Luke Edwards
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Northern Football Writer Daily Telegraph. BBC podcaster. Leyton Orient fan. "The most likeable and charismatic (d***head) journalist in the country ” Matt Law
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"I heard you on the radio recently Luke, I thought you were very good actually... it wasn't through choice, I just flicked over and you were on." Newcastle United manager Eddie Howe's review is in. It's as close to a ringing endorsement as I've had so in your face
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My mum collapsed today, broke arm, smacked head on pavement and has probably had a minor stroke. She was with my dad, but a couple saw what happened and rather than wait an hour for ambulance, drove them to hospital and gave them £20 for a taxi home as dad didn’t have his wallet
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One of the best wins of the season. Kieran Trippier holding the ball and smiling while Forest players tried to psyche him out before penalty - and then handing it to a totally chilled Isak to send keeper the wrong way a classic of the genre
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Raheem Sterling was once criticised by some of the biggest hypocritical gobshites in this country because he had a gun tattoo. Nobody can be sure of their motivations but they are all quiet now. England’s best player by some distance, a simply brilliant footballer. The end.
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Looked a red card in real time, looked a red card with slow motion replays and looked a definite red card after half time analysis from Souness. Good old VAR
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Final update this evening. Newcastle are on the brink of becoming one of the most powerful football operations on the planet
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'Premier League lawyers were frantically working to finalise the completion of the takeover on Wednesday night in the hope they would be able to make an official announcement on Thursday.'
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Still trying to ignore facts. Sold Wijnaldum for £25m, Sissoko for £30m and Townsend for £14m. It’s also irrelevant now as have lowest net spend in PL and ended last window more £20m in profit. It’s like a parent saying you can’t have new shoes because I spent £70 two years ago
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Here we go.. enjoy it everyone. Newcastle are not just starting a new era, they are entering a new world
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Huge statement made by
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winning away at Tottenham. The Big Six has become the Big Seven which is everything the European Super League plotters from this country feared! Brilliant job done by Eddie Howe
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Oooohhh look he is claiming he merely made a fool of himself on television for bites with an error strewn, ill informed defence of a business partner that made a mockery of him as a sensible pundit. The classic defence of someone who knows they’ve lost a sensible debate
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I’ll always remember Owen Jones slumped in his chair on night of the 2019 General Election when the Tories won a huge majority unable to explain what had gone wrong. Starmer worked out what went wrong and is trying to do something about it. Owen just shouts stuff.
Keir Starmer is dishonest, unprincipled, uncharismatic and unelectable.
His leadership offers no vision for the country, and his followers are driven entirely by factional spite.
My column on why he has to go - or Tory hegemony will prevail.
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What a picture this is. Just love it so, so much because I hated it every single time I went to an empty stadium to watch a game during lockdown. This is football 🏴❤️
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What a night for Newcastle United. What a night for two Geordies, Dan Burn and Sean Longstaff, scoring in the Champions League. What a night for Miguel Almiron and Fabian Schar who had only known relegation battles before Eddie Howe arrived. What night to be black and white.…
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Newcastle were brilliant today and have now beaten Man City, Man United, Spurs, Arsenal & Chelsea at SJP this season. They have taken 10 points from 12 since international break and suddenly look like favourites in the race for the Europa League.
Anyone who still doubts Howe is…
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Expecting confirmation of Saudi takeover later. Hearing it may be a different looking board to one in place in April 2020 but this is still a Saudi project. Expect slow build up of their control. For now, let’s take a moment not to thank Mike Ashley for last 14 years
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have made a second improved bid for Leicester City’s James Maddison today. Fee is in excess of £45m but payments are staggered. As I’ve said all along, they have been led to believe Maddison wants the move. We shall see. He might also want a new contract!!
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Allan Saint Maximin doesn’t deserve criticism he gets. He is a flair player who makes things happen, a match winner directly and indirectly. Yes he loses ball sometimes and doesn’t always track back but scares the life out of opposition
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are simply better team when he plays
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Newcastle United players and staff cheekily pose for a celebration photo in front of their 6000 fans after straightforward 3-0 victory over Sunderland. Geordie boys taking the piss springs to mind.
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That was a special performance from
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and as good as an occasion as I have covered in my 21 years reporting St James Park. Magnificent on the pitch and in the stands. I hope the club never loses sight of what makes it unique. The synergy between team and fans is so powerful
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If you had been told
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would be crippled by injuries for most of the season, lose star summer signing Tonali for 10 months and still be chasing European football again you’d struggle to believe it was possible back in August. For all the drama, Howe has done another…
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Smashing a “on the rise” Chelsea side at SJP with a right back at left back, a 17-year-old in midfield and so many injuries is yet another sign Eddie Howe is rapidly turning into one of English football’s best managers regardless of nationality
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🚨EXCLUSIVE What a signing this would be and
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are pushing hard to get it done. Fingers crossed…
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Newcastle was audibly and visibly buzzing this evening after the match. Bars and pubs packed, people smiling and laughing. Some a little too drunk, perhaps, but it was good time vibes. It felt alive, confident, outgoing and fun. I remember this feeling when I first moved up here.
