TheBrownBottle

We just won nine games in a row - and that would be confidence-sapping?

I’m watching it. These are fucking woeful - we’re playing half-asleep football like we do from time to time. Quality will tell here.

77 mins left last I looked

Until very recently Howe’s record against bottom half teams was unbelievable

Cracking cross mind - some woeful defending though.

Gan on, I’ll jinx it; these look fucking woeful and it’s only 5 mins in. We’ll thump these today.

If you’re not aware that Le Tissier has went down the conspiracy wank rabbit hole then he’s been off your radar for a while. He absolutely is a conspiracy nonce.

Martin Tyler?

Plenty thought that prior to 2021 tbf - and I really doubt that if financial restrictions weren’t in place that Almiron would’ve survived the cut. That’s not a criticism of the lad, I just don’t think he’d have been around for long if NUFC had no restrictions on spending.

Likewise - it would be selfish for us to keep Mike Neville to ourselves

If those regs weren’t in place Almiron would’ve been out the door in 2022 tbf

Sounds perfect for all parties. The lad was a good pro and hard worker, and we’ll always have that purple patch. Best of luck to him.

‘18 months until work starts’ is not how construction works - you can set a completion date, but without detailed plans you can’t program it. His argument about ‘£250m isn’t the same as £200m’ is also absolute bollocks given that - if it’s happening - it will likely barely be at concept design and therefore no estimate is likely to have a confidence range of less than 25%. The standard of NE football journalism is pitiful (they get paid buttons, so it hardly attracts the best) and Liam Kennedy is absolutely full of shite, like.

They’re right in the shite if that’s true.

Gazza was who I remember when I started going as a kid - watching him sat on my dad’s shoulders (which is painful on your arse, even as a little ‘un). Beardsley was the better player, mind.

The accounts not being public doesn't mean that the PL can't see them. This was textbook favouritism; a Man Utd being punished by PSR rules will happen when hell freezes over

I always think of that daft twat who used to sing in Idols - Alevis Broon - whenever someone mentions Mike Neville 'Yee look like a Geordie ... waak like a Geordie ... taak like a Geordie ... but I got wise; you're Mike Neville in disguise, oh yes you are, Mike Neville in disguise'

You'd really want to flesh out a scope of work before setting any money aside - 250m is an insane amount for a training complex, but it wouldn't be insane if they're adding a secondary stadium etc.

He's Ronnie's brother

We don’t need to rely on ‘the market’. Sela and Noon didn’t come from ‘the market’.

Based on what we can see at the moment, it isn’t clear if it’s possible to catch up with them. The three London clubs have an immediate geographical/ economic advantage (and are far more successful), Man Utd and Liverpool are simply bigger clubs, and Man City got their financial ‘steroid boost’ at the right time, and are now in a secure position. I don’t think we can catch Spurs financially - ever - but if we can get as close to them as possible, then we can keep ourselves challenging for trophies.

I understand the point you’re making, but we already got ‘above market’ rates for Sela and Noon on the kit without any issues from the PL - because they were less than the ‘big six’. No reason the same couldn’t have been achieved with other kit based sponsorship - I mean, what is market value for training kit sponsorship? From memory noon are paying c.£9m per season to have themselves slapped on our sleeves - so perhaps £4-5m for a training kit? Is the PL really going to block that? Is that deal likely to be worth several times that in a few seasons? A PIF-related companies could easily have sponsored the remaining low hanging fruit for ‘above market rates’ and no push back would have occurred. The usual suspects are concerned about Aramco sponsoring the ground for £80m a season or other such nonsense. And if PIF-related companies aren’t interested, then that’s when the commercial team come in - and it’s worth remembering that they had bot all to do with our big sponsors (kit manufacturers are different).

Man Utd were still England’s biggest club when they hadn’t won a title in nearly three decades (and were relegated in that period) while Liverpool dominated the sport. They’re still England’s biggest club, and it is hard to imagine circumstances where they wouldn’t be.

It doesn’t take three years to find a training kit sponsor, process or not tbf. ‘Process’ is a byword for ‘inefficient’ when it comes to KSA - I think that was Staveley’s term to cover the fact that the PIF will take forever to makes decisions.

He's a million miles from being that - he needs what he should've had two years ago; a season at a Division Three or Four side.