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The added bonus to this is Edwards was backing up his whole point about the budget being low on no new incoming sponsors about 3 hours ago . £8m-£10m is the rumoured amount, keep in mind the Fun88 shirt deal is £6m

Remind me not to invite you round 🙂

"From Smurfland where we belong."

You’re suggesting we sign Jesus and Pope in the same week, to go with Saint Maximan? (Stolen from Twitter 👍)

So Sam Fender’s gone from being a MLF turncoat Sand Dancer to someone from North Shields that we’re about to disown as one of our own due to some scandal that hasn’t happened yet. Have I got that right? That seems to be what they’re saying but I’m just checking I haven’t slipped into some parallel universe

as is this tbf

He needs help

Camp chair and signing autographs. What's not to like about this kid.

It’s also just arguably the logical next step and larger in size than what come before. For absolutely donkeys years football has had wealthy people funding clubs with their own money (wasn’t the Blackburn Rovers side that won the title funded by a trust left by their owner?), Abramovic spent insane money on Chelsea, the Liverpool of the past spent loads taking everyone’s best and their modern day owners have fucking clearly been getting deals with brands they have ties to (New Balance, Standard Chartered, loads of American brands), same with Manchester United and their 40,000 partnered sponsors for everything. I agree it’s a bit sad for the game if you have some romantic view of the past, and think it had been massively competitive but it’s been heading for this type of thing for a long time the only major change is it’s a more definitive line in the sand from the haves to the haves not, and those have nots are beginning to include ones that have for a long time been those miles ahead of everyone. It’s not been as romantic as some people (and journalists) will act tbh. Look at clubs like us under Ashley, any time we had a player do well a rich side just plucked him away like Cabaye to go warm PSG’s bench, or Carroll to sit in the Liverpool physio room. These related party sponsors are just workarounds whereas in the past owners would just directly spend their own money. I’m glad it’s us getting this, but realistically for most football fans this changes fuck all as before the takeovers of us and Man City it’s not like they stood any realistic hope anyway is it?

I dunno, that looks a lot like Jeddah to me.

I don’t think that’s him, mate

There’s no doubt he hears things from someone at the club, the Harrison link is true as Eddie Howe’s nephew has been championing him from when he joined the club, but when he comes out with stuff like “should be quiet” he’s just trying to get a rise out of people tbh. It’s not like people at the club are going to walk about going “ok we got Botman so maybe we will all rest for a few weeks before bothering signing others”, him and the other journalists are also getting far less information with Ashworth in.

I wonder why you'd be re-watching a Dennis Potter play.

Gordon will be a big time flop at a proper club. He’ll even flop at Spurs as well

They're having the big club debate over on Ready To Groom. I only popped in to read the botman fume - his name seems to have mysteriously disappeared from the debate however. Weird because they were elated he was going to Milan. Wooo

He needs to pick one of those names and stick with it

Watching one of them invent some hypothetical scenario, then seeing the rest work themselves in to a frothy mouthed outrage at the horror of it all ( even though it’s never happened), is such a guilty pleasure

Must’ve got the custody letter from his Mrs’ lawyers.

How to say “ I zoomed in on a teenager’s camel toe” without saying “I zoomed in on a teenager’s camel toe”

😂 Fucking hell, he's had a mini breakdown.

Sunlan playas shop at Poundland marra

Nearly a fucking wheelchair, the daft cunt.

The state of Edwards' Twitter right now by the way Even by his standards its spectacular. Apparently people at the club thank him for downplaying expectations of our budget.

Yup, it is how it is, good to see us getting in on it since every other major club is. Also Noon is really an Emaar company which is a Dubai based real estate group. Aye they have significant PIF backing but then so do tons of other companies. I wonder if the outrage will only be reserved for the arabic sounding companies we work with. I like how this comes out of nowhere as well. Hopefully the same thing happens with the shirt sponsor next season, let the self-righteous drown in their own puke AFTER we've signed a filthy 5 year contract.

It's absolutely disgusting that a football club can be sponsored by a company that the owner also owns! SPORTSWASHING!

Thats going to be high noon for the likes of Holt, Delaney, Glendenning et al

I was aware of the the piss poor rates on legal aid work, which, as you state, often works out at less than minimum wage. They’re paid £100 less per day on Legal Aid work than the average day rate of a plumber. Tories are the Anti-Midas, literally everything they touch turns to shit, unless it’s going in their offshore account.

We need to get the Real Sociedad CB Robin Le Normand, so we can form a couple of CB called Botman y Robin.

He's no werepig.

It was Austin Powers.

Pair of absolute mingers.

Looks like the man from Delmonte there.

I've only watched that 150 times so far

And that's a title update

shame we weren't in for jesus, who just signed for arsenal. good signing for them

Aye, but if the wind’s wrong we can smell them, all year round.

OK she's sorted her shit out. Cleft palate though by the looks of it.

ORLY?

The last NUFC thread on SMB maxed out I think so they've started a new one, full of the same wibble about us being murderers, rapists, and paedophiles, us being responsible for 9/11, and Sam Fender something. Perfectly normal. 🤷‍♂️

Aye, someone I know sent me that clip the floppy haired cunt is called Rory he’s a chewwwsea fan that piggy backs off the true Geordie. The times I’ve seen him he’s been fine about us, maybe that’s because TG was around and fwoffeee coffee Rory didn’t have the nads to say anything, or (which imo is the case) he had his knickers in a twist about us - and comically for a chelsea fan in particular the money we have. He bases his entire point that Sunderland are bigger on that they’ve won loads more, saying they were the Bank of England club and won “loads and loads of titles whereas Nooocarrsel won one I fink” dozy cunt, iirc one title is what Chelsea had pre-Abramovic. Fwiw I find the whole “bigger club” nonsense tedious as in reality none of the clubs listed fucking win anything. Everton, Villa, and I guess the mackems (although that nonce is the first one I’ve heard claiming that other than the nonce sympathizers) can all enjoy being definitely much bigger clubs than Newcastle over the next 10+ years, maybe they can make themselves a little cup and give it a cuddle while they watch Dave Winchester, Tom Davies, and whoever the fuck Villa have pretend to play football. Butch as well btw he really nailed his point, well done marra.

thats it