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Aye, nice to see them out enjoying themselves.

"Nev" doesn't seem to think so:

Might as well give him Wilson's wages anyway, we've been down to one striker for most of the season

Ferment some piss.

He meets Wilson in the canteen each week and takes his wages off him is what heard. And walks away doing his "this daft cunt" thumb over the shoulder celebration.

As I've got older my bandwidth for caring about the plight of random nations has steadily shrunk, and I think Trump has now broken whatever was left over. Maybe I shouldn't judge others by my own standards, but I find the idea that the man in the street deeply cares about what is happening in Saudi completely laughable (pointing to Saudi or the UAE on a map would probably be a challenge). When I lived in the UK - nigh on 20 years ago - most people I knew barely gave a shit about what happened in their own country if it didnt directly affect them. I expect people are even more apathetic now. I certainly dont lose any sleep over our owners. Fair play to Amnesty but the people who make the noise are mostly hypocrites with an undeclared agenda or mouth breathing knuckle dragging morons.

Just in: A psychic dwarf has escaped from prison. There is now a small medium at large.

Who cares man Maybe true but it's not about them and almost certainly never will be tbh. Let's enjoy it without give them a second thought.

Here we go, Adam Clery time.

Good news. While switching job I hit the usual bureaucracy which delayed my resignation by a couple of weeks. Turns out that delay means I have managed to get my bonus as it was already authorised by pay roll. If I had resigned 1 day earlier I would have been cut out! Summer holiday all paid for now thank fuck. This is one aspect of the private sector I'm gonna miss.

Remember when they were definitely signing Harry Kane every year for £200 million until he went to Germany instead

I couldn't believe that from Neville. He knows the plight of his former club atm, but they're all so convinced that, because Man United have been on top for most of his adult life, that it's just inconceivable for them to have an extended period in the relative wilderness. They're a club in massive debt with mounting financial problems and a playing staff that isn't worth a fraction of what they paid for them. Sponsors will be looking to either get out or get their fees discounted. They basically have to perform miracles next time they enter the transfer market to have any hope of turning around their current predicament. And this knob thinks Isak will remotely consider them as his next move. Tosser.

I'm not so sure that's what he meant when he said "giz a goblin"

Think I'd be prepared to accept "like a new signing" to secure him to a new long term deal tbh.

Aye Eales at the recent open day he did, telling journalists that he would "politely remind Alex that he's already on a long term deal". Bellend craic when you've got one of the best strikers in the world on your books and you're paying him a fraction of what he could get elsewhere.

Went to go and find the source of those comments; alright john.

I don't even remember ordering mine but here we are!

Speaking as someone who has been right there with you on this front for years and who has complete respect for the view, and agreement in the need... where on earth do you see that coming from? I look at the current landscape and there's just nothing there. For all people can take considerable issue with Momentum and how it went in the end, it was the last genuinely reformative movement that didn't come from the right, and it was crushed by the centre, We were defeated in full. I see nothing anywhere that suggests anyone is remotely prepared to pick up the pieces of that. Again - I am completely with you, but for all my attempts to justify a protest vote against Labour last time out, the reality is that all I achieved was voting for a party (SNP) that honestly aren't a million miles better anyway - and which felt in the end like a very weak gesture that had no point or merit to it. I wish now I'd stuck to just spoiling the ballot - equally as pointless, but more cathartic. The sort of shift we need is probably one that spans borders tbh. It's not going to be a UK only event.

They're are doing nothing to help the worst off while allowing the massive profit taking to go unchecked. They are telling the same lies as the Tories just in a slightly less toxic way The country needs emergency surgery. There is no point to what Labour are doing, they ae functionally just a less inept and corrupt Tory party at the moment, which is not enough

If he wills it enough he thinks it could happen. Honestly, these cunts are so transparent. They're basically given a platform by sky to represent their two clubs on a weekly basis and you have now grown adults who take their words as gospel. I don't know about sports washing but sky definitely promote football brain washing.

Ah, so that's what MF was actually up to.

i'll pass on the bubbles, but i confess i bought one of those carabou champions 25 kits. i didn't bother with the home kit this season because i didn't like the big white patch on the back and i'm too middle aged to be getting a player name and number. i definitely won't look like a dick at all with champions 25 on the back of the overpriced polyester kit instead

targett is rumoured to be on 100k - he should be one of the first out of the door for that reason alone. crazy wages to be paying the third choice player in his position. wilson's on a similar deal and he'll be out the door too. tripper is the one i think has shown he might be worth holding on to for another season

eales being a bellend? nah, not having that. 3 years left on a contract is worthless if a player is unhappy and wants out. isak is on 30% of what raheem sterling and rashford are raking in, neither are fit to lace his boots. we need his goals to shoot us to a top 4 finish and then treble his wages, he'll have earned it.

Yes. I don't think anyone in the media really cares about sportswashing anyway. It's just a way to generate public engagement from faux outrage. I don't like the Saudi regime, and I think most decent people would find it abhorrent in many respects; however I dont think most people genuinely care about the House of Saud or what goes on in the middle east. In reality sportswashing is just a lazy trope to cut us down to the size they think we ought to be. As if in some way it invalidates everything about us. What they really dont like is our success with these owners, not who our owners are. They can fuck right off, I couldnt care less what the anti-NUFC media thinks.

