Beaten by Newcastle in the league cup semi-final. Another trophy dream goes to die… 
That said, I’m not happy to see the northern-eastern oil cheaters enjoying success.
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Which north eastern oil cheaters ?
You’ll have to be specific.
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Are Sunderland or Middlesbrough oil cheats? Or the Glasgow teams?
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I dunno. I have less hate for Newcastle than the others, if I’m honest. Their fans always deserved better than Ashley, and it’s not like it’s the fans’ fault they were allowed to be bought by an oil state’s wealth fund.
That, and at least superficially they don’t seem to be engaging in the kind of rampant financial doping that we’ve seen the likes of City, PSG, etc. do. I wouldn’t be upset if Newcastle won a cup or two to give their fans something to cheer about. Howe is a good manager and has them playing well, the final should be a good one.
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I would now it’s against us.
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Well said their fans had to put up with a lot with Ashley in charge
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Potentially, Newcastle can transfer any player of theirs to the Saudi League for insane money and get any player playing in the Saudi leagues to play for them on loan.
At some point, they will do exactly that.
So nope. They are as bad as City , PSG.
The FFP / PSR rules being more strictly implemented probably stopped them spending overtly.
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That’s ok but The Athletic had gone way over the top in their shameless fawning over Sandcastle.
Immortality?? From winning one Carabao cup, the least prestigious of the major trophies???
What would they be if, big if, they were to land the PL or CL? The God of Gods?
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Is shite.
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“two games from immortality”
FFS it’s the Milk Cup
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The article is by George Culkin who is a Newcastle fan
Yep, he can often be seen in the Gallowgate End alongside his brother Macaulay.
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I didn’t read it. Saw the headline and almost puked.
To paraphase JWH, What do you think they’re smoking over there at The Athletic?
I didn’t read it either, just clicked to check the author’s name. It’s somewhat a feature of the Athletic that the contributing journalists are writing for ‘their’ club’s core fanbase, not a wider audience like you see in other media.
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They’re as bad as City for a hypothetical situation you’ve conjured up that hasn’t happened yet?
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Toon-immortality. The last piece of silverware they had was 2017 for the championship, the last Cup was 1955.
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Nothing stopping them from doing more saint maximin transfers. And for higher money too.
And they are allowed to take players from Saudi league on loan.
This is just validating Peaches’ point.
It has been 3 transfer windows since they did the St Maxim deal and haven’t done another one since despite them finding themselves in a situation in the summer where they were forced to sell players they didnt want to to stay in compliance with sustainability regs.
The ownership structure and the existence of the Saudi league creates a massive opportunity for fuckery. But at least as yet they havent gone anywhere near it despite being in a situation when doing so would have eased real burdens.
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They probably are playing the waiting game now.
Eddie Howe’s been doing a good job for them but he’s only going to take them so far.
When they get a more demanding manager , you’ll see that these happening.
I think they’re waiting to see what happens with Man City before putting in major investment.
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