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Yeah the big boys will come sniffing around for your best players, but that's true of all clubs bar the absolute elite like Barcelona and Real Madrid. If Real Madrid want Guimaraes it's going to be difficult to keep him. If Man City want Saka, Arsenal are going to struggle to keep him. You'll...

Honestly it seems like every time your brand new star truly emerges, you've already got one taxiing into position behind him. Mitoma is brilliant, and yet Enciso is already looking like the real deal too. Your recruitment is absolutely staggering. You'll know better than me, but I can't think of...

If you could get a hedgefund, or just your average run-of-the-mill Billionaire it means that you could more confidently spread the cost of everything else outside of the squad. FFP is pretty much covering just the players. Larry Loadsamoney could help Bloom cover the costs of things like; ground...

Forest, Wolves and Southampton should all be torn apart quite comfortably when you still have something to play for. Villa look on fire at the minute. They absolutely battered us, and yes we were terrible, but they were outstanding. Liverpool are such a weird club right now, they could batter...

Unfortunately poor refereeing has cost you to the benefit of the team that currently sits 5th. I would say, however, that it's more likely that Spurs plummet than hold onto that position. If you didn't have to play the top 4 in your run in, I'd have said there was a good chance of you getting...

I've no idea if it's true, just being hyperbolic while I re-watch the Spurs game with a massive Murphy-sized grin on my face.

Hard to maintain that level of intensity for 90 when the opposition isn't really doing anything. We had a few chances in the second half (Longstaff getting in the way of Dan Burn's first ever header on target) and if ASM had been fit I reckon he would have had a whale of a time against them...

Too well? That's a new one. Howe and Ashworth have a strict "No Arsehole" rule when it comes to recruitment, so balancing ego will be easier, especially with more fixtures and 5 substitutions available every game. Figuring us out is a risk, but even this season I've seen our style evolve and...

Ban on flights <2hrs Flights only for games within congested schedule (if you've a week between fixtures, that's plenty of time to get a train there and back) For every flight the Premier League Clubs buy Carbon Offset Credits from companies who are Carbon Neutral or better. Clubs with Carbon...

Don't disagree with that, but unfortunately that's how Sportswashing works. It's how soft power works across the world. It's rank, but it's undeniably effective. I would say that, on the whole, money has always been how trophies and success were won. Liverpool did it, Manchesters City and Utd...

I'd say that anyone who actually thinks that is conflating the club with the owners. We're linked, absolutely, but we're not the same. Their politics don't trickle down. And unfortunately, our politics are unlikely to trickle up.

re: the first point, it's a complaint of mine, not a brag or whataboutery. It's such an exciting time for Newcastle fans, seeing the club well-run, playing good football, with likeable players. But all of it, all of it, is tainted by the owners. re: the second point, any Newcastle fan...

Of course it could man, Net spend of £200m was manageable under Mike Ashley, let alone another owner/group who were keen to see the club grow. It's just an easy way to hand wave away the 'success'. "Oh it's just because of the money". But it isn't, is it? Howe wasn't a megastar appointment, Burn...

I don't know where you're getting your figures from but between 07/08 and the summer window of 21/22 (when he was the owner) NUFC net spend is c£161m That puts us about 15th. Below Sunderland and Brighton...

Not would, could. Hell, if Ashley had a change of heart it could have happened under his stewardship. Nothing these new owners have done has been unaffordable to Newcastle United. Dunno if you've seen my other posts, but most of them include me calling out the owners for being awful.

No, we likely won't. As our commercial revenue increases so to will our ability to pay the bigger wages. We'll need to pay the PL tax that Atletico don't, we'll need to pay a Newcastle tax too. And of course we'll need to convince top players to move to the North East of England and in a toss up...

Sadly that why Sportswashing works. I hate the fact that all of this is now, and forever will be, followed by a big old asterisk. All of this could have been achieved under different owners. The journalists will stop writing about it as they have with Man City, the opposition fans criticisms...

Yeah Almiron had half a season under Benitez and he looked a player, but then Rondon wasn't signed, Perez was sold and suddenly the poor lad was trying to work under Bruce. Joelinton was signed for an eyewatering sum and Bruce played him as an isolated striker whenit was clear to anyone with...

Sorry, but that's massively reductive. We would have had a feel good factor without the blood money, because we'd got rid of Ashley. Eddie Howe was unemployed and left his most recent post after relegation. Johnny NewOwner could definitely have appointed him. You're right that Ashworth would...

For the past 14yrs we'd been a billboard for Sports Direct. These owners are vile and the PL, the Government or the FA should have stopped it from happening. But they don't care. And of course, it's the fans who are criticised despite having no say in it. Mind, you're kidding yourself if you...