Away Toon

When the twat Owen made his debut, 2007 maybe.

Newcastle United plan to make a move for Napoli and Senegal centre-back Kalidou Koulibaly, 30, as they look to bring in a marquee signing. (Football Insider) Burnley defender James Tarkowski, 28, could become one of Newcastle's first signings since the takeover of the club, while the Magpies have also discussed fellow England player Jesse Lingard, with the 28-year-old attacking midfielder's contract at Manchester United running out next summer. (Sunday Telegraph) Newcastle are also interested in bringing in Paris St-Germain and Argentina striker Mauro Icardi, although Tottenham and Juventus are also keen on the 28-year-old. (Calciomercato, via Mail on Sunday) The Tyneside club's new owners are set to sack Magpies manager Steve Bruce next week. (Sunday Mirror) Former Newcastle owner Mike Ashley is interested in a takeover of Championship club Derby County, who are in administration. (Sunday Mirror)

Pep doesn't think so.

They don't have good enough defenders individually and there isn't much Martinez can do about that. They could be coached to be better as a defensive unit maybe.

Another random name John Stones, not good enough apparently for City but certainly good enough for us this season.

I would have thought trying to buy a combination of the best players from the smaller clubs along with the good players from the bigger clubs who don't get to play much would be a good start. That would fill out the squad with lots of reasonably good players who could be upgraded further down the line. Initially we need to stay up and show serious signs of progress by the end of the season. So Maitland Niles from Arsenal, Perez maybe from Leicester, Winks from Spurs that kind of player from the more successful clubs and then the likes of Tarkowski and McNeil from Burnley, Sarr from Watford, Partey from Brighton etc. I know that I forgot Mbappe and Pulisic but I dont think we will be in that market for 2/3 years.

Although we all want the takeover and it does appear increasingly likely now, it's hard to be completely convinced that its that definite, because even what was once the respectable and reliable press has now become a bunch of click bait greedy wankers. You would like to think The Times, Telegraph, Athletic would only print something they are convinced is true but for years now we know this is no longer the case.

Meanwhile the almost certainly reality is " We'll offer you 299m" MA replies "I want 300m" PIF " Okay then, but if the club gets relegated because well you know Steve Bruce, you pay us back a 150m" MA replies and yes you've guessed it "Deals off"

Foden is a much better player than Grealish in the wide left position, so why did they buy Grealish again? Can't see where else he's going to play and be effective.

Wolves are actually really shit so it shows are utterly terrible we are. Hope we lose.

Of course not. However they are on an upward trajectory and we are doing the opposite , we'll probably meet in the middle next season. And you know they will be more ambitious than us so while they aspire to rise and get better we will continue to sink and stink up what ever league we are in.

Twice as good in fact.

Sunderland's prospects look a lot better than ours do.

Sunderland's prospects look a lot better than ours do.

Get the feeling we are going to score, wake up Leeds you useless bastards.

Really hope that we lose badly. There are two cancers at the club, Ashley who the supporters who go to the games support and Bruce. We cant get rid of Ashley but if it's toxic enough maybe we can get rid of Bruce.

Great assist by Bellingham, already England's best midfielder.

Keep this twitter shit where it belongs in the brain dead thread. Every subject is now polluted with pointless stupid twitter crap, stop posting it.

I do want us to get taken over, but not by the Saudi’s or the Taliban

England's biggest problem apart from Southgate, is playing with both Rice and Philip instead of just one of them, the lack of a creative midfielder (Bellingham), having Walker as the starting right back and having both Mount and Sterling being completely ineffectual in most matches.

Anything from Twitter should go in the braindead thread where it belongs, instead it's everywhere.

I'd ban any fucker who posts twitter stuff on here.

I don't believe that there will be a takeover involving the Saudi's and don't want one either. One day Ashley will sell the club and hopefully it will be someone who isn't a complete dick like himself, or a bunch of desert fascists who we have absolutely nothing in common at all. Might as well have the Taliban as PIF.

Steve Bruce is an English football (soccer) manager and former player who has a net worth of $40 million

Rafa apparently was paid 6m a year, Bruce is on a pittance relatively speaking. No decent manager is going to come here unless they get the going rate for managing in the premier league which Ashley doesn't appear to want to pay. I presume Bruce is the lowest paid manager in the league.