Andy84

Basically it's good news for us and they know it

Yep. The most watched league in the world. La Liga has the best players, but their product is generally poor because of the way Barca and Real Madrid take most of the cash. just a s*** phrase man

Didn't just say best league in the world man. Urghh

Do we know what the back of our home top will be? If it's not a massive white patch then it's our best kit for ages

New 2 year contract

:lol: :lol:

Hope he stays. I imagine he would score 1000 goals in the championship

39 goals in 38 games, too exciting of anything. Front foot football

Lee Tomlin ?

Everton would be crazy to go for Rafa when Pulis or Mark Hughes could be available

China FFS

Craig Hope has just tweeted he's verbally agreed to stay and has begun work on transfer targets

Looking through our squad even as it stands it looks very young and inexperienced still. We really need to supplement what we've got with some experience and players who can comfortably deal with the championship and in the future hopefully the PL. Wouldn't mind seeing some hard b******* come in also, definately at CB. Also a goal scorer we can hang our hats on and get us 20 plus

IF this happens it will be interesting to see what the first SJP attendance in August will be. I recall last time didn't we start mid 30's and at the end it was pretty much 46k plus?

Rafa likes to rotate the team anyway. The next thing we will hear is that he doesn't have Championship experience

It's all relative with this TV deal like, the prices and wages of completely bang average players will go off the scale

A subdued St James' Park?

Aye. We'll probably take them numbers even if they keep the policy tbh

Surely a positive that Ashley has felt the need to speak with him personally and get this done, he left the appointment of McClaren solely to thumb. It strikes me like the club are desperate for him to stay and will pull out the stops to make it happen.

I've analysed all of his interviews to try and reassure myself . It's torture this

He'll be one I'll be genuinely sad to see leave and to be fair the Championship is way below where he should be. If the 8 million relegation buy out clause is true then it's a great piece of business for someone, wish him all the best. Cheers Andros

His time here is a shame like, clearly a very good but at the same time baffling footballer. One of my abiding memories was when he absolutely took West Ham's midfield to pieces in January and the 4 v Norwich. Other than that he's been s****. All that's left to do is take out the S after the I in the title and close the thread.

Like a mirror image of 12/13, 13/14 here

I think we're gonna get taken to the cleaners here, hope it doesn't impact on the support for Rafa when Spurs get their 3rd goal