CB Fry

I think its impressive for someone who is just pretending they are injured because they want to leave that they have maintained the pretence throughout the international break. Shows a genuine commitment to the narrative.

Maybe, just maybe, there isn't any takeover talk. Maybe that.

This. West Bromwich is absolutely dreadful.

Like where, because if it is any big UK city there will be a Highfield/Chilworth equivalent. As well as a scuzzy part. The City centre of Southampton is dreadfully nondescript, which is not unique (Peterborough, Leicester, Coventry, Derby and others are similarly bland) but Southampton I'd place in the lower end of the scale. There are loads better.

This doesn't really make sense. All cities have leafy suburbs with big houses, that's not some marvellous thing about Southampton. They generally are on an entrance road to every big city as well, so there will always be a posh bit on at least one of the drive-in main roads to any big city in the UK. It's not some exclusive exciting thing that is special about The Avenue. How about every big city has that? It's also not the point. When people visit other cities, they're not parking up in the posh district and wandering around looking at smart 1930s 5-beds with long drives and big gardens. They're going to the city centre. Which, as has been pointed out, is absolutely fucking appalling. Other cities can also be not great, but for a global cruise destination, Southampton is particularly dreadful. So yes congratulations about, er, Highfield being nice and everything. If you'd got out more you'd find areas like that everywhere.

Might be just me but i don't feel that Sam Johnstone is the kind of player that any club will blow another club out of the water for. Feels fairly plausible that he would come to us (if we stay up, which probably will not be clear in January).

Just think of the Ad Hominem attacks you can get away with now.

Waaaaaaah waaaaaaaaaaaah waaaaaaaaah

I am willing to bet a pound to a pinch of shit that every time someone obliterates GMs bullshit with sourced, validated information he cries off about "ad hominem attacks". Waaah waaaaah waaaaaaaaah they're picking on me waaaaaaah Waaaaaaaaaaah

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.