TheBrownBottle

Yep - he’s been a terrible appointment - nothing but sympathy as a human being for him, but as a CEO he’s proven that ‘MLS’ experience is utterly worthless. Seemed like a bit of a left field appointment at the time - he’s presided over a series of failed windows, been completely uncommunicative (and borderline disastrous when he has communicated), made a poor DoF appointment, to name but a few.

We were absolutely in for him like - it’s patently obvious we were. Whatever my longstanding misgivings re the lad’s attitude or potential, we bid and got gazumped by a bigger, richer club.

I agree, just thought I’d probably get shot down for undercooking it! Probably closer to half of what Liverpool would offer. ‘Not fit for purpose’.

The funny thing to me is always ‘who is offering him similar?’ Is there a club out there about to pay him £200k per week so Liverpool just had to offer more? You can bet your bottom dollar we wouldn’t have made him top earner - he’d have sat in the £150-180k bracket with the rest of our high earners. We’re shopping in the wrong places, bidding for players we can’t attract or afford. Plenty of time to turn this around, but we’ve made a pigs ear of this so far.

If multiple intelligences exist, then Paul Gascoigne would smash everyone on this forum in terms of spatial and bodily intelligences - he’s a much, much smarter man than anyone who has or will write in here. But I reckon you could force feed him science or literature using the Ludivico technique for a decade non-stop and he’d still be none the wiser re book learning.

It will be - but they haven’t really produced much about it being ‘above average’ (which isn’t saying much ) - though as always with these things, definition isn’t agreed at all by those who bother with this stuff. Footballers you’d expect to be elite when it comes to spatial and bodily intelligence https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_multiple_intelligences

Spatial intelligence doesn’t mean that they’re smart in the general sense - I’d expect them to have elite intelligence levels for some forms of intelligence.

He almost certainly goes back to being an understudy if they sign Costa. The lad might back his talent; he might even be happy to take a massive pay rise to get spelks up his arse. Seems a massive risk at this point in his career, but it’s his career.

Which one?

It’s the Greeks SAK’s after …

Completely agree

Thats the head-scratching bit - Howe has proven again and again and again that there might not be anyone in the game better at improving players and extracting the maximum from them. We don’t need world beaters, we need a solid squad dusted with top talent and he’ll have us competing.

Nothing had been done to date which couldn’t have been achieved at a competently run NUFC, and frankly we have no evidence yet for a stadium, the mood music for which seems to have gone completely silent.

Everyone’s favourite racist pirate. I grew up with local undertaker-cum-solicitor and Football League politician McKeag, another cunt. Followed by another set of cunts. Followed by that cunt Ashley. Succeeded by …

They had first refusal, effectively - but we’ve been chasing the lad so long that his price has gone through the roof and Man City has decided to trigger the clause. We’ve arsed this one up, again.

I always forget that those are the choices

I wouldn’t doubt it

Being from Newcastle is what keeps me tied to the club, not the ownership, management or players - all of which are interchangeable. I was there when we were playing in front of sub-20k crowds at the foot of the second division. How good we are isn’t relevant.

It does look a bit like that tbf

If we’ve got a list with six names on it - a list which doesn’t seem to have changed much over a few years (Ekitike, Pedro and Trafford have literally been linked for years) then our scouting team needs firing

Not owned by despots would be an ok outcome, in fairness. But it would likely be a bunch of American vulture capitalists or similar. Football is fucked.

Haha the absolute horseshit they come out with is tremendous

100%. Wish we’d stop organising friendlies against either of them - they’re embarrassing, atavistic irrelevances the pair of them.

It’s their’s you should worry about. The local mental health trust must be a bigger employer than Nissan in the Wearside area

If they won’t delegate responsibility then they need to be involved