TheBrownBottle

In fairness he played every game until an ankle injury kept him out for a few games - there’s little doubt he was a Strasbourg first choice XI player.

Nicky Butt didn’t spit his dummy out and go on loan. Dubravka decided Man Utd’s bench appealed more than ours for a bit - a decision that may be a reason why he has two LC medals but we’ve only won one.

He came out with the same sort of shite that Pardew did while he was at the club, yet somehow that's forgotten - including dedicating the FAC SF win to DH and Shepherd a few days after 'Toongate'. Mind you, Bobby Robson called us all 'pricks' for criticising Mick Wadsworth, but he eventually created a good side, so that gets forgotten too

'Is that airport near Ponteland?'

I'd bet that they're already telling themselves that we were after Diarra and he picked them

As a European, I see 'CWC' and immediately think 'Cup Winners' Cup'. I hate modern football.

I've seen Bernard Manning's stand-up, and you're right - there isn't

Fucking hell, RTG lore is more convoluted than the MCU at this point

Tbf you’re right, but I’d also suggest that our manager not getting a player he’s after shouldn’t be the sort of thing that a person should ‘hope’ for

Likewise, and no issue with people saying that there’s players they’d like to sign or not. But ‘hoping it doesn’t happen’ is such a twatful sentiment.

I’m well past the point of hoping transfers don’t happen, I don’t know better than Howe. If he bid for Hojland there’d be a reason for it, even if I wouldn’t myself. Sometimes transfers don’t work out, but ‘hoping it doesn’t happen’ is like announcing to the internet that you’re 14.

I’m open to criticism of Howe, signings et al - but ‘hoping it doesn’t happen’ can get right in the bin.

Yeah fuck what Eddie Howe wants, he’s been wrong again and again in the transfer market. Name me 52 signings he’s got right so far for NUFC - you can’t, can you? Which proves it. Even if we haven’t made close to 52 signings.

If someone shouted ‘ha’way the lads’ the lad probably thought he was a NUFC supporter, the weird twat

Sounds like the nonce wing of Durham nick

The stupid cunts don’t even understand the reason why airports are named this way. I’m flying to Munich in a couple of weeks - even though the airport isn’t in Munich, it’s in Freising. But if I’m booking a flight, I don’t want to go to fucking Freising, I want to go to Munich - so you always name an airport after the nearest major city so that people travelling there know they’re going to the right place. It’s hardly rocket science, but the daft cunts have got their knickers in a twist about it for decades …

That CL draw was the best luck I’ve ever seen. I struggle to imagine a better draw - I loved it. We nearly got out of the group, too.

My back of a fag packet numbers reckons that we should be able to push out to nine figures without sales. We lost a total of £42m in the previous two seasons to this one (-£70m in 2023, +£28m in 2024). Given that our income hasn’t moved this season (and will actually have decreased due to the lack of player sales compared to the PSR-tastic sales of Anderson and Minteh), I’d bet that we end up showing a loss of around £40m in PSR terms this season - which keeps the books balanced (and also accounts for the lack of incomings this month - though there’s likely a bit of wriggle-room). The TL;DR is that means that this season we might actually be able to do the ‘full loss’ of almost £105m in PSR terms and not break PSR - though of course this would knack us further down the line (and the rules change next season to be far tighter). Allowing for the increase in revenues with CL, which should absorb the operating losses this season, the club should be able to spend £100m on transfers without unduly worrying, and likely go a bit higher. How much higher depends on their risk appetite; and if we do go a lot higher, if we don’t start getting ruthless in selling players then we’ll end up seeing the transfer slowdowns again next season. edit: re performance-related fees, these are only counted once triggered, so if we win a trophy and that triggers a £1m additional payment to the selling club, then that is fully included in that year’s PSR calcs

I heard this stuff when we were replacing Dubravka with Pope, too. Goalkeeper is the second most important position on the pitch after centre forward - the ability of the keeper has a direct correlation with results, far more than a right winger or a centre back. So yes, upgrading a goalkeeper is worth it pretty much every time. Whether or not Trafford is that upgrade I leave to our manager - but if he is, I’m happy to trust his judgement.

Not without sales

Likewise but I had seen a few of his posts shared on N-O

He does think this - his Twitter feed used to attest to this. He’s talking to other ‘high performers’. The bloke is an arse (albeit one who made sympathetic noises in our direction)

I wouldn't be at all happy to see him leave, but I agree with the sentiment. Funny how all of our players become 'irreplaceable' and should be with us for the next decade, yet somehow we bought them in the first place - most from a much, much weaker position than the one we now find ourselves in.

I do get up at 5am, but I wouldn't listen to Humphrey's podcast when I'm walking the dogs at that time - the man is a complete weapon. 'High performance' from a bloke whose day job was to read out other people's questions to bored-looking ex-footballers - he can fuck right off.

Yeah, that's the Brighton model - not the Newcastle one where we outspend everyone in the division. Shame that last season's top spenders were Brighton, and we were 18th highest in the division. But you know, who needs facts.