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It’s a great idea on paper, then you remember that for “anyone but Newcastle” to work would require buy in from players and more importantly agents. As if they’re going to turn down the payday of their careers because Daniel Levy’s in a huff. Personally I hope it’s true. Just spend in Europe and cause absolute havoc here unsettling players without much risk of having to follow through

It’s the ITK equivalent of cold reading. Suggest that something may or may not happen without ever committing one way or the other. Just hedge your bets by posting something that’s both positive and negative. Muddy the water by suggesting the situation is in flux. Then when something does happen just point to the messages that align with real world events and get sucked off by Wraith’s minions.

I’m sure he’ll go eventually, but he’s basically been running the club single-handedly for the past few years and probably pretty essential for finding out where all the bodies are buried. I don’t see a problem keeping him around for a period until we’ve got a more professional administrative structure in place.

I assume the ‘sports scientist’ the fitness fella that Rafa brought in, the one that very recently followed him to Everton. In which case if he was calling the shots why was our approach to fitness so markedly different? I smell bullshit.

They’ve been far too loose lipped with the media, but the stuff around process is just churlish. I’m sure they’d have loved to spend six months getting all the structures in place and enjoyed a more serene transition but look at our league position. We’re deep in the shit. Things are going to be a bit cart-before-horse in the short term, and I don’t really think that’s an indictment on the owners.

Do they old Arsenal Sega/Dreamcast trick. One on the home kit, one on the away.

Get him and we’ll be flying.

In fairness to the spod I’d prefer him to the lad who spends 90 minutes on his phone checking the state of his acca, or the one who arrives ten minutes after kick off and fucks off ten minutes before half time because he can’t go a full 45 without a drink.

I’ve only really just tuned back in to NUFC Twitter after a few years out of the loop and it is a bomb scare. Dozens of absolute nobodies beefing with one another over fuck all of any consequence, with that colossal bellend Wraith somewhere near the centre. Any period of qualified success is going to make it even more intolerable too.

Gerrard might turn out to be a very good manager, and he might do a great job at Villa, but he would’ve been the exact opposite of what we need at this moment in time. We’ve just riddled ourselves of a bloke who delegated, who was light on detail, who used ‘soft skills’ ahead of actually coaching. Stevie G rocking up and waving his CL winner’s medal about hoping to inspire some sort of reaction from Shelvey would’ve been a disaster.

She bloody loves motorsport. I don’t even understand what the issue is around her. Interest groups have always used massive news stories to leverage publicity for their pet causes. It’s just she’s a person not an interest group and her pet cause is her husband being cut up into tiny little bits.

I can’t speak for the intent of the journalists, but the reason our fans don’t like them asking questions is because we all know what an honest answer would entail. I think it’s important this topic doesn’t become a cudgel to beat supporters with because ultimately we have no control here. But that only lasts as long as our fans don’t act like fuckwits around the topic. Certain dickheads who shall rename nameless have already decided they’re absolutely going to lean into the worst of this, but the rest of us would do well not to flip our lids because a journalist is suggesting our owners might not be the nicest people in the world.

If he has a wife I’m assuming she’s already left and took the kids.

I hope they all fuck off, apart from the lad bragging about his pants.

This. Just pop in obscene speculative bids for the best players from our relegation rivals and unsettle them

Only a few days ago we were being told to calm down because Balague was a known bullshitter too. We don’t have a great deal of insight into how the club is currently being ran, however the evidence we have seen so far suggests they have no idea what they’re doing. Considering a massive recruitment drive is required in a couple of months it doesn’t bode well that we’re seemingly unable to tie down a manager. It’s not as if we’re taking speculative punts either. These are people who are interested. They’ve interviewed for the job. And yet we’re apparently unable to get something agreed before someone goes flapping their gums to the press. It’s amateur hour.

Useless bastards. Even Ashley was able to hire a fucking manager from time to time

Charnley’s had the heating on full belt for the last 4 years.

That forum is the embodiment of the cry laughing emoji.

Oh no.

They’re playing in the first round of the FA Cup marra.

Basically where I’m at. Not positive, not negative but more curious to see whether he’s English football’s great white hope.

I wonder what holiday allowance he negotiated? Bruce was on two day weeks by the end.

This is either going to be an absolutely massive success or a massive failure. No in between. We’re either qualifying for the CL or going down.