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I think Rodgers or Stevie would tell you their idea on trajectory
Sam Allardyce is out of work
Tell you this. I would love it if they got relegated. Love it.
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To who?
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I love the confidence with which my phone will step in retrospectively to change a word I typed to one it thinks more appropriate.
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Would love to see some top talent (especially managers) turn their nose up at the MBS-funded barcodes.
Think he would immediately announce his retirement instead.
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Even if heâs offered unlimited crates of RibenaâŚfor life?
I would hope with the money heâs been earning across his career heâd be set for Ribena for life anywayâŚ
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With oil money, he could fill his swimming pool with Ribena. 
For me it would be like an old friend youâve grown distant from. There isnât a conscious decision of saying fuck that, you just start doing things without them and occasionally think itâs been a while since you hung out. Because of your history together you occasionally make time to see them, but when you do it just isnt the same and in time you find it difficult to justify.
This decision did not happen in isolation. It was blocked during the period when BeIN Sports, the Qatari owned network that holds the PL rights in most of the middle east, was blocked in Saudi and the Kingdom was doing nothing to clamp down on saudi based illegal streams filling the void. That issue was resolved and all of a sudden then pass the Fit and Proper test.
Fit and proper is solely about profitability for the league, not about ethics or morals.
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Hope they go down which would at least delay their CL ambitions for 2-3 years.
Only bad decisions can stop them imo. Thatâs the reality.
Bad scouting. A sporting director but the wrong ideas. Changing the manager for too often.
Bringing in players who are only interested in the money. Stuff like that.
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Itâs a huge shame theyâve completed this deal before the January window. That gives them an opportunity to address the playing squad if things are getting a bit squeaky.
It could still go off the rails I guess.
Bruce objectivelly gets too much stick for his work at Newcastle, being presented like a second Mike Ashley or something.
When you look at it, his results are pretty much similar to Rafaâs. Under Rafa they finished 10th and 13th. Under Bruce, 13th and 12th. Of course, itâs not the same difficulty, bringing the club from dropping down like Rafa, but Bruce did a solid job so far of keeping them alive and out of real danger.
Not a good start to this season though.
But this doesnât work like a Football Manager game when you set a whole brand new structure of a club in a matter of days/weeks.
If they can start getting some results now, if the players & staff are now even more motivated to do well, it could buy the club some time before they start making some bigger decisions and changes.
It very much depends whatâs out there, who is even willing to come (regardless of their possible ceiling under these new owners) and what are their first moves.
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Can easily happen, surprised City havenât had a few years of furlough.
A lot can happen in the next 5 years so we will see. I canât see FSG sitting it out much longer to be fair.
As for Milner his comment probably got him a years supply of Ribenea
One thing to be wary of is that you have 30 players in that Newcastle squad who probably have about a 10 week window to step their shit up and prove they can be useful there for the short to medium term at least.
If they get the transfer window right they can still get Europa next year I reckon.
Would have to go extremely right for them.
In Germany clubs with big companies behind them like Leverkusen (Bayer), Wolfsburg (Volkswagen) or billionaires behind them like Hoffenheim (Hopp - founder of SAP), Leipzig (Mateschitz - Red Bull) usually get a hostile reception in away games.
For Newcastle protests by other clubs fans should be more hostline than anywhere else but I think the fan culture in England is different.
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