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He got sent off there last season, so no worries.

At 2:47 I thought he said "I go back to the players I've played with, white players, who were very very talented."

Why do we allways get away games? Seriously.

I'm also amazed at how many fans of big clubs that compare our spending to theirs and act like an equal net spending from a formely 19th placed Newcastle should give the same results as an already established top club who spends the same. Nottingham spent the same as us last season, but Cooper was still getting praise for a 14th place finish.

They just need to keep beating all the mediocre and shit teams so that they can afford to drop points against Real, Barca and Atletico.

Ah, I forgot the good old "ugly football" narrative. Sometimes they call our playstyle "Simeone football". Yeah, we've scored 32 and they've scored 16. Literally twice as much, and it was easy to see why yesterday.

"With this squad? No better than 4th-7th." Ah yes, it's not like people said that our squad was of Championship level until Howe came in and proved them all so wrong. "He's an okay manager, but lets not pretend that all this "improvement" isn't off the back of spending £400m quid. People in the media are acting surprised that Livramento is a good player: he wasn't free." Well, Man United keep spending £80 mill on shite players, so there's that. There's one guy who was actually being smart over there:

I agree, but at the same time it's just a shame that 4 points dropped is so dramatic when the top 6 is so competitive this season. Also, we have to start picking up some points in our away games at some point.

I know, but I don't think I have ever seen a player go up in price without the FPL Fix addon being at 100% or more. That's what surprises me. It was barely above 0% in the evening, don't think it went up that much in a few hours. Maybe there's a flaw with the addon calculations, because he was transferred in by net 350k or so.

Best player in the team for me (it's close between him and Trippier). I would rank Isak at 3rd. How does he rank in terms of our best midfielders since the start of the PL era?

Imagine next season. More squad depth and probably less injuries and suspension (Tonali). Probably easier fixtures in Europe and the Carabao Cup aswell. I'm laughing at all the people who said that Howe can't take us to the next level. Based on what?

Man, why did Isaks price go up on friday night.. Pretty sure was barely above 0% in the FPL fix addon for price change. So annoying.

Look at Schärs right ankle. That's a red for the Wolves player.

We have so many disciplined players, and I love it! Such a key part to our success. We can thank Eddie Howe and our recruitment team for that, but I suspect that Howe does most of the job in terms of making sure that our players have the right mentality.

Yeah I'm just saying since you said that they were given sometimes, but I only remember them given this season when the point of impact is higher up.

He stamped on his foot, didn't he? The point of impact matters.

Is Gordon fine?

Half the England starting lineup is going to consist of Newcastle players in 5 years.

Lukaku aswell at the time. He had his prime after Chelsea, they went all in on Torres instead. When Lukaku was at his prime, Chelsea were struggling on the striker front if I remember correctly.

Everton would've been 11th ahead of Chelsea right now if it wasn't for the 10 deducted.

Really? I didn't know that. They beat Girona in head-to-head.

Girona with a late comeback to go top of La Liga. Real can surpass them by goal difference if they win.

That's basically the Steve Bruce mentality: result was great, players fought hard, jobs done, nothing to reflect on.

Howe way the lads

The annoying part about 3rd place is those 2 extra games you have to play just to qualify for round of 16 in the Europa League.. There's 8 extra games if you get to the semi final, and a 9th one being the final (obviously being in the final would be sweet).