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My mate is. He's got a twoskin.

WiFi was pretty patchy during the blitz, in fairness.

Well, yeah. I didn't mean get promoted this season, and I didn't say that. I mean a load of people (including Derby fans) will piss and moan but I think he'll do well with them.

Makes a lot of sense. He's probably got a stockpile of black and white scarfs, so he can flog them on. Plus the Sports Direct HQ is pretty local to Derby and is a not insignificant employer in the area. If he gets them on the cheap (which he is very capable of) then he'll get them promoted.

We all knew that before you started this thread, sweetheart. We know.

Nothing says Billionaire Club Global Domination quite like "we are delighted to announce Eddie Howe as First Team Manager".

Except it is exactly the point of the post. Newcastle are gazillionaires now, so what.... The league gets even more top heavy which probably means that the 35 points becomes 32 in the next five years. The bottom 3 are getting more distant every year. The league is still going to have a Norwich/a Fulham/a Saints/a whoever. Making up the numbers but someone has to. I don't think it means that we can't stay up in a division with a Saudi Newcastle in it. Of course we can. We might go down this season of course, but it won't be because of some Arabs.

Like you say - might not be unseemly but could be a bullshitter. Or someone that is just going leverage their own buy-out by piling the debt back on to us but they own the stadium forever and lease it etc etc etc. It's more likely its just a shit deal for all concerned.

Hasn't been 40 points for something like twenty years, and absolutely nothing to suggest it ever will be again. No idea why people still go on about it.

I know it's all an act, so I will just applaud this as a quintessential example of your forum "character" and its lack of self awareness. Beautifully crafted. Bravo.

I'm still amazed that the Bundesliga has any good players whatsoever. Why aren't they all just playing for the Billionaire teams already?

I'll try and upload some pictures of the famous Derbyshire coastline later on.

This doesn't really make sense. If you're not accepting that Gao appointed decent people like Semmens ("his advisors did") then fair enough Gao has got himself good advisors, so Egg's point still stands. If Semmens was awful you'd be blaming that on Gao without a second thought, so I don't get why you need to distance him from the decision when the guy we have seems pretty good. It's weird you want a Chinese guy to impose more control and set "clear objectives" when from what I can see there is an incredibly clear strategy, Semmens seems completely empowered to activate it. I don't really see how Gao being significantly more visible would be any real benefit vs where we are now. Or, as I suspect, you don't really want "clearer objectives" or "shared interest" whatsoever. You just want us to outbid Villa or Everton for some striker from Belgium. Just say that. You don't want us to be skint anymore. Fine. Just say that.

Well it's all about Villa now: they are the one that have spent a few quid and now have the "platform" to invest and grow and build and next season invest and grow and build and next season invest and grow and build and so on and so on until people realise these clubs don't achieve the thing they think they will at the end of a jolly exciting transfer window, they just finish eighth again. And again. People moaned and moaned like fuck when we didn't "build on" our sixth place finish but I have still yet to see any club our size do any better than we did in terms of "building" on.

Before we got relegated the first time we had 25 odd consecutive seasons in the top flight, and by your metric we had "fuck all to show for" that as well. Without saying the word Leicester, can you give us some other clubs that have lots and lots to "show for" in the last decade or so? Birmingham City won the League Cup i guess. Wigan. You tell me.

Lovely sentiment here from our Arabic cousins. Hit the translate button.

They'll go out and get a top class elite manager like the boss of Barcelona or something.

Only on this bloody forum would people try and argue that Southampton is a bigger city than Newcastle. I mean, honestly.

Leibherr wouldn't be bankrolling us to compete with Abu Dhabi or the Saudis though. We'd be better off than we are now but not by loads. We'd still be trying to break even/live within means/etc. The main difference between us and say Leicester is not really over-and-above massive bankrolling, its been the right choices in player/manager recruitment, and pretty smart reinvestment of incoming fees.

One can only imagine how much development is going to be happening across Newcastle Marina in the coming years.

You enjoy the season, sweetheart.

Well, we will see. Obviously. But the point is that there is in our own (incredibly recent) history and in the other teams that have stayed up in recent seasons that you don't necessarily need a star striker, or even that many goals. That season with Austin and Co "others" didn't score. Hardly any fucker scored. It's quite a low bar. We still need to clear it but it is low.

Tadic 6, Gabbiadini 5 and no one else more than 3. Raining in they were.

Last season you can look at Brighton (Maupay 8 ) or Burnley (Wood got a few but the entire team scored only 33). Loads of teams with no-Danny-Ings can and do stay up. So it can be done, and we hope that Armstrong and Adams can get 20 between them

Baffles me why anyone is even bothering to rise to his pointless baiting.