Whitley mag

I’d like to say table 9 must be east standers, but reading some of that lot the whole support is fucked, just give it up lads and find a new past time would be my advice.

Anyone suggested foam hands and rattles ?

Watching tonight I fail to see what someone like Onana would really add, where crying out for quality on the ball.

@Heron it’s simple for me only a designated area of at least 3k clearly advertised as a singing enclosure can save the atmosphere.

This has to be aligned with members being able to choose their own seats to sit with pals.

An area for fans under 25 would also be welcome.

33 minutes ago, LFEE said:

https://x.com/nufcwill1892/status/1764949686899663203?s=46&t=DDNXUN2PoOBhgKmoF77zNw

Wouldn’t be surprised if we did want a physical centre forward to replace Wilson, love Isak but can look lightweight in certain games when service isn’t right.

Concur the problem with our level 7, compared to the back of 3rd tier at Spurs new stadium is that you feel detached as @Wallsendmag describes.

Other big stadiums you can still feel part of it, SJP really is so poorly designed I can’t help but feel this is a big opportunity missed if we stay.

I think if we end up with a mirror image of the Leazes End and some Aviva Stadium style glass construction of the East Stand, any romantic notions of SJP will be quashed and it’ll be more soulless than any new stadium.

7 minutes ago, healthyaddiction said:

Tim "South American Football Expert" Vickery said he's a similar sort of player to Bruno.

Don’t think he’s as technical as Bruno but certainly has an engine, an all Brazilian midfield 3 would be interesting.

3 minutes ago, SUPERTOON said:

Never seen Ederson play, could he replace Bruno for rotation/inury or suspension?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZsZ3H7NhFw&pp=ygUHRWRlcnNvbg%3D%3D

Newcastle United are considering a second successive season-long loan for Yankuba Minteh as they press ahead with a multimillion-pound plan they hope will help them beat suffocating financial fair play rules.

Minteh is the 19-year-old Gambia winger signed from Danish club Odense Boldklub for £6m last summer and then loaned to Feyenoord as part of the club’s plan to “invest in emerging talent” by beefing up their global scouting operation and transfer budget for development players.

Much has been made of the restrictions the Premier League’s profit and sustainability regulations (PSR) put on Newcastle’s first-team recruitment but buying and developing the best players between the age of 16-21 is seen internally as a way of saving the club millions in the long term.
 

A source told i Dan Ashworth’s imminent departure as director of football would not disrupt those plans, with Newcastle talent spotters having taken part in recent scouting missions to Brazil and Germany to watch young players. Further global signings are anticipated in the coming transfer window alongside a substantial squad rebuild after a turbulent campaign.

But Minteh was the first example of significant funds being ploughed into the plan, and sources have told ithat they are seeing promising signs, with the club’s revamped loan support structure playing a big part in what is turning into a successful season in the Eredivisie.

Newcastle were meticulous in their approach to Minteh’s loan, a club representative jetting out to find him an apartment in Rotterdam in advance of his move, and even measuring how far it was from the club’s training ground so that he could concentrate solely on playing and training.

Loan coordinator Shola Ameobi is understood to be a regular visitor for face-to-face chats with the player and his coaching staff and is also in weekly contact with the 19-year-old, who has a huge amount of potential but is regarded as very much a rough diamond.

Minteh’s progress in the Netherlands has been far from a straight arc – a flying start followed by a plateau in form before excellent recent form culminating in another influential performance on Sunday. Feyenoord’s highly-rated head coach Arne Slot emphasised on Friday how much more there is to come as he urged patience around his development.

But there have been some tantalising signs. “He has huge potential, if he can learn to slow down his though process a bit he is going to be a fantastic player,” says Martijn Krabbendam, Feyenoord correspondent for Voetbal International.

“Everyone loves him. He’s so quick, he’s so intuitive but he also loves work, not just attacking but also defensively too.

“The way Feyenoord is playing under this coach it’s very important that they put in that hard work and he does that.

“I think it will be too early for Newcastle’s first team next season because he has a lot still to learn but if he continues to develop he will be a fantastic player for the club in the long term.”

Although the club are likely to take a look at him in pre-season another loan move to continue his development is viewed as the most likely option. Feyenoord are keen to bring him back for a second season, although a move to the Championship is also possible.

Newcastle know they can’t afford to make many missteps in the transfer market, with scrutiny falling on their own season-long loan of Lewis Hall, who has played only 108 minutes of Premier League football this term. He has been an unused substitute for the last six matches but is getting closer to triggering a permanent £28m summer move.

Club sources insist he remains a long-term project but they may have to loan him out next season if he can’t force his way into Eddie Howe’s plans.

