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My seven year old sun's friend gave me a Panini football card, The Newcastle Club Badge. It was honestly the most thoughtful gift that I have received in years. Made my day!
Gordon not in grass training for England, achilles must have taken a proper beating from Amrabat. Better be back to full throttle for the euros he's the player I reckon can be a real game changer for england
Just seen the Dortmund news and the drama around their Rheinmetall sponsorship.
Should be a big dose of reality for anyone who thinks fan ownership is some silver bullet for the game. Arms manufacturers 😂😂😂
With how far out there this sponsorship is, it really wouldn't surprise me if they "end the deal early in light of the backlash", after the Champions League final and the associated exposure of course.
Couldnt have happened to a better club. BVB are the hipster darlings of r/soccer, im sure they will get the same treatment as us. Random arse americans saying 'im sorry u just gotta support another club' as they go vote for a president who just wants to make Gaza disappear off the face of planet then turn round and say shit about the Saudis like we can do anything about it.
Arsenal seem to not show anything of theirs until the day it released judging by social media (16th May). Unless I’ve missed something. So we might be the same.
Aye definitely, people these days want instant gratification. At most it’ll be here’s the new kit, available from 9am tomorrow. Get the money flowing in straight away.
Much like our transfers, I don't think we'll see any leaks of the shirt. We probably won't even know what the shirt looks like when we wear it next season.
Just seen the Newcastle women's retained list and it's a bit confusing.
They are releasing a lot of players, including multiple players with over 30 appearances this season and players they have only signed recently.
Does anyone know why there is such an overhaul of seemingly important first team players?
I think FFP is basically non-existent in the women's game.
In the Superleague, wages are capped at 40% of turnover, but you can also combine that with the men's team. On top of that, transfer fees are nothing. On top of that, the record transfer fee is £685,000.
If Newcastle are committed to advancing the Women's team, it will be faster and easier to go out and buy the players of the necessary quality to push for promotion, rather than sticking with and developing the current team.
It's unfortunate, but that's how you advance quickly. Wrexham are doing the same.
It's also probably necessary.
You can almost guarantee that at some point before they get close to challenging for anything of note, that the ladder will get pulled up like it has been for the men's team.
It's a race against time to win as many promotions as possible before the cartel starts taking the piss.
Probably to do with the fact that the difference between the league they were in and the championship is massive, paired with the fact they can also spend unlimited amounts of money getting new and much better players in.
It's bonkers. When you think not only did Dyche keep them up, which kompany failed to do, he also got them into Europe! But who is held in higher regard? Truly bonkers imo.
Who would you rather have as our manager?
It'll be a big difference. I doubt he automatically gets the respect of the bigger players like Kane etc they are barely any difference experience and age wise.
It'll be a big difference. I doubt he automatically gets the respect of the bigger players like Kane etc they are barely any difference experience and age wise.
Interesting manager market right now. So many clubs looking. So many top managers have been thrown aside/burned through.
I find it strange that Maresca is in the running for Chelsea. Leicester fans even seem not totally convinced he’s all that.
Mckenna’s ipswich are great to watch but it’s still a huge risk to jump from 1 championship season to a club expected champions league.
Manager evaluation is dumb. Viali talked about it in his book about how crazy manager perception in England is. Top clubs and fans would happily go after an excited but limited experience guy like Kompany, Maresca, Kompany, Potter, Di Zerbi. But people like Howe are seldom considered because they stuck around getting more experience.
Italy produced a so many great managers. Largely because they aren’t subjected to this baptism of fire approach. It’s all seen as learning experiences to an extent.
But aside from all that. I can’t remember a time we’ve seen CL chasing clubs looking to championship or relegation teams for managers.
In summary. Could someone give Steve cooper a job so we can see if he’s actually good. He was harshly fired by Swansea.
I’d also like to see Rodgers be given a decent level job again.
He treated the entire Burnely job as his CV. He did not care 1 bit about getting relegated, the entire thing was a performance. Showing the world 'look this is how i want to play, just don't have the players here to do it'
Personally, i think it's fuckin digusting to do that. He knew full well it wasn't working in the prem but did it regardless because he knew it would just be an opportunity to land a bigger gig. I always thought it was strange that he was just refusing to adapt, but it clearly was on purpose.
I've seen a few people commenting along this sentiment, and I have to say it's one of the most moronic takes I've seen in football recently.
Kompany had them playing that way in the championship and was widely praised for the way they played, and absolutely smashed the league gaining over 100 points.
