NUFC_Chris

Every player deserves a clean slate under the new manager, in my opinion. If he can get something out of Joelinton, (which he may well do, as I think there is a player in there), all the better.

Good news if true. 

Shearer

A fit Woodgate

Batty

Reminds me of Wolves basically playing in their Portugal away kits, so it’s been done before.

https://www.sportbible.com/football/kit-wolves-new-third-kit-proves-theyre-basically-just-portugal-20200918

Still whinging. Bless. 

14 minutes ago, JJ7 said:

His achievements in Scotland were average at best. I was surprised to see some fans wanting him here. He won one trophy in about nine or ten attempts while Celtic were on the down. Granted they were unbeaten last season and he did fairly well in Europe, but Calum Davidson at St Johnstone still won more over the same period. I'd have had him over Lampard, but thats not saying much. For Samuel to claim there would have been joyous scenes on Tyneside is bizarre. Why would we be celebrating snapping up a legend at another club who hasn't managed at this level before?

As with most of the national media, they haven’t got the foggiest what they’re on about when talking about this clubs fans. Or much else.

It’s a good job they didn’t sit back and wait til December to see where we were. We’d be properly fucked. At least now we’ve got a chance. 

Who the fuck is he trying to get on his backroom staff that’s seemingly so vital and must only be paid in golden goose eggs?

I think this is just playing on fans fears. They’ve no idea if it’s on or off let’s be honest. 

Why do so many people hang on every word from that dentist. Cos he lives in Dubai. Boggles my mind.

Seems to me that the English media were well ahead of themselves. it sounds like they got wind of Emery being the number 1 target before the club had formally approached him. We still haven’t heard from the man himself, so I’d hang fire a bit before saying it’s definitely off. There may be some work to be done by the club to talk him round.

Can he organise a shite defence is what I want to know!

No way have we bid for Kamara . Not. A. Chance. 

It’s criminal we haven’t made at least one decent loan signing, bearing in mind the savings made on wages already this summer. They’ll probably look to do something if we’re in the bottom 3 in January.

Posted a cryptic Facebook story just now. 

I still think it’s disgraceful we’ve not had any sort of comment from the PL. Not even a bit of placating waffle.

I’m hoping this means we are quite close, one way or the other, and they’re stalling.

No new training gear this year?

The Premier League have totally fucked it for us. Sickening.

Just been reading through the last number of pages, re Ashley now holding up the deal.

Did Bruce not say on Sunday that he'd had a conference call with Ashley who categorically told him "it was still with the Premier League". I suppose, he did also say he had another one planned for Wednesday. I'm not sure an LMA official would know all the ins & outs of the deal, personally. Also, where did the we should know this week bit come from?

https://twitter.com/emil_franchi/status/1286025269657112577?s=20

This is basically West Brom's current kit in black & white.

Honestly can't see how this would be signed off, on a long term deal, if there was a sniff of an imminent takeover.

Honestly though I would be doing the exact same in her situation, Qatar backing or not. I have every sympathy for her and this is what happens when you open the door to so much money pouring into the league from anywhere. We haven't opened that door, it's been open a while. Man City's owners and Chelsea's are both pretty dubious. Other people are just as bad is hardly a good argument, but equally fit and proper is about if they credibly able to own the club and not stiff everyone.

 

Quite frankly if I were in charge of the league I would be demanding fans have meaningful stakes in club and be blocking the likes of Sheikh Mansour, Saudi Arabia, those dodgy asset strippers at Man U. The league would be poorer and be unable to bring in I guess the Paul Pogba's of the world but also clubs would be safeguarded long term from mad spending and owners loading clubs with endless debt.

 

But I'm not in charge of the league, and it is all built to get money money money in at expense of all else, which is why i thought this would go through. But if it doesnt go through this will be on the piracy (I maintain that of course Bein would object, and Staverley and co should have come in better prepared, Saudi Arabia could have cut the piracy before starting the takeover and wonder if we'd be there by now, however they basically only did it when they had to which doesnt look much better) or on some other factor not known to us. No matter how much international diplomacy is involved at the end of the day a big broadcasting partner has a lot of sway not unreasonably. If it gets blocked the league will then take a big victory lap pretending they did it cos they have morals after all.

 

I am not 'against' the takeover I really hope it happens cos this is the real world and clubs are owned by crap like this and it will bring hope and investment to the area, I will never be against that. But it kinda is preposterous.

Thing is, other people are just as bad is a perfectly valid argument. If you allow one in, you allow them all.

If you were in charge of the league, and fans had a stake in their clubs, they would not be blocking the likes of Mansour and Abramovich. Both clubs fans would welcome them with open arms, as would the majority of us with the PIF.

Nah, don't think it's relevant to us. The Government have already pretty much said they'd welcome the investment. The key word in all of this is "individuals".

Ah. It's this kind of insider knowledge that keeps me on this forum. 

I want to believe.

I can't get my head around the SNP weighing in on this, the tone of his questions as well just made you want to slap him. Seems to be the way with all politicians these days, a total lack of respect for anybody.

Fair enough if it's the Scots league Saudi want to invest in, but it aint, and his crowd all want independence anyway. Seemingly it turns out that Scotland and in particular this MP have close ties to Qatar, colour me surprised the pretentious twat.