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The loan fee Manchester United want for Lingard is one of the most ridiculous things I’ve seen in football. They wouldn’t be able to sell him for that price.
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right not to pay it. Lingard can either accept it and not play regularly or he can try to force his way out
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Manchester United are now understood to be ready to make their move. Things coming to a head.
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feared this was coming for a reason.
Exclusive: Newcastle fear Dan Ashworth could leave for Manchester United
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If it is, as is now expected, Eddie Howe who becomes manager, I hope everyone gets behind him. As with any club
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are at strongest when that happens. He deserves to be backed and supported. Give him the best conditions to succeed and he’s far more likely to do so.
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Told
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second bid for Jesse Lingard could be for a permanent rather than a loan move and the player is keen. Story published on
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@richardajkeys
Yeah and Spurs were already a top five side when he took over and £30m of the money he spent was on Moussa Sissoko, from Newcastle, when they were relegated to the Championship, but nice try Richard
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@piersmorgan
Better get that great big cannon, a weapon of mass destruction in its day, off the Arsenal badge then. How many people have cannons killed. I feel insulted it could be used by a football club named after a munitions dump
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Said it before and I’ll say it again, if Premier League big six want to join a closed shop European super league let them go and immediately ban them from playing in any domestic competitions. If league isn’t recognised by FA, UEFA FIFA, players can’t play international football
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Can’t underestimate how important that win is for
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who have a remarkable ability to shrug off adversity and setbacks. That’s a mentality thing and comes from manager who refuses feel sorry for himself. Anyone who mentions a need for a new manager needs a kick in the shins
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If this is the end of Mike Ashley at
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it is more than a decade overdue. A stubborn, arrogant and spiteful owner who failed to deliver any of the things he promised for the team. A man who admitted he knew nothing about football and still refused to listen to those who did.
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Winless, bottom of the table and Eddie Howe couldn’t organise a defence in November… five months later
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are on 43 points and into the top 10… “it just feels right 🎶🎵🎶🕺🕺
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are close to new signings. I’m not jerking your chain, we all need some patience. Media as well as supporters. But the new players are going to come
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This is some PR team behind him!
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Newcastle heading to Wembley are they aye? Eddie Howe doing what no Newcastle manger has has done for 24 years in his first full season is he? There will be a lot of hate, a lot of jibes, a lot of bitterness so smile and dance! See you in London
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are not in a cup final. They have two tough games against Southampton to navigate and win. Complacency, negligence and arrogance are a dangerous enemy now. Eddie Howe will make that abundantly clear I’m sure
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Joelinton has been
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best player by a mile. Absolutely brilliant as a combative midfielder.
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Found some optimism down the back of the sofa after the decisive and I think very astute move for Chris Wood and I’m going to predict
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also land a centre back before the weekend. Not definite but hearing positive noises from sources (man in the bakery queue was confident)
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Understand
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will soon be announcing an increase in financial investment to support the women’s team in the hope of eventually becoming a WSL club. Big gap to narrow with the leading clubs in the country but a really positive step forward for women’s football in the region
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are a horrible, difficult, really testing team to play against. Showed why they have the best defensive record in the league. The armchair managers will say ASM should have come on earlier and they should have tried to win. Behave. Howe knows what he’s doing, funnily enough
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That’s as tough a defeat as you can imagine for
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. I feel desperately sorry for Kieran Trippier but I know there will be other emotions circulating tonight. Try to resist them. You wanted a club and team that tries. Luck hasn’t been with them all season. Football is cruel.
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That is quite simply a sensational come back from Newcastle United. One of the best I’ve seen. This team never ever gives up and I hope the people who were starting to turn on Eddie Howe at half time are chewing on some humble pie. Injuries continue to blight this season but they…
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Positive early morning vibes before week consumes me in transfer rumours, claim and counter claim, but Kieran Trippier is best full back I’ve seen at
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since.. actually I don’t think I’ve seen better. He is better in air than most CBs. Proper player as people used to say
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I haven’t been hacked. I think the
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#cans
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I have no idea if this is right, but someone I know who knows about these things doesn’t think there is any chance Premier League will have either the appetite or the power to block
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. Which reminds me, must order two crates of wine. Have fallen below 20 in the house
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Wow Joe Willock!! Get the deal bloody signed . Whatever it takes. If
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have anything about them as a football club they have to sign him.