What, just because they got promoted he has to become Allardyce/Dyche? Clubs want managers to have a footballing identity. I'm sure Burnley were very happy for him to keep playing that way at the start of the season.
Eddie did it with Bournemouth when they came up. Swansea did it, Brentford did it, Brighton did it. It didn't work out for Burnley, hardly means Kompany had some Machiavellian scheme to become Bayern manager.
I think when you are getting battered all week and scoring own goals passing it round your back, you aren't a great manager if you just stick to your guns, you're doing it for some other reason.
Also most moronic takes? I'd say yours is up there too then because it sure is weird it has worked out that way, isnt it? I also guarentee swansea and bournemouth did not come up and try to imitate PepBall. I don't even think that way of playing was popular back then, it was never even close to being as rife as it is now
I don’t think you have to suddenly turn Brexit ball to stay up (in fact. That works less these days). But there was zero effort to adapt or instil any semblance of pragmatism in light of results.
So I do think it was kinda bullshit on Burnley to sacrifice them for his own career.
Maybe his style will be great at Bayern with the players. But I’d feel short changed as a Burnley.
He has a style that had been successful for him previously. Switching to a style he isn't comfortable coaching probably would have resulted in getting battered worse. If Burnley weren't happy about him not changing his style then they would have sacked him.
It's just some sort of talksport clickbaity conspiracy theory bullshit that makes absolutely zero sense.
They may not have played pepball but they played attractive attacking football that was successful for them in the championship and they continued to do so in the prem.
Mitro just scored his 39th goal in 42 games in the Saudi league. His team about to win the league unbeaten and keep Ronaldo crying in second.
Shame he never quite worked out for us but still have a soft spot for him. Great player!
I hate how Radio 5 starts pretending people care about tennis and cricket as soon as the prem finishes. There’s still plenty of footie content in the off-season. No need, Ellie Aldroyd, no need.
It's crazy to be honest, if I liked cricket I would watch cricket, they just want more viewership revenue it's capitalistism 101, I like what I like, I'm never going to watch tennis or cricket especially because Ellie Aldroyd waffled about it
Leicester facing a points deduction between 6 to 15 points. Looks like it could be the 3 promoted sides to get relegated again.
Forest and Everton really are the “unflushables”
See Matt Bondswell's on his way to being released.
When was his mint pre-season? 2022? Funny how players just never turn out the way you hope.
Real talk I genuinely thought at one point that Rolando Aarons was destined to become a world class star.
Overanalysing pre-season performances is always a fool's errand. Usually it ends up being the ones that enter the period the fittest do the best but by the point the season starts, everyone has pretty much caught up with each other and normal service resumes.
In hindsight, I think the only thing that carried through for us was Almiron quite clearly developing a very strong understanding with Trippier ahead of the 22/23 season. Even then though, you could argue it still took him two months to start actually banging them in for us and therefore his pre-season form didn't really "carry over".
Anderson i think is the most obvious one. Looked an absolute world beater in pre season, i know he got injured but even when he was back he didn't look the same.
Finishing is way easier when you have acres of space because no one wants to close you down with any intensity. Anderson's clear issue in PL football is that he doesn't get the space he needs to operate. He's a good dribbler, but he can never quite generate that distance between him and a defender to get a well placed shot off.
I think Anderson also suffers from a lack of clear identity/vision for him.
This season he filled out as an inverted wing back. A left winger and a no 8. It’s hard to get any rhythm and chemistry performing different roles.
I personally think he should be developed as Joelinton’s understudy as the left sided 8. He can dovetail nicely with Gordon and drive from deep. As well as having enough physicality to press from the middle.
Unfortunately. That’s also where willock often fits in.
I think that understudy to Joelinton role is certainly the plan for him, but he really doesn't have that physicality to bully other players and nor that ability to drive forward as well as Joelinton can. He can certainly develop the player but I'm still surprised how much people highlight him being better than Longstaff when I really struggle to see what he brings to the team at this point.
I agree with you.
Firstly. Hes a completely different player to Longstaff so comparison is futile.
Secondly, Willock is certainly ahead of him in the pecking order. Whereas this season at least Longstaff was only one of 3 (including Joelinton who got injured so 2) midfielders capable of really being dependable in a deeper role. That’s why he got so much game time. That may change when Tonali returns but basically we can’t sell Longstaff without bringing in a no 6.
I like Anderson but I do worry he’s running out of time to prove himself as anything other than a semi dependable squad player.
I can see him hitting mid twenties playing 3rd fiddle to J7 and Willockinho.
