Away Toon

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.

Everybody suggests Howe but without any indication that he would want to come here. He would be mad to even consider it.

Twatter nonentities are been given a platform by dickheads posting their shit on here. Start banning them please.

It's all actually just fucking glorious at the moment and long may it continue.

What is really frightening is that we aren't any better without Shelvey than with him.

It's on USA over here for some strange reason.

Rather than trying to coach Murphy in to something he's not suited to be, how about buying a RWB or playing 4 at the back. Manquillo is a good enough RB.

Not sure why so many people are confident we won't be in a relegation battle this season unless everyone thinks there are so many teams much worse than us. Norwich look poor, Southampton will struggle but nobody else looks particularly worse than us. Wilson or ASM get injured, Willock doesn't score every game, the defense and midfield remain as shit as we know they are, trouble is coming. Bring it on.

Kneeling is an act of submission not sure it's sending the right message about racism, Zaha certainly doesn't think so. I'd be all in favour of the black players doing a black power salute before the game that would rile up the racist wankers among our and Burnley's supporters.

Grealish without goals is a very expensive 100m.

We are going to have to score a lot of goals every game to get three points. Playing 5 at the back means having wing backs, not converted wingers. feel sorry for Woodman with this defense in front of him.

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta could turn to Newcastle United's 24-year-old English goalkeeper Freddie Woodman, after failing to sign Sheffield United and England goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale, 23. (Chronicle)

Me too. They would have beat us.

Bought for the same reason Lewis, ASM, Almiron and Joe Linton were, make a profit a season or two down the line. We would make a profit on ASM, but a loss on the others. My bet is if we want to sell Willock in a couple of years we lose out on him as well. A shit policy for a shit club.

Newcastle United have enquired about signing 24-year-old English defender Nathaniel Phillips from Liverpool. (Athletic, subscription required

For the hard of thinking, he doesn’t need to be paid to play football by them, his world wide income from sponsorships and image rights is plenty enough to get by on. Now that would make him a legend, play for free.

He could just stay at Barcelona

Newcastle have expressed an interest in signing England Under-21 midfielder Oliver Skipp, 20, on loan from Tottenham. (Mail)

From the BBC Transfer Gossip Newcastle United have enquired about a possible move for Juventus' 30-year-old Wales midfielder Aaron Ramsey. (Goal) Newcastle United are looking to sign 21-year-old French midfielder Boubacar Kamara from Marseille for about £10m. (Mail)

Do we actually know what Bruce's salary is? Presumably the lowest in the PL?