The College Dropout Posted July 30, 2025 Share Posted July 30, 2025 1 minute ago, TRon said: This has always been my position. Liverpool are not in a position to set the agenda here, Isak is our player and under contract no matter how much bitching comes from his circles. With the vacuum in leadership I don't think it has been communicated. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted July 30, 2025 Share Posted July 30, 2025 1 minute ago, The College Dropout said: With the vacuum in leadership I don't think it has been communicated. I'm assuming Howe must be open to selling if he can get Sesko and Wissa in with the money. Howe seems to be the main man in charge of our transfer policy with Mitchell and Eales out of the picture. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The College Dropout Posted July 30, 2025 Share Posted July 30, 2025 Just now, PauloGeordio said: Maybe they have, maybe Eddie told him he’s a Newcastle player contracted for another 3 years and to stay at home, have a think and clear his head, that he didn’t want him distracting and drawing attention away from the tour and that it would be dealt with when he is back in the UK. Lots of maybes filling the vacuum of no factual news. Eddie's not the boss of the club. I'm talking Levy and Marinakis. Owners, equity holders. Look those men and or those agents in the eyes "this is literally my club and i'm not letting you go". Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The College Dropout Posted July 30, 2025 Share Posted July 30, 2025 Just now, TRon said: I'm assuming Howe must be open to selling if he can get Sesko and Wissa in with the money. Howe seems to be the main man in charge of our transfer policy with Mitchell and Eales out of the picture. It should never be a Howe call. If it's him or his nephew, we look weak and vulnerable as a club. No wonder we have issues bringing players in. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PauloGeordio Posted July 30, 2025 Share Posted July 30, 2025 (edited) 2 minutes ago, The College Dropout said: Eddie's not the boss of the club. I'm talking Levy and Marinakis. Owners, equity holders. Look those men and or those agents in the eyes "this is literally my club and i'm not letting you go". “Maybe they have” refers to “The boss” albeit plural Edited July 30, 2025 by PauloGeordio Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The College Dropout Posted July 30, 2025 Share Posted July 30, 2025 Just now, PauloGeordio said: “Maybe they have” refers to “The boss”albeit plural We don't even know who that Boss is Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBG Posted July 30, 2025 Share Posted July 30, 2025 Seung-soo is ready. He must start against Villa. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Famous Nick Posted July 30, 2025 Share Posted July 30, 2025 as I said earlier I think its probably 5th of August when we train next in Newcastle after we re back from Asia. no way he still doesnt join training at time even if with soft injury he needs to be around. that will be just more lies if he still doesnt turn up at that time. I woud make him train alone, running straight for 5 hours with sprints... will be uncomfortable if he trains and Howe and players start to ask him about this shitshow. I bet he hopes Liverpool pulls the trigger by that time and its Tuesday next week. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
huss9 Posted July 30, 2025 Share Posted July 30, 2025 2 hours ago, Myleftboot said: So when we play Liverpool next season are we booing him?🤔 I am. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PauloGeordio Posted July 30, 2025 Share Posted July 30, 2025 5 minutes ago, The College Dropout said: We don't even know who that Boss is Allegedly Yasir said back in March to resist any offers for his favourite player Isak this summer (according to media reports at the time). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Famous Nick Posted July 30, 2025 Share Posted July 30, 2025 I can imagine he will get a bit of Grealish treatment, like he was booed a lot in all stadiums when he signed for City. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stifler Posted July 30, 2025 Share Posted July 30, 2025 28 minutes ago, Deuce said: Surely being financially sound indicates that they’re also well-run. Reckon it’s between them and City for the most competent ownership in the league. They have a massive assist by virtue of being a cartel member, but look how ManU, Chelsea, and even Arsenal to some degree have squandered that advantage. They’ve got things ready in the past year. Had they not won the title last season even Liverpool fans would have knives out for them again. Being financially well ran doesn’t mean that they are well ran in general, Spurs are financially well ran, does it make them a well run football club? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