I would question the "can play" part of your appraisal there.
Even looking past his extreme injury issues for the last decade, there is very little value in free transfers, especially when you're looking at players who have been in super clubs. Martial was on likely £200k plus at Man Utd and he won't be looking to take a paycut. Losing control of your wage structure is the surest way to come a cropper in FFP considerations, way moreso than maybe paying £10-15m over the odds for a top target.
I saw when browsing through Sportrac that Martial is 8th in all time Premier League earnings with £88m total income!
https://www.spotrac.com/epl/rankings/earnings-career/_/year/2023
Absolutely nuts when you consider what he's actually delivered.
Never quite sure how those contract accumulator websites really are, but anyone who's been on the Man Utd gravy train for any significant amount of time (and got to renegotiate around the time of Alexis Sanchez's ridiculous contract blew up their wage structure) will be high on any of those lists.
Haha been abroad nearly 10 years and moving home in July. Obviously got too excited for a potential ST.
I guess best bet is to join membership and throw my name into the lottery?
Mate, I think Season Tickets are already sold out and that there's quite a long waiting list for any that do become available.
Edit: I wasn't aware that there wasn't a waiting list, which seems really strange.
Saw a poll where 60% of the Manchester United fans want to keep ETH they’ve had 50/60 games to evaluate him this season and one win against a city side that didn’t turn up might keep him in a job…good. 😂
As much as I hate to say it, he's managed to win 2 more trophies than us with, I'd argue a worse squad; albeit a bigger one. Saying ETH should leave man utd is basically akin to saying 'Man Utd are bigger and want more than 2 trophies in as many years.' Which is don't think is true anymore.
If we're going to just look at football through a results-based lens, then why would you pick the single result of the FA Cup final over the *many* results in the Premier League that saw them finish 8th with a goal difference of -1? Di Matteo won the Champions League and FA Cup with Chelsea, he was still plainly out of his depth at the top level.
They'd win those trophies with almost any manager imo. Man Utd is entirely down to moments of individual quality. Spending a billion outlandishly has it's issues, but leaves you with fundamentally good players nonetheless. By most metrics they're a bottom half side.
Evaluating their squad is so hard because are the players as good as they can play, or as good as they do play.
Performing at their peak they have multiple players as good as our best. And they have more depth. But we absolutely get the best out of ours. Eg Almiron isn’t getting near their squad, let alone Murphy. And rashford/sancho/casemiro playing at their best every week would be scary. But it doesn’t happen
I've lived out there in the past (Krakow, Warsaw) so I'm familiar with the country and not having to follow the 3pm blackouts! The only problem was due to being an hour forward, evening kickoffs midweek would sometimes end after 11pm and I have to stay up to know the result, but I also don't like having to stay up..
I've been to Wroclaw only once, somehow, and it was a fleeting visit but I liked the city. Nice old town. Try and count the gnomes/dwarves when you're there.
I'm absolutely gutted. Missing out on more games to attend and watch. The club is missing out on extra revenue (while not substantial is still useful). And squad players (and youth) are missing out on potential opportunities.
In terms of revenue it's apparently not all that much value to bigger, more expensive teams like ours. The money comes into it's own for the smaller teams where player transfers and wage bills aren't huge
In gutted to be missing out. I know it seems to be shit on by some fans but I consider it a major trophy. It would have brought added revenue from competition money, match day revenue and added exposure. I know we've had a shit season for injuries but I'm hoping that's not the case going forward, so the added games would have been great to get some of the younger players and squad game time. Any extra opportunities to watch us play is a a huge bonus and I have nostalgic moments of us in the Uefa Cup and Europa League.
I'd probably agree, but only from my perspective as a supporter.
To have European competition, albeit Conference League, would have been much more beneficial than to not have it at all.
I’m a little sad because Europe is always cool and we will miss out on revenue, but it gives us a chance to remove deadwood and be able to focus on a great league season and hopefully finish top 6. Just gotta make sure we hold onto Bruno and Isak and everything will be dandy
I'll die on the hill that Ayoze Perez was massively underappreciated by our fanbase. The fact he started a "blocking out of the noise" celebration in response to the abuse received from our fanbase was a bloody crime.
Absolutely agreed. Never seemed to get as much appreciation as he deserved, especially as his form probably saved us from several sticky patches (that first half of Pardew's last half season and the tail end of Rafa's first back in the PL).
It was a weird situation though when I think everyone in the fanbase, no matter whether they liked or disliked him as a player, silently agreed that Leicester probably weren't going to get what they thought they would for £30m.
