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Sky Sports / BT Sport will be absolutely unbearable if they win the quad.

Its Spurs. I can see them losing to Burnley.

A long drawn out war is exactly what "the west" wants. As long as Russia don't win. 1) The longer this goes on it weakens Russia. 2) Biden and other governments can pour money into their War Machines (cough financial donors) whilst not risking local troops.

"We're in an emergency with our squad. We can barely compete." Pep Guardiola - March 2023

Just 57m Laporte and 40m Ake at the back for them. Poor Pep!

Ancelotti is a world class coach / man manager. He probably has minimal input on the signings. Give him the players and he will extract the most from them. As a really good manager, he over achieved with that squad by getting them near Europe. Where they are now is more representative of the squad and wasted signings.

FWIW (not a lot), I was personally Abraham joining us in the last 2 summer windows. Reason being, for us in the championship he was wasteful in front of goal. Yes he scored, but he would miss 2/3 very good opportunities a game. In the premier league for us he wouldn't get that many chances. I don't watch much Italian football but it looks like his finishing is getting a lot better. Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but he was a risky proposition at that time, especially as we already has Watkins.

Stockpiling midfielders is his forte. It only worked at Barca because he had the worlds best ever attacking midfielder / winger who happened to score 40/50 goals a season.

Hilarious how Milners tackle for the Liverpool goal was then a good "firm tackle". Mings dares tackle a top 6 sweetheart in Saka and it's a red card!

Man City's league dominance is predicated on them having so much depth enabling them to rotate based on form. End of last season Sterling was awful, therefore 4/5th choice. Silva had little impact therefore was available for sale and barely started. Now Sterling / Silva are the first names on the team sheet. Foden was starboy last spring, now he's. 4/5th choice. Same will apply to Grealish if/when he hits form.

Think it was Greg Evans who said training under DS was moved to a later time just to accommodate Grealish. Some players, are just different and need to be treated differently (Gazza, Merson, Cantona) For all the talk of Fergie and the "hair dryer" treatment in the AF documentary he understood Cantona was a maverick and allowed him to do what he wanted (he'd disappear mid week and be the best player on Saturday). The other players never resented that because he was so good. I think Dean Smith understood that, which is why he got the best out of him. At City he is one of many, he is expendable and will not get that special treatment.

His brother / agent is clearly a moron and very inexperienced. He's been played by Napoli and wasted another 6 months of his brothers career. There's a really good defender there, instead of going for the name of Napoli he should have gone to a Brentford, Norwich, even a Leeds where he would start every game.

Worryingly they've been quite sensible. Targett, Tripper, Burn etc are solid PL players who will see them solidify as a mid-table premier league team this and next season. I was hoping they'd go for the ultra mercenaries such as Bale, Ramsey, Dembele and get relegated with a monstrous wage bill. After a few years of spending, they will eventually get to the FFP ceiling, where they just cant have 6/7 players on 250k+ a week. But i'm sure the Saudi state can ensure players are recompensed via offshore (and un-taxable) ways, untraceable by the PL and UEFA. Obviously the Saudi National bank is represented by PIF.

Can't buy a win? Can't score? Manager about to be sacked? Enter Aston Villa

Game this weekend against us will show what Newcastle are made of. Everton was a massive must win. They are in free fall, inexperienced manager, influential players going off injured, years of bad spending. 15/16 vibes. We are a good team, with a good manager and some very very good players. Let’s see how they get on.

I do find it amusing that their only hope in games are 2/3 “DVBs” that weren’t even good enough for us in the championship. Meanwhile we are signing established French and Brazilian internationals. Deep down you know it really grates them…. hilarious. Mate

Paid 2 million for him. We can quite easily just keep him until his contract runs out when he’s nearly 31. Unless a Man U want to make a ludicrous offer. If he runs it down, he will get a massive payday as his “last contract” and at 31 and we will have had his best years. Either way we win.

An excuse for Fifa to make a couple of thousand for changing his club on an Excel Spreadsheet

Our opinions aren't important. China, Singapore & USA would prefer to watch United. They haven't heard of Luton and Cambridge is just a University to them.

I remember our city dwelling neighbours were so supportive over Villa when we nearly went out of business due to dodgy investment. Therefore HA HA F******* HA. I hope they. end up like Bury.

They are probably earning twice the salary in those 2 and a half years. Newcastle probably have a plan to be stabilised in the PL by end of 2024 (either by building their current squad or relegated and come back). At that point they will really go for it spending wise.

The most impressive thing about his whole video is the save! If Coutinho is even 80% of what he was there, we have a special player.

This is complete groundwork for a summer move. By the summer he should be 10mill cheaper + his legal case will be sorted (1 way or the other).

Levy put himself into a big corner. He's forced to back Conte. He can't sack him. If Conte walks the fans will revolt.

I think the rumours of PL teams not selling to Newcastle might be true. They've obviously got Trippier from Madrid and Wood was a release clause (Burnley can't do anything). Apart from the usual journalistic nonsense, I can't see any substantial deals with PL clubs being completed. Aubemyang is an obvious easy (yet expensive) deal for Newcastle to do, along with Origi but not seen anything about deals or fees being closed to agreed.