Fitzgerald

Always winter in your life. they are and will always be a s*** club with s*** fans. even when they were in the premier league for 10 years they regularly f***ed off at half time if they were losing. Hounded every manager out. they have a couple f 2 bit chancers in charge now and they have not got any money to put in. they gambled on going up and 'flipping' the club to pay short. the gamble has failed hence having to get rid of players. You have got your head in the sand. If there is no takeover happening then believe me we are firmly on the path to becoming the exact same kind of club as them. This superiority complex that we have over them is currently based on f*** all. In 12 months its highly likely that we will be in the same division as them. Quite ironic that this board is full of people slagging off the people who continue to attend SJP for "not seeing the big picture". If you can't see where NUFC are headed and the fact that the Mackems have now bottomed out and can only start to go up then you are guilty of exactly the same small-mindedness. Two (three) very good posts above. The mackems are in a terrible mess mostly of their own making, but at least they had an honourable owner who held their hand up for their mistakes and gave up the club whilst taking no money out and footing most of the bill of their own failures. They are in the gutter but they can start looking up again. Meanwhile we are owned by an evil c*** who will happily destroy the club for his own benefit as he has done over the past 12 years and continue to leech it until he pops his clogs. By the time that happens we'll be lucky to be where the mackems are now, and we have much more frustration and anger to look forward to before we get there. Hell, by that time a large number of us may well not even be around anymore. This empty shell of a club could be the NUFC we know for the rest of our lives. Three years of Rafa working his magic may well have blinded a lot of fans, but before long we will be back to the dark days of someone like Pardew or Carver insulting our intelligence whilst stealing a living on our dime. Spot on top post

Fucking hell

dear fucking me

godzilla[/member] Jesus

I don't think there will be any official news to be honest. It looks like it has petered out and that will be the last we hear of any of it until January

This

I think we know already don't we

Probably sick of been bewwwd for been soft forrin vermin despite working his socks off

Could have said crashing to cheer me up. He's crop spraying anthrax on the population of the Toon. Anthrax you say........... I'll have a season ticket, new top and a sports direct mug please Mike. No deadly disease is going to stop me supporting the lads on a Saturday.

There is. Fees on the continent aren't that bad it's just the greed of the PL where it's mental. I bet there are centre halfs who go this summer for between 10-30m who are better than Maguire and end up higher rated. It's just lazy scouting of players who are "PL proven"

I agree. Turning down 70m for him is mental! You can't tell me they couldn't sell him for 70m and replace him with somebody better off the continent for 40m. Same with Zaha, I'm sure Arsenal could get better in Europe for 40-50m than him. Buying players from PL teams is almost pointless as there are just as good players in Europe at half the price. Look at the amount of players that get signed from France, Belgium, Holland, Portugal etc for like 12m then are worth 4/5 times that a year or 2 later

I wonder what sort of transfer budget he will have there?

Probably lascelles is our equivalent then? He would be nowhere near our legends list which just sums them up

And Bally

He is and has always been awful. Led the charge into division 3

"Thankyou catts" what for? Leading the charge to the third division?

It's completely beyond weird how they go on about Rafa mind! It's mental. He's so far out of their league as well, even if they were in the PL a manager of his calibre wouldn't like twice at them. Its the equivalent of us laughing at Messi leaving Barcelona. Just jealousy and a huge lack of self awareness .

I'm a bit dissapointed in him tbf. I adored the man but he was building something good here. I wanted to see Almiron and Longstaff under him for a full season and I think top 10 was still a realistic goal for next season. Just seems a shame to chuck all what we had here away to go to some bad Chinese team.