Sportswashing is a massive simplification by journalists who really don’t know what they’re talking about outside (and often within) their sphere of ‘expertise’ tailored for their even simpler target audience. I think PaddockLad mentioned that if it was meant to make Saudi Arabia (in our case) more popular or its rulers seen in a better light then it would be an abject failure. That’s not really what it’s about though. It’s a vanity project to be beat their regional rivals

Aye I havent since my boss (fortunately also a newcastle fan) spotted a tab called "mike ashley football cunt" in my browser

I guarantee TrueGeordie is a huge Rogan fan, which would explain why he's disappeared up Trump's khyber. I mean he basically wants to be Rogan.

Ratcliffe claims Man United would have gone under without his cost cutting work. Does that sound like a club that can afford Isak?

Well this has made me feel better about not being there.

He and the rest of the goons at Sky want to have a think about what Eddie Howe has done with the players he inherited especially in his first season and compare it with what Amorim has fuckin done. And then they need to suggest that Man Utd go out and get their own fuckin Isak

Also it's year one, if they have to do 'bad stuff' now is the time to be doing it. There's a lot of bad stuff, but better now than nearer the next election. I don't think there really are any other options out there, which is what is so depressing about this.

Labour. They've been in power less than a year against a backdrop of extreme economic turmoil with Trump in power. They need a chance imo. The cuts are yet to take effect and their impact is not clear. Some of the stuff, like the tweet I posted about school meals being cut, aren't true. What's the alternative? Presuming you rule out the Tories and Reform, you have the Greens and the LDs. Neither party has ever had to handle the reality of governance. It's fine for Davies to act the fool in opposition and appease whatever group he's talking to at the time, but he's never been confronted with the reality of the situation we are in and the difficult trade offs there are in everything. He's a nimby when it suits and at the same time pro-growth without saying how. As for the Greens, their policies are batshit. If you want us to undertake unilateral nuclear disarmament at this time, fill your boots. I do not like what Labour are doing. But I think three things are relevant here. First, we are in a fucking mess caused by the previous administrations intransigence over the last 14 years. It's not getting fixed overnight. Second, whatever you might think, there is a qualitative difference between Labour and the Tories. Labour's cuts are borne of necessity, not ideology. I know many people serving under Labour and I am convinced their intentions are good, even if you can't justify their actions. Finally, it's easy to snipe by the side-lines. But there is very little discussion about what the realistic alternatives are. One idea might be getting closer to the EU. I think this is probably happening under the radar, but you can't wish away the last 10 years as if nothing has happened. Then what? How do you satisfy the bond markets who de facto set our interest rates? It's a simple fact that Truss cost me thousands of pounds I couldn't afford, if that happens again now I'm fucked, I'd default on my mortgage. Then I guess you can say fuck the markets, fuck capitalism. To be replaced by what exactly? We are a medium sized country surrounded by superpowers, we are not in control of our destinies. People need to be careful what they wish for, as been proven time and time again.

If he goes, I think it would be to Real or PSG. I don't think we'd sell to another PL club with 3 years left on his contract

I’ve been laughing a bit about the rumours linking him away again. I think it’s high time that these lads in the press and the media realise that the tide is very much shifting away from “United” and their ilk who think they have unlimited pulling power from the rest of the plebs in the league. Isak is at a club which, to be perfectly honest, has done more to reach their ambitions in the last 2 seasons than the “big six” have done in 5-10 years. You can probably exclude Liverpool since they’ve been successful but that team is also at the end of its run and now the manager has a massive rebuilding job on his hands. Isak plays for a club that is positioned to bring in players around him in the summer, has a manager that absolutely gets the best of out him, plays to everyone’s strengths and he’s just lifted a pot. Come May, he could be back playing Champions League football next season. Unless he wants to drastically increase his pay packet, he’s going nowhere IMO. And having said that, I reckon we could probably stretch to give him an obscene wage as well tbh.

What a fucking Bellend. Was he pissed when he came out with that shite? Dear me maybe your ex club are a wee bit happy to have won a cup after 70 years? Unlike your rather entitled other ex club. Cunt

Food fan

John Barnes, food fan, had a take on us celebrating our cup win… https://nufcfeed.com/john-barnes-doubles-down-on-horrendous-take-regarding-newcastle-uniteds-carabao-cup-victory-celebrations-1220078

If there was one cunt on here I didn’t want to pick me up on the mistake I knew I’d made it was you.

The individual jury spokespeople don't announce the zero scores, so to achieve that you'd have to enjoy watching Eurovision voting sequences in their entirety. We are more similar than I realised! 🥰

It could’ve been worse. I.e. they didn’t bother checking under the bed for monsters

Let’s be honest, the best goal he’s scored, he didn’t score- it was the “assist” for Murphy against the Scouse mackems. Having said that, what strikes me is how many fucking rockets he unleashes with seemingly no backlift- all the power of a Supermac strike, and he’s only moving his leg from the knee down. Bloke’s fucking unreal tbh. Edit; it’s been mentioned before on here, but he’s also so laid back when he’s doing all this- barely breaks a sweat. He’s also incredibly patient for a forward, I don’t really recall him showing any kind of frustration, like he knows he’ll get a chance, and when he does, he’ll bury it.

Mine just arrived. Bit disappointed with the taste tbh

“Geoffrey we’ll have to move, there’s (some utter drunken cunts making) too much noise”

I shouldn’t laugh because that kid will never sleep again but what are the odds