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Seems like he's the perfect professional as well, for someone without any particularly outstanding ability he's a heck of a player.

I actually didn’t mind it, even after Richardsom left - though it was infinitely better with him there - to me it's hilarious how rattled by Newcastle they were before any of this. They basically intentionally neglect to talk about Newcastle and try to pass it off as some sort of running joke. It's going to be so much harder for them to even attempt it in the future.

This years FIFA is good.

The truth is this takeover is great news for Sunderland given the investment in the area. They just have to give up any scintilla of hope that they'll ever be anywhere near our level ever again.

If you come after the big dog you better make sure you don't miss, wait, I think there's supposed to be something about a king in there.

Glad you didn't post the full length photo where you can see he's pulling his strides down taking a nervous shit.

There was some Spurs numpty that hung around for a fair while as well - Danny? Something like that.

I'd love there to be a behind the scenes show where Bruce and Carver manage a football team. It'd only need a couple of episodes but it could easily become a genre defining tragicomedy.

The concept of sportswashing is fallacious. Noone with a shred of intelligence changes their opinion on unrelated matters based on the ownership of a sporting team or the hosting of a sporting event. There's multiple teams with owners who face more scrutinty and derision due to sport bringing them more into the public view. It's a bit like when a prick offers to buy you a drink, you happily accept the drink but don't change your opinion of them as a result.

You're not. The Premier League sanctioned the deal, so if Newcastle supporters are expected to abandon support of the club then anyone that supports a premier league team should be expected to do the same. But the reality is there's no legitimate culpability on the fans, anyone suggesting there is is just a bitter Barry.

One of the upgrades to our training facility needs to be a Cautionary Tale / Reality Check room where players and staff are sent to gain perspective on where they are and where we've been if they step out of line. This picture should be on the door.

From one Conte to another.

What does Allardyce have to do with it?

It's mental how much of a shift - we've gone from scraping our way out of one relegation battle, feeling destined for another, to wondering which world class manager will replace Steve Bruce.

I'm sure Mike will appreciate getting the bill for them.

It sure felt like forever.

Yeah but he hasn't done it his way just yet.

This is the right answer.

The next person that suggests that you should stop supporting the club because of who our owners are suggest that they should also stop supporting their premier league team because unlike us supporters the premier league approved and facilitated the sale and being in the premier league is now tarnished.

Looking forward to us getting 3 penalties a game.

I know this is a very obscure and contradictory position but, setting aside the 14 years of suffering, has Mike Ashley somehow become the essential conduit to the good times of ambition and competing at the highest level that we finally seem to be on the path towards?

Continue the legacy of human rights violations.

That's not really a problem anymore though is it? Plus if you actually go after players based on who you really want as opposed to who's available at your price point you have always paid a premium. That said it will be nice if/when we reach the tipping point where our profile and standing makes us more appealing to the best players without it having to be entirely about money.

How long before they pay out Fun888 and replace them with the new SA based sponsor? Maybe once they have their new Airline a little further along the line.

And we no longer have to consider it in terms of Mike Ashley values, where you have to take into account, wages, bonuses, agent fees, sign-on bonuses, future costs, past costs, power bills, bore hole costs and library fees as part of the transfer budget AKA 'warchest'.