Kid Dynamite

I'd have gladly sold Lascelles for the last 4 seasons. He's been half decent for us this year though and has earned a new contract as our 3rd choice CB imo. I wouldn't blame him for leaving though.

That's as close to a "yes" as you will get from Eddie.

Almiron would have cut back and passed it to the half way line

As much as Hall has turned out to be the worst signing of the lot, I can see the thinking behind it. He looked good at Chelsea and we need a long term successor at LB. CB and CF might have been better positions to cover though

Hindsight is wonderful, but I do question the wisdom in spending £100mil of our FFP wiggle room on Barnes and Tonali. We already had Gordon on the LW (with Isak/Anderson too) and CM was one of our better covered areas.

Bench consists of 4 full backs, 1 keeper, 3 kids and Matt Ritchie. I know we have injuries but we really have no squad depth at CB or CF.

No Lascelles either.

Pritchard was the only player against us who looked half competent

What's the point in spending £400mil and smashing PSG in the champions league if our expectations can't be lifted?

I hope we win, because going out of the cup and potentially signing no one to plug the Tonali/Joelinton gap is going to make for a hell of an anti-climax to the season

Bookmarked for the inevitable disaster

Jim Radcliffe waved his cheque book at him maybe?

Henderson and Mane gone, VVD and Salah getting on. Maybe he knows the clubs got a massive rebuild coming up and he doesn't want to sully his legacy there. Either that or the tabs have caught up with him

Bentaleb vibes about this one.

Might do thanks. I've got a £300k life insurance policy to cover the term of the mortgage. So if I peg it before 60 the house will be paid off and the family will have a chunk left over. If I die after 60 then they will at least be mortgage free

This is tempting on salary sacrifice. It will hammer my pension, but a brand new, taxed, insured, serviced car with free repairs and breakdown cover for £289pm is hard to beat. Particularly as I get free charging at work (for now)

Well I can't draw my pension until I'm 68. But if I can get the mortgage paid off by 60, and don't have a wedding/university to fund for the bairn, I'm hoping to go part time for the final 8 years. I'm on a career average pension and I should be at the top of a band 8C in a few years so hoping I can afford the pension hit.

Still think selling Bruno would be a mistake, but it would effectively allow us to spend £400mil on transfers this Summer

Looks like Bayern are onto their 3rd choice RB

Im not particularly savvy with pensions. Been paying into my NHS pension for 18 years. Currently get a lease car through work that knocks me into a lower pension bracket. When the lease ends in December I'll be back to paying the best part of £200 more a month in pension contributions. Part of me thinks "get another lease car, you might be dead by 68", where another part of me thinks I'm knacking my final pension.

The possibilities are endless,” one source told i and Newcastle will be one of Adidas’ seven “elite clubs”, joining the likes of Arsenal, Manchester United, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich. Four new kits are in the works, along with a new line of retro wear that will lean heavily on the club’s mid-Nineties “Entertainers” era.

I hope you were a better Sofa salesman than a crypto salesman with patter like that mind

Id be telling him his position is due an upgrade in the Summer, so he's fine to stay, but he will be a squad player next season. May as well take the money and run Miggy!