Kid Icarus

The amount of advantages given to pen takers is getting a bit daft now like. Who is this change even for?

There are loads where clubs have just paid up their contract to get them out as well.

More chance of him wanting pneumonia again, but yeah probably.

Best of luck getting rid of him if even Chelsea cba with him, he's absolutely shite.

Sancho heading back to Man United after Chelsea talks broke down.

That Bill Hicks Garden of Eden joke comes to mind like

He also did take hundreds of millions out of the club, the method was just via savings on capital rather than dividends on profit.

I miss Staveley and Ghodoussi. I feel like for most of the time they were here we had a fairly regular stream of rumours to get our teeth into.

We've listened tbf, it's just that everyone to a man disagrees. No one's forcing you to keep claiming they're worse than Ashley and people are always going to bite when you keep doing it. Your club could have still succeeded in spite of the Glazers, but mismanaged the huge funds for players it was given. We didn't even have those funds to mismanage in the first place, survival was the business model. That's what it boils down to and none of that is controversial like. You admitted yourself to not really knowing much about how Ashley ran the club.

His point is still right re Ashley like. Highlighted by the list of players you're citing being non-Ashley signings (Joelinton aside)

This post sums it up quite nicely I think. No one would have had this opinion on Murphy before Howe got his hands on him.

My number one pick is whoever Howe's is at whatever price he thinks is worth it. We're 3 years in of him having an almost 100% hit rate...

Rapid, young, two footed, good end product with huge room for improvement. I would expect Howe to get out of him what we got out of Gordon's first full season.

It's pretty much certain that we did tbf, it was way more than just a rumour. If you don't believe that then fair enough, but that's the sticking point in us talking about this really. Get what you're saying about getting more out of a better player, but I was replying to posts about Elanga being shit tbf.

So yeah, we've looped back around to the point I was making about you somehow still not really trusting Howe on transfers then. Your opinion like, just giving mine.

We literally put a £50m bid in for him. Mad that yous have forgotten that.

We bid £50m for him last summer, that's what it's based on. Nothing to do with a rumour.

This old chestnut. No one is saying you're not allowed an opinion or debate, I'm saying the opinion being in opposition to Howe's should give everyone pause for thought. All of us have been made to look daft by Howe - on Joelinton, on Gordon, on Miggy, on Murphy, even arguably on Wood. His ability to spot a player and get the best out of them is unbelievable. Yet for some reason some people don't think there's an obvious lesson to learn there.I found it baffling last year, I find it even more baffling now after the season he's just squeezed out of Jacob Murphy. I don't know what it's going to take.

FWIW Keiran Maguire is on Loaded Mag tonight

I would take Howe's word for it if I were you.

That's all well and good like, I don't necessarily disagree with that. It's the posts about him being shite that have me bewildered. I wonder how many times it takes to be proven wrong by Eddie Howe's coaching before you just let him get on with it. He's got Jacob Murphy 2nd in the G/A league but even that's not enough.

No one ever learns do they? Elanga would be quality in our team under Howe man. It's so obvious it slaps you in the face.

Disappointing but at least it's happened early and not dragged on. Similar to how I felt about Tosin last season, it's sort of win-win in that I'd have been happy if he'd come here and happy that we dodged one if he wants to go there.

Hey Froggy, did you get less unreasonable?

"They're an incredibly insecure lot, the mags. The other North East clubs just want to get the credit and exposure their achievements deserve."