Kid Icarus

We don't have anyone in place for him to be linked with do we? No manager, DoF, or anyone.

KSA has money. That's it, that's all that was wanted, nothing else. You know it, we know it.

Lesson 1 for the "we can help them change!" camp

The owner's a murderous king, the two 10% owners are inherited wealth Tories - one of which literally worked for Boris Johnson - and two of the most prominent, self-appointed 'voice of the fans' are also balls-out-of-the-bath Tories. I think it's fair to say that our fanbase isn't really represented by people anything like us.

The most surprising thing about it is Caulkin's involvement for me tbh. He's far, far better than that. Last week he was writing about how he couldn't sleep over the moral conflict he was feeling, this week he's putting out articles about victimised Newcastle fans?

Haven't seen a single person suggest that we could or should have done anything differently. Football fans know that they wouldn't stop supporting their club and that a majority of fans would welcome in the Saudis in exactly the same manner if it happened at their club. All criticism I've seen from fans from fans of other clubs are obviously just using any stick to beat us with knowing fine well that their own fans would have acted in exactly the same way. That's my take on it anyway. Going on like there's anything that can be defended, whinging about how we're misunderstood, and developing a seige mentality is just ridiculously thin-skinned.

The fans agreed with it, but whether they agreed with it or disagreed with it, they still had absolutely no say in it. The outcry over the Super League is pretty much the only time I can think of in the last 30 years where fan power has actually stopped something as big as this from happening, and it had to be unanimous and sustained for it to work.

FWIW I think the treatment of Newcastle fans has been unbelievably kind throughout this.

Whinging about being hated by other fans put into the context of the reasons why everyone rightly hates the Saudi owners just makes it come across as monumentally crass like. We didn't get a say in any of it, leave it at that. No one is going to, or should want to hear 'how it feels to be hated' for supporting Newcastle.

Harsh on MFG

Pretty sure Neville always says Overmars was the hardest player to play against by a mile, not just because of him, but because of everyone else around him making it more or less impossible to do anything about.

Not sure about that mind. I remember him being doubled up on and it just meaning that the likes of Anelka, Bergkamp and Wright were left free.

Could be wrong but the goals he was getting for Arsenal at the time felt unheard of for a winger. You could maybe argue that he'd have been more suited to the game now than he was then.

I think the lack of rumours has maybe lead people to have too much time on their hands to overthink the whole Rafa coming back thing. He'd be absolutely ideal, particularly considering the lack of any stand out alternatives. Part of why he's so respected though is because he's not someone who's going to walk away from a contract. Can only really see it happening if there's a combination of us getting desperate, Everton having a few more bad results and their fans turning, and the Everton owners being tempted by some extra FFP money to use.

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About time he made the pledge.

If they take a long, considered approach and then appoint Lampard or Martinez

I know Man United and OGS are hogging the news cycle at the moment, but it's still really quiet isn't it.

Voted Rafa because that's who I want, but would go for Emary if that's a possibility.

The scoreline wasn't as bad, but I actually thought the 0-3 to Sunderland was much worse that season.

Not sure on Newcastle's worst home performance, but the worst home performance I've seen overall is easily Brazil's 7-1 in 2014. Pretty sure David Luis was still trying to bomb forward through the centre of Germany's midfield when they were 5 down.

Have to say I think this is the strongest Premier League I can remember. Liverpool, Man City, and Chelsea are absolutely incredible and below them the difference in quality between the teams really isn't as huge as it usually is. I think Norwich and Newcastle are the only really poor teams in the league.

Some nice to read insight there, cheers. ? My mate who's a Liverpool fan thinks Henderson missing the last few matches of 13/14 was the main reason you didn't win the league, or at least more than the slip, would you say that's right?

Different roles, but even then there's not a DM out there I'd put anywhere near Kante tbf. Henderson must be an excellent leader as well, which you don't really get to see purely by watching. His stock has probably risen more than any other player I can think of. Vardy maybe, but in a different way. From this bang average Sunderland player everyone laughed at for being signed for £20m, to captaining Liverpool for 6 years to the league and Champions League and being a key player in all of it. Thought he was underrated from about 2013, but I never saw him getting to the level he's got to.

No you don't remember or no he's not quality?