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There's nothing wrong with transfer speculations for the club but I take everything with a pinch of salt. Before this window closes we will be linked will all kinds of players and likely sign a few we've never heard of but will likely be untapped quality and the odd sort of marquee signing.

I wish Matty all the best and hope he can resurrect his career when his injury and fitness are back to top notch. I'd love to know what really happened with him and Sean over their contracts when other clubs were looking.

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One thing for sure, we have to trust in the recruitment because it's been pretty good so far and Minteh does look an exciting prospect to add to the already strong young recruitment we've brought in in a short space of time, on top of those who made it through the last tenure. It's a really exciting time to be a Newcastle United fan.

I suppose at some stage we'll be getting more koch in the dressing room.

Liverpool had a hell of a lot of decisions go their way for long enough this season and they still couldn't get champions league.

Not a lot of people know this but when he was born he was christened Leslie Ferdinand and it became a running joke in his family when he became Les Lerdinand in St Lucia. The reason for this was what his name meant which was Ferd which meant Lerd in st Lucia and was the god Lerd of the land and his name was and still is to this day noted as being a god like status and he is known as his worship Les Lerdinand. He told Kevin Keegan about it when it was newbie signing question time and someone asked if he had a middle name. Les said his name has double meaning in England and St Lucia in which he has dual nationality. The players started bowing at his feet and shouting "hail to our god, Lerdy", so this is where this picture stemmed from.

Whatever happens we have too trust in Eddie Howe because he's earned it and then some. I don't want Maxi to go just as most don't I would think and nothing suggests he is going anywhere except for whoever reads whatever into his post, which I've already stated my view that he's staying. A few things we know for certain. 1. We are in the champions league. 2. We will be adding more top quality to the squad. 3 A certain amount of players will certainly be leaving the club. We have a manager that's diligent and leaves no stone unturned in his quest to make this club a full on force along with the coaching staff and the obvious full on change of personnel in the scouting market and so on. Very few players will want to leave this club unless they are forced to leave or in some cases a boyhood dream club comes in for the odd player, which generally accounts for players of most clubs in the world. Which club can offer Maxi a better set up than Newcastle United, as it stands? Very few in my honest opinion.

The way I read into this post is Maxi simply explaining what he gave and felt up to this point and as it stands it does not look to me like he's saying farewell. This part is him simply pouring out his good bad and the ugly of the season for him and amid it all managing to come out of it seeing an end product to his and the squads endeavour this season. This alone tells me he's starting a new chapter for the club as in his dream of going places and the fans who stuck by him through the good bad and ugly times for him, to this point in time. He is saying he will give everything to achieve his dreams and these are his dreams starting to basically come to fruition as of now, amid the turmoil of his years before when the team/club and fans were struggling for some real end product. The last part is more of a note to Eddie Howe and co, through the post to the fans to more or less say I'm ready and available to give my all and to help the club achieve better, so please Eddie keep me in your plans and lets see where we can go with the club and to satisfy my dreams. In with that is a sort of little hint that, if Howe deems him to be surplus then he has no control over that but if Howe deems him to be a bit part player then he will continue to do his best when played but in the knowledge that his future could lie elsewhere if Eddie Howe doesn't play him enough. That's what I'm taking from it and it doesn't seem like a farewell to me, more of a please help me achieve my dreams Eddie, for this great club and great fans and great city, first and foremost. I think Maxi like Gordon will up their own ante this summer and become an integral part of our league, cup and champions league exploits. That's my belief and I hope I'm right in that thinking because I love Maxi and I would love him to stay and be a legend for us.

One thing about Chris Wood. He came overpriced but he got on with the job he was brought to do and along with the other signings, it worked. I can only wish him the best unless he plays against us. Getting 15 million for him was excellent business and only forest would've paid it with their policy of dipping into the lucky bag and saying, "I'll have him, I'll have him." I was expecting us to be letting Wood go to a championship[ club a lot further down the line until forest came in with their desperate money throwing times.

Sunderland managed to sneak (back) into the champions (hip) league so let's hope we can finish in the champions league spot.

