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There's a limit to that though surely? Mbeumo at >£62m and potentially just shy of £200k/week for example. What if Pedro goes to Chelsea for £65m and they give him £200k/week?

"Great news, we've got you to a Premier League club!" "Amazing, which one?" "Err...it's in the North East" "Newcastle?" "Well...we're going to Newcastle airport..."

Nobody say it or I swear to God...

It's funny, even though he's said publicly that it had nothing to do with the takeover, I don't believe him

I never liked Bruce or Souness and Pardew wasn't great at the end but surely Owen and Ashley are on a different level?

Oh I was miles off then I preferred your Northumbrian-themed ones tbf - unique, stood out and a clear reference to the historical region

Tyne Bridge?

Callum Wilson was great that season too, but neither of them have shown anything like that sort of level in the past year.

If I give him the benefit of the doubt, he could mean that they're content to play the long game and wait until next summer but judging by every other single sentence in that tweet, I doubt it

I'm not sure that's how transfers for players with three years on their contract work...

"It'll look better on... ...oh good God"

I haven't listened to that Podcast so no idea whether those quotes are genuine.

We had an excellent record against the bottom ⅓ or so last season. This problem with "breaking down a low block" is a myth in my opinion. That's not how/why Bournemouth, Fulham etc beat us. We should double-down on Eddie-ball, pace, pressing etc. but that is going to take at least five new additions otherwise we won't have the depth to carry it out across multiple competitions.

I hadn't heard of him until we were linked. If he is a potential top-class CB and we can get him for £30-40m then it's the sort of risk I think we're going to have to take.

Stoke - then scored a hattrick against them iirc

That was my first thought too. Injury trouble, coming off a less productive season, potential gambling addiction - if we could find someone with all three they'd be perfect for us. Really though, you are right. We're going to struggle going head-to-head with the established "top" clubs for players so we have to move when they hesitate.

"...and what's even worse, I look like an absolute c*nt too"

Surely it's just a club-to-club agreement? A club-specific release clause basically that the selling club would be forced to accept.

Bet he's never even heard of a false 10, nevermind concocted a strategy to incorporate two of them

I'm flabbergasted that this forum has collectively forgotten entirely about the "splashing tetra" Copella arnoldi which, quite famously, lays it's eggs on overhanging foliage, rendering it's newborn offspring literally fish out of water. The sort of amateur marine biology knowledge I'd expect from RTG

Rumours are this is exactly how the final Howe/Mitchell meeting went before the bald fraud was unceremoniously BINNED

Oh hi Eddie, didn’t realise you had a login here

According to Wikipedia

I'm with Ikon on this. Look at our run at the end of November into middle of December. We play 22nd, 25th, 29th, 3rd, 6th, 9th then the mackems on the 13th. Some tricky games in there too. As it stands, we'd have to play Tonali, Bruno, Joelinton constantly, or change our shape to accommodate someone other than a CM coming into the side. What will do us in that run is not the quality of our best XI (even if it still has Schar and Murphy in it) but the drop-off between our best 12-13 players and the rest. Even adding players behind Tonali/Bruno but superior to Longstaff & Willock would massively improve our chances next season.