BennyBlanco

Being paid and fully embracing the club aren’t two mutually exclusive things.

With respect I disagree. They could have held onto their stake and done the bare minimum in terms of their management contract. It’s obvious she went above and beyond and really fell in love with the club (all facets), the region and the fans.

Let’s have it right, the way the club and the fans have stood by him - he should be wanting to pull up trees for us. Im excited to have him back tbh, there moments last year where he looked brilliant.

I think if we’ve learned anything this last few weeks, the club have a very very tight grip on what info comes out of the club. Nobody had a clue about Mitchell joining until it happened, same with the Staveley news yesterday. I’d go as far as to say what the press reports in terms of our business isn’t worth a wank anymore. We’ll know we’ve signed someone when the club want us to know and that’s it.

Be highly surprised we move for anyone until the Alnwick castle summit thinking about it. I’m sure Mitchell will want to hit the ground running, wouldn’t surprise me if some of Staveleys role was assumed by him on the recruitment side. Hoping for a pleasant surprise as most of the names linked have left me feeling either a bit underwhelmed or are just totally unbelievable.

Can’t thank her enough for the work involved with bringing PIF to the table and her tenacity to get the deal done. Totally agree with a few that she should have an ambassadorial role going forward. If not, I wish her well. PIF are clearly moving forward with a purely football centric approach with Mitchell and Eales spearheading things.

Can’t see this as anything other than a really ambitious positive recruitment.

Aye, don’t bother about those out of work so you can get a shiny new player “for free”. The modern football fan man. Fuckin awful.

I put it to you that vastly overpaying on players who have generally flopped for the last ten years has cost you far more money than Yusuf, Gregg and Imogen who work in accounts/catering/maintenance. Cutting local jobs, great way to endear yourself Jimmy.

And meanwhile Almiron is still a Fucking factor at this club. Utter fuckery.

Absolutely fucking bollocks this. Imagine losing 10-15 goals a year and probably the same in assists. Not even like we can moneyball the fuck out of it and try and make it back in the aggregate with some cheaper players either. Bent as fuck the premier league.

Chelsea readying a club record bid apparently. Make this PSR shit make sense someone.

Is this transfer moving us forward as a squad? exactly.

And scored how many?

What the Fucking fuck is going on here.

That comment was in regards to successful player development pal. I’m well aware of the success they’ve had but I can’t think of many young players they’ve fully developed or transformed to the rate of success Howe has had recently. That’s my overall point - I think he’d benefit much more from Howes management and guidance than he would at Chelsea. We could pretty much guarantee him first team football and a star role at a club that’s definitely on the ascendancy.

I mean if one swallow makes a summer for you then fair do’s mate. I mean we could equally point out to Joelintons transformation under Howe, Gordon’s rise, Almirons transformation from totally fucking useless to his great season before last, Lewis Miley. But yeah. Palmer, who was already great, just couldn’t get into the city side, is a mint example of player development at Chelsea. I dunno if being “ruthless” is quite the sell to a player in terms of being a stable environment to harness a players talent and ambition. “Look at all the fucking off we do and the squad/management turnover rate. . . “. Also I believe I agreed with you in regards to location and the financial package that Chelsea can offer so that point is a bit mute.

Any news of this toads tribunal case? Seen fuck all about it.

Are you saying they are a stable club where he can flourish? Because from where I’m sitting all they seem to be able to offer him is no need to relocate and more money. There’s zero player development going on there because there isn’t a managerial structure to allow that to happen. Bias aside, if I’m a serious young footballer in the Anthony Gordon mould I am 100% looking at Newcastles player development record over the last 3 years and picking them over Chelsea.

You have to question the sporting integrity of any player that moves to Chelsea at this stage. The club is a shitshow. Run by utter buffoons, managed by someone different every season and the expectations of the fans are ridiculous. Any of them who say they are relishing the challenge or whatever other platitudes they spew when signing are lying.

The athletic are banging the Calafiori drum. I would say we are at the back of a very long line there.

Not a chance he goes for that price.

If the allegations prove true - fuck em off into the sun. We have to be whiter than white with this shit.

If anything shows just how fucked the FFP rules are its this. We identified the kid as a talent, shipped him out to the team that suited him and now some set of cunts like Liverpool or Chelsea will benefit from him. Because, although our owners could buy and sell the other pricks from the league ten times over we have to sell the lad for 20m to be able to comply with a rule thats in place to hold teams like us back. Fuck this in its calloused arsehole.

Rumours abound that Liverpool are gunna put a bid in. Anybody but those cunts.