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If Hayden feigned a head injury there… I don’t know. It looked like a head injury and Mike Dean just let them play on. I’ve not seen that before in a PL game. Two players down. Imagine if Newcastle had scored a second and two Liverpool players were lying injured inside pen area
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When everybody else loses their head, Rafa Benitez stays calm. He is the perfect manager for
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and nobody should under estimate what a wonderful job he has done this season.
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I’ve seen some cruel outcomes in football but that’s right up there with the worst. Wouldn’t be a penalty in the Premier League but weight of PSG pressure told I suppose. A valiant, valiant effort from
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who were everything you would want your football team to be tonight.
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chairman Yasir Al-Rumayyan playing to the crowd as part of the half time entertainment. He wasn’t very good at kicking a ball, blaming recent knee surgery. First appearance at a game since Carabao Cup final
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Glad he’s ok and on mend but I don’t care what Boris Johnson is doing in his hospital bed. We have had the worst Coronavirus daily death figures of any country in Europe twice and they don’t include those dying in care homes. This is a national scandal not a triumph of leadership
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Saudi Arabia is a political, military and strategic ally of both UK and USA. Until this changes, no matter how much some would like it to, they will continue to own
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But remember u can support team/club and not leap to defence of Saudi regime every time this is talking point
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Really pleased for Chris Wood, delighted for Joe Willock, brilliant from Trippier. My only gripe - and I will be taking this up with him - is Eddie Howe taking so long to put a coat on when it’s pissing down with rain.
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don’t want him getting ill.
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have played 3 successive away games, including 2 against teams chasing Europe. They had won 5 games in a row. It’s a bad performance and deserved defeat but some people need a reality check like a slap in the face. You can’t win every game or play well every game.
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Longstaff is playing well and regularly, unlike Kalvin Phillips. He is playing in top level club competitions unlike Jordan Henderson: if he’s not on Gareth Southgate’s radar he should be
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Actually, Robson offered Shearer to Liverpool and he didn’t want to leave. I remember it quite vividly as I was in Hong Kong and Bangkok when it was all going on. Robson and Shearer smoothed things out. It wasn’t a great time for all concerned
Not sure you are as loyal to Newcastle as you make out mate. I distinctly remember you being inches away from signing for Liverpool after Sir Bobby Robson put you on the bench. You tried everything to get out.
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Told
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pushing hard for Gallagher on loan from Chelsea after landing Isak from Real Sociedad. I have to be honest I have no idea where this leaves Pedro deal now. Some saying deal remains close, others saying Watford have rejected final bid already this week. We shall see
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Boris Johnson has just been called out as a racist on the Brits by the excellent and extremely talented rapper Dave. Which admittedly doesn't quite transfer into a tweet but booosh.
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Liverpool haven’t been sweeping up virtually every domestic trophy for last few years. They are not richest club in the world, but they are a worthy adversary to one of the best teams we have ever seen in Man City. It’s not healthy for one club to win multiple trophies every year
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What a win for
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that is. So clever from Howe, who fooled Guardiola at the start of the second half with a flick of the switch, from passive to aggressive. Man City didn't know what had hit them.
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I’m torn between wanting Wijnaldum back at
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from PSG or Donny van de Beek from Manchester United. Stick one of them next to big Joe in midfield and that’s that problem solved.
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look jaded after an explosive start. Really don't get why fans are getting on Saint-Maximin's case. A player who has done so much good in the past on his first league start since August is bound to be a little rusty. He needs confidence not moans and groans
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#safc
have offered Roy Keane a chance to return to management after productive talks took place today. He is currently thinking about the offer and will make a decision soon. More to follow on
@TeleFootball
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That was the best performance of the Eddie Howe era at
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So it seems Manchester has turned black and white! United and City dumped out of the Carabao Cup by
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No exaggeration to say, with the team he could name this evening for this win over Man United, this is one of the best collective displays of the Eddie Howe era.
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are closing in on a deal for Reims striker Ekitike. Despite knockback earlier in the window have stayed in touch and could go through today. No chance on Eddie Nketiah, he’s staying at Arsenal. More to follow on
@TeleFootball
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Don’t know about anyone else but the only
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news I want to hear is the takeover has been completed. So much stuff being said about what they plan to do, who they are interested in signing and who the manager might be. Irrelevant until the takeover is complete.
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Whatever your opinion of Steve Bruce, whatever you thought of his appointment last summer and whatever you think should happen to him if a takeover goes through, surely he deserves some praise and respect for the job he has done this season?
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This is the twitter equivalent of ploughing into a brick wall at 70mph. Nobody should survive a crash like this.
Well said
@rioferdy5
👏👏. If Rafa loves Newcastle as he says - spend some of his own money. He’s got enough. Management is about teamwork - why should it always be Ashley? Buy it. It’s still for sale. They’re in the bottom 3 & Rafa is responsible. He picks the team.
