Shadow Puppets

Currently negotiating a new contract.

Even in his goodbye message, he was still phoning it in! (It’s written by ChatGPT)

He's been largely woeful for 18 months. £70m is an outrageously good price for someone who doesn't want to be here and has barely put effort in this season.

The bottom one, 100%

This is 100% the shirt, and 100% the official photoshoot, but the grading of the photo is off. The blue is a bit darker than that in person.

Tripps definitely starting tomorrow.

He’s jumping and then the Celtic players contact moves his arm.

Yeah, I’m not going to do that. I don’t, sorry. Haven’t seen the fan version.

It's very close to being right, but I'm looking at a photo of the actual kit on one of our players from the photoshoot right now, and the black stripe in the middle is definitely about an inch thinner, and is definitely centralised on my photo, pulling in all the stripes towards the middle more. The NUFC badge and the Addidas badge sit centralised in the middle of the biggest white stripes. At least on the size shirt that this specific player is wearing.

1. I'm not sure who the other poster is, but I'm telling you explicitly what the players have been told, directly from ownership. First hand information. Whether the owners are telling the players the truth, I don't know, but the players were all told post Brighton directly. 2. I'm no expert on the benefits of being in each competition, but isn't there a drawback in terms of squad-cost ratio from being in the Europa or Conference Leagues if we're trying to rebuild? 3. Ditto.

1. PIF have 100% internally communicated that Howe is the man to lead the rebuild. This has been communicated to the players, directly from the ownership, too, so barring a massive change of heart, these last couple of games won’t change that. 2. It’s been clear for weeks that we won’t be qualifying for champions league, which is all the ownership really care about. 3. Probably the same way they’ve interpreted the form in general this season… not good enough, can’t be repeated, but plenty of mitigation that needs to be addressed in the summer.

This info came from the playing side.

He was there… did some photos apparently, but no video. (which I guess makes sense… it’s harder to remove people from videos than photos)

That’s speculation on my part considering they shot all the VIDEOS for all 3 kits in the last week, and it’s very difficult to add a sponsor to video content in post production.

My impression from the players side is the vast majority are 100% committed to the team and manager, barring the obvious one who’s on his way out for sure. In terms of where things are going wrong, reading between the lines I feel like it’s a psychological issue more than a tactical. When I was chatting to them last week it was suggested as much. And I know the lack of training time has been an issue like. As of the Barca away game I was told they had 15 days of training all season (full days with full squad). Whether a few weeks are enough to put that right is up for debate, of course. The training ground is 1000% happening… they’re just finalising the plans, but the land is bought and the commitment made.