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Just reading that apparently Bola is now injured - just leaves Bamba and McNair! Also Sporar has an achilles problem but Payero, Hernadez and Siliki h...
Just to Add, that £480 would give an annual wage bill for a squad of 25 of around £600,000 - which is more or less what Ashley Fletcher was costing th...
@ken Using this Bank of England historic inflation calculator it shows that a wage of £12 per week in 1947 would be today equivalent to just over £4...
@andy-r Yes, I'd forgot about those loan signings, who I presume we may not have paid all their wages - particularly Bolasie. As for those quoted ...
@jarkko No I meant the figures being quoted for these players in that article are within a £1000 or so of other figures I've seen being quoted in ot...
@andy-r Various player weekly wages look pretty similar to others I've seen (within a £1000 a week or so for Britt, Fletcher, Howson, Saville and Mc...
Many thanks to OFB for the interesting and wide-ranging match preview, which I believe would provide more than enough stats to discuss over any candle...
Normally, causes of illnesses can be due to multiple factors and I was pondering yesterday if perhaps as well as the physical blows to the head, the h...
Fans of David Squires cartoon strips in the Guardian will no doubt be unsurprised that he's gone with the Newcastle takeover this week. Here's the lin...
@martin-bellamy I forgot to mention that the programme concluded that the main downside to all this acquiring of assets from these external 'investo...
@plato Depends if you would be equally happy if members of the UK government set up a fund using the proceeds from state assets to invest in a footb...
@powmillnaemore No problem, at least you were trying to find a possible benefit of Brexit for someone...
@powmillnaemore Please don't temp me into straying into the subject of Brexit - I promised myself I'd try to keep to general politics. Though the or...
@martin-bellamy There are certainly issues for the UK government to answer on this matter but it appears they prefer to hide behind the notion that ...
Talking of Old Etonians... We already know that current UK PM Boris Johnson is a former pupil of the elite school but I was interested to read that Th...
Perhaps you should look at Man City as an example - they were bought by Sheikh Mansour in 2008 and it took them three years to win the league - though...
@original-fat-bob The Southgate link sounds nothing more than lazy journalism - he's under contract with England until the end of 2022 and if we kno...
@powmillnaemore It seems what clinched the approval was Saudi Arabia's decision to stop blocking Qatar's BeIN sports network from being broadcast in...
Who knows what else will crawl out of the woodwork...
I guess it's only a matter of time before Ant and Dec are involved in the project - possibly with a new series of "I'm a overpaid trophy signing get m...
Here's former Newcastle player Rob Lee's view on the Saudi connection... What do I think of the owners being a Saudi Arabian-led consortium and that...
@selwynoz You should really ask the question as to why a billionaire with no ties to the area is interested in buying the football club - it certain...
Back on the subject of the Newcastle takeover - just read this entertaining well written article in the Guardian by Barney Ronay: Newcastle’s Saudi ta...
@martin-bellamy I think there's something in what Pedro has said but I think perhaps it's related to how individuals are influenced by social media....
@deleriad Just catching up on this thread, thanks for the link to that article on Boro tactics and does help explain the limitations of our play und...
@martin-bellamy Unfortunately, many supporters of football clubs have become little more than addicted hookers who are hooked on the prospect of glo...
Just to let you know that Diasboro was down for a few hours earlier due to a technical problem at the hosting end. It seems the domain name of diasb...