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I think he's absolutely immense at this level but given that we'd hypothetically play with one striker in the PL it'd be foolish not to buy someone of greater quality. correct - gayle would have to push for his place when given a chance against a better quality upgrade you'd hope Of course. Every player needs to perform to retain their place, and I think Gayle is the one player who has done that this season. You could say Shelvey too, but he has let us down big time. I reckon Gayle is good for 15-20 goals in the prem. We replace him with what a 25-30 striker and we gain 10 goals, provided the new striker hits the ground running. So we improve by 10 goals. Better to get a couple of midfielders who can get 8-12 goals, and vastly improve the service to Gayle, who could benefit with an extra 5. Why would we need to replace Gayle if you think he's good for 15-20 goals? fwiw i meant upgrade gayle and then he's got to prove himself to get back in the team gayle is a 15 goal striker at absolute best in the PL like, i.e. the season of his life Yeah I agree actually. Sorry, I hadn't read any of the conversation up to that post. Just ignore what I said

I think he's absolutely immense at this level but given that we'd hypothetically play with one striker in the PL it'd be foolish not to buy someone of greater quality. correct - gayle would have to push for his place when given a chance against a better quality upgrade you'd hope Of course. Every player needs to perform to retain their place, and I think Gayle is the one player who has done that this season. You could say Shelvey too, but he has let us down big time. I reckon Gayle is good for 15-20 goals in the prem. We replace him with what a 25-30 striker and we gain 10 goals, provided the new striker hits the ground running. So we improve by 10 goals. Better to get a couple of midfielders who can get 8-12 goals, and vastly improve the service to Gayle, who could benefit with an extra 5. Why would we need to replace Gayle if you think he's good for 15-20 goals?

Hasn't been playing lately

I don't get the Ritchie comment, class above but final ball is Meh, isn't that kinda key. Very strange post all in all. Aye its basically like saying "he's class at all this stuff that doesn't matter, but is shit at the one thing that does matter"

Gouffran will never be good because he never tries to do anything good bar take a shot every once in a while. At least Sammy will try to run at a player or get in behind and look like he wants to create something

Our youth set up seems to be absolutely atrocious like

We getting linked to any wingers like?

Better than Gouffran

Class from Randolph but fucking hell

Aye, bang on. So many people had seemingly forgotten how shit he'd been for years after getting a few goals this season

Phil Jones, what a wanker

He would provide more cover to the defence than Colback or Hayden do, not really sure how that's pointless considering the amount of times Sheff Wed played it through the middle with ease on Monday. I'd also like to keep my username. Didn't see the last game but I just think we have so much possession in most games it'd be pointless to have a player like Tiote in there Would agree and in a perfect world I don't want him here but when your best CM is out and one of the alternatives is Colback, we might as well use him. I agree now mate

This is as thick as anything the more extreme lads on the other side have said

Liverpool have as many actually with 5 less games played

Couldn't blame him today at all. Service was shite

Eh? It was basically the same as the end of the second half up until five minutes before they scored from a set piece. We're playing Blackburn though, not Liverpool. And we're Newcastle, not Liverpool. You really think we were doing well in this half until they scored? What did we create? We've had two goals chalked off and their keeper has made a canny few saves. Rafa's left the changes too late and the goal we conceded was stupid, but to argue that we haven't created enough to have won the game on another day is bollocks tbf. Yeah I never said we didn't create enough to win the game, you've made that up. I was talking about the second half. Both disallowed goals were correctly disallowed though so irrelevant It's just been one of those games mate, on another day we would have won; it's not worth wetting the bed over. We're not so good that we're going to comfortably win every week, especially with our most creative player suspended. There's a lot of work to be done in January. Aye, but all I said is that I thought we were awful in the second half and created very little. Clearly still should've won the game

Eh? It was basically the same as the end of the second half up until five minutes before they scored from a set piece. We're playing Blackburn though, not Liverpool. And we're Newcastle, not Liverpool. You really think we were doing well in this half until they scored? What did we create? We've had two goals chalked off and their keeper has made a canny few saves. Rafa's left the changes too late and the goal we conceded was stupid, but to argue that we haven't created enough to have won the game on another day is bollocks tbf. Yeah I never said we didn't create enough to win the game, you've made that up. I was talking about the second half. Both disallowed goals were correctly disallowed though so irrelevant

Eh? It was basically the same as the end of the second half up until five minutes before they scored from a set piece. We're playing Blackburn though, not Liverpool. And we're Newcastle, not Liverpool. You really think we were doing well in this half until they scored? What did we create?

Eh? It was basically the same as the end of the second half up until five minutes before they scored from a set piece. No it wasn't. We've created fuck all bar the two correctly disallowed goals

Been awful second half like

Surely have some kid we could put in centre mid who'd be as good? Typical

Gouffran man

Good camera work there

Yeah since the Diame shot we've been pretty good, before that we poor