**** me, I'm unhappy with Howe and the transfer activity, and I'm just a bed-****ting moaner whose annual financial commitment to Newcastle United is a calandar and the previous seasons away shirt. Too much faith and trust being put in Howe, for my liking. I go back again to the transfer window Nickson had to the transfer window it appears Howe/Ashworth had. We literally marched backwards.
As I've said elsewhere, Ashworth is responsible for u18's to first team and all the structure that surrounds that. He's on the transfer 'team' but he's not solely responsible, I'm sure Staveley or Ghodoussi or Howe confirmed it somewhere. Just looking at it, looking at Howe at Bournemouth, they all look like Howe players. And he's the guy who's more likely to put his faith in Almiron, Murphy, Longstaff, etc. Just listen to how he talks about them. FWIW I think big change is looming, and maybe sooner than we think. Ashworth going will pave the way for a series of changes. I think a continental name will come in, like Michael Zorc, and we'll see a Man City style revamp of the entire leadership over the coming year or two.
Unfortunately any use of your brain is seen by the simple folk as bedwetting, but the proof will come soon and then they'll all realise once again that they were simply unable to figure things out. These are the type of people that would use a home made submarine to go and see the Titanic.
Tonali was an ambitious move, sadly derailed by unforeseeable circumstances. It will hopefully come good long term. Livramento in your own words looks excellent. Hall - sadly it currently seems all the crying Chelsea fans were daft. Barnes... Yeah, I wasn't chuffed either. Especially when Diaby moved for about a Minteh's value more. Though Minteh may prove a good capture in future I suppose. Regarding not signing some of the players that Villa did, for example, I expect they'll be paying higher wages than we do. Or than we did, pre Bruno's new contract. I think we'll eventually overtake most clubs spending in all areas (other than Chelsea, Man City/Utd) when the new sponsorships etc. start to build.
Villa are also a bigger club than Newcastle having won much more trophies including the European Cup not that long ago. Emery is a better manager that more players will want to play for with more connections in different countries. I think it's also important to remember Aston Villa are years ahead of Newcastle in their development of the club post their takeover.
Villa are nowhere near ahead of us post takeover, their commercial income streams are tiny in comparison to our's now. That Grealish transfer falls off the P/L accounts this year. They have some making up to do, granted CL would help them out a lot.
They just sat on their hands for years then ? They've set up network for transfer windows before our takeover even went through just for a start. Their takeover was before Newcastles mate.. their squad is better and they're further into their plan.
They won the European Cup in 1982, this is not recently. They are not years ahead of us, they are clear rivals to us and the fact we are both competing for the CL slots shows that, in particularly the fact we were better than them last year and got 4th ahead of him. They were pretty dire when Emery started, then got much better last season, but still started this season badly being thumped 5-1 for us. They ain't the finished and are our rivals.
Yet their shirt deal with castore is less than ours was, their sleeve sponsor is way less than ours and their front of shirt sponsor is less than our Fun88 one was. they’re manager has been in place less time than ours, they’ve been in pl less time than us and they’ve gone from one disaster to the next till the appointment of Emery. They’ve not qualified for Champions League yet, and we pummelled them last time we played them. For all that people want to big up the signings they’ve made Botman is better than Carlos, Bruno is better than Tielemans, Isak is better than Watkins and Gordon is better than Diaby. If we go deeper into it, trippier is better than cash, Joelinton is better than Douglas Louiz, Schar is better than Mings, and Livermento is better than Digne….. so they haven’t got a better squad.
It's recently in comparison to 1969 and they are years ahead in their plan because well their plan started years before ours. The result in a football match is irrelevant to a when a business plan started.
All this is irrelevant as to how far ahead in their business plan is mate. If a company starts a plan years before another then they're ahead in their plan. Results on the pitch or actually not relevant either, but right now they're doing better than Newcastle at that aswel.
Yes it's still 41 years ago, in comparison to the dinosaurs that's "not long ago" but in normality it's ****ing donkeys years, their crappy rivals Birmingham have won silverware more recently than theirs. If their plan started before us, then they're significantly behind us with progress, as we got Champions League last year and they didn't.
I hate to have to correct you but that's not true. Business plans change accordingly and regularly. A change of manager, backroom staff, recruitment staff would trigger a huge change to a business plan. They've done this multiple times now. They have a smaller ground than us, smaller commercial deals than us and don't play on telly as much as us. They've not played in champions league and probably won't qualify this year either. Their squad is currently behind ours in terms of quality but this is my opinion and no doubt debateable. Only thing they are ahead of us in currently is the premier league and that could change rapidly.
They might change but that doesn't correct me because I never said otherwise. The size of the ground is irrelevant, size of commercial deals in comparison to ours is also irrelevant as to where they are in terms of their plan. I agree we can have opinions of who's squad is better, but the evidence right now indicates I have good reason to say Villa's is.
Aston Villa have a far richer history of success and 1982 is far less embarrassing than 1969. I don't know what the problem is, but if you’re going to try and make a case Newcastle is a bigger club then you're way off. Newcastle really is only the 9th most successful English club and haven't won a domestic trophy for 68 years..nobody outside Newcastle would even attempt to argue Newcastle are a bigger club than Villa.
