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Would bin Krafth and keep him as cover tbh. Don't think he'd like being a squad player though.

Every last penny generated by the club.

I'd be travelling from up Derby either side of the festive period if I get mine back. You'd have to wait until the TV dates are announced which is usually about 1 month prior. They end up being late more often than not though by a few days.

Christ. Living under a Steve Wraith dictatorship.

Needs more hoops. Looks like Barca's kit from 2015 or whenever it was when they had hoops.

Maybe, but would take Pochettino even longer. Rafa Daylight Allegri Someone else Poch is a good manager, potentially a great one, but I think it's fair to say Rafa and Allegri already are Elite manager when owners come in to lay the foundations for a younger manager.

Maybe, but would take Pochettino even longer.

That top third kit looks like a Wolves shirt.

He can be a bit stubborn, especially away from home. If his teams are leading 0-1 against a fairly poor side with ≤30 minutes left he tends to have his side close out the game and take 0-1, which can go wrong at times. But that tends to be the case with most Italian managers tbh, catenaccio and all that. But he's probably the most elite manager out of the potential candidates. Why? Due to the trophies he's won and that he'd still get a job at one of the top clubs. Pochettino is the same but without the trophies. Rafa, while I love him to bits, probably wouldn't get a top job now. He’s never been courted by the real big boys before, Liverpool were a top PL club, but on the same line as we were back then. Rafa was only ever a stop-gap short term thing for Real as well and couldn’t turn them down. Inter were one of the big boys of course, but he’s always been courted by clubs who want to compete with the big boys more. He’d win titles with Liverpool and Man City and would have any one of Arsenal, Man Utd, Chelsea and Spurs challenging them two much better than they’ve been doing while Pep and Klopp have been at their respective clubs. I think Rafa prefers working at a club like NUFC than say a club like Man Utd and can achieve long-term success with those kind of clubs if backed where as it’s all about quick and instant success with the bigger clubs especially these days. Mourinho won’t last long at Spurs if they don’t start challenging again and win something, neither will OGS and Lampard and Arteta can’t afford one bad or average season and will eventually have to produce soon rather than later. Arsenal should have went for Rafa after Wenger or after Emery, and my brother in law who supports them reckons they did look at him and I know despite reservations about his footy, he’d have been delighted with Rafa. Who wouldn’t. What you get with Rafa is t just his abilities as a manager and a coach or his CV record, but his business like plans he can incorporate into all areas of a club from diet, medical, health, fitness, academy, scouting, and even physiology and stats. He has databases covering everything footy related on and off the pitch which you get to take into when your hire him. I’d hire him to run my business never mind my football team. Rafa gives you more than just a coach or manager, he can be your chief scout, medical officer, the CEO, the media officer, the fans relations guy, the academy director, the architect to design plans for improving facilities even. Poch doesn’t give you that, not many do to be fair. KK was kind of like that when he was manager firsts time around and I feel the club right now needs that just as much as a quality manager. If mainly to help facilitate bringing in and developing those kind of areas and helping with the recruitment of top people needed to run those area. Rafa has the contacts, the I knowledge, the skills and his own tried and trusted programmes that he has created himself that obviously work as look at his success, look at NUFC’s under him alone in 3 years and the injury and fitness improvements of our players and in scouting, the good personalities and pros he brought into the club. Fair points. But FWIW, while I would have Rafa back in a heartbeat, Allegri is my top choice mainly due to wanting a complete fresh start and also being intrigued by being managed by an Italian manager, even more so by one of Allegri's calibre. But I also think that he'd win us silverware sooner than Pochettino and would take to the likes of ASM; his Juventus side pre-Ronaldo, particularly in 2017-18 with the likes of Douglas Costa in the side, were fairly exciting to watch while still having the ability to be that typical Italian defensive unit.

Rafa isn't the kind of guy to be upstairs at a club, loves being on the training pitch which is where he'll be until he retires imo.

He can be a bit stubborn, especially away from home. If his teams are leading 0-1 against a fairly poor side with ≤30 minutes left he tends to have his side close out the game and take 0-1, which can go wrong at times. But that tends to be the case with most Italian managers tbh, catenaccio and all that. But he's probably the most elite manager out of the potential candidates. Why? Due to the trophies he's won and that he'd still get a job at one of the top clubs. Pochettino is the same but without the trophies. Rafa, while I love him to bits, probably wouldn't get a top job now.

He can be a bit stubborn, especially away from home. If his teams are leading 0-1 against a fairly poor side with ≤30 minutes left he tends to have his side close out the game and take 0-1, which can go wrong at times. But that tends to be the case with most Italian managers tbh, catenaccio and all that. But he's probably the most elite manager out of the potential candidates.

Probably wild conjecture but could it be Qatar putting pressure on them through this? More fucking paper work in the form of letters sent to the PL than actual documents from PIF and Staveley.

Another letter. Make it a top 7.

Will be the same clubs that voted for clubs finishing in the top 6 receiving a bigger share of the TV money a few years ago. So the 'big six' now, Everton, West Ham and Wolves. Tbf, we voted for that as well. Not surprised unfortunately.

Will be the same clubs that voted for clubs finishing in the top 6 receiving a bigger share of the TV money a few years ago. So the 'big six' now, Everton, West Ham and Wolves.

Wonder who's going to write one tomorrow.

Nah, it's around £100m. FFP dictates that over 3 years, you can't have £5m more expenditure than income but even still, and owner can still inject £30m to pull that expenditure back down so it's technically £35m. And, due to Ashley being so tight, our net spend over the last 3 years is relatively small especially compared to other PL clubs.

Bit radgy in here isn't it? I think it's a fair position to feel guilty while still being fairly happy about the takeover. FWIW, I think both celebrating the takeover is slightly similar to the inclusion of Saudi in flags in bios and names on social media while at the same time being the exact polar opposite of each other with the latter not exactly sensitive. I think this is much more down to a celebration of Ashley, a man responsible for 13 year long degradation and suffocation of Newcastle United and it's supporters, pushing many to walking away, turning against fellow fans plus the countless other stuff we all know about, finally selling up. As are the misguided arguments on social media and here. The alternative however, while it may well be a golden ticket to success, is tainted for reasons we all know by know. Attacking journalists who reiterate those reasons does us no good. Nor does posters on here getting into quarrels like this. We all have opinions. Respect them.

Just some bad PR for the Saudis and PL from the Qataris plus the faintest possible hope of scuppering it is my guess. Given that BeIN/Qatar have tried to do this in the past in France where they dominate the sports broadcast industry they have no hope of stopping a deal in the UK worth this amount of money with the potential of it making billions for the PL. Could you explain the maths here - how could the takeover result in billions of pounds more in revenue for the Premier League? Aye. Penn + his posts on Newcastle-Online = a hard drive that needs checking

Just some bad PR for the Saudis and PL from the Qataris plus the faintest possible hope of scuppering it is my guess. Given that BeIN/Qatar have tried to do this in the past in France where they dominate the sports broadcast industry they have no hope of stopping a deal in the UK worth this amount of money with the potential of it making billions for the PL.

If that's as bad as it gets I can handle that. They even admit it's a long shot that this will stop a takeover. Same. Today has calmed me down from last night a bit. Well that and the fact the premier league have no interest in blocking it. They want it to go through £$€ True.

So they'll consider blocking it but only if there was a 'water tight way'? Can't see them getting one unless you can tie Al-Rumayyan, Staveley or the Reubens to it, which you can't. Assuming they're the only directors being involved, don't know if MBS will be undergo the owners and director's test too.