Ankles Bennett

In west ham game Joselu bust a gut to get up in support of the counter attack and it was his square ball into Atsu that led to the third goal so he certainly does contribute.

The journo are rubbishing this so they can vlaim there exclusive when the deal is finalised

Would like to see is try for Danny Welbeck on loan. He isn't starting for Arsenal and with the world cup this year he needs to be playing regular football.

I'm of the view that rafas tactics just don't work with the players at his disposal but he seems to think he can make a silk purse out of a sows ear. He needs to play to players strengths rather than stickinog round pegs in to square holes.

Just a thought but I wonder whether Amanda wants us relegated so she can buy us on the cheap. It would tie in with her relegation clause so she eother gets us cheap and bankrplls is in jan or lets Ashley relegate us and get us on the cheap and uses the dosh she saves to bankroll uz getying back to the prem.

I agree. Been to all the big cities all over this country and never felt under threat day or night..... but 2 weeks in Liverpool.....!

Why can't we agree transfers before Jan. Liverpool have agreed deal for van dijk and Everton have agreed deal to sign cenk to sun. We don't even seem to start looking for players until the window opens.

Ashley said he would only sell to someone who could invest in the team the sort of money he can't put in.

There isn't a shred of hard evidence to support any of these fanciful transfer rumours yet everyone is completely caught up in the furore of these unsubstantiated rumours. It happens every transfer window and we know none of these rumours will come to fruition..

If the club doesn't bring in reinforcements in the first week of January fans should stop going. There's nothing like empty seats to focus Ashley's mind. No one will buy a club with falling attendances.

Maybe we need colback in midfield

Just missed out on the toon v heed.

Can't see us signing anyone in january unless we sell players and no one wanted any of our players in the summer.

5:0

Amanda would have been at Wwembley having a look at Rafa's Brazilian targets for January

I thought that if Gayle was offside so was Defoe when his shot brought about the corner that scored from.

Its a cause for concern that Rafa still has his family home over on mersyside.

It's odds on that part of the deal to sell Newcastle will include an agreement that Ashley gets free advertising in the ground for Sports Direct.

If Long had kicked to ball out of play by the time the foul came in, should it not have been an indirect free kick in the box?

Why would Amanda need £7bn. Surely £1bn would be more than enough to buy the club for around £300m and invest the remaining £700m in playing staff. Should get a canny team out of £700m surely?

No way was that a penalty. Long kicked the ball out of play so was not denied a goalscoring opportunity.

If its voted down by the other 14 clubs I wouldn't put it past the top six to breakaway and form a super league of 18 clubs with the following clubs likely to be invited to join: Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool, spurs, Man U, man city, Barcelona, Real Madrid, Ath Madrid, Juve, Inter Milan, Roma, AC Milan, PSG, Marseille, Lyon, Byern M, Borrussia Dortmund, RB Leipzig, Ajax, PSV. I would imagine the TV money would drop the 14 like a hot brick and divert it all to the "super league" where there would be no relegation.

After all those chances missed this was inevitable. Just hope we don't concede again.

I don't understand why we are annoyed at the lack of incoming transfers. What Ashley actually said in his interview was Rafa could spend every last penny the club generates. To me that was using the future tense so it's money the club has yet to generate that Ashley was pledging not the transfer profit from our promotion season.

We all know that NUFC just don't do incoming transfers on deadline day.