2023/24 - Generic NUFC Chat

[Gemmill 34166]

Who's gonna talk him down this time?

[wykikitoon 16496]

Alright alright.  Just seen it 

[ewerk 26173]

 

[wykikitoon 16496]

What was Fun88? £5?

[Monkeys Fist 38559]

54 minutes ago, wykikitoon said:

What was Fun88? £5?

5 Dollah. 
 

Longtime. 

[Meenzer 13967]

1 minute ago, Monkeys Fist said:

5 Dollah. 
 

Longtime. 

 

Lepolted.

 

[Isegrim 8868]

It’s not third party related anyway because Sela are owned by pif …

[Polarboy 2124]

Did someone post about this artwork in another thread? Can't remember which thread it was now. In any case expensive as they are they're well done. Edit: didn't realise it was for two, so it's not that bad I suppose. 

 

 

https://www.etsy.com/ie/listing/1474306456/newcastle-volume-2-no-score-draws-mug?click_key=a9dad785a0d206810c948cc13648064966ccc775%3A1474306456&click_sum=fa101ae4&ref=shop_home_active_1&crt=1

Edited May 24, 2023 by Polarboy

[thebrokendoll 7085]

23 hours ago, Isegrim said:

Pinxos are heaven!

 

did a 3 week tour of northern spain going back a few year in the van, being a tight cunt we wilded for the vast majority of it. anyway.... my birthday fell towards the end of the trip and she said as a present she'd pay for a campsite in nearby hondarribia and we'd get at taxi into san sebastian for a meal/night out. went to probably the busiest and poshest looking pintxos establishment in the old town and loaded me plate a foot high with everything the had squid/octopus/prawns/crab on it and generally looked like it could be expensive while she dutifully waited by the till to pay for it. never seen anybody's face turn so ashen grey so quickly when she was handed the bill for my birthday treat.

stunning food, but fucking extortionate!

 

we wilded and ate sandwiches for the rest of the trip.   

 

 

[Monkeys Fist 38559]

2 hours ago, Polarboy said:

Did someone post about this artwork in another thread? Can't remember which thread it was now. In any case expensive as they are they're well done. Edit: didn't realise it was for two, so it's not that bad I suppose. 

 

 

https://www.etsy.com/ie/listing/1474306456/newcastle-volume-2-no-score-draws-mug?click_key=a9dad785a0d206810c948cc13648064966ccc775%3A1474306456&click_sum=fa101ae4&ref=shop_home_active_1&crt=1

CT has signed Polarboy up to his pyramid scheme then. 

[Alex 30241]

2 hours ago, Polarboy said:

Did someone post about this artwork in another thread? Can't remember which thread it was now. In any case expensive as they are they're well done. Edit: didn't realise it was for two, so it's not that bad I suppose. 

 

 

https://www.etsy.com/ie/listing/1474306456/newcastle-volume-2-no-score-draws-mug?click_key=a9dad785a0d206810c948cc13648064966ccc775%3A1474306456&click_sum=fa101ae4&ref=shop_home_active_1&crt=1

Dan Burn  

[Dr Gloom 19736]

4 hours ago, ewerk said:

 

 

chickenfeed. we really are playing by the rules 

[Rayvin 4949]

Yep, so growth is going to be modest and sustainable. That's always been how it looked tbh so no great surprise. It does mean though that this is less about sportswashing and more about genuine development of an asset - which, again, it always looked more like being.

 

I actually think this could end up looking like a very well backed but ultimately fairly run of the mill takeover - and that the success we gain from it will ultimately be reflective of what this club was always capable of at the upper end of realistic.

[Polarboy 2124]

The thing about the owners essentially sponsoring the club through another business they own, is that as soon as the fair market value for front of shirt advertising goes up they can just renegotiate the contract straight away. It's not as if we'll be in a situation whereby some other business has a contract to advertise with us, for lets say four years, and they refuse to renegotiate how much they're paying until the contract is up. A few more years of success and we can start paying ourselves a figure much closer to what Man City, Man U etc get for their shirt sponsors which is iirc at least double the 25m we're supposedly getting. 

Edited May 24, 2023 by Polarboy

[Polarboy 2124]

 

[RobinRobin 9163]

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[sammynb 2929]

Thank god the gifs are working again!

