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5 minutes ago, Newcastle Fan said:

 

I'm actually wondering the same about you?  it seems to be quite a silly reaction as clearly that Simon fella was using a serious issue to try and score a cheap shot at Newcastle and he suffered the consequences of his own actions, the account that tweeted about this is an actual Newcastle fan from Saudi who supported the club from 2005, and many of his follower are/were also fans and  like many of our other fans was happy to see him get the sack, you can debate wither or not our fans reaction was correct but that's already being done in the Greenwood thread.

It was a cheap shot at the owners, not Newcastle United. 

If he'd said he's [Greenwood] a right fit for Newcastle United, then have at it, the reaction from the fans would be justifiable. But for us to set on him like a pack of attack dogs and defend the virtues of the Saudi fucking regime is sportwashing in the strictest sense; something I'm absolutely not comfortable being associated with the club. 

I'm not interested in whether it was right or wrong he lost his job, or the debate on actions and consequences of a crass comment made on a public forum, I'm interested in the fact that the reaction to the tweet appears to be the very definition of sportwashing. 

If this isn't sportwaahing then what what fuck is?!

The fact a load of Saudi bots are now celebrating it and saying stuff like "a good reason to buy the club" is a fucking tragic by-product of all that nonsense.

5 minutes ago, Newcastle Fan said:

Why did it make you feel uncomfortable that you had to bring this thread up? because its in Arabic? loads of our fans feel the same way and tweeted about it.

"because it's in Arabic?!" 

Are you alright? 

30 minutes ago, Geordie Ahmed said:

The following line in The Athletic Transfer questions article is worrying

 

"Howe is believed to have assessed the final list again, with it appearing to be a straight call between Clark and Federico Fernandez for the last centre-back berth."

 

 

 

It's fucking tragic. 

Ritchie over Lewis as well. 

Apologies if already posted, didn't want to put this in the Greenwood thread but saw the below tweet celebrating the sacking of that guy and our fans orchestration of that and made me really uncomfortable.

I think people are being overly harsh here. I don't think there's an obvious weakness we haven't addressed and that's surely all we can measure this window by. Hoping to get better in areas we're already prem standard in would be a bonus but not a requirement.  

We're actually a really well balanced side now with a CM 3 of Willock, Bruno and Joelinton looking like they could be an absolute handful for anyone. 

Our defence looks 10 fold better and our forward line is good. 

Solid 8/10. 

Massively disappointed we don't look like adding to our attacking options but our remit was to make our squad at least the 17th best which I think we've done. 

The rest is on Howe now.

Really surprised we don't appear to be going for loans at least

Where's he gone to?

Edit: ffs

Cabral for the mysterious European striker? 

1 minute ago, HaydnNUFC said:

No idea why. We need new GK(s) medium term but CB and/or another forward are more important iyam.

GK's can transform a defence tbf, we've seen that ourselves. 

Improving in Dubs (who looks short of confidence at the moment) would be a good move imo

Quite excited for what loans we might bring in. 

You'd think fringe players from top top clubs who are less cunty to deal with would a no brainer for everyone, especially with the WC coming up. 

What we gonna do if ASM gets injured like?

Carrasco wouldn't give a shit about getting relegated

Hope this is the signing that gives other players confidence to sign now.

Pretty huge statement of intent. 

Aye, I dont think £15m is a lot for a prem proven defender playing in one of the better defences in the league.

Clearly rated by the fans who actually watch him play every week. 

Not sure whats not to like.

2 minutes ago, DJ_NUFC said:

 

4th director? I wonder if that’s being imposed upon Reuben / Stavely & co. And I wonder how they’ll react to that. Anyone have the non-paywall version to paste in here? 

I think they'll be fully on board this move as I imagine he'll be the intermediary between PIF and the club that will speed up the decision making process for AS et al.

Nearly 5 months later and it's still all too surreal for me.

I hope I never get used to this. 

Even if Alli couldn't bring the goals with him, his quality on the ball would still be invaluable to us. 

Loan with option to buy could be a good deal for us. 

I think he was closer to Ginola than he was Messi. 

If this boy had better decision making skills he wouldn't be playing for us. 

Imagine an equally dangerous winger on the other side though....

Shades of Shola

Really pleased for him.

Said it in another thread but he's done brilliantly to galvanise the squad under these circumstances. 

Really good win today with some excellent individual performances, hope we can build some momentum from that.

Think the most pleasing thing to see was the team spirit, everyone was really fighting for that win. 

Said it for a while now but we do desperately need some attacking players in. 

No idea what to do within 30 yards of their goal, otherwise not doing too badly.