As i revealed a fortnight ago, Newcastle are considering restructuring their own football operations as they adjust to Ashworth’s impending exit, with tweaks to the remit of his successor.

While they are looking to recruit a replacement their responsibilities may not be as overarching as Ashworth’s were as some of their duties could end being shared out internally.

The first part of that restructure emerged on Friday as Andy Howe was promoted to assistant head of first-team recruitment. The highly-regarded Howe, nephew of manager Eddie, was previously head of technical scouting.

If I was Ashworth I’d be getting a new mobile and not accepting any texts/calls from NUFC, he’d do well to remember Jeff Bezos, where not to be fucked with. 

35 minutes ago, manorpark said:

 

The Club don't just want to stay in the City, they (quite rightly) want to stay in the City Centre.

If Newcastle as a city is going to grow and expand to compete with other cities, would expanding the city centre out to the arena site with a new stadium under pinning it not be a feasible option ?

As a City I do worry theres a real lack of vision to expand and grow as where seeing in Liverpool and Manchester right now.

Problem being with a Gallowgate extension, my real fear is we’ll see more corporate seating, as what has been done at the Leazes End.

I noticed the new Anfield Road expansion has corporate seats right at front of new tier, hardly conducive to helping the atmosphere.

Take the low roof off the current Gallowgate and mirror the Leazes End and the place is truly fucked.

Disappointed if true but any investment is to be welcomed.

This has got to be a wind up surely, nee way it falls out your trouser leg like that.

https://x.com/Tom_Gregan/status/1763976275503268028?s=20

19 minutes ago, Heron said:

The Gallowgate middle tier is lifting. Very similar to the East Stand and Leazes tbh. All this notion of the Gallowgate being our now 'loud' stand is shite. We don't have a Kop style stand. 

 

 

 

Interesting as was reading something a while back about Liverpool fans saying the average age of fan in the Kop was knocking on due to season ticket holders of years and how it was impacting atmosphere.

The difference being the Kop despite being all seated still tend to stand for most games you see on tv, I couldn’t imagine our lot bothering themselves to do that even for a massive game.

Might just be my perception these days but we seem to have a very large element of fair weather fans, who just see it as a bit entertainment, rather than a way of life like many of us did in our younger years, put it this way I don’t get the impression many of the current lots weekend is spoilt when we lose.

Norwich still in awe of the MLF’s to this day apparently.

Said it a while back it’s lads in their early 20’s we need to get in the ground, the place is like a fucking morgue.

The support is pathetic at the minute and only a designated singing enclosure and people being able to choose their seat can help it.

The singing enclosure has to be at least 3k as well to really make any noticeable difference.

3 minutes ago, TheBrownBottle said:

Let’s be honest, the current SJP is this in a nutshell.  It’s a brutalist building. 

It looks dated, grim and at this point I’d take any city centre location as an alternative if it meant a new stadium.

1 minute ago, nufc123 said:

Douglas some days ago said versatile forward, CM/DM and CB was the big pri. Dont like the versatile forward. Thnk we need a CF + RW.

Ederson, Diomande and Eze would be a decent summer.

If I was looking at the team today the obvious choices for upgrade in the summer would be Dubravka, Burn, Schar, Longstaff and Murphy.

Very harsh on Schar perhaps as he’s been brilliant, but can’t get away from feeling we need pace at CB to really progress.

We also need a reliable striker to back up Isak next season, hopefully with some wheeling and dealing we can upgrade at least 3 of those positions in summer.

8 minutes ago, KaKa said:

 

https://www.fichajes.net/noticias/doble-oferta-top-sacar-kubo-real-sociedad-20240226.html

Good player with the added attraction we’d shift shed loads of strips in Japan.

1 hour ago, Mikky said:

Imagine having him and Miley coming through together - fkn Ashley era man 

 

Really hope things like this are in the past - we potentially have a goldmine of talent in the NE

Lost Ollie Harrison to Chelsea under current ownership never any guarantees unfortunately.

2 minutes ago, Conjo said:

Really hope Howe is justified in sticking with Burn and that he has a solid game. The optics where people have been screaming out for Tino ahead of Burn for months, only for him to be thrown in against Arsenal and immediately benched again afterwards isn't good.

Yip hung out to dry then dropped if this was Pardew, or Bruce folk would be spitting feathers.

35 minutes ago, Stifler said:

Not sure about Anfield, externally I like the brick work, but inside it looks boring.

It might have a smaller capacity, but Everton’s stadium will be the better of the two, although again I hope we out do them, and do something more like the new White Heart Lane.

 

 

 

The new Anfield Road end is very uninspiring and shows how redevelopment is limited in comparison.