TheBrownBottle

When £15m was first touted I thought it sounded about right. When it was £35m it seemed insane. The PSR finagling makes it make more sense.

It’s not mutually beneficial from now on - we’re lumbered with £20m being amortised, which comes out of our kitty for the next few seasons, on a bloke who didn’t look good enough to be Forest’s reserve keeper tbh You’re 100% right that this is the dodgiest PSR transfer to date - it wouldn’t surprise me to hear that the PL are investigating it

‘The issue for him is that the club’s unlimited resources mean there is very little stopping the Newcastle United hierarchy from losing patience and replacing him with some alternative big-name manager’ Incredible that there are some in the press who still think we can just spend whatever we want …

Would recommend going past the first page - some of those who liked your comment made this very point.

It reminds me of that daft cunt on Question Time who said that she voted for the govt because they promised to reduce payments to people on benefits, but didn’t realise that they included her and her child tax credits The PL’s small clubs all voted for this nonsense, and they’ll end up being the hardest hit when they can’t sell any of their players

That purple patch really skews that, too.

If you go back to the start of the thread, most folks on here seemed to be aware that Minteh was likely being signed to sell on for FFP profit. He served his purpose even quicker than might have been anticipated. Let it go lads.

Yep - he was promised 'final say' on transfers and signings were made over his head

Bordeaux are a big club tbf

Almost as if 14 years of non-stop cuts to council budgets in the North has meant that they have no choice

Good lad

Haven’t seen a single person on here suggest they’d want it tbf. It would be a shite outcome. Can’t think of a good away at one of the out of town stadiums.

Those of us who spent our matchday lives travelling from the west end would dispute this mind. Half the time you’d stay on the piss in the city afterwards because getting back home or to the local wasn’t feasible after the game - the roads west would be jammed. I think many of those who think along these lines are likely to be somewhere on the Metro line - ie to the east end or south of the watta In part that’s because we got used to it - that is just as likely to happen now as then. Also, those CL group games required folks to buy all three tickets upfront at inflated prices - I paid £120 back in 2002 to do so; a lot of money back then.

Plenty don’t arse themselves for midweek European games at SJP in fairness. I can still remember sitting in a half-empty SJP vs Tallinn not long before the Ashley era. The vast majority of football clubs don’t have city centre stadiums - it’s what makes SJP special and unusual. So unless our support is markedly worse than the average, I don’t think it would have made much difference over the years. Again, not advocating for a move away from the city centre - but I think that we’d at least be able to match, say, Leeds in having decent crowds despite Elland Road being outside of the city centre.

Agreed

This doesn’t happen in any other place where clubs have stadiums outside the city centre - but it would on Tyneside? Seems doubtful

If you wanted to be cynical about it, the ground’s location is to the benefit of the wider city and the support - but it’s not actually to the benefit of the club. What would be best for the club would be a stadium with few local amenities, forcing supporters to get there early and spend their money in the ground, not in local pubs. Again, absolutely not advocating for this - the club should be in the city centre.

I don't think it would destroy the club, but it would fundamentally change the entire matchday experience. It wouldn't be the same rocking up to Killingworth, Newburn or Percy Main or wherever. But it wouldn't destroy the club (I wouldn't want to see us leave the city centre)

Not for footballing reasons anyway

A grade II listed park is definitely more destroyable than the grade I listed Leazes terrace

Have a look at what they’ve done to Mecca …

Fucking hell the Ronnie Gill website has more pop ups than a 90s geocities website. What a fucking clip

Always found it amusing that alcohol isn’t prohibited in KSA due to religious reasons (though of course practising Muslims can’t drink alcohol), but because a dictatorship didn’t want another national embarrassment caused by a pissed-up member of the House of Saud …

Yep

Usually best to wait for two dates - first day of the season, and end of the window - before worrying about the ins / outs during the window. We're a long way from panic stations yet. It is also obvious that we'll need to be careful re the budget