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Lewis and Almiron on the wings. Loads of #fret. Good lord.

The keys outside the front door snap. Real estate magnate.

A tad underwhelming for me but ASM will be fast forgotten about if Barnes, son of Alan, bags double figures for G&A I guess. Still think we need a RW, though. Unless the plan is to move Gordon to RW. But even then Barnes and Gordon as the first choice wide men doesn’t exactly scream CL quality. We'll see. Hmph.

It's underwhelming for me but it's far from awful.

Ginola for us in his two seasons had 19 goals and assists in 5195 minutes. Works out at 1 goal involvement every 273 minutes. ASM has 30 goals and assists over 8067 minutes, works out 1 goal involvement per 268 minutes.

Yep. Should have far more assists last season than he does; Liverpool (H), Man Utd (H) and Chelsea (A) he created chances that should've been taken by the likes of Willock and Almirón.

Understand trusting the club and all that craic, but potentially selling ASM to have our first choice wide players be Barnes and Almirón is a bit underwhelming. They don't exactly scream CL quality options for the wings. Aware that Gordon is there who can potentially play on the right, but even still.

2015-16 too tbf. Aguero scoring after standing so far offside at SJP he may as well have been in the Strawberry, clear handball in the buildup to Norwich's winner against us, Mitrovic wrongly disallowed goal away at Man City which would've put us 0-2 up deservedly and Bobby Madley in the away derby are four that stick in mind. Probably a few more.

Gayle winner v Norwich (H) 2016 or winner v Forest (A) season just gone for me. The feeling both goals gave me, especially for the latter with being in the away end, is exactly what I imagine a shot of heroin is like.

It's basically a cringe facial expression where you raise your eyebrows, squint and bite your lip suggestively.

Him and Willock are close. And he said after the 1st leg of the semi final v Southampton that he's mates with Isak.

Same. "Do a light skin face bro"

Brighton have had that exact same design in 2017-18 and 2019-20. Same as least season's as well but just has more stripes this time.

I'm completely meh about it tbh. Just wanted the blue and red shite out the ground.

Bellamy was vital to those teams 01-04. No coincidence that we fell off majorly once Souness got rid of him. Robert as well.

Bruce is my most hated manager of ours but McClaren was the most incompetent when not counting Carver due to him being a caretaker. Benitez proved in his final 6 games that there was a decent side there.

Let me cut to the chase. We are not getting Kvaratskhelia.

Kvaratskhelia links. Think I'd be paralysed with excitement if there was remote truth in them. I wouldn't be surprised if the club did like him but he'd cost £85m-£120m, surely.

Unsure why tbh but not too arsed about this one if we miss out.

Please can they not be announcing lineups this season in numerical order rather than position. Sign of a nonce admin.

Thunder, lightning and hail here in Chester-le-Street.

From a younger perspective I'd probably say Guardiola's 2017-18 100 point Man City side. Never went into a game like I did that night before or since; just full of fear of the opposition. We could hardly get near them, though the gap between us who were just recently promoted and them who had won 17 out of 18 matches, drawing the other, was gargantuan regardless. But I'd probably say them. At a lower level also remember being impressed by Fulham in the 2016-17 Championship season, they completely played us off the park at SJP. Asked me fatha before and he says Ferguson's Man Utd between 2003 and 2008. We got twatted a lot; 2-6, 1-5, 1-3. They were frightening on the break.

Would be incredibly disappointed. I was never expecting an overhaul this window, was expecting/hoping for 2 big money and first team ready signings; a CM and a RW, plus 1 or 2 signings for depth, a LB and RCB. Still plenty of time. I was flapping last summer in the time we didn't make a single signing between 1 July and 26 August when we were crying out for a striker. We ended up with probably my favourite player at the club atm in Isak. Hope it doesn't take that long again obviously but I trust those at the club to get it right.

Footballers in being thick as fuck shock. More high profile players doing the same on Memphis Depay's recent Instagram post.

Especially given the last 4.5 months of 1996-97 with Keegan's team he on the face of it did quite well; we only lost 2 league matches under him and took us to the only other CL spot in the league at the time. He then proceeds to tear that side apart. I know Ginola asked to leave in March and the club floating as a PLC may have had a role but don't think I'll ever understand it.