Froggy

Oh I know. They "should" have been though right?

Why not? You're the king of "shoulds." "Should be 4 to Bournemouth." "Man United should have lost because Solanke shouldn't have been offside." Well PSG absolutely battered you in that game (4.68xg - 1.40) They "should" have been 4-1 up. So should they have gone through or not?

Well deserved.

"We were robbed by PSG."

He is thee problem. The next biggest problem is that Ten Hag can't see it.

They're not good though. They beat us with two dodgy pens and a deflected goal. Two of which were in the 100th and 101st minute after there was 8 minutes of added time. They're one of only a handful of teams we actually thumped this season. We should have beaten them by 5 or 6 in December. I don't think they're closing the gap. Maybe on us, but not you.

The patience excuse isn't being bought by anyone. Ten Hag is making all the wrong decisions and saying all the wrong things now and starting to lose support. When he complained about injuries we agreed, as our defensive injuries are unprecedented. The issue now though isn't the defence, it's the gaping hole in our midfield, and the midfield three of Casemiro, Mainoo and Fernandes is full strength. His tactics are responsible. We can obviously get away with it to an extent when we have Shaw, Martinez and Varane at full fitness, but not when it's Maguire and Kambwala in the middle with Wan Bissaka at left back. Newcastle have actually set an example and shown how you can be competitive and still control games despite a multitude of injuries. Brentford battered us despite their entire back four being missing. There's no excuses anymore. He needs to change his philosophy until he has the right players or he'll lose his job. Continuing to start players like Rashford and Casemiro with these tactics will be the end of him.

With all due respect to Leicester, they're not Newcastle United. The spending is based on revenue like you said, and in my opinion your revenue will rocket, allowing you to spend more and pay higher wages. The gap will close. It might be slow, but it will close.

With a revenue 1/3 of ours.

Even when we play well we still give up a lot of chances. Limit us to 1 goal and you win the game.

An extremely strange thought process. You spent heavily and have already broke into the status quo. You're already easily a better side than us and Chelsea and I'd say arugably better than Spurs.

Agreed.

I never suggested you can match those clubs. I'm saying you've spent as much on transfers as those clubs. Simply in reply to a comment that you cannot spend, when the proof is that you absolutely can spend. Your revenue is already up 36%, and will continue to grow, and so will your spending in line with that. And see my point about infrastructure above. State of the art facilities will be on their way. You might have a few less injuries for example when those come into play. What's this weird obsession with trying to act like you aren't rich now? I just don't get it.

I'm not even criticising, that's the thing. I just refuted one comment that is simply not true. I'm not suggesting Newcastle are even remotely close to level footing, financially, with the "big 6." I'm just arguing that saying "we can't spend" is just false.

Original comment that I refuted was: "We're not allowed to spend." You need to either be any combination of braindead, insanely biased, or willfully ignorant to suggest that's true.

There's captain miss-the-point in again with zero substance. Have a day off just once.

Leverkusen were third the season before Alonso took over. After 8 games he took over in October and he finished 6th. Newcastle finished 12th under Bruce the season before Howe took over. After a horrible start he took over in November and you finished 11th. Ten Hag took over after we had finished 6th. We had went out of the league cup in the third round, the FA Cup in the 4th round and got to the last 16 of the Champions League. He took us to third place, won the league cup, final of the FA Cup and quarter final of the Europa League. To suggest Ten Hag's impact was nothing like the others is simply false. To say we've gone backwards while the other managers have kept momentum going is undeniably true.

For now.

That would never happen at us. Our fanbase as a whole is generally against sacking managers, rightly or wrongly. I wouldn't want Potter over Ten Hag, but I'd much rather him than Southgate. Until we have someone who can make the difficult decisions and not base team selection on how much the player is making per week, we're in trouble.

I agree that while you're playing catchup, you have less room to make mistakes. I do think you're able to invest to high levels though. FFP is solely talking about player sales as well. There's nothing stopping your owners building state of the art infrastructure which will also lead to increased player performance and success. Look at City's facilities, they're nothing short of mindblowing and it was all done in a relatively short period of time. It's a waiting game, but I can't see anything other than success with that wealth behind you.

Do you genuinely not think the rules are better for football? Well supported clubs like Newcastle will prosper regardless. If there was nothing done about this the entire league would have been owned by America, Saudi and Qatar in 20-30 years. Your revenue is growing dramatically by the way. Up 36% on the year before. Your commerical revenue up two thirds. Players like Hendrick and Dummett won't be there for much longer. You've spent big on some great players but were still able to drop £30-40m on prospect full backs like Hall and Livramento who weren't even starting for you. They'd bloody start for us. Like I said, it's only a matter of time. In my humble opinion.

That was the entire point though wasn't it. You've spent the same as Man United and Man City since the takeover, and more than Liverpool and Arsenal despite thsoe clubs dwarfing yours in every way financially. Your revenue will grow extremely fast, and your spend will increase. It's all about patience. You're going to be at the top soon.

We will see. The last financials report I read from Kieran Maguire seemed to suggest you would be able to spend quite a bit this summer when the CL revenues and new sponsorships kick in.

It's not different at all. The starting base is irrelevant since the takeover. We couldn't sign anyone in January because of FFP and our revenue is triple what yours is. I don't know why you think these rules only apply to your club. I'm sure you'll drop another £100-150m in the summer, same as us.

No doubt you pay for your players up front too, while we owe over £300m in player installments. Rich bastards.