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Fucking spiv cunt

Thought "I'm nicking that", and also a random Google later

The people who gave Potter his makeover when he went to Cheywsee will definitely be giving him a call

That was a horrible header

scouse cunts

What the bloody hell is Rob Earnshaw wearing?!

I was just thinking it's better than the England band and I usually stand near to them at Wembley

Fenerbahce is a good shout, I've thought for a while he stinks of Saudi given the money he is/was on. I guess it depends to what extent, if any, they turn the taps off. Suppose it's inevitable someone goes big on Salah over there first up. I'm still laughing at Vlahovic saying the other week he was waiting for Barcelona or Bayern! Apparently the candidates in the upcoming presidential election at Fenerbahce have promised Lewandowski and Mason Greenwood should they win love a good bit of overseas club politicking

Wouldn't be against signing him as such, but it'll be a non-starter on the wages. Probably end up at Atletico Madrid when Alvarez hops it to Barcelona

Ellie Carpenter and Erin Cuthbert look like they're being held against their will in those Chelsea kit launch photos

bugger, too hasty!

Fantastic news

Remember this lad looking like he had something a couple of pre-seasons ago in the Girona and Brest games, obviously nowhere near ready for the first team, but there was something there. That said, Jamie Miley absolutely bossed one of those games in the middle of the park and he was peddled to Hartlepool not long after. Last year he was dreadful, and it's not like he'd just hit a wall by staying in the U21s and he was too good for that level or anything like that, he was just absolutely nowhere near, proper "supporter won a raffle to get a game" stuff. Hopefully he works it out and goes on to have a decent career at a reasonable level.

Usually closely followed by the predictable, always from the same sources, "but not good enough for Newcastle eh lads?" appended whenever a manager that has been vaguely linked to us gets a job at a bigger club. Mourinho and Iraola being the two current flavours of the month on that front.

There we go, must have hit send a few seconds later!

Is Andreas Andersson the first one? Vague memory of him having an unusual number now I think about it

Botman was at Lille when they won the league in 2020-21 aye

Bumping to give the NPW post context

Mitrovic and Miley, that's all I got I think

https://archive.is/aIPoa

I love how he's just reheated what Ornstein said on TNT after the game on Saturday and passing it off as his own the bloke is shameless

Barnes' second against Benfica was one of the best goals we'd scored from a footballing perspective in ages. Gordon's against Barcelona was good on that front too. But that Osula goal, man. It was just a moment. The player, the opposition, the circumstances of the game, the last minute, Rambo's save a bit before, the nearly falling over and dogshit stepovers before pulling out that finish, all of it together was just out of this world, one of the best moments I've ever had in a football ground and easily one of my favourite goals, probably still just about edged by Gascoigne in Euro 96 though. I was still properly pumped up about the game aswell, at Wembley for example I'd almost already processed we'd done it and had nothing left by the final whistle, all I could do then was laugh.

I think a lot of people look at Woltemade and take a view on whether he's good or not at a very basic level, and I've almost certainly been guilty of it myself. Comparing Woltemade to Isak in terms of what they bring is comparing apples with oranges. Totally different profile of player for starters, then you look at their respective backgrounds, and that Isak was the "best of the rest" while he was here after the unarguably world class strikers (Kane, Lewandowski, Haaland, Mbappe), and it's clearly completely unreasonable to expect anyone to follow that, perhaps unless we signed Victor Osimhen or Lautaro Martinez. Likewise with the Harry Kane comparisons. Kane is a complete footballer and one of the best centre forwards of all time. Woltemade clearly has qualities but we're nowhere near talking in that ballpark. Basically what the whole Woltemade debate comes down to is whether you believe that a) we have a system and should sign the best players to fit that system-in which case, Woltemade was either a panic buy or whoever scouted him should never work in football again, or b) the manager should adapt the system to suit the players he has. That's a spectrum though. So then the question really becomes: do you believe Isak was a case of us nailing the scouting and us capturing lightning in a bottle, or was he so good because the team was built around his abilities? And, again, that's probably on a spectrum. If you believe the latter, which is reasonable given his struggles at the scousers, the question then becomes "who should we build around?" And that's where the debate gets messy and lost, because people will say "Woltemade isn't anywhere near Isak," which is fine, but if we built the team around Isak why shouldn't we do it with Woltemade (or anyone)? Do we wait until we luck into signing another potentially world class centre forward before we build the team around someone? What do we do in the meantime? Back Howe and say "well he hasn't got the players he needs?"

My favourite one is still that time someone was tracking a flight between Newcastle and Liverpool and speculating all sorts and getting bites and it turned out to be the air ambulance between the RVI and Alder Hey

The way this loaded and I scrolled on my phone I genuinely thought the because was going to be that he has black friends