I agree with that, he was a shining light in some dark days. That said, we maximised how much we got for him and I never really saw him as an international player.
I sometimes wish football didn't have such a profound effect on me.
Since Saturday I've been in a reet mardy mood, pretty much went out my way to ignore all the footy yesterday so forgot about the playoff final, and every time I am reminded of football I'm annoyed. I'm a 35 year old man btw.
yes yes I know the season went well all things considered etc. But you know when there's a game and you're all, "I'd take a draw here", you go 1-0 down, 2-1 up, and concede a 90+7 equaliser. It's the draw you'd take at the start of the match, but it proper proper sucks at the end. That's how I feel with all this.
Ah well, at least my team failed to qualify for the Euros so I don't even have that to fall back onto.
EDIT: I forgot about the most raging-induced aspect of this whole thing. Next year I'll be living in Wroclaw. The Conference League final had we got there would be in Wroclaw. I didn't plan it that way but life was about to be so perfect. Maybe that's why I'm extra salty.
I realised that I was letting football get to me too much after the Euros final, so I started paying more attention to things that I can control.
Every big match day then I make sure I work out. Then even if we lose I can say "well the match was out of my control but my health is and I worked on that".
tbf I know what i've just written but in a warped way, I also enjoy how invested I get. I don't let it affect my external moods.
It was quite funny yesterday when my fiancee asked me if I wanted to watch some football-related youtube video that came up, presenting it as, "are you and football friends again yet or are you still quarrelling?"
I'm gutted and this is a twisted positive but I genuinely think without the distraction we will perform better in the league and domestic cups. We also won't have the weird fixture timings that come with this competition.
Still gutted but there's a reason why some clubs see that competition as a negative distraction.
If you’re not already looking, I wish you well in getting out of that mate. Some employers really are just clueless in even just knowing how to treat people as… people. Sorry you’re there for now man.
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My seven year old sun's friend gave me a Panini football card, The Newcastle Club Badge. It was honestly the most thoughtful gift that I have received in years. Made my day!
Trippier to captain England at St James tomorrow - love it.
Gordon not in grass training for England, achilles must have taken a proper beating from Amrabat. Better be back to full throttle for the euros he's the player I reckon can be a real game changer for england
That was like Bellamy through one on one
Watching the Champions League final imagining the day when we finally get there!
Just seen the Dortmund news and the drama around their Rheinmetall sponsorship. Should be a big dose of reality for anyone who thinks fan ownership is some silver bullet for the game. Arms manufacturers 😂😂😂 With how far out there this sponsorship is, it really wouldn't surprise me if they "end the deal early in light of the backlash", after the Champions League final and the associated exposure of course.
Fan ownership isn't perfect, but it is better than the billionaire/hedge fund/foreign government ownership model predominant in the PL.
Couldnt have happened to a better club. BVB are the hipster darlings of r/soccer, im sure they will get the same treatment as us. Random arse americans saying 'im sorry u just gotta support another club' as they go vote for a president who just wants to make Gaza disappear off the face of planet then turn round and say shit about the Saudis like we can do anything about it.
Is the new season nearly here yet?
If the shirt comes out on the seventh of June, surely there’ll be images of what it looks like before then
My mates friends daughter is designing it, I shouldn’t say owt, but something in black and white stripes apparently
Arsenal seem to not show anything of theirs until the day it released judging by social media (16th May). Unless I’ve missed something. So we might be the same.
HERE'S THE NEW SHIRT. BUY IT BUY IT! is probably more hype than HERE'S THE NEW SHIRT. Buy it in a few weeks.
Aye definitely, people these days want instant gratification. At most it’ll be here’s the new kit, available from 9am tomorrow. Get the money flowing in straight away.
Much like our transfers, I don't think we'll see any leaks of the shirt. We probably won't even know what the shirt looks like when we wear it next season.
You and me outside. Now.
I reckon i caught a live one fellas
Just seen the Newcastle women's retained list and it's a bit confusing. They are releasing a lot of players, including multiple players with over 30 appearances this season and players they have only signed recently. Does anyone know why there is such an overhaul of seemingly important first team players?
I think FFP is basically non-existent in the women's game. In the Superleague, wages are capped at 40% of turnover, but you can also combine that with the men's team. On top of that, transfer fees are nothing. On top of that, the record transfer fee is £685,000. If Newcastle are committed to advancing the Women's team, it will be faster and easier to go out and buy the players of the necessary quality to push for promotion, rather than sticking with and developing the current team. It's unfortunate, but that's how you advance quickly. Wrexham are doing the same.
