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I’ll simplify it but it’s one I’ve asked many times and rarely get an answer. If you are a longstanding ST holder that attends regularly would you still be against moving from the current site if it meant you no longer had a ST and you’d have to ballot like those who don’t have one or even no option to attend due to price hikes and therefore watch on TV?

Hopefully you make the next one @Kaizero Take it easy and hopefully you are on the mend now.

Not seeing the hype regarding Leverkusen. Only seen them twice in 12 months and they have looked average in the final against Atlanta and tonight against Liverpool. Appreciate it was an amazing unbeaten run of course.

Unless it’s a peach of a game I’ve not bothered with the UCL group stages for years. So this new format just prolongs the wait before i start to enjoy it.

I think he’d want to be no.1 soon somewhere. Could be wrong of course. He’s 26 now i think.

Would you take their no.2 GK off them when the Georgian arrives?

Would you support it if it was the difference between you being able to attend or miss out and have to watch on TV if we remained and did a small expansion? Probably more a question for @Abacus

Football eh... Great end.

https://www.newcastleunited.com/en/news/newcastle-united-to-implement-consistent-ticketing-timelines

“Special purity…” ffs 🤦🏼‍♂️ 😂

I would say so. It’s members buying tickets then returning them. Imagine also those buying away tickets deciding to returning them also but not 100% sure. ST holders selling their tickets don’t actually involve money unless they are upgrading category during the transfer process in which case the club gets the money direct unrefundable as i know it. Maybe curbing touts returning tickets back late in the day possibly without expense to themselves. I’m sure they will clarify soon!

Hopefully that penny will drop soon with the fans against a massive new stadium 🏟️

When does it get confirmed? Would be funny if Vinny Jr won it

Apparently…

You clearly haven’t had a bad bout of eczema. Can be very debilitating and take weeks to clear before being able to resume training. I’d suspect he’ll be available shortly if not already for this week.

Always suspected he falls into the trap of scoring a nice goal rather than a ruthless no nonsense finish. It’s crept into his penalty taking style a bit so could see the miss at Burnley coming. The Brighton miss reminded me of his home debut when he tried to be too cute one on one (think it was Palace) and fluffed a dink. Chelsea on Sunday he did the hard part then started to think how cool/extravagant he could finish and before he knew it the chance had gone. I still think he looks best as a two or able to float left or right as a wide forward. He’s not a fox in the box player. I appreciate his goal on Sunday makes that statement look silly

So I will return to my point. Which great player have we managed to extract without the club being absolutely desperate? None. They’ve only done business when out of their hands. So to me that limits our market in the division severely. Until a player wants to come so bad the club sets a realistic fee. Guehi didn’t and Palace teased us until the window expired. January window is going to be fascinating. I’ve no idea what’s going to happen and what direction we take. My guess would be abroad.

Best we’ve looked this season until Willock got injured early that half.

I agree with your second point but I think you are being naive if you don’t think clubs are making it more difficult for us. Just remind yourself of their attitudes when there was a sniff of us getting relegated to even loaning some players and the rules they’ve introduced to prevent our progress. Until we are a destination where the players are very keen to head to we’ve an uphill struggle. Hence back to the point I was making we got Barnes because it was a rare opportunity for us to nip in. Had Maddison not been for sale he possibly could’ve ended up at Spurs for example.

Your point was literally the opposite earlier. I’ve just illustrated it was wrong… “This clubs don't want to sell to us narrative is clearly bullshit mind. Given most of our signings are from other British clubs.” Tell me who we’ve signed who a club hasn’t wanted to sell?

Think I was the lone voice when he signed for us and everyone was being blinded by his skill levels and effort not to mention his undoubted charm. I constantly said there was no fear of an Elite club coming in for him and paying £100m. There are levels and he falls into a similar one to Merino at Arsenal. Rolls Royce in many ways but not got that great athleticism that elevates them to the top tier. Our midfield as whole needs a rethink and I still think Tonali creates as many problems as he solves which I reminded people of before his return as if he was the saviour. Solve the midfield problem and add pace to the centre of the defence (probably a connected issue to the midfield problem) and we aren’t far away amongst the top half dozen teams again.

No it’s not. We’ve either got them because club is in distress or player surplus to requirements. Off top of my head… Pope - Burnley relegated. Wood - Release clause. Burn - Surplus as didn’t fit playing style at Brighton. Targett - Surplus and wanted to fund replacements. Tino - Southampton relegated. Hall - Chelsea had 3-4 players ahead of him and needed PSR funds for that accounting period. Gordon - Everton needed £40m to pay creditors off that window for new ground. Barnes - Relegated and in PSR trouble. Ashby - Tribunal Actually similar tales for Bruno, Botman, Isak and Tonali and Ousula. Only Trippier really when club did the player and us a favour. Anyone else we’ve been rebuffed by club or player. We might of. Doesn’t mean he wanted to join us over Chelsea offering longer contract and higher wages overall in package. See Tosin.

Exactly this. It was the opportunity. Too many on here think you scout who you want then just pay the money they are worth and problem solved. Clubs don’t want to sell to us if they can help it. Look at the summer with Guehi. No different how Man Utd messed us about and Chelsea on occasions along with other clubs. Playing a high octane style of football similar to Klopps Liverpool which was basically our blueprint both on and off the pitch it makes sense to get the player on your list WHEN you can. Look at it a different way. Look how hard it’s been to sell two RW’s and replace them. ASM deal was possible. Miggy’s wasn’t so here we are.