Whitley mag

The Feyernoord winger looks better than anything we currently have on the right and dare I say almost Salah like with his directness. I’m encouraged that we’re looking at right sided players, it would raise serious questions of judgement if we had Murphy and Elanga starting next season.

Is Bird freelance now sure he was finished by the Mirror?

I haven’t read the article but stage 4 usually means its spread and terminal, however with life prolonging drugs these days people can lead a normal life, usually plenty of unpleasant side effects which can be challenging but hopefully his cancer can be stabilised and managed. Long live King Kev.

Surprise, agent hoys out transfer link at time of new contract negotiations.

Opening up Leazes Terrace with a park maintained by the club should be one of the selling points to get the whole city on board, not just football fans. They’ve got the land at the metro station to put something commercial in place. If the club get greedy and want to put buildings on the SJP footprint, I think it’s the wrong move. A new well maintained park in the city centre would be a great addition.

Like cockroaches coming out the woodwork, seen a couple of their shirts dotted around the North East’s premier coastline since last weekend. They’ll disappear as always once the results start going against them.

Interesting line from BBC article and probably confirms Longstaff’s claims last year- Jacob Ramsey only had a brief window into Howe's sessions before the fixtures piled up and the midfielder was understood to have found the level of high-intensity running within the drills a jolt at first after being used to a more relaxed way of training, even under the demanding Unai Emery at Aston Villa.

Think he’ll do very well at Barca but definitely has flaws to his game. Apart from his penalties, I don’t really see any area of his game that has dramatically improved in his time here.

I’d take the players they signed over ours like.

Would we ever receive the full money from Barcelona is the question. I’d be wanting a hefty amount upfront.

Think this will drag out unless another club comes knocking, Bayern will not want to pay 70 million plus. I think Howe has been careful not to completely burn bridges in case a deals not possible.

According to Edwards he was talked out of it by Hopkinson and co. Since then he’s been rejuvenated by support from stands. Losing at home to Brentford must have triggered something, but can’t imagine his confidence has been boosted in the following weeks. His interview on Sunday certainly wasn’t the most inspiring and reeked of a manager non plussed.

Nah it was after losing at home to Brentford.

I think the opposite a new manager could get the project moving again. This is a window of opportunity to get a good manager, come October the landscape won’t look as appealing.

That and the video of Willock? Just hanging his leg out for the free quick speaks volumes of the poor mentality around the whole squad.