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I’m going on the assumption that Enzo and maybe a couple other big sales are happening. We’ll have some decent money to spend in that case.

I feel like at this point they don’t have a choice. The supporters are rightly starting to get toxic towards them in the stadium every week. If they continue on with this same shit and fans stop going to the games altogether things will become untenable for them.

With a proper, experienced, quality manager I don’t think it’s possible to be a relegation area team with the talent we have in the squad. I realize they’ve all given up and have thus been dogshit for a while now, but a squad containing the likes of Caicedo, Palmer, Cucu, Estevão, João Pedro etc is t going to be fighting near the bottom of the league under a real manager. Even a struggling Maresca proved that. But if we pull another Potter or Rosenior we’re in deep, DEEP shit for the foreseeable future.

I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say this will be the most consequential summer in our history. If there aren’t massive changes to the model and if they don’t knock it out of the park with the manager they hire then we may never see UCL football again. We will transform into a perennial midtable club.

We are incredibly fortunate that we picked up enough points in the first part of the season because otherwise we’d be down where Spuds are fighting relegation. The players have completely given up and have their heads elsewhere, probably on saving their bodies for the World Cup.

Forest rotates a bunch of their best players. I know it’s with an eye on the Europa League but damn. They're still not safe in the league.

As I’ve said before, Cesc seems like a smart, levelheaded guy. I don’t think he’ll jump at the first offer from a huge club like ourselves yet.

I wonder if the Barco move is still on after Rosenior departed. I’m seeing all the quality PL midfielders being heavily linked with our rivals so Barco remains a great and easy option that allows us to avoid having to compete with the likes of City, Liverpool, and United for others. Seems Wharton is wanted by Liverpool, Elliot Anderson is probably City bound, and United want multiple new CM’s with Tonali looking plausible. Don’t think we can even think of competing for these players in our current state.

Would make sense that he announced his departure well before the season was over if he already had the United job lined up.

Despite how extremely underwhelming they’ve been, I actually don’t think it’ll be difficult to find interested clubs in the likes of Delap and Garnacho. The problem will be getting back what we paid for them. Delap being English and having proven on a smaller stage that he can score goals in the PL I think finding him a destination will be easy. I can already imagine that the usual bunch of Italian clubs will be after Garnacho with their typical cheap ass offers of a loan. It’s still crazy that everyone and their mother knew that Gittens and Garnacho were bang average players and yet these jokers running our club went PURELY with the “data” and analytics instead of the eye test. We paid double for each of them than what they were actually worth and now it’ll likely be impossible to not take huge losses on them. I can foresee something similar happening with some of our unwanted players that did with Jackson where the price we will demand is WAY higher than any club in Europe will be willing to pay.

It would surely be utter malpractice for every club not to have some sort of clause in EVERY player’s contract that allows them to void it if they get popped for PED’s. Especially for ones that cost an absolute fortune in order to protect yourselves from just this sort of situation.

I’m fairly convinced it’ll be Iraola at the moment. It’s the easiest appointment they could probably make because he’ll be free from a club, he’ll be fairly easy to sell to the supporters, and because I don’t know of another big club of our stature that’ll be after him this summer with Carrick seemingly more and more likely to stay at United. With guys like Alonso it will probably be much more of a battle to convince him to come here. Even Cesc who may be smart enough to know that he could get Rosenior’d and make the jump too soon.

Yeah, he has been poor this season as have Newcastle overall. For the sort of money required it would be a massive overpay. But it must be said that if Iraola is our next manager Gordon would probably suit his style like a glove and he’s definitely better than Garnacho or Gittens. Do I want him? No. Would I freak out if he’s a genuine target? Probably not.

Lamps would be the absolute desperation play from the owners. It would essentially be them saying “here is your all time favorite son, please stop hating us!” We’d probably have a nice start to next season where everyone around the club is nice and happy and then collapse again soon because Frank simply isn’t a top manager yet.

Yeah, there isn’t one. Some people might have said Alonso would’ve been had he jumped straight from Leverkusen to here. But the Madrid spell may have knocked him down a peg. Although, the mention of his name seems to have loads of our fans badly wanting him on social media. That may be more down to the quality of the other names, though.