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With them having champions league football next season, something must be really ‘off ‘. We all know players talk to people from other clubs, but with the amount of knock backs they are getting no one is going to touch them with a barge pole. Well maybe Rodwell.

I would imagine the Isak situation is playing a big part. The owners have all the money in the world but simply don't know how to run a football club.

If I was a player thinking about joining Newcastle, sat watching them do everything in their power to deny Isak his dream move, I'd be thinking "nah **** that".

Compare that to how we handled Clarke and Jobe, it's night and day. It's no wonder we have signed numerous players "above our station", whilst players who should jump at the chance to compete at the top of Premier League and play in the CL are turning them down...
 
You can't imagine KLD sitting there thinking 'I must remember not to be too disappointed if we're terrible, in the PL, and go down'.

He's totally concentrated on making the club a success, it's fascinating to watch.

Exactly where I sit.

It's not like he's off on a yacht somewhere, and all the others have scarpered off to Centre Parcs for a nice summer seven day break.

I'm just enjoying watching anarl. I'm not used to a concerted and ambitious effort like this. Quite something really, and I am not getting even a bit sick of it.

Same as when we play. I can do bollocks all about anything, so watch and just shout and support. It is a monumental task to stay in the league now. But we are having a proper go.

It was the same when we are playing Morecambe and the rest. Just shout and support.
 
I would imagine the Isak situation is playing a big part. The owners have all the money in the world but simply don't know how to run a football club.

If I was a player thinking about joining Newcastle, sat watching them do everything in their power to deny Isak his dream move, I'd be thinking "nah **** that".

Compare that to how we handled Clarke and Jobe, it's night and day. It's no wonder we have signed numerous players "above our station", whilst players who should jump at the chance to compete at the top of Premier League and play in the CL are turning them down...
Yeah you simply have to be willing to sell players, even if it hurts. They are either unwilling to sell or are just bad at it, which is a big reason they have so many PSR problems.
 
Funny, yes. But it bears remembering that this will be our exact fate in the coming years, as we progress. Theres a glass ceiling to all this that the big boys will simply never let us break through. Then the laugh will be on us.

If we ever get that far there will be no joke on us at all

We'll lose out on players, and some will leave. The world has never turned any other way.


But we have not ceded the core of our souls to an islamic dictator's whim. Nor do we think we are the biggest club in the world.
 
If we ever get that fare there will be no joke on us at all

We'll lose out on players, and some will leave. The world has never turned any other way.


But we have not ceded the core of our souls to an islamic dictator's whim. Nor do we think we are the biggest club in the world.

I've noticed some club’s supporters trying to tempt us into making claims about a top 10 finish, etc …

… I think we all simply want to stay up, play some good football and score some nice goals.

Having said that, I honestly think the club’s ambitions are higher than ours.
 
Funny, yes. But it bears remembering that this will be our exact fate in the coming years, as we progress. Theres a glass ceiling to all this that the big boys will simply never let us break through. Then the laugh will be on us.
See I honestly don't think there is a ceiling, the people who run the clubs trying to break through right now are just a bit thick.

Take the mags for example, they don't have a training ground sponsor or a training kit sponsor (easy PSR wins), they are unwilling to sell players and have a manager and his nephew running the transfers. Champions League ambitions with a League One structure.
 
I've noticed some club’s supporters trying to tempt us into making claims about a top 10 finish, etc …

… I think we all simply want to stay up, play some good football and score some nice goals.

Having said that, I honestly the club’s ambitions are higher than ours.
Realistically, we’re competing in a mini league with the bottom 6. I’d be over the moon to win or be runners up in that league.
 
See I honestly don't think there is a ceiling, the people who run the clubs trying to break through right now are just a bit thick.

Take the mags for example, they don't have a training ground sponsor or a training kit sponsor (easy PSR wins), they are unwilling to sell players and have a manager and his nephew running the transfers. Champions League ambitions with a League One structure.

To be fair they do have Jack Ross <whistle>
 
I've noticed some club’s supporters trying to tempt us into making claims about a top 10 finish, etc …

… I think we all simply want to stay up, play some good football and score some nice goals.

Having said that, I honestly think the club’s ambitions are higher than ours.
There’s a twitter site called deluded world of smb or some such ****e, and he monitors otr for ridiculous claims. There’s a few well dodgy users over there who are obvious mags (or need committing), who keep saying top 6 champions league etc, and he then throws them on there. It really does make us look like self entitled ****ers as a fanbase, bit like the mags actually. I don’t think any real Sunderland supporter this year expects anything other than a fight for 16th or 17th imho.