Recent content by Black Rick

Always suspicious of players who attract hype for years on end but somehow stay at a relatively small club until their late 20s.

What the hell is that. Lindelof easily has the greatest all round combination of technique and physicality so he needs to be the striker. Shaw and Dalot also need to swap flanks and be inverted wingers, unless you still think this is 1999? Jesus.

Thanks, makes sense although I wasn't sure as sense doesn't always seem to apply within the football world...

Test of football knowledge (that I don't possess)- If a sale is made with a buyback clause, does the player have the right to refuse to move back to their original club even if said buyback clause is activated by them?

Bartomeu and Barcelona have to look like they don't want to sell for lots of reasons: -It'll play badly in the 2021 elections if they are seen to have done anything other than have their hands completely tied in selling Messi -It'll damage the board's legacy either way to have sold Messi, so...

Grealish has the intelligence and skillset to play anywhere across the frontline and midfield. Given that we already have Rashford/Martial/Greenwood - that they need supporting rather than replacing - Grealish would be a far more astute signing than Sancho in allowing us to spread the leftover...

*This* is a clever signing. Polar opposite to blowing our entire budget on Sancho, van de Beek is an opportunity that both perfecty fills a gap in our squad AND leaves us leftover budget to fill further gaps.

As someone with an almost voyeuristic interest in young English players moving abroad, you are definitely wrong. It seems like you misunderstood my point as being "there are tens of potential transfer targets that are of similar standard to Sancho". My point was actually "the overall benefit to...

Only Martial is really a pure striker. Greenwood has the quick-feet and intelligence to be equally as effective on the wing, and Rashford is actually better suited to the wing than through the middle. With Sancho costing £110m there is no "+ 1 more". A far more economical player should be...

I'm curious why people think that we *need* Sancho so badly, considering the overall state of our squad? For sure, we do need a (very) good attacking backup that can support and rotate with Rashford/Martial/Greenwood, but to pay £110m just to be able to bench one of...

I'm sure they will treat your point of view with the utmost reverence. After all, you will have thought far more deeply and with far greater contextual insight, about what is good for Newcastle United than those who have followed the club all their life.

Complete waste of money, exhausts our entire summer budget when with Greenwood/Martial/Rashford we only need an excellent back up option, around the £50m mark. With Sancho we will no longer have the money remaining to also buy the top CB and/or back up creative CM that we need. Sancho is a...

The petition is a good idea to be fair. The Premier League's Owners and Directors' test needs overhauling, whatever you felt about the Newcastle deal. At the very least it should be time limited.

If we bought Sancho then one of Rashford, Martial and Greenwood's development and/or contentment would suffer. Look at Manchester City where a strong squad and consequent rotation is at core of their success: They Sane due to discontentment regarding lack of game time They lost Danilo due to...

Can his body even hold up to playing 50 games a season anyway? Even when he was in his mid-late 20s, his injury proneness was what cost him his place in the team. The current situation of resting his legs, picking up ridiculous wages and then pulling his socks up every couple of months for...