 

Someone has obviously body snatched Louise Taylor!

 

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How Eddie Howe found the formula to lead Newcastle back into the elite

Louise Taylor

Club has spent wisely not recklessly under new ownership to secure a Champions League return after 20 years’ absence

Gary Neville pointed to the floor. “I really feel Newcastle could go like that,” said the Sky Sports pundit, explaining that fifth place was, almost certainly, the very best Eddie Howe’s side could hope for this season.

It was early March and, if Neville’s comments irritated St James’ Park season-ticket holders, they could at least reflect that he had modified his stance since 2015. “Does any top player now want to go and live in Newcastle?” queried the former Manchester United and England right-back in a newspaper column speculating that England’s north-east was “being eased off football’s map” and heading for “irrelevance”.

Neville had evidently bought into the received wisdom that London’s economic might dictated that, bar a couple of oases in Manchester and Merseyside, the game’s power base was drifting inexorably southwards.

 

If he might have been a little puzzled when, in January 2022, the Brazil midfielder Bruno Guimarães chose Newcastle over Arsenal and told journalists that “we’re going to be a big power in world football”, Neville could not have remotely imagined Howe’s team earning themselves a top-four Premier League place as early as May 2023.

No one expected the game-changing corrective delivered by the purchase of Newcastle in 2021 by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund to kick in quite so quickly. Mike Ashley, the previous unloved and largely disengaged owner, had spent more than a decade trying to sell the club, prompting regular choruses of “it’s too far north” from London-based analysts.

Saudi’s PIF does not make healthy profits from investing in assorted worldwide projects by subscribing to such assumptions. Tellingly, it knew all about 2007 and the decision of their neighbours in the United Arab Emirates to initiate a daily flight between Newcastle and Dubai. At the time countless leading airline executives claimed the city could not sustain the route and it would be a massive loss maker.

Emirates executives preferred to study passenger manifests, detailing the numbers of those flying to the Gulf and beyond from Newcastle via London, Amsterdam and Paris before deciding the demand existed after all. The Emirates Boeing 777 still lands at Newcastle every day, its hold carrying billions of pounds worth of cargo to and from the airport each year and its business class cabin frequently full.

 

After crunching a different set of north-east figures PIF decided that Ashley’s former advisers had been wrong in asserting that the region was not wealthy enough for Newcastle United to develop the sort of commercial revenue streams normally associated with clubs of its size.

This show of faith in an area all too often dismissed, patronised and, above all, underestimated represents a very big reason why criticism of the Saudis invariably receives short shrift on Tyneside.

Newcastle fans accept the Kingdom’s regime has some extremely serious questions to answer about its grisly human rights record but the reality is that most local businesses and politicians are infinitely more interested in the regional economic boost set to be provided by Champions League football than sportswashing.

No one can argue that Newcastle’s new hierarchy – led by the UK-based director and co-owner Amanda Staveley – have not recruited extremely well.

If Staveley’s stellar performance has exposed the misogyny implicit in the words of those who wrote her off as an unqualified piece of window dressing, Howe has offered the critics who suggested he might flounder away from his Bournemouth comfort zone an emphatic answer.

 

Part of the reason why Howe is a leading Premier League manager-of-the-year candidate is that the £250m Newcastle have spent on new players since the takeover has been significantly better invested than the similar sum poured into Tottenham’s squad over an equivalent time span.

If Guimarães (£35m from Lyon), Sven Botman (£35m from Lille), Alexander Isak (£60m from Real Sociedad), Nick Pope (£10m from Burnley) and Dan Burn (£13m from Brighton) have proved shrewd purchases, the £12.5m invested in luring Kieran Trippier from Atlético Madrid has not only furnished Howe with an excellent right-back but the squad with a standard-setting, bar-raising captain.

Howe’s amalgam of emotionally intelligent man-management and high-calibre coaching has not merely elevated Newcastle from relegation-dodgers to Champions League returnees inside a year but transformed one of the division’s slowest, least athletic, sides into high-pressing, high-energy, high-paced crowd pleasers.

Along the way, a manager noted for presiding over a particularly porous defence at Bournemouth has constructed one of England’s meanest rearguards. Perhaps even more startlingly, Howe’s new streetwise streak has imbued Newcastle with a mastery of gamesmanship capable of making Sam Allardyce blush.