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If the UK government consider Saudi Arabia an ally and a friend, why are
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being singled out ahead of a proposed takeover? It is not football's place to condemn people the business world and government have courted for decades.
.
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: It is possible for Newcastle fans to be both excited about a Saudi takeover and concerned about its wider implications
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Chris Hughton sacked for getting Brighton into the Premier League and keeping them there two years because Brighton suddenly think they should be playing a more expansive, attacking style of football. Good luck with that. 🤦🏼♂️
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Wow @
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can I point you in the direction of this article before you try and defend Mike Ashley with poor access to information
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I don’t think anyone should be calling for Benitez to return at
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I think it’s vaguely ludicrous. M Howe has had 10 games and is halfway through his first transfer window having inherited a rubbish team that was drilled to play negative, defensive football by Rafa for so long
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This isn’t true…. ASM hasn’t done this, Howe hasn’t been played..
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They came out of the last transfer window more than £20m in profit. They have the smallest net spend in the Premier League. Nobody is asking for Ashley to put his money in, the club generates money he isn’t spending. He has taken money out this season. You’re welcome btw
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🚨EXCLUSIVE Newcastle making good progress in Joelinton contract talks and Brazil international wants to remain on Tyneside if he moves alongside top earners
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Fee agreed for Brazil international Bruno Guimaraes which is the first time
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have signed a Brazil international since Mirandinha in 1987 ,
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The thing is
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if you were doing your job properly you would be “bothered” because you’ve embarrassed yourself. Awful stance, no research, basic ignorance of facts. Makes you a bad pundit, no matter how hard you try to front this one out with a smug smile
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Diego Carlos is edging closer to a
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move but still not confirmed yet. Told senior club officials have been working round the clock to secure targets and boost squad before Leeds. They have encountered resistance at every turn but 2 players (I can’t get other name) are likely
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A candidate for
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best performance and result of the season as they inflict a first home defeat on Champions League chasing Aston Villa. Tactical masterclass from Howe whose aggregate score against Emery this season is now 8-2.
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haven’t signed CB since 2018. Ashley refused. It’s a Champ defence. Forget Darlow’s strops, he’s not good enough to play ahead of Dubravka. If you play an attacking game defence gets exposed. It’s been this way for more than 4 yrs. It’s going to be very tense till May
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When
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had a successful team under Keegan and Robson this wasn’t a problem. I’ve made city home after coming to university here. The two universities don’t struggle to attract students for a reason. They are also young and enjoy all the same things as footballers. This is 💩
💰 “If you offer someone £40k a week for Newcastle or £30K to play for Brentford, they’d pick Brentford.”
❌ “Because let’s be honest, players don’t want to live in Newcastle…”
Gabby Agbonlahor explains why some players will be reluctant to join
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Watched England at the Euros earlier this evening on
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player. This sort of things simply hasn’t happened for years and years
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This was the angle that clearly shows the shove. I’m not even entirely sure the referee waited to see this shot before ruling out the goal
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Just made the mistake of clicking on this in a packed Villa Park press conference room with my laptop on full volume. Do not do the same!!! 🤬😬😳😳😳
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Allan Saint Maximin has been feeling unwell. So before the rumours of disenchantment and unrest start being spread by fake in the know types, there is nothing more to his absence from midweek game than that. His relationship with club, teammates and manager is very good
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It’s easier not to reply, but I’d love to have a chat on air with both of these two because they are not just insulting a football club they are deriding a city and a region. I’ll be available to do so tomorrow if someone wants to give me a call from TalkSport
🗣️ Danny Murphy: "Newcastle are well-supported but they are NOT a big club."
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@BroadcastMoose
: 'They get 52,000 fans but what else is there to do in Newcastle!?'
It's a question that has been asked over and over again... Are
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If you're wondering why there haven't been more terrorist attacks in 🇬🇧 by Islamic extremists it's because British Muslims help stop them
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Newcastle were 4th bottom before game tonight. It’s not been a good season and nothing celebrate but even most spiteful of critics will surely give Bruce some credit for a run of just two defeats in the last 10 games? Wilson, Willock and ASM have vastly improved the team
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Liverpool have won the Champions League, reached two Champions League finals as well as won the Premier League and domestic cups in the last 6 years. Not a bad ceiling. Newcastle are 6th and haven’t won a trophy since 1969. 🧐
"There's no ceiling for Newcastle. Congratulations. Some other club's have ceilings."
Jurgen Klopp has his say on the financial resources of clubs like Man City and Newcastle
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were excellent tonight. The most compelling evidence yet of what Eddie Howe wants his team to be. They deserved to win but didn’t and that’s the problem. The manager needs the owners to be ready to bring signings in early in January.
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Beth is dealing with so much trauma in her life at the moment that standing on that stage this evening will have taken so much out of her. She is amazing and fully deserves all the accolades she has won this year. Everyone is so proud of you
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