TheBrownBottle

A bit of pop psychology here, but it could be that so many have become so accustomed to Ashley’s NUFC that they’re expecting anyone remotely in his class to be gone. It might be even worse for those with no pre-Ashley memories. For me, it’s a million miles from my mind. He’s going nowhere in the short to medium term barring an utterly insane bid by one of Europe’s handful of real giants. Everyone has a price, but we’re no longer a selling club, and Bruno’s price would be unpayable as far as I can see it. The lad would need to want to leave - and he seems as happy as a pig in shite atm.

Pep knaas … https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/63433207

Lad doesn’t seem to have been well advised, but the move was still understandable. What is more worrying is the manager criticising his attitude - that’s not great considering where he is and his age.

But then Marseille didn’t come in for him, and PSG had loads of money, so he went there

It is depressing just how many followers of the Abrahamic religions will pop up on those threads, telling us about how their religious text states that homosexuality is evil. Killing apostates, enslaving non-believers, raping the daughters of the enemy; they're all ok, natch. But consensual sexual activity between grown adults? Into the fiery pit you go! NB it is funny though the number of the nutters demanding PIF withdraw funding from the club, copying them into the tweet. They should join a whatsapp group with Exile.

It has to be said, whenever uncle Exile is using his fingers to tweet badly researched slander at minority shareholders of NUFC that is still the least bad thing uncle Exile did with his fingers that day

Fucking hell. Is he dressing as Bat-dad?

Matter of time before the fact that Jackie Milburn was a MLF is rolled out as proof that all Northumbrian pit towns and villages are Mackem strongholds, rather than pointing out the obvious that Jackie Milburn was a kid the last time Sunderland had a better side than us for more than a season or two; i.e. the 1930s. Milburn is proof of what they fear - some young’uns will follow the best local team.

Tbh I’m not sure what the silly twat’s point even is. I wouldn’t be upset if the first XI was Ashley-era signings if we’re 4th.

No, it will count. Youth development costs can be excluded - this is how the PL rules define these costs: “A.1.252. “Youth Development Expenditure” means expenditure by a Club directly attributable to activities to train, educate and develop Academy Players net of any portion of Central Funds paid to Clubs solely for the purpose of such activities” So if you spend £20m on a 16-year-old, you might be able to deduct training and education costs. Not the transfer fee.

Mainly because he hasn’t produced owt. 1 goal in 60-odd appearances. Most of those dribbles are left-right or vice versa, or go nowhere. YouTube can make anyone look decent. Nothing to get excited about from that clip to be frank - doesn’t mean he’d be a bad signing, of course.

Villa and Everton seem to think that we’re smaller than them and therefore undeserving of the fact we tend to more coverage in the national press than them. You’d think that might make them cotton on that they may have got that wrong, but hey-ho. Villa are like the Mackems. Like to boast how many big pots they’ve won, without letting on that most of them weren’t even won in the previous century.

Yep, I'll add to the 'that's a good appointment' brigade. Emery is a very good manager - though an actual manager would likely be a step up from Steeeevie Geeee. Can't see them being troubled by relegation with him in charge; I'd guess he'll get them comfortable in the PL this season. Pisser that the appointment wasn't next week instead of this, but we should still go into that game with confidence.

Transfer fees count towards FFP

There’s no rivalry - they acted like complete wankers in 2009 about a club with which they had zero history. Most of us now get schadenfreude when something unfortunate happens to them, but I can’t say I’m any more arsed when we play them compared to playing anyone else, really. They’re trying to force a rivalry, and there’s a massive chip on the shoulder down there it seems. They seem obsessed of late of players and managers going there instead of here (even though this appears to have only happened with Digne. How did that one work out?). Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure we all wish we had Emery instead of Howe, Carlos instead of Botman, and Coutinho instead of Bruno …

I’m starting to see why Staveley and Ghodoussi do their own PR!

Bick’s entire feed is like walking round inside the head of a thick reactionary wanker.

He does and it’s no laughing matter. Particularly for his wife

Yep, forgot about LFC. Poor from them too - hopefully they’re also waiting for the weekend.

A case of better late than never would be my thinking, though the club would have already opened itself up to easy and obvious criticism.

We’re owned by the public investment fund of a country where homosexuality is punishable with the death penalty. We’re also the only PL side which didn’t take part in a ludicrously easy exercise to support LGBTQI+ players and supporters. This is one of those moments where the criticism seems pretty reasonable to me.

For young'uns on here who never saw Beardsley and wonder what the fuss is about - have a deekee at 93/94 and 94/95 on these videos. The bloke had everything. Add me to the 'slightly concerned that Villa sacked Gerrard too soon' list. Tight game coming up here I reckon (cue 8-0 humping)

NB am I alone in thinking the 'Bruno in the middle' song is complete wank?

Fucking loved every second of that. Bloody marvellous. Great performance, hard not to get overexcited at the moment.

Yeah, I noticed that too. Some seem to be in the resigned / acceptance stage already. Probably best for their mental health. Ironically, the only two places in the world (where football is discussed at any rate - I'm not suggesting that little old ladies in Ulaanbaatar are debating this) which probably still think the odds are better that NUFC continue their trophy-free spell are Newcastle and Sunderland. Newcastle because, well, we're pretty used to disappointment and don't want to get our hopes up too much - and Sunderland, where the desperation is driving these thoughts. Everyone else seems to pretty much think success is nailed on in the coming years.