That was his cousin Hans Gruber.

Their expectations will be play-off's minimum and likely all hell will break loose if they languish in mid table.

I quite like Jake. His big up of Newcastle is fine by me. Let's face it we've had enough people over time slagging the club off for the right and the very wrong reasons and the same with the fans for the right and the wrong reasons. But the reality is Newcastle United seem to be a fascination for the neutral for the good the bad and the ugly reasoning.

I think this post sums it all up to be fair. Excellent post.

We have the best defence in the premier league and Pope's been a massive part of that. I don't think there's anything to worry about with Pope and all keepers will make the odd mistakes now and then.

The last roll of the dyce for Leeds. The Allardyce. Their last 4 games look like the killer blow for them. As strange as it is I think they will stay up with a sneaky draw against one of the top teams ( hopefully not us) but likely Man City and a win against Tottenham. So 4 points from Leeds from their last 4 games to finish on 34 points. I think the team to go down will be Leicester along with Everton and obviously Southampton. Leicester have Fulham away, Liverpool at home, us away and West Ham at home. I think Leicester will take 1 point from those games against Fulham. I think Forest will take 4 points from their final games. 1 point from Southampton and 3 from palace to also finish on 34 points.. Everton may manage 1 point from their final 4 games. Probably against Bournemouth. Southampton will potentially take 2 points from their final 4 games. Forest and Liverpool. So the table will potentially look like this. Nott'm Forest...34pts. Leeds....34pts. Leicester....31 pts. Everton.....30pts. Southampton......26pts. There's my final predictions.

Not one of Bruno's best games but he still did a decent job in the second half. The thing with this squad of players is, they upped their own expectations and in doing so, so did we on them, so our bad games and certain top players making a few errors and being a bit lethargic, stands out like a sore thumb. We're in the right fight so all the players have get out of jail free cards, as it stands.

My two penneth. I was impressed with Gordon in the first half. I thought he was unlucky not to put away one of his chances but you have to remember he's busting a gut to impress not only the manager and coaches but also the full stadium. Basically pressure pot football at the business end of the park. As Howe said, it was a change he could see we needed and that change was to bring on Wilson and play Isak into a position Gordon was initially on. Gordon was just a victim of that change, not a victim of playing badly. To fight at the top and too keep players on their toes you need to alternate players into positions that can effect a game. One thing about Howe is, we have to trust him because the league table does not lie. The players trust him because they see it all first hand from getting into training to going home and then match days. Howe sees a lot of what we do not. We get to see the picture Howe paints with every game and he's looking like a very decent artist indeed. I'm sure Gordon will become part of that overall picture in the coming years if his mind stays focused. His ability is there to see but Rome wasn't built in a day and especially from a young prospect who's had to battle the pressures of avoiding relegation for his own club, to now battle against the pressures of a meteoric rise into the world of football at the real business end of the footballing spectrum. Backing from all angles is what he needs so he can make the steps up and build his confidence and his overall match fitness and stamina to cater for the Howe way. The rest will naturally follow. This game isn't about what Gordon did wrong, it was about a tactical change, only. It worked. Eddie is the King. Long live Eddie.

I can sum Alex Isak up in two words but he deserves much more. Top player.

As has been said. Gordon needs time to fully integrate. You can clearly see he's got the ability and once coached and up to proper speed, the Eddie Howe way, I think we have a cracking player. As long as he can learn from mistakes then the lad will be class. Only time will tell on this but we have to remember, not all signings will hit the ground running and sometimes the odd signing will simply fail to make the transition into a set up like we have at Newcastle. All players get backed by me until they show something that makes me change my mind.

Willock has come on leaps and bounds under Eddie Howe and co and he's still only 23 years old and starting to show why he was bought. He's becoming a better version of a team player each time he puts on a Newcastle shirt. The lad's been class this season and would look even better if it wasn't for a number of other players who have also been class. The only thing stopping Joe Willock from getting the player of the match was the absolute immense display of Joelinton, imo. It says a lot about this team when two players who score two goals each aren't nominated ahead, such is the overall quality coming to the fore by a lot of players.