Ah yeah, it's the Gary Neville pearl-clutching that annoys me though. The problem is Newcastle think they're at the same level as us, they and everyone else need to realise their place in the pecking order
Gyokeres did exactly the same thing and nobody said a thing
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/jul/12/viktor-gyokeres-fails-report-sporting-training-arsenal
I'd forgotten the details of the Guehi armband thing. I thought he'd refused to wear the rainbow armband but it's a bit more opaque than that.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/clyj2e3dg14o
Getting Leoni in means we don't necessarily have to sign Guehi now. Gives us a bit of leverage over Palace. This Hughes lad seems to know what he's doing, it's kind of disconcerting.
Goodbye, Big Darwin
Though I never knew you at all
You had the grace to hold yourself
While those around you bawled
You banged it off the woodwork
And appeared to have no brain
Ran like you were on a treadmill
Yet the crowd sang out your name
And it seems to me you lived your life
Like a vandal in the wind
Never knowing who to pass to
When the game set in
And I would've liked to had sold you
But that was just a bid
Our patience burned out long before
Your legend ever did
They're like a spotty 14-year-old at a school disco desperately trying to find someone to kiss for the slow-set. Pini Zahavi or some other super-agent wandering around in front of them asking "will you be with my friend"
Haha or this
Yeah, seems like it, and what's annoying is other clubs are bailing them out by signing their cast-offs. They've turned a profit on Djordevic and Madueke and broke even or lost a little on 3 or 4 others