JEToon

I don’t think the odd single sale ticket coming up validates much in terms of demand. To get 2/3 or 4 together is nigh on impossible unless you do well in the ballot and even then it’s a challenge some games I currently only attend with one son, the other is a couple years of going to games, unless the capacity is massively increased I think 3 together is going to be a massive challenge and that’s really only limited to one area of the stadium.

I agree with that, he would play for most sides in the league, but I am not sold that would be appealing enough for him to move v what he currently has and could have with us. In terms of being a genuinely top level player and I mean this with the best will in the world and I am glad we got him, but, he was entirely gettable for other clubs in the league, the sides likely to be in CL places, and they didn’t take him. If he left us tomorrow, I wouldn’t expect him to go to City, Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea, or, sniggers, Man U for 101 reasons including managers of those sides, signing policy etc and so on and the players those sides already have. He is now closing in on 27 he isn’t a project player anymore, he hasn’t made a breakthrough at international level and is as close to playing for Scotland as he is to making the England squad. He is a very, very good player, but I would expect any move away from us for him would be a slight step back in terms of what we can offer him in terms of competing at the higher end of the league.

I am trying to say this without it sounding disingenuous, because he is a very good player, but he isn't top, top level, sort of evidenced by the role he has. A move to play every week would be a step back for him to a side likely closer to relegation more often than at the top of the table. If he kicks about at us, he will play a lot, more so if we make Europe, he is likely going to be playing at least a games worth of football a week most weeks of the season if we make the Europa, and really more if we pick up even a couple of injuries. It is going to be a better option than an Everton or Fulham for him I would expect. I don't have concerns about him wanting an exit at all.

The bigger shock will be if a referee who officiated a game involving him doesn't think he is a cunt

He has gained recovery pace in a month? scenes.

I really just can't bring myself to find this anything other than pretty hilarious.

Tonali can follow instructions, but he is a different player being asked to follow different tactical instructions to Sean. Tonali just couldn't do what Longstaff does, Longstaff can't do things Sandro can, and that's OK, that's why you have a squad of players and a manager in Eddie who can coach and get use from both players, it is also OK as a fan to like both players, they both give us something, the constant battle some people create of Sandro v Longstaff just now is tedious, enjoy them both. Longstaff is being judged by some fans just now v a mythical unicornesque performance from Sandro that might happen, that is only created in peoples mind, it is a bit unfair to be honest.

shame Joe didn't teabag the boy when he skipped over him

Saliba, Saka and closer to 200 million as a first offer from Arsenal or the fax is just going right in the bin

still not over this comment

Oh aye, visibly seething so he was

One of the best players at protecting a ball in his possession I have ever seen, and if you do manage to get a foot on it, he will just collapse on the ball and have a freekick anyway

35 million, what a bargain.

You did, I have said he was doing something he was entitled to do, and made comment to the picture taken of him only you have then said "There's probably a lot of things he's signed and agreed to which would suggest that's not the case" so yeah you did The only actual evidence of him from the weekend is a picture some weirdo took, I would doubt he signed a thing which says he can't do that but you have patently decided he was hurling up in a bog and took it to be that he was doing that... when you have what evidence of that, oh aye, none

I reckon players are allowed to go out in public which is all the image is, given how often players go out in public

Loads of players and athletes want to cut lose now and then as a marker for them during the course of a season, a reward for achievement etc and so on, does that equate in "science" no, but players need to act like human beings now and then, if someone on a forum wants to judge a player for that, it makes them weird for it to me, nothing more or less. In the instance of the photo taken of Tripper, someone taking a photo of him in public makes them a weirdo, them a wrong un, not him. He wasn't falsely representing the club in anyway. He was doing something he is perfectly entitled to do. I don't buy tickets to games thinking that entitles to me to have a say in how players behave, where they go or what they do, they are human beings, they are allowed to enjoy their life. All this is just a bit weird to me in general though, seems some want to create a shtick and stink to have on a Newcastle player based on mostly gossip, very odd to me to want to do that

The idea a player shouldn't get drunk in public is, slightly hilarious, what an absurdly odd level of control to want to have over a human being

Speaking about an incident that you don't even know happened and transposing it on someone isn't really a discussion forum, it makes it closer to a gossip column and most people on here are better than that

I don't know that that happened. I would say from what is known of Howe that he cares for the person and likely would give players a pass on occasion.

Yeah, you are right, you don't actually know, that's the problem with calling it unprofessional

I don't know the circumstances around it, you don't you are saying it is unprofessional for a player to have a night out, what if they were given permission to do it? You also don't actually have evidence of what he actually done other than sit outside a bar

You have to be a good and proper weirdo to take photos of a player sitting in a bar. People on here are probably judging these players to a more intense level than they are judged internally, it's not entirely out the question they are given a day off during rehab etc for the sake of their mental health, the only person Trippier or any other player has to answer to is their manager.

100% correct on the first two, that’s my point. The notion the top sides are simply stacked with absurdly talented players top to bottom who play every week isn’t entirely correct I say this as someone Scottish, who’s followed most of McGinns career, he’s by no means a fantastic player, he’d very quickly have a lot of the same critique aimed Longstaffs way if he played for us, he’s nothing like a technically great player. He’s a grafter who will work harder than most on the park, and there is nothing wrong with that.

He already has regularly started for a side who made the top 4 Where we want to eventually be will always be a side in need of squad players who serve different tactical functions. Man City have the likes of Nunes Liverpool Curtis Jones Villa have McGinn We played Chelsea last week featuring Dewsbury Hall. These are all good at what they do but by no means great players, they’d do well to regularly start for us to flip the argument slightly. Even sides who make the top 4 have players they don’t start often, they have squads.

I would rather Longstaff picks the easy pass all day, as to me, that is sense - Longstaff isn’t as good at football as Bruno, I would want Bruno shifting the ball and Longstaff being the legs working the field when Bruno is making a pass all day. I don’t see it as a critique on Longstaff for instance to understand others are better on the ball than him, just sense to me.