the same way American movies will have people in their 20’s and 30’s play 15 year old high school kids.

Means the ban will only be applied if they repeat the same offences, in this case in a 2 year period.

So fuck, we are still suffering from his actions.

If we can’t spend more money because our previous owner fucked our commercial revenue for 14 years, then they should still be fully sanctioned for their previous owners actions.

Watching the reaction after the match. You have Bruno from Brazil who 5 years ago wouldn’t have known what a Newcastle was now with Geordie kids and in tears of winning a trophy. You have Shay Given, an Irish farmers son who’s loving it just as much as the fans. You have Sam Fenders name on every NUFC shirt that was on the pitch as we won a trophy. We might and hopefully will win more trophies in future, but will it mean as much to the players then as it did a year ago? Will Eddie Howe take a holiday and go to Budapest?

The Liverpool goal man. I was so nervous that I went to a piss, huge queue, I’d already seen that he looked onside, came back and it still hadn’t been given. From the moment they initially scored to the final whistle felt like a whole other match. It took a couple of seconds after the final whistle to register that the game was over because I was still expecting the referee to allow another 2 minutes. Maybe it didn’t, maybe it was just time going in slow motion for me. The final gets played again on Sunday, neither clubs fans will experience what we did that day.

I remember I was not as excited as I was for the first final, but a few days beforehand I had started thinking about what I’d do if we won, and the thought of what I would do if we lost never entered my mind. I got an early Metro up to town, people were on the Metro with their shirts on, everyone was calm. Getting off at SJP town was typical Sunday dead, except for pockets of fans around bars. You just felt like it was the calm before the storm and that this city was just ready to explode. I remember meeting up with @BlazeT44 and his mam was asking me what I thought, and I told her this. I remember when we won I phoned my stepdad who got me into football and who we almost lost a few weeks before to tell him that we had done it. I couldn’t hear if I got through to him or his voicemail, to this day I still don’t know. I remember then ringing my fiancée to tell her that we had done it and she already knew and was happy for me. Like @Dokko my year since then went downhill, starting just 2 days later when fiancée broke up with me, and everything afterwards. I’ll always have that day though, those moments. I don’t even hate Isak as much as others because he still gave us that moment.

He left Chelsea where he was getting game time for them to come to us because he’s a boyhood fan. Give him a good enough contract and he’ll go nowhere.

I’d also add that Man Utd, Liverpool, and Arsenal are who got us on this road as well, and that is before the influx of the Americans. They commercialised themselves, Man Utd even did it back in the 50’s, then came back in the 90’s to do so. Liverpool were globalising themselves on the back of their 80’s success, and Arsenal on the back of what Wenger brought. They all went out courting customers from other countries, mostly from America. Man Utd were probably the biggest commercial success in football in the 90’s and early 2000’s, even ahead of Real Madrid. Man Utd in particular would buy players from other countries just to maximise shirt sales. Liverpool had club stores open in Belfast and Dublin. Arsenal positioned themselves as the Southern alternative. All of them were the ones who wanted the Premier League break away in the first place, and only involved the likes of Spurs, and Everton into that to try and get some support, and I guess for both Arsenal and Liverpool, them breaking away wasn’t going to happen if they didn’t have their derby bro’s follow them, at that time they still needed their ‘legacy fans’. It’s going to get worse as well. I’ve banged on in the SJP thread for a while now how we are on the brink of a stadium revolution of sorts. I fully expect sooner or later for Liverpool to decide to build a new mega stadium. Man Utd will get theirs, it won’t be 100k in capacity and won’t have the clown tent, but they will get it. Arsenal are just waiting for the London mayor, and central government to provide funding to TFL for improvements to nearby tube stations, and they will expand the Emirates. Make no mistake, they are wanting to pull away even further.

The lowest a league place will get you Europe is 8th. That requires 5 Champions League places, and the cup winners to already qualify for Europe via the league. It is virtually assured that England will receive a 5th Champions League spot. It is almost impossible for us to drop that requirement. With the placing of both Arsenal and Man City, it’s also likely that the Conference League place will drop to the league. The biggest outstanding issue currently is the FA Cup place, and considering the teams left, you would assume the winner of the FA Cup will be a team who finish in the top 8, and likely top 6. If Villa do not finish in the top 5, but finish in the top 8 (European place) and win the Europa League, then we will lose either a Europa League or Conference League slot and Villa will gain a Champions League slot. If Forest win it, then Forest like Spurs last year will just gain a Champions League slot without England having to give up a European slot. The same applies for Crystal Palace and Europa League slot if they win the Conference League and fail to finish in the European places via the League.

They could build a new 85k capacity stadium on Stanley Park, fill it week in week out, and you would still be able hear the birds nesting in the trees over them outside of their 2 minute pre/post match speaker rendition of YNWA.