midds Posted July 30, 2025 Share Posted July 30, 2025 Anyone else found themselves pretending to be Eddie Howe answering hypothetical questions from journalists in imaginary press conferences when asked about this situation? Just me? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
christ Posted July 30, 2025 Share Posted July 30, 2025 I only pretend I’m Eddie Howe when I’m wanking in front of the mirror. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted July 30, 2025 Share Posted July 30, 2025 16 minutes ago, The College Dropout said: It should never be a Howe call. If it's him or his nephew, we look weak and vulnerable as a club. No wonder we have issues bringing players in. This is not really a practical viewpoint. PIF will have their opinions but they aren't football people, Howe would definitely have major input on which players stay or go. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Famous Nick Posted July 30, 2025 Share Posted July 30, 2025 Man City was all over the place after their takeover (no PSR yet), but the evolution was for them to sign Soriano as CEO and Txiki as DoF who both served them well for more than a decande now and both had high level experience from their Barca years which helped them to get Pep G. too. we need a serious CEO, and serious DoF too, and now we see what happens as we have neither. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Displayname Posted July 30, 2025 Share Posted July 30, 2025 9 minutes ago, Stifler said: They’ve got things ready in the past year. Had they not won the title last season even Liverpool fans would have knives out for them again. Being financially well ran doesn’t mean that they are well ran in general, Spurs are financially well ran, does it make them a well run football club? Well it depends what their primary objective is, if its buiding wealth for their owners then yeah.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanj Posted July 30, 2025 Share Posted July 30, 2025 This whole “he has always said this is his last season” bit from his camp reeks of some convenient bullshit to change the narrative. We’d have heard some inkling of this for an entire year, most likely right after he was told he wasn’t getting a new deal yet. Every single journalist is gasping for an exclusive and yet that has never popped up at all until now? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanj Posted July 30, 2025 Share Posted July 30, 2025 On another topic, his fucking shocking decision to be left at home has royally fucked any leverage we have on buying a new striker. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
et tu brute Posted July 30, 2025 Share Posted July 30, 2025 (edited) I still think he will be here this season. Liverpool won't match our asking price and we won't let him go for anything less. By being backhanded cunts, Liverpool will fuck themselves when it comes to the fee. Not a chance we dance to their tune Edited July 30, 2025 by et tu brute Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanj Posted July 30, 2025 Share Posted July 30, 2025 Liverpool biggest cunts going. Signed the replacement who was likely coming here, then made the not so public overtures and unsettled a guy who was likely going to wait it out for next summer anyway. Absolute dickheads. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PauloGeordio Posted July 30, 2025 Share Posted July 30, 2025 2 minutes ago, Kanj said: This whole “he has always said this is his last season” bit from his camp reeks of some convenient bullshit to change the narrative. We’d have heard some inkling of this for an entire year, most likely right after he was told he wasn’t getting a new deal yet. Every single journalist is gasping for an exclusive and yet that has never popped up at all until now? “This is my last season” “Erm Alex you still have 4 years on your contract m8” I smell bullshit in the media. Who’d have thunk it? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted July 30, 2025 Share Posted July 30, 2025 5 minutes ago, Kanj said: On another topic, his fucking shocking decision to be left at home has royally fucked any leverage we have on buying a new striker. Yeah I don’t get why he wasn’t forced onto the plane. Maybe the injury was semi-real I suppose. