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    Generic small time football blather thread FOREVER

    in Newcastle Forum

    Posted

    The Thomas Partey case really makes me wonder what's fair. Should we keep the player out of jail while he's being investigated or rely on the presumption of innocence while a trial is underway?

    The reality is that Thomas Partey was arrested by the police and spent several days in jail in 2023, which meant he couldn't travel with the team for preseason training in Germany.

    Back then, the press had already leaked a case of rape involving a player from a London team. It was never mentioned publicly, but the Telegraph did say he was an Arsenal player, so everyone knew it was him.

    While he was in jail to testify, another case involving another woman was added to the mix.

    Later, I remember that videos of him admitting to one of the women what he had done and threatening her were leaked. (For me, at that point, even if the court says otherwise or one of the women drops the charges because they reach a settlement, it's already clear that Thomas is a bad person, and from that moment on, he has my animosity.)

    The Telegraph has been reporting more or less regularly on the progress of the case, that in the summer of 2024, Thomas was taken back to the police station because a third woman had reported him, and in January, it was stated that a warrant was already being issued against him and that he would have to testify and face trial in the coming months.

    So, Arsenal's position strikes me as unacceptable, cowardly, and groveling. "Thomas is no longer a player for this club, and we cannot comment on that." No. Thomas was a player for your club while he committed those acts. Thomas was arrested twice for those acts while he was a player for your club. And you tried to renew Thomas's contract knowing what was going to happen. That he was going to face trial for raping three women.

    Surely, moreover, the one who has not wanted to renew the contract has been Thomas himself, because if he ends up being found guilty, he will run away from England looking for a country where they cannot touch him (Saudi Arabia) and where he can continue playing football for several years, earning a lot of money and improving his image until what he has done is forgotten and expires.

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    Transfers, 2024-25 season

    in Newcastle Forum

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    I think Nottingham Forest has no intention of selling and, on the contrary, will want to sign more players and strengthen their squad to try to finish in the Top 6.

    Elanga, at least statistically, is their best player or the most decisive.

    I don't know if they have to comply with Fair Play and get rid of any players to do so, but knowing their owner, they'd certainly go all the way to avoid having to sell, risking future sanctions.

    Yesterday, during the Club World Cup, they were saying they've signed three Botafogo players for less than 40 million euros.

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    Transfers, 2024-25 season

    in Newcastle Forum

    Posted

    14 hours ago, Isegrim said:

    Two weeks ago they said he does want to play for Espanyol‘s local rival. Shows how much you can trust the myriad of daily misinformed.

     

    I don’t care about all those rumours anymore tbh. The last couple of the seasons have shown how difficult it is to be successful in the transfer market. Fair play if we manage to make some extraordinary signings otherwise it will be down to Howe making the best out of whatever is to his disposal. It’s far more important to have a great manager than relying on expensive mercenaries.

    It was actually the player himself who "proved" he didn't want to play for rival Barcelona, because when the rumor linking him to Barcelona broke, he posted a photo on social media of himself kissing the RCD Espanyol crest with the message "Don't believe the lies" or something like that.

    But yes. I'll also tell you that things in the market change very quickly. I've been in contact with people who work in Atleti's sporting department, and I know of many signings that, even though they were already signed, didn't end up happening.

    2025/26 - Generic NUFC Chat. Cunts ☑️

    in Newcastle Forum

    Posted

    I don't think I've ever mentioned this here. When I was at St. James's Park years ago (Newcastle-Norwich in 2018), I was walking around the stadium before going in to watch the game and ran into a woman handing out newspapers/magazines at the door advertising a betting shop. I don't remember which one.

     

    The woman was surprised to see that my cousin and I didn't speak Geordie and that we clearly had a strange accent (well, we spoke Spanish to each other). She asked us various questions, and we ended up telling her that we were two kids who had been Atleti fans as kids and that she didn't quite know how we'd ended up being Newcastle fans from afar.

     

    I think the woman, who seemed to have a poor understanding of football-related concepts, understood that my cousin and I were Atleti players who had come as fans to watch a Newcastle game. He even asked us for a photo, and when he said goodbye, he told us it would be published in that magazine/newspaper.

