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I'm actually a bit more optimistic than I was then, mainly because of Cole Palmer and the fact that Pochettino knows what he's doing. However I think a top half finish is still a long way off. It's not a top-ten squad.
Fairly meagre pickings tonight, of which magpies v yellow tits may be the best option.
Similarly to my previous post, why are these 17:45 KOs common place now in CL? Didn't it just used to be random Russian games? I thought it might still just be games involving terrorist nation clubs like Ukraine and those with risk of stabbings (Gala/Feyenoord/etc) but Inter-Salzburg yesterday?
I presume it's for TV, and they are of course 18.45 in the land of shit breakfasts, so presumably works for them.
I was sort of going in that direction but Poch finally realised he should be swapping Fernandez and Gallagher's roles around and since then it has been 3 wins and a draw. That and they haven't ever really played too horrendously in any of the games (hence winning every single game on 'XG' this seasonOriginally Posted by niko_cee
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My current theory is that if we’d bought Palmer instead of Havertz then Mahow would be crying into his cornflakes on the daily. Hoping City did us 3 favours in a row would be unlikely but I also assume Arteta takes the bald frauds word as gospel and the way he got pushed out meant that it was never happening.
While I’m sharing theories, annoyingly Dortmund have fucked my Bundesliga is shut hypothesis. They’re so, so much better than Newcastle.
Colep Almer, destined to be referred to by his full name forever.
Aye, really high intensity and quick to turn defence into attack. I can't even be mad.
Dortmunds problem is they're forever in that transition of having sold their best player(s) the summer just gone and need time for the new cash cow to develop their game.
Felt like they were constantly 3 passes away from cutting you open and that they didn't find it even a struggle to get at least 2 of them.
Bamford is finished.
As soon as he got up from the foul and I saw him say he was taking it I knew there was a zero percent chance of it going in.
I would have sooner given it to Meslier to take mate.
Tonali banned til next August.
Out of the Euros next year.
Rofl. There has got to have been a clause in the contract with Milan that covers this sort of stuff, not that it'll help on the pitch mind.
I found it incredible he was playing last night and the game at the weekend.
Presumably Milan knew of the shenanigans.
In other Newcastle-are-shit news, the uselessness of them and others is threatening to cost us the 5th Champions League place (you need to be top two leagues previous season to get it). Currently trailing Spain, Italy and Holland.
So essentially everyone that isn't Arsenal, Liverpool or Man City needs to cheer the English lads on for a deep run in their respective European competition now?
English teams will be in the finals of both of the lower competitions and City are guaranteed another semi final at least. They’ll be fine.
Travesty of a goal allowed against us.
Onana trying to make things okay is even better. Not in this day and age son
He might get away with it if he says the other one was for Maguire.
Chambers getting his full debut tonight. I'm hoping this is a Trent style debut out of necessity that leads to a good young player coming through..
Tsimikas is okay but that's exactly all he is.
Every time Tsimikas does something good it looks like a total fluke.
I'm a twit
The lad also looks completely fucked after about 5 mins of a game.
10 months for a shit addiction.
I'd have a clause for this kinda stuff in every dealing I had with an Italian club if I was a DoF
Considering it would have been completely legal for Tonali to bet while he was playing for Milan but he chose to use an illegal overseas bookie instead I'm going to presume that they didn't know.
Kelleher not covering himself in glory there.
Kelleher has been absolute shite for a while now.
Clearly content to get fat as a never needed back-up, which is a bit of a shame.
Watching Brighton v Ajax. The former are really toothless and the latter are a pub side. It's like watching one of those dire Wembley games when England play Lithuania and struggle to break them down.
Finally they take the lead after a glorious 100-pass move. Ajax have no right to playing at this level. League One standard at best.
They're in the relegation zone in Holland and just sacked their manager. Properly dire these days.
Mac Allister ain't getting back in to our starting XI as anything other than as the holder ahead of this beast.
I'm watching him and wondering what the fuck Bayern were doing not playing him.
Egghead had him for a few seasons too
What an incredible assist from Nunez to Gravenberch though.
Watching the highlights from last night, what on earth was Kelleher doing? The striker runs from outside the box and by the time he reaches about 12yrds out, Kelleher still in his 6yr box and essentially hasn't narrowed the angle at all.
Gravenberch looked decent.
They gave us £15m for Akpom, realised he isn't actually all that and was mainly just a by-product of Carrick's system, and have preceded to name him on the bench every game.
I was quite taken aback by how horrifyingly weak they were. They played like San Marino just turning up hoping to keep the score down.
They're at PSV on Sunday, who have won every game so far this season. Unfortunately the handicap market is not good value.
Tonali in the Newcastle squad for tomorrow's game. Is this a last hurrah before FIFA ratify the ban, or is he just banned in Italy?
The thing I saw suggested it's just that the ban isn't in place here yet.
I'm concerned justice will be served, despite the presence of Italians and any potential bribery.
It's just been sent worldwide. Hes going to need a new hobby for 10 months.
Not if we can cleverly disguise him as Toni Longstaff.
It felt a bit misguided for Newcastle to be even considering him on what could only have ever been a technicality.
Football managers don't even think like that nowadays I don't think, they're just in a bubble of 'the group'. See also Greenwood etc.
It's yet another my team = ok, other team = bad. If Klopp or whoever is managing Man Utd these days did it then would be a different story. No matter what the original story was.
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