HMSIllustrious

Sane gets booed by the home crowd when coming on… weird stuff

If Leicester get relegated again he might even be out of contract 🤷🏻‍♂️

Nobody knows better than we do that he can be dangerous on both ends of the pitch…meanwhile Ghana equalises.

And against the post (of the German goal 🙄😄).

Nick starts a 1-2 with a flick and then heads the returning cross against the bar 🫣

You never know with Germany, Wirtz, Havertz, Nick, Stiller, Gross, Gnabry all flowing freely around the box.

Close offside call robbed him of a nice assist.

Not a bad attempt though, pretty close.

Nick CF, Let’s hope for a prolific evening 😬

Asked why he played Nick instead of an in-form Undav, Nagelsmann replied that they needed a player who is good on the counter…Germany‘s lost.

Nick on!

Havertz and Gnabry should have scored already…all four offensive players rotate quite well and then, on the counter, Switzerland scores lol.

I guess Nagelsmann lets him start in the other friendly and he comes on as a substitute tonight.

Germany‘s wingers and Wirtz (Gnabry is hardly playing centrally) are going to play rather close to their CF, will be interesting to see how it works out - Switzerland aren‘t bad and a goal against them could be a nice boost in confidence.

Probably comes on at the start of the second half for Havertz, who is not very effective as a lone striker.

Ah sure, how could I forget the second phoenix after DCL!

Woltemade during the first weeks, Haaland also had some highs as well as Calvert-Lewin and Ekitike. Apart from those patchy runs most only had good moments…even Watkins and Sesko had.

If our scouting Department was so bad, we should let the the forum decide who we target.

Mistake in translation, original says first and latest.

I know, just can’t stand the thought him still being one of us after what he did last summer.

As problematic as our season might turn out, I‘m still glad he left. Doesnt deserve the black and white.

Stole that from Redcafe, that‘s how they assess our situation: Current state of play for Newcastle is that they are very likely not going to have any sort of European football next year and this is compounded by the issue that even with one of the largest stadiums in the PL their revenue is still only around half of that of the top clubs so under squad cost ratio or whatever rules we are going with for next season they cannot spend. The whole reason they don't have Anderson is because PSR rules meant they needed to sell the best young player at their club for 35M to avoid breaching the rules and getting docked points and they are about to be back in a similar position this summer after dropping out of the CL. To make matters worse, they have a host of players that need replacing this year with several first team regulars now in their mid thrties along the back line such as Trippier, Burn and Schar and they also want to upgrade on Pope. Wissa and Woltemade have flopped so they need a new striker and there is genuine concern that Joelinton is breaking down because his game is based entirely on his physicality and it is catching up to him after 5 years of charging around like a lunatic, Joelinton has no real value if his legs go. The story that seems to be doing the rounds is that they recognize that in order to reset the squad they are going to have to sacrifice one of their star players and hope they do a better job of identifying replacements this summer than they did last. This is why you are seeing articles about the Tonali and Guimares camps lobbying to get a move now because they realize Newcastle are going to let one but not both of them go and they both want to be the lucky escapee. The problem with this is that the agents of both players are planting random stories all over the shop about the bargain prices Newcastle might accept and making up stories about clubs preparing bids. The reality is that Newcastle are unlikely to want to accept anything much short of 100M for either of them and for differing reasons neither is judged to be worth that by the potential bidders.

People on Redcafe fantasise about ManU throwing 100 millions at us for him and that his entourage is already there for talks.

Also true, maybe it’s just wishful thinking from my side, but at this Point I want us to be Euro League regulars with the odd CL campaign every now and then.

True but I don’t see Eddie rotating much, sadly.