2019-2020 Soccer Thread..........

[Liverpooldawg]

Newcastle has nearly all the ingredients to be a contender: big stadium (by EPL standards); a large, fanatical fanbase; they are a LOT of people's second favorite team; they even have a cool "IN" city to play in. The front office management and ownership is just awful. I remember when Kevin Keegan had them on top 10 points clear at Christmas. It looked like they were going to do it, and then Keegan and the team wilted under the relentless pressure of a charging Manchester United in their prime and Sir Alex's mind games. Newcastle have yet to recover.

I guess the other big one so far was Hazard, but then that was expected too.

[WeWonItAll(Most)]

Newcastle has nearly all the ingredients to be a contender: big stadium (by EPL standards); a large, fanatical fanbase; they are a LOT of people's second favorite team; they even have a cool "IN" city to play in. The front office management and ownership is just awful. I remember when Kevin Keegan had them on top 10 points clear at Christmas. It looked like they were going to do it, and then Keegan and the team wilted under the relentless pressure of a charging Manchester United in their prime and Sir Alex's mind games. Newcastle have yet to recover.

I guess the other big one so far was Hazard, but then that was expected too.

There's no reason other than totally incompetent ownership that Newcastle can't be in Everton's tier on the PL hierarchy. But so far this they've failed to re-sign a world class manager who wanted to stay at the club due to penny pinching
They failed to sign a quality striker (Rondon) who wanted to stay at the club on a permanent deal due to penny pinching
They lost their top scorer to fricking Leicester, another club on an ever growing list of clubs who should not have more spending power than Newcastle but does. And certainly shouldn't be able to pluck our best player from us
They've yet to add any players in this window, let alone a quality player
And to cap it all off, they supposedly tried to pay Sheffield Wednesday $6m for the old dinosaur known as Steve Bruce to be the new manager. But even he, who is from the northeast and probably won't ever get another chance in the PL, is balking on the terms of the contract and/or the promises being made to him.