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Chop chop! Lets all gawp at Newcastle (again)


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Already 12 points ahead of us.

Shows what can happen when you waste 12 months backing the wrong manager.

It's a great example of mentality/confidence in football aswell. Go back three years and they must've hated playing at home given how negative the crowd were to Steve Bruce/Ashley.

Now they simply don't believe they'll ever lose at home again and it's reflected in results, 1 home defeat in about 20 games.

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26 minutes ago, VillaChris said:

Already 12 points ahead of us.

Shows what can happen when you waste 12 months backing the wrong manager.

It's a great example of mentality/confidence in football aswell. Go back three years and they must've hated playing at home given how negative the crowd were to Steve Bruce/Ashley.

Now they simply don't believe they'll ever lose at home again and it's reflected in results, 1 home defeat in about 20 games.

Such a great post that might get lost in the negativity of todays loss. 
 

Forget the wealth of their owners, in the summer they only signed a few players and the star player (Brazilian boy in midfield, I’m not even going to try and spell his name) wasn’t breathtaking today. 

They have gone from the relagation certainties into a team that look dangerous, So, a couple of shrewd signings aside, the only thing that’s changed is their manager. 
 

Any clearing in the woods that can walk in a straight line on a football pitch is worth a couple of million these days, the bulk of every budget should be spent on the manager. What we are seeing with Newcastle atm is just the difference between a coach (Howe) and a fraud look Bruce

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6 minutes ago, av1 said:

Such a great post that might get lost in the negativity of todays loss. 
 

Forget the wealth of their owners, in the summer they only signed a few players and the star player (Brazilian boy in midfield, I’m not even going to try and spell his name) wasn’t breathtaking today. 

They have gone from the relagation certainties into a team that look dangerous, So, a couple of shrewd signings aside, the only thing that’s changed is their manager. 
 

Any clearing in the woods that can walk in a straight line on a football pitch is worth a couple of million these days, the bulk of every budget should be spent on the manager. What we are seeing with Newcastle atm is just the difference between a coach (Howe) and a fraud look Bruce

They have the highest net spend in the league this year. English international keeper and right back, big money on Guimares, Isak and Botman, decent money on Burn and Targett and then overpaid slightly for Wood but that helped relegate Burnley.

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14 minutes ago, Kuwabatake Sanjuro said:

They have the highest net spend in the league this year. English international keeper and right back, big money on Guimares, Isak and Botman, decent money on Burn and Targett and then overpaid slightly for Wood but that helped relegate Burnley.

We really really need a midfielder like Guimaraes, perfect tempo player for them.

Considering we've spent 200m over last three years it's ridiculous we've never scouted and signed one and just mainly relied on what we had from summer 2019 until Kamara came in the summer.

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1 hour ago, The_Rev said:


There’s a weird narrative that Newcastle haven’t really spent any money.   Eddie Howe has spent nearly a quarter of a billion on players since getting the job. Yes he’s a good coach and they are getting good results, he’s even getting a tune out of guys like Almiron and Joelinton, but it’s probably easier to do that when Sven Botman and Bruno Guimaraes are passing them the ball than it was when Ciaran Clark and Issac Hayden were.  
 

Howe has been smart in that he’s come in and raised the floor rather than the ceiling, but the notion that it’s been done with “a couple of shrewd signings” is laughable.  It’s been with £250m. 

'Plucky Newcastle, those plucky Geordies, 53 years without a trophy, English manager. English striker - they love a Number 9 up there. Showing the league how it's done' - the platitudes are embarassing.

They deserved to win, but the scoreline flattered them today.

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