Coffee_Johnny

Genuinely worrying.

I’m in Italy, watching NUFCTV. All good ?

It’d be derisory for someone who had achieved similar/bigger fees already. It’s twice as much as Leicester paid for him. (for what it is worth, he’s listed as £45m on transfermkt)

Look after yourself bonny lad ? And escape into the NO twilight zone as much as you need to. All things will pass.

They Hope-ful punts are coming thick and fast today. They’re like London buses! Or maybe ghostly mist-covered might-be London buses.

“Money bazooka” ? Oh, but wouldn’t it be nice to wheel out the big gun just once this summer? Even if it is from HSBC’s armoury.

Totally agree. And I get the sense this is the default position, given some of the young and promising we have been linked with. I do think that we need a blend though and believe we’ll make every effort to get the established players and the could-be’s who are potentially available to us.

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A more fluid midfield three I’d imagine.

Can’t decide whether you’re just terrible at betting/always choose the wrong option, a self-defeating mentalist, or really don’t rate him? Answers on a postcard.

I would like to see footage of him doing the standing jumps, Dummett can leap like Billy the Fish, as he doesn’t seem to get any air seemed really heavy footed a couple of times last night.

Lion’s share of the links (if genuine) haven’t been English. Doubt we’re doing a retro Yorkshire cricket thang.

Regional bias aside, I always thought it was a ridiculous choice for Stadium name. Imagine if we named a new stadium after another, much better one, with no obvious link/connection to our heritage. Thank goodness it wasn’t named after Diana though… so many too tempting ‘jokes’ given the subsequent course of events. I, for one, would have felt compelled to utter them and sullied by doing so.

Day 50 of 84, in Newcastle Online’s transfer trek. We’re getting close folks, really close, I can almost taste it… (Hope it’s a magnificent Madgri and not a mirage) .

Hadn’t even looked at the bench. Assumed it would be pretty much everyone again.

Botman and Bruno wise defo.

Not many first half goals then… .

? Panic on the streets of Benton Panic on the streets of Wallsend I wonder to myself Can Newcastle ever be sane again? The Elswick side-streets that you slip down I wonder to myself… Hang the DA, hang the DA, hang the DA Hang the DA, hang the DA, hang the DA ?

Runt of the litter ? (just kidding). Must be like a full-time job getting them all to training and matches!

Giggstastic point ?

Ultimately it will be a Howe and co. judgement call. I don’t think it is ridiculous to talk about. The only way, at least I hope the only way, it would happen is if it opened up opportunities to sign two more ‘Howe’ type wingers. Or a top drawer replacement/clear improvement. All teams shuffle the deck, particularly with a relatively new manager who didn’t buy the majority of the squad. This sometimes might mean discarding a fan favourite or two.

Good article in i newspaper today—unnamed ITK—describing strategy and why differ from golf investment and from Man City/Chelksi strategies. Nothing that we haven’t discussed/speculated on here: basically constraints of FFP and slow build approach.

What a talented family! ?

Fair enough. He is so slow at the moment though. If he ever gets rapid again (from all that bench warming) this opinion may change.

He used to go drinking in the Bigg Market with his wife. Seems completely unconcerned/no sense of threat. Can you imagine a modern player doing that?