Dr Jinx

I’m sure he’ll have his agent in his ear presenting him with options as he should as that’s his job. But don’t think Bruno is fed up just yet. Another season without the problems we had this year and he’ll want to see how it goes.

Best thing he can do is jet back home for the summer and try and remove himself from the tabloid shite. It will be endless. Howe would not have said we’re planning for the next season with Bruno and Isak in the team, not start again etc.. and I believe him.

Chelsea have been impressive since the new year. Not without their vulnerabilities but Poch has finally gotten a tune out of them, they’d be mental to sack him. If we can’t win our remaining games then we don’t deserve 6th. I’m not overly bothered. We would have a better chance at the lower competition in any case. A trophy is a trophy.

Newcastle Specific Player of the Season: AG Young player of the season (21 or lower): Livramento or Miley Season to forget: Sven Botman Most Improved: AG Unsung Hero: Dubravka Signing of the Season: Livramento Goal of the season: Schär v PSG Moment of the season: Team photo at SoL Low point of the season: Penalty against us v PSG Manager rating (Out of 10): 7 Premier League Specific Player of the Season: Declan Rice Young player of the season (21 or lower): Cole Palmer Manager of the Season: Emery Season to forget: Salah

The commercial deals and also the CL money should give us some opportunity to spend big once or twice this summer. But 60m on a keeper? No chance. Miggy out for 25m and someone at right forward in for around 35-40.. Wilson is the big decision, if they move him on we could get 10-15m for him. We could keep him but how many games will he miss? No decent striker is cheap so that’ll be the other big one (if there is a big one). Couple of free’s (Tosin, Kelly) The main decisions will be around deciding which of the injury prone players we have to stick with.

Oh am fairly sure Darren Eales will make some sort of statement on it in due course, am just trying to give a bit of reality to the process as there’s a whole bunch of us eager for some news. Nothing concrete will come quick.. if they do stay at SJP as what’s currently expected there’s a whole heap of work to get through before we ever see a render of the plans. My hope would be that they opt for the Arena site before anything else goes in there. It couldn’t be much more than a 15/20 min walk from SJP and much closer to Central Station. It would look amazing beside the river. Nothing stopping us from keeping the lease on the land at SJP and building a state of the art conference centre with hotels, a casino, event venue etc. Revenue which could go back into the club.

This hasn’t gotten anywhere near the architects yet. The report that they have had for at least a month at this stage only outlines options v RoI and external considerations (planning, metro etc). It won’t have even gotten to an estimate because that’s not what they do. Only what’s possible. Once they have (a decision) and then all requirememts gathered into a document, they’ll be in discussions with civil planners, surveyors and architects before they eventually go with one. Then it will need to be designed, then approved.. probably with changes, updated designs/drawings etc. We’re a way off anything being announced that side of things. Probably 1-2 years. It’s just always a very long process when working with an existing structure and planning considerations. A whole new site/stadium would be a much easier venture but they seem to be stuck on the idea of staying.

So ambitious they had to cull “The Line” project.

I don’t think you quite understand what I meant by that or you just assumed something and ran with it. I was never talking about hiring a new coach every two years. What I meant was having someone, just for example sake.. someone like Rafa Benitez who could sit in a technical role. Then at a point, I did say 2 years but I didn’t necessarily mean a 2 year rotation every time, what I meant was.. when the coach starts having burn out, that there’s someone who can step in and won’t upset the flow of things. Let the manager go off and recharge for a season.. do some learning like what Howe did when he was unemployed. It was never about removing Howe from the setup, it was always about giving him the best chance for a much longer term project.

Definitely not tough to please. Supported this team so long I’ve seen it all. We’re in good times and it’s brilliant supporting the club the last few years. You look forward to each weekend now with a real hope that we’ll keep pushing forward collectively. That doesn’t mean I can’t be critical of mistakes that happen, or poor performances. If Eddie Howe is as critical of himself he’ll have thought or said the same things that posters on here have said. We went to shit defensively earlier on season and that was a real concern, he looks to have stabilised things but when I say rebuild I mean Botman missing for a large portion. Potentially majority of season. Burn is not a long term solution. Lascelles same boat injury wise. Trippier was showing signs of slowing down this season. Let’s see how he is when he’s back but he may well be a candidate for moving on. We may need 2-4 players to come in to cover all those positions. So yeah, a rebuild of sorts.

He scored against the dippers in that game where Staveley came to watch us for the first time. That’s enough of a contribution.

I wanted us to be better than we were the previous season and I can’t say that we have been. But I understand the reasons for that. We’ve got some sort of defensive shape back thankfully but it almost feels like the summer will be a rebuilding job for all the long term injuries we have so I don’t know what the target should be. If we sign another couple of quality players maybe it should be top 4, but then what should be a consequence of failing to reach that? Is settling for a top 6 finish something the Saudis are gonna be happy with?

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Top 6 with the injuries we’ve had would be very respectable. Just leaves you wondering where we could have been if it weren’t for that handful of absolutely sloppy games where we should have been better. What should the target be for next season?

If we had an extra game or two I think we could have easily caught Spurs but I think they’ll get 4 points from remaining games. Burnley a draw possibly. Not sure we’ll win all remaining games, Brentford away is a tough one. Confident for 6th. It’s ours to lose.