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https://theathletic.com/5197880/2024/01/16/newcastle-united-al-rumayyan-pif/ Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the chairman of Newcastle United and LIV Golf, faces being sued for allegedly “having carried out the instructions” of the Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS), with “the malicious intent” of “harming, silencing and ultimately destroying” the family of the country’s former intelligence chief, Dr Saad Aljabri. The claims are made in legal papers that were dispatched to Al-Rumayyan at multiple high-profile locations — including St James’ Park, Newcastle United’s home stadium, during the second week of January.

I would honestly consider giving up my season ticket if we sacked Eddie and brought Mourinho in.

Love Eddie Howe me

I'm not worried about the teams below us , we have had an injury ravaged season and we are still above them so we are better than them . Of the teams above us I reckon we are definitely still better than West Ham and no worse than Man United and Brighton , the top 5 has gone but no reason why we can't finish 6th or 7th.

A fit Joelinton is as big a miss as Bruno is for us, even against the mackems the only time they got anywhere near our box was after he had gone off injured . Longstaff and Miley both playing together in midfield just isn't good enough at this level .

It's clear that we are going to have to sell one of Bruno , Isak or Botman at some point very soon to help with FFP, very likely to be Bruno I would have thought .

Joelinton a huge miss but not sure this game is the write off people are suggesting , if it wasn't for that daft Forest game that was just a one off fluke I think people would be a lot more confident . City have also lost at Villa , Arsenal and Wolves this season, failed to win at Chelsea as well.

Have seen a few people saying it could be like Sheff Wed last season but looking at the team we put out against them and only about 4 of them will be starting on Saturday . Seem to remember it was Isak first game back as well and he was nowhere near fit. Dubraka Lewis Lascelles Botman Manquillo S.Longstaff Anderson Joelinton Murphy Ritchie Isak

The more you see us play this season the more you realise how miraculous Eddie did last season to get us to 4th and a cup final , we could lose 5-0 on Saturday and I still wouldn't want him sacked .

That's the thing , the top 4 are miles better than the rest of that league and even they would all still be bottom 6 in the premier, even as bad as we are at the minute we are still levels above the mackems .

It's mad what one bad result can do , if we had beaten Forest we would be sat 7th and everyone would be happy enough and looking forward to an improved second half of the season with less injuries and games .

I think this is probably the least I have cared about any Newcastle match since the takeover , just get it out the way take a defeat and focus on January .

Oh I didn't know that , ignore everything I said then .

Is an argument for this season being a write off anyway and keeping all of our money for the summer . We can still finish 7th or 8th with the current squad and realistically we aren't going to finish top 4 whoever we go out and buy.

Play the likes of Ritchie and the rest of the reserves , keep our best players for the derby .

Didn't want Phillips initially but having see how bad we have been recently he surely improves our midfield .

He's not even an upgrade on Pope either , if we are spending big money on a goalie it needs to be one who is going to be our number one for years .

Anyone wanting Eddie out now or even if we lost to the mackems deserves to have Bruce and Ashley back .

Know a lot of season ticket holders that didn't go today due to a combination of being away for Christmas , early kick off on Boxing Day etc and passed the ticket on , wonder if that's why the atmosphere was so bad .

Imagine Liverpool fans saying if they lost to Everton they would want Klopp sacked , it's embarrassing really is .

Seem to remember a Bournemouth fan on here saying one of his flaws was being loyal to players that were clearly out of form and should be nowhere near the starting line up ,we are all seeing that first hand now with the likes of Trippier , Burn , Longstaff etc .

Footballers in general will always go where the money is , them lads at Liverpool won't get much more money anywhere else than they currently get , the whole I want to play champions league football thing works for them as the teams in the champions league usually pay the best money . If a top class footballer really wanted to play champions league football every season they could go play for say Celtic or the likes , they won't do it because them teams don't pay the most money .

He needs to be a squad player and not playing every week , same with Longstaff, they are good squad players for a top 6/7 team but shouldn't be playing every week if we want to progress further.

Think we will win this one comfortably but I reckon it will be the last time we win a league game until February .

I can't think of a single ground in the league where the atmosphere is consistently top class , it's just the way the modern day football fan is now.