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Can't imagine it would have been delayed by much. "We're signing nee fucker, meeting adjourned".

Mine too, mine too.

Mate he is fucking mint and as you know, we agree about terriers. He's a Cairn, our other two were a Westie and Scottie which both are originally from the Cairn breed (Westies are the white ones they use to destroy as they weren't breed standard and Scotties are Cairns/Wire coat Fox Terrier), so lots of similarities but also different. He's crazy, ridiculously intelligent and an absolute card, all rolled into one. Took him 5 minutes to work out the dog door, he slept from 2000 to 0430 which is unheard of for a puppy and has been a loony all morning running around. Success, we made it through the first night.

Just had some wings and a couple of pints. Well have we signed anyone yet?

If you ask me not getting Tosin on a free changed everything in this window. That changed our focus. If he’d come we’d have conceivably had a very healthy budget to add to midfield and the forward line. I can see the need to replace Miggy/Murphy. Howe and/or Mitchell might have seen that differently. We’ll never know now. If we lose by two goals on Sunday there’s going to be hell on inside the ground, vitriol directed at Howe and those in executive positions and I want no part of that….if that does happen we’ll be wandering down “August 2004 lane”…. people furious about how things have gone in the last 6 months need to remember how long it took to appoint anyone anywhere near as good as Sir Bobby Robson into the managers chair at SJP after we turned on him. If you’re judging the present board as fuckin useless you might want to think about that

Surely the PL would object to them buying another club AND moving them

That's just Barratts looking for land to build more houses.

I thought we’d at least have a new GK in by now.

After all of the protesting and the "we should have walked away", you're ready to pay £70m on deadline day.

nee cunt. not even a goalkeeper.

He said nothing of any real interest whatsoever. Which as far as I can make out is in line with the rest of football podcast usual content policy

Well this has been a cluster fuck of epic proportions. We were told day one he has sepsis, and there was nothing they could do. We agree that he should be put on end of life care and tried coming to terms with it. The next day a different consultant said during rounds “ah the antibiotics seem to be working, let’s get him some more and send him home”. He had not had any antibiotics, as he was on end of life care.. so we disagreed. He was moved wards to free a bed, and another new consultant sat us both down and told us he was happy to treat him again but it was unlikely to work and we should prepare ourselves that he might not make it. So he was taken off end of life care, and has been treated with antibiotics for the last 2 days. They finally got his bloods back yesterday and he is recovering.. I don’t claim to be medically trained in anyway whatsoever, but do doctors not talk to each other/read notes on patients? My mam is nearly 70, and has been told twice this week by separate consultants that her first born is going to die when all he seemingly needed was some antibiotics. Also trying to sleep in a hospital chair for days on end has fucked my back, on the plus side I’m sat outside james cook now (4.45am) and it’s the first time I’ve not seen any smack heads around here all week. Swings and roundabouts.

Can anyone dig out the first post where @LongTimeAdmirer first said “close the thread, no further business will be done”?… it’s at least a fortnight ago Got to say I like her/him/them…showed brilliantly cynical youthful foresight when us experienced campaigners were sat here with bubbles coming out of our gobs

Is 2024 officially the year when you can't have a moan about your club without captain sensibles patronising you?

This doesn't look like the cold as steel Dr Gloom that estate agents across the country fear.

i hate that phrase, but it is in this case. willock and tonali barely kicked a ball last season. if we can keep them both fit this season it's massive and will relegate longstaff to fifth choice, which is where he should be, instead of a first team mainstay. tonali, bruno, joelinton and willock are really good options in CM. it's hard to pick a best three out of those but there's a solid case for starting a fit and firing willock. he was instrumental in the season we finished 4th and the way he links up with joe and isak in particular is really promising.

GIWA

Is that because you can't hear over you stroking?

‘Flex’ now reckons that Dan Ashworth is the reason we have had a shit window and Man U’s has been so amazing.

Rangers. (A)

Helicopter heading up the A19

Press conference delayed? That’ll be because Eddie is busy handing in his resignation then.

You should be ringing them up to complain about your man not getting on so he can give sky his own take on the safety features of the stack and what NOT to say to young lasses who work in hooters.

and ?????? Very good at what ? Baking cakes, carpentry, crochet, juggling ? what is the very good about ? Your post tells me nothing !!!!!

eales + mitchell = llambias + wise

Oldest shittest joke since the formation of transfer windows, nice one for not only digging up its unfunny corpse on Twitter but posting it here too.