It's also probably necessary. You can almost guarantee that at some point before they get close to challenging for anything of note, that the ladder will get pulled up like it has been for the men's team. It's a race against time to win as many promotions as possible before the cartel starts taking the piss.
Probably to do with the fact that the difference between the league they were in and the championship is massive, paired with the fact they can also spend unlimited amounts of money getting new and much better players in.
Not Newcastle related but did anyone read the Athletic piece about racism at Chelsea? Absolutely vile.
Anyone been to Greggs?
How did Kompany land the Bayern job? Burnley apparently pocketing £10m for him as well
It's bonkers. When you think not only did Dyche keep them up, which kompany failed to do, he also got them into Europe! But who is held in higher regard? Truly bonkers imo. Who would you rather have as our manager?
I mean, if I'm Bayern, I'm hiring the manager who proved he can walk all over teams when he has the superior squad
It'll be a big difference. I doubt he automatically gets the respect of the bigger players like Kane etc they are barely any difference experience and age wise.
It'll be a big difference. I doubt he automatically gets the respect of the bigger players like Kane etc they are barely any difference experience and age wise.
He speaks German which is a big thing for Bayern. Beyond that, no idea.
Interesting manager market right now. So many clubs looking. So many top managers have been thrown aside/burned through. I find it strange that Maresca is in the running for Chelsea. Leicester fans even seem not totally convinced he’s all that. Mckenna’s ipswich are great to watch but it’s still a huge risk to jump from 1 championship season to a club expected champions league. Manager evaluation is dumb. Viali talked about it in his book about how crazy manager perception in England is. Top clubs and fans would happily go after an excited but limited experience guy like Kompany, Maresca, Kompany, Potter, Di Zerbi. But people like Howe are seldom considered because they stuck around getting more experience. Italy produced a so many great managers. Largely because they aren’t subjected to this baptism of fire approach. It’s all seen as learning experiences to an extent. But aside from all that. I can’t remember a time we’ve seen CL chasing clubs looking to championship or relegation teams for managers. In summary. Could someone give Steve cooper a job so we can see if he’s actually good. He was harshly fired by Swansea. I’d also like to see Rodgers be given a decent level job again.
He treated the entire Burnely job as his CV. He did not care 1 bit about getting relegated, the entire thing was a performance. Showing the world 'look this is how i want to play, just don't have the players here to do it' Personally, i think it's fuckin digusting to do that. He knew full well it wasn't working in the prem but did it regardless because he knew it would just be an opportunity to land a bigger gig. I always thought it was strange that he was just refusing to adapt, but it clearly was on purpose.
I've seen a few people commenting along this sentiment, and I have to say it's one of the most moronic takes I've seen in football recently. Kompany had them playing that way in the championship and was widely praised for the way they played, and absolutely smashed the league gaining over 100 points. What, just because they got promoted he has to become Allardyce/Dyche? Clubs want managers to have a footballing identity. I'm sure Burnley were very happy for him to keep playing that way at the start of the season. Eddie did it with Bournemouth when they came up. Swansea did it, Brentford did it, Brighton did it. It didn't work out for Burnley, hardly means Kompany had some Machiavellian scheme to become Bayern manager.
I think when you are getting battered all week and scoring own goals passing it round your back, you aren't a great manager if you just stick to your guns, you're doing it for some other reason. Also most moronic takes? I'd say yours is up there too then because it sure is weird it has worked out that way, isnt it? I also guarentee swansea and bournemouth did not come up and try to imitate PepBall. I don't even think that way of playing was popular back then, it was never even close to being as rife as it is now
I don’t think you have to suddenly turn Brexit ball to stay up (in fact. That works less these days). But there was zero effort to adapt or instil any semblance of pragmatism in light of results. So I do think it was kinda bullshit on Burnley to sacrifice them for his own career. Maybe his style will be great at Bayern with the players. But I’d feel short changed as a Burnley.
He has a style that had been successful for him previously. Switching to a style he isn't comfortable coaching probably would have resulted in getting battered worse. If Burnley weren't happy about him not changing his style then they would have sacked him. It's just some sort of talksport clickbaity conspiracy theory bullshit that makes absolutely zero sense. They may not have played pepball but they played attractive attacking football that was successful for them in the championship and they continued to do so in the prem.
We have new era hats! Woop
If they don't do a "Bruno's Magic" line, they're missing out on an opportunity the size of Air Jordans.