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nucasol Posted July 30, 2025 Share Posted July 30, 2025 Good letter from a bloke in York on Football365. Sums a lot of it up well, including “paid schills”: Big old Newcastle sadness ahoy I’d like to think I’m a fairly level-headed fan most of the time, and able to balance my inner 12-year-old superfan with the now considerably older, mature rational thought. But us football fans are generally irrational and this summer has made my head spin I must admit. I’ll preface this by saying I expect absolute zero sympathy from all who read this distinguished mailbox I’ve been reading for 20 years, especially given my club is owned by the Saudi investment fund (no whataboutery here). I’ll also preface this by saying I have one life to live as a football fan and I am desperate for there to be more joy than sorrow in it – and I’ve only seen that balance really start to shift again in the past 3 years. This isn’t a rant about PSR (yet). My biggest frustration with Newcastle this summer is that our USP/advantage these past 3 seasons has been COMPETENCE. Botman, Tonali, Bruno, Hall, Tino, Isak, Gordon were such unbelievably shrewd signings. Even the ones that felt less so – Wood, Barnes, Targett etc – haven’t exactly been bad. We seemed to be smartly run, but that only now extends to the playing and coaching staff, the rest is an absolute mess: Backroom staff: A CEO who has been serving notice for 12 months. A commercial director who doesn’t do much commercial, a Sporting Director who left with so many question marks. Failure to do commercial deals: the assumption is we’re waiting for the City court case to resolve but we could have milked the interim timeframe with smaller deals. Training ground: I lived in Newcastle for 25 years of my life and there’s an abundance of land. We keep saying this is a priority, but we keep redeveloping the existing instead. Retail: All we do is shift tat, it’s incredible. Stadium: Just delaying the inevitable, it’s obvious you want to move. Come out and say it. Even our social graphics were hilariously bad the summer we had supersavers and county cricket clubs rinsing us – deservedly so. But recruitment and on-the-pitch was always the saving grace. Instead we’ve abandoned this approach and it seems to be a mishmash of major un-gettable European talent or Premier League premium deals only. We needed first teamers yes but we also needed competitive depth – we move from one target at a time and at snail’s pace. Accept where we stand in the food chain now and act accordingly, unearth the next Bruno. I love Eddie and everything he’s done but he also shouldn’t be the voice of authority on transfers, neither should his nephew. I’ve never witnessed a self-implosion like it. On to Isak, I think it’s pretty disgraceful that a player on 120k a week can effectively down tools, refuse to come on an important, profile-boosting pre-season tour and simply abandon all goodwill. He never felt the type. And the concerted, cold-war style campaign Liverpool have run through paid shills like Romano, whilst incredibly modern and clever, are designed to systematically destabilise a club/potential rival and unsettle a player. I really hope we dig in… I’d quite happily see Isak sit the first couple of months out without his move. He’s making the entire situation worse, and creating a dark cloud heading into the season. They haven’t even bid! And then there’s the system. Rules brought in post-takeover that stop us growing. Yes we need to drive commercial revenue. In order to do that, we need to keep spending to balance the Champions League and cup runs: but spending is stifled, PSR spreadsheets amortisation bla bla bla. We can’t pay the wages, fees are too high, progress is stifled, back to square one and suddenly your prospective sponsorship deal disappears. Fine, we’ll use one of the PIF brands (regrettably), nope, we’ll make that hard for you too (though as I’ve said before, we should rinse it). I’m sick of hearing Liverpool saying they used the Coutinho money to get to where they are now, using it as a comparison. You are LIVERPOOL. We will take decades, if at all, to get to that level. I’m not asking for a Chelsea-style free-for-all, just a bit more leeway. How to move forward? Can’t believe I’m saying this but I’d be abusing the system to it’s every inch now. I’ve seen other teams do it. We should too. Everyone thought we would. Accept the governance is here to slow us down, now fight dirty against the governance. But will we? Can’t see it, because we’ve lost the ability to function competently. What was the point of this email? I’ve lost it. Just wanted to rant. Harry, York (PS. Fully expect us to still be an excellent team, but right now we are hollow at CB and have prolific wingers supplying William Osula only Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KennyUtd Posted July 30, 2025 Share Posted July 30, 2025 30 minutes ago, christ said: I only pretend I’m Eddie Howe when I’m wanking in front of the mirror. 😂🤣😅😆 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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