Evidently, time spent shadowing Atlético Madrid’s Diego Simeone and that high priest of hard pressing, Rayo Vallecano’s Andoni Iraola, during a post-Bournemouth sabbatical represented time very well spent on Howe’s part.

Could another manager have transformed the quality of Joe Willock’s on-pitch decision making to the point where the former Arsenal midfielder is now close to an England call-up? Might someone else have spotted that Joelinton was more of Patrick Vieira-esque midfielder than a flop of a £40m centre-forward and seen him morph into a top-tier player-of-the-season contender?

Would another coach have ignored widespread theories that Fabian Schär could only operate in a Premier League back three and reinvented the Switzerland international as an exceptional, right-sided, centre-half in a back four? And could anyone else have made Miguel Almirón a goal threat?

The Saudi money has helped but the prize of Champions League qualification at the end of a season originally intended to be all about mid-table consolidation is principally down to Howe confounding the doubters.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/may/23/how-eddie-howe-found-the-formula-to-lead-newcastle-back-into-the-elite-champions-league

 

Got to laugh when MLF LT is rubbing it in Gary Neville's face.

[trophyshy 6432]

Probably been bribed. 

[Alex 30241]

4 hours ago, sammynb said:

Thank god the gifs are working again!

 

Someone has obviously body snatched Louise Taylor!

 

 

Got to laugh when MLF LT is rubbing it in Gary Neville's face.

Still has her trademark excruciating circumlocutions and lack of punctuation throughout. 
Hopefully it was as painful to write as it is to read

She does actually get the area though Tbf and the stuff about local businesses and the Emirates flights etc is spot on. Not to mention the bit about the north east being patronised. Which could just as easily be applied to her colleagues at The Guardian as football pundits elsewhere 

Edited May 25, 2023 by Alex

[Rayvin 4949]

7 minutes ago, Alex said:

Still has her trademark excruciating circumlocutions and lack of punctuation throughout. 
Hopefully it was as painful to write as it is to read

She does actually get the area though Tbf and the stuff about local businesses and the Emirates flights etc is spot on. Not to mention the bit about the north east being patronised. Which could just as easily be applied to her colleagues at The Guardian as football pundits elsewhere 

 

The Guardian is terrible for patronising the North East IMO. Whenever there's any article about anything up here it comes across in that sort of forced 'oh they'll feel really special that we're paying attention to them' sort of way. It's one of the reasons NUFC becoming strong again is so important in some ways - now they have to talk about us on equal terms because we've insisted upon it, it would make them unserious professionals not to do so.

 

I'm not a fan of LT as I actually think her entire role in the Guardian is a personification of that patronising position. She's a weaker journalist who writes pieces of very little substance beyond stating the obvious - but she's from 'up here' and they give her a bit of space to write about us and Sunderland, so that's all ok. We should be grateful.

 

It's the reason I picked up a subscription to the Athletic tbh, at least you feel like the people writing about us in there care about proper analysis of the club.

[Craig 6287]

[ewerk 26173]

They should have had Dan Burn lying on the ground in front of them all from end to end.

[Tom 13807]

Dan Bernabéu more like 

[Dr Gloom 19736]

 

 

some amazing memories in this thread. what a season. 

 

which one was your favourite? you can take your pick of any of miggy's autumn scoring spree. my personal favourite was miggy's goal against villa because i was in the ground celebrating it with my family - joyous.

 

murphy's thundercunt from outside of the area was another highlight. that was the day when the balance of power in the "big six" shifted

 

in terms of individual brilliance, it has to be either miggy's volley, or murphy's tap in after isak dribbled past half the everton team 

[The Fish 8949]

54 minutes ago, Dr Gloom said:

 

 

some amazing memories in this thread. what a season. 

 

which one was your favourite? you can take your pick of any of miggy's autumn scoring spree. my personal favourite was miggy's goal against villa because i was in the ground celebrating it with my family - joyous.

 

murphy's thundercunt from outside of the area was another highlight. that was the day when the balance of power in the "big six" shifted

 

in terms of individual brilliance, it has to be either miggy's volley, or murphy's tap in after isak dribbled past half the everton team 

 

Hard to believe that the Schar thunderbastard against Forest, ASM's against Wolves, or Bruno's header against Brentford were all in this season.