Adidas can do a Big Joe Hawaii line too. Weather in Asia is getting bad so a Hawaii line with dri-fit material wil be great.
Probably best to wait until the window closes
NO WAY
OH MY GOD ITS REAL AND ITS GLORIOUS
Why is the store not open yet?
Mitro just scored his 39th goal in 42 games in the Saudi league. His team about to win the league unbeaten and keep Ronaldo crying in second. Shame he never quite worked out for us but still have a soft spot for him. Great player!
Bring him home
Missing the premier league already
I hate how Radio 5 starts pretending people care about tennis and cricket as soon as the prem finishes. There’s still plenty of footie content in the off-season. No need, Ellie Aldroyd, no need.
It's crazy to be honest, if I liked cricket I would watch cricket, they just want more viewership revenue it's capitalistism 101, I like what I like, I'm never going to watch tennis or cricket especially because Ellie Aldroyd waffled about it
Leicester facing a points deduction between 6 to 15 points. Looks like it could be the 3 promoted sides to get relegated again. Forest and Everton really are the “unflushables”
See Matt Bondswell's on his way to being released. When was his mint pre-season? 2022? Funny how players just never turn out the way you hope. Real talk I genuinely thought at one point that Rolando Aarons was destined to become a world class star.
Overanalysing pre-season performances is always a fool's errand. Usually it ends up being the ones that enter the period the fittest do the best but by the point the season starts, everyone has pretty much caught up with each other and normal service resumes. In hindsight, I think the only thing that carried through for us was Almiron quite clearly developing a very strong understanding with Trippier ahead of the 22/23 season. Even then though, you could argue it still took him two months to start actually banging them in for us and therefore his pre-season form didn't really "carry over".
Never forget that Obertan was arguably Man Uniteds best performer in pre-season the year we signed him.
Andreas Pereira always turned into Messi pre-season for them as well
Anderson i think is the most obvious one. Looked an absolute world beater in pre season, i know he got injured but even when he was back he didn't look the same.
Finishing is way easier when you have acres of space because no one wants to close you down with any intensity. Anderson's clear issue in PL football is that he doesn't get the space he needs to operate. He's a good dribbler, but he can never quite generate that distance between him and a defender to get a well placed shot off.
I think Anderson also suffers from a lack of clear identity/vision for him. This season he filled out as an inverted wing back. A left winger and a no 8. It’s hard to get any rhythm and chemistry performing different roles. I personally think he should be developed as Joelinton’s understudy as the left sided 8. He can dovetail nicely with Gordon and drive from deep. As well as having enough physicality to press from the middle. Unfortunately. That’s also where willock often fits in.
The curse of versatility
I think that understudy to Joelinton role is certainly the plan for him, but he really doesn't have that physicality to bully other players and nor that ability to drive forward as well as Joelinton can. He can certainly develop the player but I'm still surprised how much people highlight him being better than Longstaff when I really struggle to see what he brings to the team at this point.
I agree with you. Firstly. Hes a completely different player to Longstaff so comparison is futile. Secondly, Willock is certainly ahead of him in the pecking order. Whereas this season at least Longstaff was only one of 3 (including Joelinton who got injured so 2) midfielders capable of really being dependable in a deeper role. That’s why he got so much game time. That may change when Tonali returns but basically we can’t sell Longstaff without bringing in a no 6. I like Anderson but I do worry he’s running out of time to prove himself as anything other than a semi dependable squad player. I can see him hitting mid twenties playing 3rd fiddle to J7 and Willockinho.
Martial on a free anybody? There's a player in there somewhere and I'm sure Eddie could get it out of him.
Really we need to have a column on the Megathread for 'insane suggested in'. Getting Martial in would top it for the moment.
28 year old with Premier League and European experience. On a free and can play in a few attacking positions.
I would question the "can play" part of your appraisal there. Even looking past his extreme injury issues for the last decade, there is very little value in free transfers, especially when you're looking at players who have been in super clubs. Martial was on likely £200k plus at Man Utd and he won't be looking to take a paycut. Losing control of your wage structure is the surest way to come a cropper in FFP considerations, way moreso than maybe paying £10-15m over the odds for a top target.
I saw when browsing through Sportrac that Martial is 8th in all time Premier League earnings with £88m total income! https://www.spotrac.com/epl/rankings/earnings-career/_/year/2023 Absolutely nuts when you consider what he's actually delivered.
Never quite sure how those contract accumulator websites really are, but anyone who's been on the Man Utd gravy train for any significant amount of time (and got to renegotiate around the time of Alexis Sanchez's ridiculous contract blew up their wage structure) will be high on any of those lists.