    I was always curious to know if I'd ever be on the cover of a local newspaper. Hahaha.

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    Transfers, 2024-25 season

    in Newcastle Forum

    Posted

    In Spain, a source very reliable from RCD Espanyol says GK Joan Garcia is going to Newcastle for 25M€, I haven't seen much of Joan García, but from what people are saying about him, he should be the next goalkeeper for the Spanish national team, and everyone says there are a lot of big teams after him.

     

    It could be very interesting to sign him and leave him on loan for a year at his original club while giving Pope another year.

     

     

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    2025/26 - Generic NUFC Chat. Cunts ☑️

    in Newcastle Forum

    Posted

    I'm pretty traditional about this. I grew up with the current crest. It's the one I like and it represents me. I wish they wouldn't change it, but I understand how this works. And how changing times work.

    It's difficult for certain IT places to integrate the current crest because it has too many details.

    That said, it's funny to see how most teams now have very simple round crests... That look similar to our crest from 1976-1983.

     

    P.S.: Atlético de Madrid changed their crest in 2017 (the owners never asked the members)... But people never accepted it. They fought to get it back, and based on the rejection and the drop in sales because no one was buying anything with the new crest, they had to go back to the old one this year.

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    Transfers, 2024-25 season

    in Newcastle Forum

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    6 hours ago, Toonpack said:

    Antonio Cordero (per a here we go from Romano) 18yr old winger from Malaga (Real and Barca were knocked back allegedly).

     

    @Diego21 Any view on the kid.

    I have to admit this is the first time I've heard of this guy.

     

    I don't want to say anything bad about him, but I don't follow the Spanish Second Division at all.

     

    I see he's a Spanish U19 international, that he's 18 years old, and that he doesn't have bad stats for a winger (6 goals and 5 assists in 1,600 minutes).

     

    If it's free... Welcome. He gives Ayoze vibes.

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    Transfers, 2024-25 season

    in Newcastle Forum

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    Alex Baena is an absolute scandal of a player.

    He is not a typical left winger. He plays in the middle. In fact, in games, he tends to play more on the right and plays better there. He would never be competition for Gordon, but rather for Joelinton or even Tonali.

    (In fact, I'm sure that if we had Baena in this team, the one who wouldn't play would be Murphy and we would have 4 players in the middle)

    There are few players in the world with his quality to make passes into space.

    Here are Baena's statistics in the two (and a half) years he has been playing in the First Division (he is only 23 years old).

    PS: The only thing I don't like about Baena is that he is a bit 'dumb'.
    PS2: If the source is Fichajes.net, then it is a fake rumor.

     

     

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    Transfers, 2024-25 season

    in Newcastle Forum

    Posted · Edited by Diego21

    There's no point in having Kelly in the squad. It had him while Botman was injured (and Lascelles).

    A left-footed centre-back can only play on the left side of the centre-backs. We have Burn, Kelly and now Botman. We have to get rid of one.

    If we want a fifth centre-back (which we could say, when Lascelles is there, that could be Kratfh) it should be a right-footed one.

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    Sandro Tonali

    in Newcastle Forum

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    On 12/31/2024 at 1:51 PM, PaddockLad said:

    I wasn’t the only one as this thread suggests. He wasn’t blending at the time and I thought at times he looked a bit disinterested. The solution is brilliant and has been key to the huge upturn in form over the last month. He’s now the player his flashes of skill suggested he would be. “Never in doubt” :D 

    If it's any consolation, I think I was a little hesitant about the signings of Gordon and Isak.

    (I will never admit to having said this.)

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    Transfers, 2024-25 season

    in Newcastle Forum

    Posted

    1 hour ago, RobElliott said:

    Reading the article on the BBC about who is on a free this summer...

     

    I think we should definitely go in for Amad Diallo, just for the lols and subsequent meltdown on Ready to Groom :D 

    I did this two hours ago.

     

    Players who ending contract un June.

     

    There are some like Son or Diallo who will renew because club has 1 year option and thera are others like Mendy or Anguissa that it's not clear if they renewed their contracts or no in the past. 

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