The Fish

You want him to stay, how is that pragmatic? The pragmatic position is; Sell ASM for c£40m, use that to bring in players who're more aligned to Eddies way.

Going off Transfermarkt (I know I know)

This is an unacceptable about face from you. You gave me endless shit because of my defence of Robert, Ben Arfa and ASM. Derided as a romantic, mocked as a lover of all things fancy, but now I've accepted that what is best for the club and the player is a change, you're wanting him to stay?! Outrageous.

I accept your retreat and unconditional surrender.

His last 2 seasons at Leicester they were 9th and 12th for Passes per Defensive Action. His last season at Liverpool they were 9th (I can't find stats earlier). So even if he's reaching for a high pressure style, he's failing spectacularly. Go buy some of this while you read this. What you do with this is up to you, realistically you have two choices.

Brendan is not known for pressing. At all. He's known for patient passing, wearing down the opposition until they make a mistake. Pardew had his number a fucking decade ago. Swing and a miss babygirl. That Eddie quote isn't saying he's not for sale, he's saying he's dead good at dribbling, which he is. Also, as an aside, if you've sold anything, ever, you'll know to talk it up and make it seem like you don't actually want to sell it.

Passing and creation stats are terrible. Defensive stats are all right.

You'll make me gluten intolerant.

Kid born in Hexham then moved to Argentina, skip to about 12 minutes.

'stuck in traffic' = set off late because you were proving your dough?

You got a decent pizza dough recipe? (Who was it who didn't like pizza? I bet it was some mockery of a person, some fraction of a man)

Just checked and in the same time period, big spending Man City have spent €2.5bn since 1992. €500m to not only catch a consistently high spending opposition, but overtake them from a position of yoyoing obscurity.

They're a poor impoverished club, battling against the odds to compete with big spending rivals scraping by on - checks notes- € 986,600,000.00 in his Klopp's 8 seasons, on top of €1bn spent since the inception of the Premier League. Also bear in mind, this is nigh on €2bn spent on top of a team that was challenging for the title 18 of the previous 20 seasons and last finished outside the top 8 in 1962. Poor lambs.

Do these fuckers not realise the takeover happened 21 months ago? We're way ahead of schedule, 2-4 seasons ahead of where we likely planned to be. I'm sure they were anticipating a season or two competing in the Europa, maybe a season where we challenge for the top 4. Instead we spent 21/38 game weeks in the top 4. Sure, we were benefiting from other clubs having, by their estimations, poor seasons, coupled with our own rapid improvement. But I don't think anyone was expecting Newcastle to leap from bottom half obscurity to Champions League favourites within such a short span of time.

I think it's a little from column A and a little from column B. One thing is definitely clear, we won't engage in a bidding war. We have our valuation and won't be moved from it. That valuation will 100% be informed by our FFP envelope.

Of all the things I expected for 2023, CT becoming a Cryptobro was definitely in the top 3.

Watched this last night and if his vulnerability encourages more people to talk, then it's a worthy thing. It's disgusting that he's been forced to talk so soon after getting out of rehab, because the fucking gutter press in this country will never have their bloodlust sated. For him to say that he doesn't blame his mother is staggering, I'm not sure if I'd been through the things he has, I'd have anything but anger and resentment towards both her and his father. It shows that the help he got has really helped him. I'm not sure he'll ever reach the heights he seemed destined for, but he spoke so well and so honestly that I'm sure that any mental health organisation will benefit from him advocating for them. Have to say I thought Neville handled it well also, he wasn't probing for scandal too much, allowed Dele time to speak and appeared to genuinely empathise with him. Perhaps an opening for other sportsmen and women to speak about their own troubles?

I also have a wife. She's real and everything.

Lancashire? I live in Cheshire. I think the tea of choice here is prosecco.

Remember when Edwards said our Summer budget would be £90m. It was £160m Or when he said there was no chance of the takeover in 2021, just 80 days before it did.

I think my Mrs would file for divorce if I brought that home. She doesn't even drink tea.

Dummett just signed a new deal. Funny isn't it, when the Saudi teams were bought by PIF it was sure that Newcastle would sell all their dross for huge fees and so far, it's Chelsea that've benefited most.

So, we all packing this silly nonsense in? I mean, after this heartbreaking and up til now unknown fixture, the whole renaissance of NUFC is worthless, right?