Tiresias

how is that a yellow not a red shocking ref

you guys are way ahead of my sky feed lol

ffs

for gods sake get the kick in teh box

Anderson good there

From the athletic: Yasir Al-Rumayyan, Newcastle’s chairman and governor of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), and the club’s ownership team were so enthralled by Saint-Maximin’s display that they requested an audience in the tunnel to bestow praise upon him. Think he may get that contract lol

This is all wearing a bit thin

I mean Miggy maaaaybe but no Joelinton...

I think the ideal balance would be a very technical passer alongside Bruno and Joelinton who would sit deeper. Shelvey did very well in this role but i still fear his normal decline in effort will set in when he's back from injury, and he is also very ambitious with his passing which can be good. Bruno I am happy sitting deeper and more defensive as a necessity but if he is freed to rampage forward more the better. I also think we have learnt how to play with high intensity very well, the next is we need to get better at slowing games down and just passing it around when we have a comfortable lead. Our players at the moment are more suited for full steam a head, a patient player behind would give us that plan b

Is he near end of contract? Confused why they would sell him

I wonder if the hierarchy in Italy have agreed and that is source saying deal done but club side they still don't want to sell and haven't received orders overriding that yet and thats the source for most the journos.

Actually getting a little annoyed about all the talk about where we can finish (the squad is way too thin for some of the really optimistic suggestions imo), can we just not care for now? This season is just about consolidating, can we have a really fun, no pressure season where we're not stressing every game about relegation for the first time in ages and just enjoy games like this? I would like a decent cup run too mind but I don't want to have the pressure and worry about where can we finish. It's been so long, we're not going to go down, lets have some fun for the first time in 20 years

Watching back De Bruyne's pass for Silva's equalizer is pure filth

There's Cole Palmer who gets some minutes now and then. Jack Harrison and Jadon Sancho would have got to the first team for any other premier league squad (unless Sancho's Man U form is permanent)

Got to love unnecessary signings, remember when Everton signed about 4 no 10s in one window

I was impressed by Tuchel, I know they were fragile last season but considering what was going on behind the scenes thought somewhat understandable. But I don't really understand what his teams are doing, I get he wants to dominate possession and isn't going for quite the high intensity of Liverpool. This has worked out in his favour, he won the champions league because he controlled the ball and defended well. The Lukaku debacle seemed predictable, I thought he'd still score plenty but Chelsea build up so patiently to the point of boredom. Now they have signed Sterling who I think will be excellent but he hasn't made use of a very deep bench of excellent players, I don't know what Havertz does and it basically seems to be play all the wingers and wide players and then no-one up top, and we will pass it around a lot till a wing back scores a pile driver. It's such a confusing job. Heard some Chelsea fans referring to him as a fraud and thought they were spoiled twats but starting to wonder what Tuchel's plan is now he has plenty of time to build the squad how he wants...

I mean if they did would be wonderful for Wilson left alone in acres Which should be the point but Miggy bless him isn't much of a threat so we have failed to take advantage too often of ASM being crowded out.

Yeah if you took back all their spending on players and spent it wisely they should be winning the league and champions league. The neglect of the stadium is criminal, and that debt may become an issue one day. The thing is I think signing players with big social media presence is part of the business plan, they want to make biggest social media engagement with signings to keep the money rolling in for marketing. I was reading about how their scouting department is actually big and they like to boast about how big a database of players they have, but then they ignore that completely so they're a total waste of time. Mentioned scouts watching teams feeling like doesn't really matter if they spot a gem nothing will happen, it's a weirdly pointless situation. Just sort of performatively doing what a football club should do and then trying to sign Rabiot instead (and then being shocked when he's a pain to deal with and they can't get it done)

Pope - 9 Trippier - 8 Schar - 7 Botman - 6 Burn - 8 Bruno - 7 Joelinton - 9 Willock - 6 ASM - 10 Wilson - 8 Almiron - 7

Its ludicrous isn't it. Still think we need to help him out with another midfielder who can pass it around defensively

Absolutely unplayable today. Love it. However always going to have space to run into with City, he needs to work out what to do against more circumspect teams that double up on him, still showed he still has it.

Blowing the 2 goal lead is always going to be hard to take but we had given everything by 60 minutes and they can sub on worldies. Well done. Allan St Maximan was immense. Defenders have had better days (Pope hasnt probably lol) but they are the best in the league

ffs murphy

pope saves us again

longstaff you idiot