Sean

Such a waste from Mane, got to square it.

Salahs too good ffs

Some of our fans are doing their best to keep the deluded tag going tbh.

Lejeune falls over after failing to deal with the danger, Clark should have stayed but isn't sure Lejeunes going to get back up, also probably doesn't trust him even if he does get back up. Lejeune should have done better in the first place too. We're a complete mess with these 2 together at the back basically.

Hope you get all the flags back, it's disgusting that some would steal them in the first place.

Yep. At the end of the day Leicester had more quality than us at both ends of the pitch, we're also a very young and inexperienced team and that's showing at the minute. I also think the whole teams struggling to play in front of the crowd, I know people will say that moans and groans shouldn't affect them but it will. They all looked scared to try anything yesterday, also there were more than a few occasions of players turning on each other visibly, I'm of the opinion most of this was done with the intention of showing the crowd they were not the problem but one of their teammates was. We need experienced players and big characters but we don't really have any.

In regards those figures, Gayle was averaging a goal every 93 minutes last season. Cba to work it out properly but even 40% fewer would be more than 13 goals I believe surely? Like around 19/20?

He probably does if your work is owt like the quality of your posts like.

Leicester are simply better than us man for man. As are most teams.

All our keepers are shit man. If only someone had realised...

Looks amazing, hats off to everyone involved!

0 goals in 2 games, great start for his 'front foot football'

They've got a lot more quality than us going forward worryingly.

Even if we do it won't be his money will it ? Is it not the next installment of TV money. He keeps telling us it has to be money the club generates, it should have nothing to do with him or the takeover. Or as usual it was total bullshit again. Bang on. It's being reported as if he has to personally pay for any signings, as usual the press printing total rubbish.

What if he wants more fullbacks though. Good point

Here's a novel idea...if Rafa ever gets to pick which players he signs properly lets all back his judgement and get behind it.

100%, I'm absolutely dumbfounded we've still got idiots saying things like that. Rafa got whatever Mike was happy to sign off, simple as that. Murphys transfer only went through cos he's young and English so Mike could see pound signs. It's not as if Rafa could have spent that money on who he wanted most.

Would be absolutely amazing.

Don't think there's really anything new in here but article in the Independent: http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/newcastle-united-sale-mike-ashley-amanda-staveley-january-transfer-plans-threat-rafa-benitez-a8094846.html Mike Ashley and Amanda Staveley stand-off threatens Newcastle United's January transfer plans Rafa Benitez's plans to reinforce his squad next month will be severely jeopardised if there is no progress in the talks between current owner Ashley and proposed new owner Staveley Forty days. That is now the predicted timescale needed for the takeover of Newcastle United to be completed. Forty days, once a bid has been accepted. The estimate comes from those close to the Amanda Staveley camp. There is an almost desperate quest now for positive news on the sale of a city’s football club to the still largely unknown financier from Yorkshire. Forty days, however, suggests that the current state of limbo is about to hold for a significant period of January. Staveley’s bid of around £250m is already considerably short of what Ashley is willing to accept to end his decade in charge at St James’ Park. There has been nothing concrete to suggest he has dropped it from the high three hundreds. Staveley will have to relent and up her bid to even bring Ashley and his advisors back to the table. The suggestion is that, with the threat of a relegation battle, she is not prepared to go any higher. That could close the door on a possible takeover anyway, but even the positive take that was being put on the latest developments suggest another difficult and fraught month for the manager Rafa Benitez. Benitez is increasingly concerned about the impasse that the club may go through in next month’s transfer window. That 40 day estimation, a real, best case scenario if a fee can be agreed, will do little to calm his fears. The most problematic area remains the ability to agree a fee, for Staveley to convince Ashley she is genuinely ready to meet his selling price, which remains north of £300m and for the bid not to be weighed with caveats. Ashley has held firm for nine years as he has looked to sell the club. Those believing that his dogmatic approach has radically changed need possibly to remember that. The Staveley camp insist, however, that there is still desire to take over the club, to end a difficult decade in Newcastle’s history. Staveley herself will lead the financing, but even her group is aware the clock is ticking to be able to make any sort of impact in what feels another crucial transfer window. There is still much to be done, not least getting anywhere near to agreeing a fee, but from there comes procedure; a formal period of due diligence, proof of funds, the Premier League’s Owners and Directors test and then a sales and purchase agreement being put in place. All of those elements, which could potentially run through the difficult period of Christmas, are now predicted to take around 40 days. This is not the timescale that either party set when Ashley formally put the club up for sale once more in October and Staveley first showed her hand. Then the talk was of a change by Christmas. That deadline has passed, and the two sides have still a lengthy process to go through. Benitez is worried about his ability to compete in the January transfer window. The last two windows have been hugely frustrating, which has been well documented and have cast doubt over his future. The continued uncertainty will present another major problem. Ashley is unlikely to consider spending until there is a definite conclusion to the takeover talks. The timescale does not lend itself to the considered planning and constructive January that a team which has taken one point from the last 18 needs. With or without a takeover, it points to a frenetic finish to the closing stages of a transfer window, at the end of January, a situation the club has been in before.

It's fucking ridiculous the things he's coming out with! Gave a corner to Man Utd even though he knew it was a goal kick because he was "petrified of Roy Keane" what the actual fuck man?! Corrupt bastards.

It would be nice to know what's actually going on regards this before the Leicester game, as it's all well and good celebrating our 125th anniversary, however the atmosphere will undoubtedly be a bit subdued with all the uncertainty around the future of the club. Oh for it to be sold beforehand...just imagine the positivity and buzz around the place.

This is wrong. He bought and built really well with us, and also at Napoli where the team he built is the one doing so well now. I thought he bought well for you for last season. Maybe not so much for this, but he wasn't given loads and he found you a bargain in Merino. Yes, he buys a few players at lower prices who don't work out, but then that applies to all who rummage at the bottom end of the market. The problem is when you only have a few quid, nearly every buy has to work out. As you say we're shopping in the bargain bins, no manager would get them all right. It seems to be a criticism levelled at Rafa as if other managers always get every transfer right. Baffling tbh.

The fact that he has openly put out a statement saying the club is for sale, negotiations have been going on for weeks and the Sky "interview" was practically an advert saying "please come and take this club off of my hands", suggest that he does have intention of selling it. The risk of relegation coupled with the current squad that we have put the club miles away from his £380m valuation or whatever it is. He won't get a better deal for it than a bid in the range of £250m-£320m. He openly put out a statement in 2008 to say the club was up for sale as well, only it wasn't really. Plus his interview was a way of sticking 2 fingers up to Rafa and the fans. Can't fully recall the 2008 statement or whenever it was, but this must seem different to then. The Sky interview was that, but journalists and fans alike managed to encapsulate it as an advert for the club. The whole thing was staged, there is a reason why he chose to say 'if someone wants to take this seat and fund NUFC' et cetera in it. He wants out. It makes financial sense for him to do so, as well as just sense in general. If you want to sell a football club I don't think the way to advertise the fact is to go on TV. It would be done through business channels etc. It's not like billionaires would be watching his interview and get a brainwave from it. Similar to him putting a public email address out there last time

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The fact that he has openly put out a statement saying the club is for sale, negotiations have been going on for weeks and the Sky "interview" was practically an advert saying "please come and take this club off of my hands", suggest that he does have intention of selling it. The risk of relegation coupled with the current squad that we have put the club miles away from his £380m valuation or whatever it is. He won't get a better deal for it than a bid in the range of £250m-£320m. He openly put out a statement in 2008 to say the club was up for sale as well, only it wasn't really. Plus his interview was a way of sticking 2 fingers up to Rafa and the fans.