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I wonder if they were in for coutinho? And if so whether it was Stevie that convinced him to choose Villa.

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Why even in the original is he pointing at a sponsor?

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Probably because he was paid to, along with his agent.

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One of the owners showed his :dagger:

A word of advise Eddie. If they invite you to a meeting at the Saudi Embassy, run

They shouldn’t worry their heads about results it’s all about buying players now.

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The owners took their bodyguards into the dressing room with them…! WTF.!

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I think getting knocked off FA Cup is a blessing for them. Their ONLY objective this season is to survive in the Premier League.

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Of course, it’s them who made the job of slaughtering the players.

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Telegraph reporting that a new striker target for Newcastle is Chris Wood.

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They have not updated their version of football manager, have they?

You wonder what players they were mentioning to Trippier?

Unless he just wanted to come back to England, signing of Chris Wood would suggest to me short term which is kind of what they can now do with the money, until Wilson is back for next season.

He doesn’t even suit the way Howe lines up which from watching them hasn’t changed a bit.

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Presumably they wouldn’t want to rely on Wilson next season would they? I thought he misses a lot of games through injury.

Well signing Chris Wood screams Championship to me.

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My guess would be… no players mentioned or maybe something in the lines of: “Kieran you can be the first signing of our new era, you can be our ice breaker, our catalyst for other world class signings…” yada yada bullshit. “Oh and there’s also this lovely jubbly fat paycheck and we promise you a far bigger statue than Citys Kompany & Silva combined”."

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Newcastle’s problems will not solved immediately by signing a couple of players. They should of course sign players to ensure they stay in the league and build on it in the summer. But the young striker Hugo Ekitike they are linked with looks pretty good for a 19 year old. Not lacking in confidence, lanky, likes to run with the ball and has decent pace.

My heart bleeds for them…

So right now we can be fairly sure that Howes tactics will be to get the ball to Trippier on the right wing, who then crosses to Wood to head the ball in the goal.

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