TheBrownBottle

Alevis Broon is still Tyneside’s pre-eminent Elvis

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100% - always had real needle to it. A couple of decades of them in the doldrums probably means young’uns haven’t experienced enough games against them - but it was always one of the standout fixtures

You could have Ferdinand and HBA - HBA wore 37 when he joined us on loan

1 Shay Given 2 Barry Venison 3 John Beresford 4 Yohan Cabaye 5 Fabian Schar 6 Steve Howey 7 Robert Lee 8 Peter Beardsley 9 Alan Shearer 10 Les Ferdinand 11 Gary Speed 12 Dietmar Hamann 13 Callum Wilson 14 Alexander Isak 15 Kieran Trippier 16 James Milner 17 Craig Bellamy 18 Keith Gillespie 19 Demba Ba 20 Lee Clark 21 Tino Livramento 22 David Batty 23 Jacob Murphy 24 Nobby Solano 25 Andros Townsend 26 Robbie Elliott 27 Jonathan Woodgate (poor Phillippe Albert) 28 Joe Willock 29 Lee Bowyer 30 Aaron Hughes 31 Sylvain Marveaux 32 Laurent Robert 33 Dan Burn 34 Nikos Dabizas 35 Olivier Bernard 36 Sean Longstaff (wonder if Ivan Toney would’ve made this number his own if he’d hung around) 37 Hatem Ben Arfa 38 Andy Griffin (stiff competition from Fumaca …) 39 Bruno Guimaraes 40 Tim Krul I’m stopping at 40

One of Shearer’s two league goals that season … It was a really, really poor side - most of the ‘names’ were well past their best. Brian Pinas remains the greatest name to have played for the club, mind.

It it does the local tipple would be stronger than Kool Aid

I’ve even seen some wanting the cunts to come up. Fuck that, Sunderland are the only club I dislike more.

They don’t need to wait until 1st July to sign players, though.

Christ, I can only imagine what that hard face would look like in a bad fettle …

They did - no real issues with recruitment nor Howe’s nephew for me Agreed re Eales - that was on his watch, and he should’ve been across it. His ‘everyone is available’ statement was probably the only destabilising moment at the club post-takeover, and seemed to result in a complete communications shutdown. I think I heard Penfold talk as much during the Ashley era - comms have been poor and slow.

Goma having played for Guy Roux’s Auxerre was as notable from memory

Tbf he’s temporarily been replaced by Howe’s nephew - it doesn’t get more jobs for the boys than that

PSG were bought for about half of what Ashley had paid for NUFC four years earlier, and were a midtable club for most of their short history before takeover. They were never considered a big club in European terms, and never had OM or Lyon’s status in France. They were bought to buy Platini’s support for the 2022 WC bid.

That red card vs Brighton was absolutely stupid, mind, but the lad got the punishment he deserved by missing a cup final, and that should have been the end of the matter.

This is exactly what is likely to happen for me - the lad isn’t close to consistent enough for that level, and the microscope would be on him.

No, he’s right re related party transactions in UEFA regs - but the impact would be minimal. PL regs are different. After this contract extension last season, his book value worked out at about £7m, of which another £1.75m would have been amortised this season. So his current book value would be about £5.25m - so if we sell him, we’d get the fee -£5.25m to play with - would could be huge if a PIF club overpays for him

UEFA’s regs don’t carry the same punishments as PL regs - we’d get a fine for a breach. If we sold Joelinton to a PIF Saudi club for an inflated fee - say £50m - that would be almost entirely profit in PL PSR terms.

South American clubs always took intercontinental competitions far more seriously than European clubs - the old chip on the shoulder job

No - the money is the only reason for it. I wouldn’t watch it if we were in it. It’s a glorified pre-season friendly - I stopped watching friendlies yonks ago

It really, really wouldn’t be. There’s pretty much zero interest in it. Games between two big European clubs would probably sell out - probably.

Haha aye I fucking bet it does!

I just find all of this deeply, deeply odd. It’s the behaviour of weirdos. Surely this shite is being called out by some of them? I feel embarrassed on their behalf. Cringe doesn’t even begin to cover it

A £10m sale would free up more than a £10m replacement

It wouldn’t be high on my agenda, but if the right bid came in then no issue