TheBrownBottle

Kit looks like the usual to me - a piece of deckchair fabric with go faster chevrons

Peter Lovenkrands wasn’t that bad (I know you’re likely referring to JD Tomasson though)

I’m absolutely willing to trust our recruitment team given their track record, even if there is nothing in the lad’s professional career to date to suggest that this is a goal scoring machine in the making

I hope not. Would be crackers if true

Yep. Even from an amortisation point of view it would be bad news

Tbf Rod, you don’t need to be a chartered accountant to do the numbers

The FFP pressure isn’t off, it just isn’t catastrophically bad.

The goalkeeper fee was chicanery. No-one is paying Kelly £150k per week. You pay players what they’re worth in the market - I don’t picture any other club coming near that figure, so why would we pay it? And why would we create the potential dressing room conflict given it would blow all the other pay scales up?

It remains a head scratcher to me that they haven’t tried something along those lines. It has been painfully slow in terms of getting sponsors in

That would make him our third or fourth highest earner … yeah, seems doubtful

The old ‘they’re not household names in their own houses’ problem. Lower half of Division Two dross.

I’m one of them - was scratching my head why during an injury crisis Howe wasn’t giving him minutes. Assumed that there was an issue with the lad’s game - clearly I was wrong!

‘You're sure he's a proper … It wasn't just … racist horseplay?’

Has to be

Haha fuck me

It’s in this year (24/25)

‘Club might be signing a player during a transfer window’ is the type of scoop which keeps journalists like Edwards in gainful employment. Thanks, Luke - it’s revelatory stuff

We can’t deflect or lie about the funding available, the club’s accounts are a matter of public record and we know the PSR rules.

I've no issue with previous club badges / crests being used on kits, nor on the club going down the path of a new design. Pretty much every big club in England has changed their badge since we last did - some clubs have done so more than once. Off the top of my head, Man Utd (though this change was only slight), Man City, Liverpool, Everton, Arsenal, Spurs, Chelsea, West Ham, Leeds, Sheff Wed, Derby, Leicester, sunderland, Middlesbrough, Aston Villa, Wolves, West Brom, etc etc. I'm one of those who thinks that simpler badges / crests are more aesthetically pleasing - never been completely sold on our city coat of arms-based current design (though I would be moved if there was a proposal to change Newcastle's historic coat of arms). I'm not advocating getting rid of it, but I wouldn't be particularly moved if it was changed. I am a big fan of the simple circular badge designs - I think most of those look great.

We don’t have CL money, that was last season. With the adidas deal it means our income is likely to be what it was last year. Still waiting on those additional commercial deals … The new rules completely fuck us btw. Our current squad cost to income ratio is around 100%. If we qualify for Europe next season, we’d either need our revenue to grow by c.£100m in one season, or we’d need to start selling players.

I didn’t realise Rickie Lambert was ‘one of them’, until I read this on here today. Went to his Twitter feed. Fucking hell.

Anderson would’ve struggled to get past Bruno, Tonali, Joelinton, Willock, Longstaff tbf - and hopefully this season will see Miley grow, too.

Qualifying for Europe for 24/25 wouldn’t have made any difference at all, they’re different accounting years - though if we’d hung on vs Milan and got out of the group stages and went deep into the UEFA Cup, that would have potentially brought in a decent figure (though nothing like the £30-odd million hole in the accounts we got from the Anderson sale). Given our lack of Coefficient points, getting to the CL group stages is worth around £30m for us.

Bet one of his dogs is called Kes

Yep, this is the great missing element from all of these conversations in the media - for all of the defending of these rules, no fucker ever points out that FFP just means more costs being passed on to ordinary supporters instead of billionaire owners