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    The Europeometer™ (2023/24)

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    1 hour ago, LV said:

    Cannot understand why anybody wouldn’t want us to play in the Champion's League, thin squad or not. 
     

    It’s not like that’s the only go we’ll ever get at it. 

     

     

     

    Agreed. With the money gained from playing we can a.) buy more players b.)attract better players c.) justification for sponsors to pay more ££ which in turns means more players.  It is a no brainer.

    Dan Burn

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    1 hour ago, ExiledGeordie said:


    I think he still has a massive role to play. Solid starting or back up CB and can fill in at left back but no way should he be starting left back moving forwards. 

    Let us not forget him playing LB is one of the reasons we had kept so many clean sheets.  Yes we've leaked in goals of late but to put them in context they were against good opposition and are couple you could say we were just unlucky. I think it is harsh to blame Dan for these.  I agree it does take away from our attacking threat so my opinion is we probably need to mixed it up a bit with Targett depending on the opposition. I still think Dan has a role to play there. 

    Anthony Gordon

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    I still don't fully get why we bought him in Jan when we were crying out for a CM.  The only thing I can assume is he was a longterm target who came available at the price the club were willing to pay, so struck a deal quickly to beat the competition.  But he is very much a work in progress and I can't seem him having much of an impact this season - more one for next. Howe needs time to work his magic.

    Callum Wilson set to miss the first 3–5 games of the season due to back issue (Gazette)

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    18 hours ago, Smal said:

    Howe held Guimaraes and Botman back initially. We have to hope he's getting the Isak call as spot on as he did with those two.

    tbh I could understand if Wilson was firing on all cylinders but he's been misfiring for weeks.  Isak on the other looks be chomping at the bit to get his Newcastle career going and he himself will need a run of games before we see the best of him.  Now is the time unless he still isn't fit enough to start.

    Eddie Howe

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    10 hours ago, brummie said:

    I am writing this with care and caution as I know I am an outsider.

     

    There isn't a manager out there who is above questioning or discussion, I totally get that. We have similar discussions about our own manager. But from the outside looking in, what Howe has done in a short period of time is absolutely transformational.

     

    I think there has been - not on here necessary, but in the media in general - a degree of prematurity in that it's not being in the top four halfway through the season that gets you into the CL, it's what happens half a season later. I wonder if expectations have been tinted by that wider discussion?

     

    What I think is most impressive is that, yeah, you have spent some money - although after years of spending nothing under a wanker of an owner - but I don't think what you've achieved in a short time is about spending, it is about excellent coaching.

     

    Look at some of the names on your team sheet and look what you've achieved this season - these are (some of them) players who absolutely would not get into the teams of the clubs you are bothering this season, some of them are players who have underwhelmed even by your own recent standards, but what Howe has got out of these is nothing but remarkable.

     

    Yeah, he'll make a ton of mistakes still and there will be ups and downs because you are a club and a team going through a transformation, and it's just not that easy to do quickly, regardless of how much cash you have (and even with that, it's not as easy to buy rapid advancement as Man City did 10+ years ago anymore).

     

    This is almost exactly the same discourse we have - we have weirdness like winning away almost every time, but then shipping four at home to Leicester, and it's because it's a work in progress, which is exactly what you are.

     

    I am not in any way at all saying there is anything wrong in questioning the manager - I'd say the same about our manager, and I am an outsider here so have no right to be telling you anything - but I think if you take a step back and look at the huge advancement in such a short period of time, the manager has definitely earned the right to make his own mistakes.

    I think 99% of fans on here get that. And I don't think anyone on here were expecting to be challenging for top 4 this season, and that's down to Eddie Howe. He is also limited by the players we have to make changes when things aren't quite working. We have no bench and that isn't Eddie's fault. So he's limited what he has to work with.  However he is human and will make mistakes and not starting Isak is one of them. But it doesn't mean I think of Eddie any less. He gets this club 100% and will get us success given time.

    PIF and RB Sports & Media

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    The knives are out in the press. Am not worried as there is no chance the Premier League will do anything. It's obvious we're owed by the State and it's naive to think the Premier League didn't know. This changes nothing.

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