Away Toon

He's a winger who relies on speed, he doesn't have a trick and isn't a great dribbler. He's very poor man's Harvey Barnes who also beat's defenders with his pace but who has excellent stats for goals and assists. We could buy Barnes for less than Gordon today and well might if Leicester go down.

The Brighton game is a good opportunity for Howe to show us what a good coach he is. Everyone knows how Brighton play and it is possible to negate their strengths as Everton did recently. We will have a better idea after the match how high Eddie's ceiling is.

We will probably finish higher than Brighton but I honestly think they are better than us and when they play us that normally shows.

Brighton look excellent, pretty much as usual. I'm sure Howe is watching this and coming up with a plan to prevent them completely overrunning us in midfield. If Bruno and the Joe's play like yesterday we'll be in trouble. Hope Longstaff is back.

This joe as a midfielder has to stop. Wide left attacking or on the bench.

ASM and Gordon I'd never play either of the cunts again. Just fucking awful.

The world's champion bottlers bottling again.

Fuck me we are playing awful.

Let's hope that this club isn't going to once again fuck us over. Nervous about this one.

Surely nobody who lives in the NE or has done wants the return of the dreaded derby? We are always expected to win so if we do it means fuck all, and yet when we lose which we have a nasty habit of doing it's soul destroying.

We’ve got Leeds and Leicester who are likely to be relegated and the worst Chelsea team for decades. Brighton are good but we are at home. If we don’t finish 3rd or 4th it will be because we bottled it rather than someone else deserving it.

Bit controversial but I’d be looking to upgrade Pope with a goalkeeper with some semblance of footballing ability. Either that or instruct the players to never pass the ball back to him.

Doubt it, Pep would never pick him, ever.

Without Longstaff's physicality we are being overran in midfield.

We don't normally play well without Longstaff so it will be interesting to see how we manage without him.

We are going to get what we deserve ultimately and that's all we can really hope for.

Hw would have definitely improved us.

So with Liverpool looking likely to pick up maximum points from their remaining games, we will soon find out if as a club we've grown a pair since the League Cup Final surrender or if we are still paralyzed by half a century of failure. Hopefully the latter starting by beating Arsenal on Sunday which should just about clinch it.

England midfielder Mason Mount has one year left on his contract and is yet to sign a new deal with Chelsea. Liverpool, Manchester United and Newcastle are all interested in the 24-year-old. (Mail Sport) Newcastle United boss Eddie Howe will have a transfer budget of up to £150m to spend this summer with Arsenal and Scotland left-back Kieran Tierney, 25, among the targets. (Sun)** Newcastle are monitoring Roma's Brazil centre-back Roger Ibanez, 24. (Nicolo Schira) Newcastle will consider selling French winger Allan Saint-Maximin, 26, this summer. (Football Insider)

Should get a better idea after today if the owners and management have started to change the losers DNA that has stunk up the club for the last 50 years, this seasons cup final not being a positive sign. We as a club have to start winning the key games that matter and today is one of them.

Why would anyone blame Burn, he's not picking himself to play left back which is not his position.

Nobody said that, just that Emery is better.

Nobody is writing Gordon off certainly not me, he just doesn't look particularly good so far especially for the money we paid. I personally don't know why we bought him, the position he plays was certainly not the highest priority to upgrade.

I honestly can't remember anyone on here thinking buying Gordon for 45m was a good idea.

Emery has won at least 10 major trophies in his career. Rice was by far the best player when we played them both home and away and everyone on here would like us to buy him. What's your point?