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If you believe the Bobble, Maupay was a Lampard decision - he wanted PL experience. Thelwell wanted Guirassy but was overruled by Kenwright who sided with Lampard

AWB wouldn't suit Glasner's system where attacking wing backs are required. He'd be great for Dyche, but he probably earns far more than we could consider paying.

Dunno, he had a good 1st season here, then I thought he was hit and miss for a while, until Ancelotti's full season where he was genuinely dreadful for about half a season. Then, I don't know what happened, but about January time that season he turned it around and has been pretty much excellent...

He was linked in the early days of the Steve Walsh regime, but don't think he was much more than a prospect at that point

Both can be true. Dyche has based our set up about being difficult to beat (we have a really good couple of centre backs and a good keeper), being direct (we don't have a lot of creativity to work the ball through midfield and we have two or three big strikers) and being good from set pieces (we...

Depends what you mean. I think we have some good players, but we have an incredible lack of technical, creative players as well as having little pace at all in wide areas. "Blaming the players" for what? They got 48 points this season. That's not blame, that's quite the opposite. I applaud...

Tbf, up to that point 72 points would have almost always been enough for CL football

Referenced in the Newcastle documentary (also that we got all of that £40 million up front) and been reported since

Wouldn't buy him at all, but given our financial situation it would probably be better for us if Leeds don't get promoted, allowing us to loan him for "free" again (just covering his wages)

I think Thelwell gets a massively unfair shake of the stick on here, particularly given nobody knows what goes on behind the scenes, the utter chaos he's had to deal with since he's been here and the fact that everyone only seems to be able to judge his performance as a Director of Football...

48 points is a brilliant return given the backdrop of the last couple of seasons and the chaos off the pitch I still have a couple of reservations, mostly surrounding that winless run, but nobody could have realistically asked for more in terms of a points return this season, and if they had...

In fairness, there's nothing wrong with his logic. That isn't to say that administration is what will happen, but if you were looking to pick up the asset at as low a cost as possible, his thought process is a fair one. You, me and most people will look at this as the least favoured option...

I know v little about George Downing, but I know a fair bit about Andy Bell (even played footy against him the best part of 20 years ago as the company I worked for had a tie-up with his). Google tells me Downing is worth about £500m. Andy Bell is also a very wealthy man, but I would have...

Nope, definitely not. That's unlikely to be of any major immediate concern to our creditors though

Whether his prediction ends up being right or not, his logic is sound. Administration does look like the most likely route, simply by virtue of it being the easiest route of dealing with the debt

I won't be there. I actively avoid being at games where I know there's a chance I'll end up on telly in floods of tears. I booked a holiday so I could be out of the country for the Bournemouth game last year as I couldn't face it. I'll probably do something similar next May and say goodbye in...

To be clear, MSP (whilst being a preferable option to 777) are not a magic bullet. They're an investment vehicle and their sole objective in buying us is a return for the investors. They see us as an opportunity given the stadium to dramatically increase revenues. That's all well and good, but...

Possibly not, which is great, but we don't know the details yet and I still struggle to believe that the big clubs are going to surrender their advantage and let Newcastle go crazy from 1st July

The style of play can be stuff that makes your eyes bleed at times. That's partly Dyche, but at the same time we have some of the slowest and least technically gifted midfielders and attackers in the league, so to a degree the long ball stuff actually makes sense. Pace and guile is desperately...

Did Wolfsburg, but Cyprus is the furthest I've been to watch Everton