I beg to differ on this for me it goes on how well the club thinks they can be replaced. I think we would have reacted differently if it was Alexis or Grav wanting to move on.
I don’t think Howe has handled it badly at all. He is in a thankless position. He is trying to exert leadership and authority, while keeping the door ajar in case there’s a way back for the player, while placating fans and trying to massage their expectations along the way, all against a backdrop of working for owners who at this stage are pretty vacant - no DOF, no CEO, and as far as we can tell, no vision for what they are going to do at NUFC.
We skit about the nephew thing and so on, as we are fans of another club and they are a shambles. But I’m as certain as can be that Eddie Howe would love it if his owners delivered a structure around him comparable to what Slot enjoys.
The longer it has gone on the clearer Eddie Howe has become. It is very clear that the manager wants to now close the chapter on Isak and move on, reinvest, get his team and squad together, and go again.
We can’t possibly know the details, but it very much looks to me as though the owners have reluctantly come around to this viewpoint too, but with more of a vindictive streak i.e. slow walk the whole thing, so as to spoil Isak’s start to the season, and disrupt Liverpool’s team building and ability to integrate a top player in a timely fashion for the start of the season with some pre-season training behind him. Newcastle are playing the spoiler role to a tee.
In the power balance, it is probably the last card they have to play, so it is what it is.
I fully expect Isak to be signed, late in the window, and we won’t see him play until after the international break. He will have a learning curve, and will need to get match fit, same as all players, so he might come off the bench a few times as he gets up to speed.
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Howe has been very honest and respectful frankly. Not sure what the club higher up is like, but seems to be run very poorly.
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Probably, but its all related. Diaz’s age, waning contract, and our self-imposed limits on what we were willing to offer to extend that meant we were as much in “what’s next” mode as he was making it a relatively easy response to his request.
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So what i said.
They had tremendous turn over. It is not surprising there is some executive level difficulty. For as loathed as she is for her efforts in bringing middle eastern sports washing into british football (involved in the City take over and was also driving DIC’s attempted purchase of us back in the day), Staveley and her husband are well respected operators. She was responsible for bringing in Ashworth and collectively they had Newcastle moving forward quite impressively. Within the last 12 months or so not only have all 3 of them left Newcastle, but their replacements have also already all left
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Is it just me, or is anyone else also wondering how Eddie has gone from
to
The PL head coach job must be really taxing… 
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Will definitely make potential star think twice and/or add clauses to contract.
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Should have got Now Tv or a fire stick……after all he’s on strike can’t afford much.
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I read something yesterday that the news of him moving out of his house is not a new development. It was reported that it was a rental with a lease that ran until the end of July and he long ago agreed to not renew bolstering the idea that there were relatively long standing plans of leaving Newcastle this summer
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That’s very convincing. I could never have made up a story with so much insider detail.
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It feels like we’re in the territory of schoolyard gossip now:
‘Did you hear? Mr Jones gave Liam detention for blowing his nose on Tracy’s pencil case!’
‘Yuck! That’s disgusting!’
‘Yeah, and then he sent her a note saying he wanted to kiss her’
‘Mr Jones?’
‘Nah, Liam. Anyway, he’s got bad breath’
‘Who, Liam?’
‘Nah, Mr Jones’
etc etc
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You’re taking the whole transfer business way too seriously. I find it very refreshing this year. Not every rumor has to be presented with serious facts. By the way, we had a lot of fun with Bayern space etc. I’m just going to assume that Indy’s account isn’t English.
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I think this thread turned into comedy central the moment that @SBYM posted the shit and stick childhood memory.
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For a long time Indy was a spoofer. Just a bit of fun.
Somewhere along the way the account started to come out with some solid rumors and info, along with the tittle-tattle of transfer window lightness and fun.
I think the lad who started it sold it, and now there is a proper journalist behind it who is giving some info, along with the accompanying fluff.
Could be miles off, but somewhere along the way Indy has got some things right, and is now also being cited by other proper journalists from time to time.
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Yeah the prevailing rumor was that it was a lad who worked at KFC just spouting off shit. Gained a bit of infamy as a comedy figure during transfer windows, and because of the large following he was able to sell the account to a group of actual sports journos who use it to put out tentative rumors before they’re confirmed. If they come to pass, then he looks a genius, if not, it’s just part of the banter. Kind of genius when you think about it.
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That wasnt a rumour. It was a group of 3 lads at least one of whom worked at KFC (according to him). He gave an interview on Anfield Index some years ago (5 or 6 i think, maybe longer) because he was a liverpool fan . His two mates were a utd fan and an arsenal fan. They had bought it from someone else, a sports bettor i think.
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