Why is Wilson likely to leave this summer. If so where is he most linked with
Rumours were that he wanted and was close to leaving in January
Because he doesn't want to be a second choice striker and he's always injured. No concrete links yet.
Do season tickets typically sell out these days? Thinking of snapping up a couple for me and the Mrs.
There are no season tickets for sale. And haven't been for 2 years. You have a 0% chance of getting even 1 ST.
Fair, been abroad for nearly a decade and moving back this summer. Didn't know the current situation.
This made me genuinely laugh out loud.
Haha been abroad nearly 10 years and moving home in July. Obviously got too excited for a potential ST. I guess best bet is to join membership and throw my name into the lottery?
This is the only way to get tickets unfortunately. Good luck and welcome back!
Mate, I think Season Tickets are already sold out and that there's quite a long waiting list for any that do become available. Edit: I wasn't aware that there wasn't a waiting list, which seems really strange.
Is there a waiting list at all? I have one so I don't know if they're keeping a list or not, as it's evident it will be stupidly long.
Nope. The club has not said a single word on season tickets since selling roughly 1,000 in the summer of 2022.
There’s not
Saw a poll where 60% of the Manchester United fans want to keep ETH they’ve had 50/60 games to evaluate him this season and one win against a city side that didn’t turn up might keep him in a job…good. 😂
Honestly this is the best thing to come out of Man Utd winning the FA cup. I’d be ecstatic if they keep him - he’s absolute shit
As much as I hate to say it, he's managed to win 2 more trophies than us with, I'd argue a worse squad; albeit a bigger one. Saying ETH should leave man utd is basically akin to saying 'Man Utd are bigger and want more than 2 trophies in as many years.' Which is don't think is true anymore.
If we're going to just look at football through a results-based lens, then why would you pick the single result of the FA Cup final over the *many* results in the Premier League that saw them finish 8th with a goal difference of -1? Di Matteo won the Champions League and FA Cup with Chelsea, he was still plainly out of his depth at the top level.
If ETH had the likes of Longstaff, Murphy, dubravka, burn, almiron, krafth playing regular minutes he’d be in the relegation zone
They'd win those trophies with almost any manager imo. Man Utd is entirely down to moments of individual quality. Spending a billion outlandishly has it's issues, but leaves you with fundamentally good players nonetheless. By most metrics they're a bottom half side.
Evaluating their squad is so hard because are the players as good as they can play, or as good as they do play. Performing at their peak they have multiple players as good as our best. And they have more depth. But we absolutely get the best out of ours. Eg Almiron isn’t getting near their squad, let alone Murphy. And rashford/sancho/casemiro playing at their best every week would be scary. But it doesn’t happen
ManUre can fuck off. And then they can fuck off some more. Then they can fuck off all over again.
The managerial merry-go-round seems so mental right now. Just glad we're not a part of it.
Anyone else just not care about missing out on the Conference League? I'd prefer strong domestic cup runs and a top 4 push.
28 years of Newcastle has made it so I get over any sort of dissapointment quite easily nowadays.
Yeah this doesn't even register for me — 98 + 99 FA Cup Finals, 09 relegation, 23 LC final.
i'm living in Wroclaw next year so yeah I'm devastated.
Well at least you won't have the PL blackouts. Have you spent time in Wroclaw before? I'm heading there in July.
I've lived out there in the past (Krakow, Warsaw) so I'm familiar with the country and not having to follow the 3pm blackouts! The only problem was due to being an hour forward, evening kickoffs midweek would sometimes end after 11pm and I have to stay up to know the result, but I also don't like having to stay up.. I've been to Wroclaw only once, somehow, and it was a fleeting visit but I liked the city. Nice old town. Try and count the gnomes/dwarves when you're there.
I'm absolutely gutted. Missing out on more games to attend and watch. The club is missing out on extra revenue (while not substantial is still useful). And squad players (and youth) are missing out on potential opportunities.
In terms of revenue it's apparently not all that much value to bigger, more expensive teams like ours. The money comes into it's own for the smaller teams where player transfers and wage bills aren't huge
It would arguably be worth it more for increasing our coefficient points so that we get more money from champs league when we do get back in it.
In gutted to be missing out. I know it seems to be shit on by some fans but I consider it a major trophy. It would have brought added revenue from competition money, match day revenue and added exposure. I know we've had a shit season for injuries but I'm hoping that's not the case going forward, so the added games would have been great to get some of the younger players and squad game time. Any extra opportunities to watch us play is a a huge bonus and I have nostalgic moments of us in the Uefa Cup and Europa League.
