Kid Icarus

Student population ≠ student accommodation population. I would need to check when I'm on campus for the exact figures, but we (Newcastle Uni) and Northumbria have a huge amount of local students who live at home as well as students in off campus sites and in Singapore and Malaysia.

Howeh man Yorkie you know what I mean It's not the same as private renting, it has its own regulations and is for students only. But yeah, fair enough, it's housing. In general it indirectly frees up other privately rented properties by being there, but in this specific case with Leazes Terrace where there's existing, available student accommodation in the same area, it doesn't really apply. I'd be agreeing with you if the city didn't have enough student accommodation.

Purpose built Student accommodation is different to housing, has different regulations and is just for students, it's not really housing. If it's current use is student accommodation, the argument for saying it would take away housing isn't really there when we have too much student accommodation in the city centre. All ifs and buts though admittedly. Incidentally, I used to live on St Thomas Crescent following the redevelopment that went on a decade ago, they're basically dolls houses like. Lovely on the outside, but cheap and nasty inside.

Yeah, but it was this (below) as an aside to that that we were touching on:

Student accommodation and housing are a bit different. I don't know enough about Leazes Terrace to say what it's classed as or what would need to happen to change it to a business property. I remember Ponsaeleus mentioning it a while ago as a possibility though. But yeah, Newcastle definitely has far more student accommodation than it needs. Heaton and Jesmond are winding down their student populations and buy to let properties in those areas are going up for sale partly for that reason.

Do you know that that's the case? Just don't know why it wouldn't be allowed. Newcastle has more student accommodation in the city centre than it needs.

It might make good business sense , but from a sports point of view or fan's point of view it's a different perspective. Even then I would argue that the true value of the club wouldn't match up with the larger amount of money that had been spent, or (much more likely) the value itself will be inflated. It definitely feels like we're on the cusp of something though - new investors publicly listing clubs and their value inflating even more in this insane stock bubble we're in, or expansion into a European Super League either explicitly or in all but name through the back door. It's the Alien vs Predator thing for me, whoever wins we lose. A model like the one you're suggesting would be ideal like, but that's how the PL broke away in the first place so until it's a UEFA or FIFA forced rule, it would be suicide for any league to do that on its own at the moment. When the bubble eventually bursts there might be an opening but I'd be shocked.

I'm not sure what you mean, most of the block is student accommodation that's owned by one person.

I guess it depends on where you draw the line between investment and clearly pumping money in far, far beyond the club's revenue. Imo that line was crossed by Chelsea.

Well I would expect their fans to be ideologically consistent and not partisan when it comes to the things that are ruining the game, so in cases where they're not you have a point about their hypocrisy and exceptionalism, but it still won't mean they're wrong.

Hmm I dunno. Man City and Chelsea certainly wouldn't, the rest can argue that they got to where they are without financial doping.

Very ambivalent about this one now tbh. Would have been good to get him, but if it means getting Szoboszlai then so be it.

Always find it mad how people think signing a piece of paper with someone that can be undone without giving any reason is a commitment, but the shared, lifelong responsibility of having children with someone isn't on its own Indoctrination has loads to answer for.

Coventry, Man City, Sheff Wed, Everton Wimbledon twice, Bolton, Stoke, Spurs, Boro, Forest, Arsenal (before the LC) he was unreal IIRC. One of those things that's lost in time as well, but up until Sheff Wed away for me it was just listening on the radio and hearing what he was doing described, hearing the crowd react to it, then hearing from people who went to the matches how good he was. Seeing him for the first time on Sky in that Sheff Wed match didn’t disappoint like, he was absolute magic, jaw droppingly skillful but stylish with it as well, then he went and scored as well.

Don't think it would happen but he wouldn't be wrong

*6 months of being utterly ridiculous though. During that time Keegan came out with one of his famous Keeganisms "I wouldn't say David is the best player in the world at the moment, but there are certainly none better". Lee Clark put it another way, "the best two players I've ever played with are David Ginola and Peter Beardsley. Beardsley for all of the time that I played with him and David for the first half a season after he came" Scott Sellars to Bez after Ginola's first time getting the ball in training "well that's me fucked isn't it" The numbers might not have been there (7 goals and 16 assists in a team where goals and creativity were widespread is still very good) but for me with Ginola it was love at first sight and he took us up a notch to being serious contenders, I never felt that with Robert, as great as he was, I never thought we had the best winger in the league like I did with Ginola. Ginola won PFA player of the year and the League Cup at Spurs, scoring and assisting for fun and yet for me still wasn't as good as that first half of 95/96.

Perfect example of stats not being everything. Ginola was as good as any player that I've ever seen at Newcastle in the first half of 95/96, he made us title challengers overnight.

Southampton fan on Loaded confirmed that he has definitely played left back for them, but rarely.

Twice last year!

I want to know where the youtubers are getting these mockups from.

The sort of thing I get in the ear from my mam.

Aye, Dicking Chi...nah

Livramento is better than Ashby, it's who we see our future starter that I'm trying to work out, in terms of age profile their careers will align which isn't ideal either.

Could be wrong like, but I think it's Livramento and Ashby being almost the same age that's the head scratcher.

Starting to find that the sofifa player profile pages are more active and better than r/soccer for learning about players, highly recommend it.