What a disappointing window this has been. There was plainly money to spend and we wasted all our time and effort on Guehi it seems. I can't believe there was nobody suitable available for CB, RW or a proper understudy for Pope. Somebody at the club has had a shocker and should be shot with shit. If I was Howe Id be livid.

FYP

Fraser has mutually terminated his contract and signed for Southampton. quick, we have funds for Guehi now.

This looks shite cos of the Ashworth/Staveley thing too. Successive very professionally run windows, where we had our business done before deadline day, and now this. The fact Ashworth wasn't involved in our best window since the takeover won't matter to the narrative. We've gone from looking like a proper outfit to looking a bit shite following Ashworth and Staveley's departures. I'm not suggesting we're fucked without these two or anything. I'm just saying we're gonna be hearing some "what's going wrong at Newcastle?" stuff.

I'm now firmly of the opinion that Mitchell has had a stinker here. I'm not saying he's a bad DoF, or that the task he's been set isn't really hard, but moves like this Elanga thing shows we're basically flailing now, and that's pretty embarrassing to have got ourselves in this position hours before the window shuts. Parrish has probably strung us along - hurting us helps his team - but that's his prerogative and arguably his job. I don't think we'll be shopping at Crystal Palace again for a long time.

Don’t you start another thread!

I don't think there's gonna be many football supporters up and down the country thinking newcastle have won this little spat mate.

Dinner is served chez Toonpack

Just been out for some milk. Have we signed anyone yet?

She must have a brain injury - If Howe's lips are flapping in a presser he's being disingenuous

this is bloody brilliant news.

Am watching NRL then going shopping for a giant ham joint and the ingredients for a jerk rub, neighbours are having a Caribbean themed barbecue tomorrow and this will be our contribution. Anyone wasting their time sat watching the idiots fuckin lantern that is sky sports news frankly needs to look at their life choices

T'is a reet grand listen

Worth remembering that those lads are in the club and can talk to Howe and the management team about this stuff if they want to, the definitely know whats happening and none of them have agitated for a move. (yet) We're out here, essentially relying on unreliable people and piecing together what we think is happening.

Don’t know how you dare call anyone Eeyore the way you are whinging on about the transfer window mind. Liked a dumped teenage lass.

Lads. I think we have to have perspective. It's important to make a correct analysis. Let's see. The market may really seem disappointing to us. But let's take it step by step. First of all, we know that we had to sell for a high amount because we were threatened with losing points if we didn't do it, as happened to Everton last year. We got rid of two projects like Minteh or Anderson who have not yet exploded and have not had time to prove anything. It could have been worse. Bruno or Gordon were in the rumours to leave. Secondly... Not all markets can afford to spend a lot of money. After many years without doing so under Ashley's command, the situation has now changed. In recent years we have made many expensive investments. Gordon, Barnes, Isak, Bruno, Hall, Botman, even Joelinton if we go a little further back. That is unsustainable. In the 2021-22 season we were fighting relegation... Remember the first 15 games, which we didn't win any of. The 'problem' is that in the 2022-23 season we finished in the Big Four positions... We performed way above our possibilities. And now it seems to us that we have taken two steps backwards when we finished seventh. We have been in absolute shit for many years. Now it is time to enjoy, but enjoy it wisely. This is a long-term project. This year we have had a couple of structural potholes. Amanda has left and we have changed our DOF. We really had very few arguments to improve the team. We all agree that the right flank should be reinforced, but perhaps there is no good player on the market that the board likes and they prefer to wait and save that money so that he is the big bet for next year. I have not followed Mitchell's work, but I know that he is a good worker, that he is the man who has discovered players like Sadio Mane for Southampton. He is the man who turned Tottenham into a Champions League finalist with signings like Trippier, Son, Alderweireld or Dele Alli. He is the man who has worked at Leipzig and signed players like Nkunku, Dani Olmo, Mukiele, Haidara (not Massadio), Matheus Cunha when they were unknown. He discovered Disasi for Monaco, he gambled on Caio Henrique for a very low price. We will be patient. Big projects take years to build. Now we have to lay the foundation.