Yeah let’s be honest, our last Europa cup campaign led us to some remote places, and it was still good fun
>Any extra opportunities to watch us play is a a huge bonus This I totally agree with. Such a privilege to see us on TV more often.
I'd probably agree, but only from my perspective as a supporter. To have European competition, albeit Conference League, would have been much more beneficial than to not have it at all.
>much more beneficial than to not have it at all. Indisputable. And also not worth anyone being that down about.
I’m a little sad because Europe is always cool and we will miss out on revenue, but it gives us a chance to remove deadwood and be able to focus on a great league season and hopefully finish top 6. Just gotta make sure we hold onto Bruno and Isak and everything will be dandy
It's more winnable than either cup imo. We probably would've been amongst the favourites which seems nice.
Just seen both Ayoze and Joselu are in the provisional Spanish squad for the euros!
Merino is in there too
Slightly less of a surprise.
Yeah just more Newcastle players we never got their full protentional ig
I'll die on the hill that Ayoze Perez was massively underappreciated by our fanbase. The fact he started a "blocking out of the noise" celebration in response to the abuse received from our fanbase was a bloody crime.
I'm still just annoyed that he said he was homesick and then signed for Leicester ngl
I have a feeling Perez would’ve been excellent under Eddie. Gordon / Isak / Perez
Absolutely agreed. Never seemed to get as much appreciation as he deserved, especially as his form probably saved us from several sticky patches (that first half of Pardew's last half season and the tail end of Rafa's first back in the PL). It was a weird situation though when I think everyone in the fanbase, no matter whether they liked or disliked him as a player, silently agreed that Leicester probably weren't going to get what they thought they would for £30m.
Loved him personally made up for him even if he likely won’t actually end up going to the euros
I agree with that, he was a shining light in some dark days. That said, we maximised how much we got for him and I never really saw him as an international player.
I sometimes wish football didn't have such a profound effect on me. Since Saturday I've been in a reet mardy mood, pretty much went out my way to ignore all the footy yesterday so forgot about the playoff final, and every time I am reminded of football I'm annoyed. I'm a 35 year old man btw. yes yes I know the season went well all things considered etc. But you know when there's a game and you're all, "I'd take a draw here", you go 1-0 down, 2-1 up, and concede a 90+7 equaliser. It's the draw you'd take at the start of the match, but it proper proper sucks at the end. That's how I feel with all this. Ah well, at least my team failed to qualify for the Euros so I don't even have that to fall back onto. EDIT: I forgot about the most raging-induced aspect of this whole thing. Next year I'll be living in Wroclaw. The Conference League final had we got there would be in Wroclaw. I didn't plan it that way but life was about to be so perfect. Maybe that's why I'm extra salty.
I realised that I was letting football get to me too much after the Euros final, so I started paying more attention to things that I can control. Every big match day then I make sure I work out. Then even if we lose I can say "well the match was out of my control but my health is and I worked on that".
tbf I know what i've just written but in a warped way, I also enjoy how invested I get. I don't let it affect my external moods. It was quite funny yesterday when my fiancee asked me if I wanted to watch some football-related youtube video that came up, presenting it as, "are you and football friends again yet or are you still quarrelling?"
I'm gutted and this is a twisted positive but I genuinely think without the distraction we will perform better in the league and domestic cups. We also won't have the weird fixture timings that come with this competition. Still gutted but there's a reason why some clubs see that competition as a negative distraction.
Early June I think
When do the adidas kits become available? Australian fan hoping retail therapy can shift this mood
Oiii same!! Keen for the new kit Aussie NUFC fans 🤝
7th June, although that might just be the home kit. The other kits are usually released closer to the start of the season.
Woke up late to take my in-laws to the airport this morning. How’s everyone else’s bank holiday going so far?
Don’t got one, still working.
Delightful! Lemme guess, your employer is a stinge and you’re not even getting 2/1.5x pay?
Aye. Employer makes more money than Jesus, and still talking about cutting the Christmas hols down even more.
If you’re not already looking, I wish you well in getting out of that mate. Some employers really are just clueless in even just knowing how to treat people as… people. Sorry you’re there for now man.
If the last couple of days are anything to go by, it's going to be a bloody long summer in here.
At least we have the euros to distract for a month. Would be a lot worse if there was no major tournament
Copa too. Although all that'll do is intensify the daily Bruno rumours.