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No. He was effective at getting us through to the next round by getting two assists. Why does that wind you up? Bizarre.

Played well against Birmingham. Two assists and they struggled to deal with him when he got near the byline. Gave the ball away twice which I know the majority of fans will get excited about but the two important assists make up for that.

Interesting to see whether the champions league revenue is similar to the difference between adidas new revenue and Castore old revenue. I still think we’ll have a bigger operating loss this year which will leave no room for new signings unless someone like Miggy or Longstaff go. I dont want a repeat of last summer when we had to sell at the start of summer. I’d just prefer to sign no one in Jan.

If we’re allowed losses of around £84M this season and we have an operating loss of £70m before we consider Osula, Greek gk, new player contracts, agent fees etc. No champions league revenue, we really don’t have a lot of cash (if any) for new players. I don’t think we’ll do any business this month. We will wait to summer and hope to get champions league. If we don’t get champions league we will likely have to sell a star player.

Yes but you’re saying our operating losses are £10m… they’re £70m year on year without any new signings.

No. The club made a £71m operating loss last season with over £84m in player sale profits, making a £7m profit. it’s at the top of this page. We are up against it unless we sell.

Yeah agree on the ground requirements probably not great. My comment was more the odd t20 game to grow the sport. E.g. they already play the odd game in gosforth. Your rugby comment doesn’t make much sense, Leazes Park is probably closer to gosforth than Kingston Park. Also historically they were Gosforth, they are now Newcastle.

Excited to see some plans. I may be dreaming here but with the Falcons in trouble and if they fail to find investment Kingston Park stadium could potentially be turned into housing. This would leave nowhere for the women’s team to play. Could a 10,000-15,000 seated stadium be built next to the new stadium? Would be perfect for big u21 and women’s game. We could also rent it out for Falcons games, Durham cricket games in summer? And smaller giggs helping FFP throughout the year. Would be great for the city to have local sports teams playing in the city centre.

Yeah agree with all of that!

The majority of our recent goals conceded have come aerially. This would definitely help us going forward but it may make us concede more.

Were you at the Forest Newcastle match? Or a different one? He was brilliant. Throughout the whole game we only started playing well after he came on. The pundits had a 10 min analysis on how well he played after the game. He’s had a tricky time of it over the last year but as a fan it’s important to give credit where it is due.

Best player on the pitch after he came on. Fair play

If only it was all that simple. The truth is there is a trade off between keeping players and the ability to buy new players because of the legislation in place.

Apologies for saying I don’t think Guehi is worth £70M. I’ll try not to disagree with you again.

Read your post back. Put emphasis on ‘Honestly you’d think some on here had decades of experience working in football analytics they way they speak with such utter authority.’ And try to see the irony lol

has a go at someone else ‘starting a fight’. Starts next post with ‘excuse me’. Califiori was just named in the Serie A team of the season. Hes not tested in the premier league yet but over the last 12 months he was one of the best cb’s in Europe…

Calafiori?

Ok, I’ll sit back and wait for all these £100M CB’s that will be bought/ sold. I don’t think there’ll be many…

Similar money? Just the 30% less for a player with a far greater ceiling.

Not that many. The highest transfer fee this whole summer is £65m. Other than Brighton clubs have spent less this summer than the last few windows. PSR/FFP will cause transfer fees to drop as we are seeing now. I honestly don’t think the list would be that long. Arsenal have just signed one of the best defenders in Europe for £37M.

How many CB’s have been sold for more than £70M?

I think you’re missing the point. The guys point is if you’re paying best player in the world money. The player you’re signing should be one of the best players in the world. He isn’t saying the biggest transfer fees in the world are the best players in the world. If anything you’re proving his point at how many high transfer fee failures there have been. He’s terrible in the air, can’t show a player down the wing and easily switches off. I’d avoid.

Yeah Thiaw isn’t the answer. My Milan colleagues think he’s atrocious and are desperate for him to be sold…

Was class today. Grafted so hard. Well played Sean.

The Gordon ‘flogging’ was paper talk. It was always going to be Minteh.