Tiresias

Pretty sure 90% of his communications could be classed as malicious. No doubt will make a lot of hay over being rounded up by keir's woke police or whatever nonsense

Someone knowledgeable about Brighton a while ago mentioned the club internally think he's going to keep getting injuries however they determine that, hence them not being able to sell him for big bucks and limited game time.

I guess he had already asked internally and got nothing concrete back and didn't want to find out he didnt have a veto on players when the transfers started happening. I do find it a bit worrying though he felt a need to send messages to owners through media, doesn't seem very Howe and also doesn't seem good communication internally, albeit I do think Staverley was more hands on than any board member usually is but surely when Mitchell was hired he was given clear lines of authority, why didn't this come to Howe if the answer was no Howe gets final veto on anyone but happy to receive a shortlist? (which feels relatively normal, albeit clubs vary on the veto bit)

Its not meant to benefit anyone (apart from promote following the rule) it's a punishment. Could argue should be tied to the season but then how far though the season do you allow in leeway? Its a years ban essentially makes sense. I mean i do get annoyed seeing shorter bans on racism etc, but there is huge amount of money around in the criminal underworld around betting so i do understand why football is so hardline on integrity, even if there's no suggestion tonali was actually fixing games.

Sigh was kinda thinking was time this guy was sold while there still was some value here. Great servant but clearly struggles to stay fit. Concerned a bit that Howe is slightly overly loyal to him too. Even if he stays, and with injury seems likely, a promising young striker should be high on list of priorities

Of course he's worried about staverley going she clearly thought he was 100% the man. It is well rumoured he didn't see eye to eye with ashworth though that could be briefing after the fact. Manager wants power shock. He'll be worried new dof will be given authority to go over his head. Hopefully can prove otherwise and work well together

Its what my Everton mate says, soon as anyone legitimate looks at the books they run a mile. Scandalous how it's been run and remember if they can't fully fund and finish the stadium by a certain date they are liable for all costs for returning the area back to it's previous state. Potentially calamitous for them, absolute madness they let 777 string along and accept loans from them.

Every manager always wants signings in early, unfortunately with a lot of window left to go agents aren't in hurry unless their player really wants a pre season with new team. Has a manager ever said 'I'd like them all on deadline day and no sooner' lol

Slightly wonder if staverley was all the journos source for all club rumours now she's gone no rumours

Does still piss me off

That would probably be least worst. I will still miss seeing it when I drive back into Newcastle. I get people wanting to strip out the emotion and focus on what's best for future success, but what is football if not emotive? It's certainly not rational.

I can see an the logic but also my heart will break not walking up that hill when going to a match. Don't care about the stadium itself, more the location.

I mean yes I think in his ideal world he wins the league and champions league with newcastle goes on a while then gets the England job, but as Howe and all football managers will be acutely aware that there is absolutely no guarantee he will be offered the job again. What if this next season with us is a disaster he gets sacked half way through and Potter is great and is in the job for 10 years by which time football has moved on from Howe and he isn't in contention next time?

I doubt he will say no if offered it to be honest. How many chances does one get to take your country to world cup? I also think the FA will not want to pay club the compensation required so may not happen due to that. I think it'll be Potter for that reason.

This, 100% As annoying as his tactics have been of late he rescued England from being a running joke and acted with dignity and class. I did often semi joke i wish he could be kept on behind the scenes for squad vibes etc and let someone bit better tactically do the actual game management stuff. But still people need to remember where England were when he took over. Hope the vitriol dies down and people remember that transformation.

I'm not sure what would annoy me more, losing Howe, or Gerrard or Lampard getting the job

Sigh we werent great no, disappointing considering talent in team but we still go to the final, i'm not going to pile on, spain way better than us so deserved to win.

Dare Southgate to revert to Trent Alexander Arnold in midfield for the final. Would lose it but would be funny national troll

should never be a pen like

I imagine they have been annoyed but they have also been really realistic in everything they've said from day one that it would take a long time to get to where they want to be. Equally I don't ultimately think they will mind that the club is being forced to only spend what it makes, i do think people are a bit hopeful in how much they purely want to pump money in, I think they want to pump as much money in to get the club to compete but they will be looking more at how to get the revenue up and up and the players will take care of themselves. I also think we are just one investment out of many and our chairman has only been so present cos all the sports stuff he does is clearly a bit of a jolly for him in contrast with the more boring business stuff (and trying to avoid court intrigue that will get him disappeared)

it becomes who does PIF trust most to call the shots, they trusted Staverley. (This could be bad news for Howe as she has clearly been his biggest champion) Maybe they have that trust in Eales (well they oughta have some trust in him since he is still in the job), may also be they have developed trust with the Reubens who despite their lower stake will probably be easier to be more involved.

I mean all football discourse nation wide is ruined by man u talk leaking, amount of time they're talked about compared to every other club

Look PIF has a big massive pot of money from oil profits. They could either leave it in a bank account and that would be fine, or invest it in all kinds of things all over the world. This has some benefits a) Some of these ventures will be profitable and so they are no worse off at the end of the day b) With investment in places such as north east or in somewhere in Africa or south america suddenly that area has links to Saudi Arabia and Saudi Arabia has some degree of soft power beyond their borders which may come in useful wanting to strike up trade agreements later (or get a government to look away when they do something bad) c) Associates saudi arabia with global generosity and projects rather than you know human rights abuses. I don't imagine PIF particularly wants to just throw billions at us for no actual gain, they want us to be a big mega club like man city which has huge global revenue, not just a money sink.

Eeer didn't she say early she wasn't permanent was going to leave once everything in place, she got it all together and now leaves with a healthy profit

I mean both a) southgate is depressingly negative, incredibly over loyal to certain players and plays a style of football that is not good on the eye and has benefited from some luck b) this has brought the best results of any england manager since alf ramsey and he deserves some modicum of respect for that, even if suspect a better manager may have made less drama of it can be true