Unai Emery

[Smirker]

Fuck that we are gonna finish above Newcastle easily.

Yes well said.

Newcastle won't make top 10. Howe sacked.

[edgysatsuma89]

Fuck that we are gonna finish above Newcastle easily.

Yes well said.

Newcastle won't make top 10. Howe sacked.

They'll be comfortably top 10, unfortunately.

[john2710]

The Champions League is going to be a big distraction for them. There will be no resting key players & minds may well be on upcoming games rather than the Premier League. Other teams have experience, for Newcastle it's all new.

[edgysatsuma89]

I don't doubt that but if they're outside the top 8 I'll be surprised.

[Rory]

The thing with Newcastle is, I'm just not convinced they're all that good. I said the same throughout 2015/16 about Leicester and was proven wrong, but I don't think Newcastle are that great at all.

They've had an amazing 18 months, but I'm never that impressed when I watch them. I just wonder if the players have been sniffing the same powder as their dickhead of an assistant manager, whatever the twat's name is.

[Smirker]

The thing with Newcastle is, I'm just not convinced they're all that good. I said the same throughout 2015/16 about Leicester and was proven wrong, but I don't think Newcastle are that great at all.

They've had an amazing 18 months, but I'm never that impressed when I watch them. I just wonder if the players have been sniffing the same powder as their dickhead of an assistant manager, whatever the twat's name is.

Same here mate. I think people are giving them too much hype because of their financial backing. That's not saying they can't buy their way to success, I know they can. But people's perception of the actual team changed overnight and it's just grown since.

[LeeB]

The Champions League is going to be a big distraction for them. There will be no resting key players & minds may well be on upcoming games rather than the Premier League. Other teams have experience, for Newcastle it's all new.

Including the manager who has zero experience of managing in Europe.

[Risso]

I think Howe has done a superb job at Newcastle, especially after where they were when Bruce left. But their team loooks unbalanced to me. I wouldn't be swapping anybody in their defence for ours. Trippier, Schär, Botman, Burn are all ok, but it's a world away from the quality they have up front. Their back ups in Lascelles and Targett etc are miles worse than what we have as well.

[paul_e]

I think Howe has done a superb job at Newcastle, especially after where they were when Bruce left. But their team loooks unbalanced to me. I wouldn't be swapping anybody in their defence for ours. Trippier, Schär, Botman, Burn are all ok, but it's a world away from the quality they have up front. Their back ups in Lascelles and Targett etc are miles worse than what we have as well.

I agree, I also think their left side (in attack) is massively better than the right, I know Almiron had that little spell of looking good last season but he's been back as a headless chicken for about 6months now. I think the result in our game made them look much better than they are but it was never a 5-1 performance from either team. The Buendia and Mings injuries, the dodgy 2nd goal for them (no one will ever convince that goal should've stood) and then us pushing too many forward once we were 3-1 down all combined to create a false impression of how the game went (as Ferguson has said) and there was actually nothing between us until the last 15minutes where they padded the score.

Since then Man City toyed with them and the geordies barely put together a single coherent attack and losing 2-1 to 10 men when you were leading after 80minutes is piss poor. I reckon they'll stil ldo ok but 6-8th for me this season.

[astonvilla82]

Contrast what happening at Wolverhampton and Aston Villa and that down to our management team of Emery and the club owners, apart from issues with the terrace view and catering services it's great to wake up happy

[olaftab]

The Champions League is going to be a big distraction for them. There will be no resting key players & minds may well be on upcoming games rather than the Premier League. Other teams have experience, for Newcastle it's all new.

Including the manager who has zero experience of managing in Europe.

Yes, same as Barton

[chrisw1]

Contrast what happening at Wolverhampton and Aston Villa and that down to our management team of Emery and the club owners, apart from issues with the terrace view and catering services it's great to wake up happy

Wolves had 2 7th placed finishes before FFP caught up with them.  Hopefully, we're better prepared for a longer run at it, but like Everton before them Wolves are paying for reaching for the stars and missing.  FFP seems designed to punish any club that has the audacity to have a crack at the Sky 6.

[Drummond]

Contrast what happening at Wolverhampton and Aston Villa and that down to our management team of Emery and the club owners, apart from issues with the terrace view and catering services it's great to wake up happy

Wolves had 2 7th placed finishes before FFP caught up with them.  Hopefully, we're better prepared for a longer run at it, but like Everton before them Wolves are paying for reaching for the stars and missing.  FFP seems designed to punish any club that has the audacity to have a crack at the Sky 6.

Wolves didn't have the cushion of selling Grealish, Archer, Chukwuemeka, Ramsey A. and Philogene for a combined £160m to help.

[Risso]

Contrast what happening at Wolverhampton and Aston Villa and that down to our management team of Emery and the club owners, apart from issues with the terrace view and catering services it's great to wake up happy

Wolves had 2 7th placed finishes before FFP caught up with them.  Hopefully, we're better prepared for a longer run at it, but like Everton before them Wolves are paying for reaching for the stars and missing.  FFP seems designed to punish any club that has the audacity to have a crack at the Sky 6.

Wolves didn't have the cushion of selling Grealish, Archer, Chukwuemeka, Ramsey A. and Philogene for a combined £160m to help.

They can't be far off with the likes of Jota, Patricio, Dendoncker, Gibbs-White, Neves and Collins etc. Of course that's not all profit when they're not youth players, but they've still brought a lot in.

[LeeB]

Contrast what happening at Wolverhampton and Aston Villa and that down to our management team of Emery and the club owners, apart from issues with the terrace view and catering services it's great to wake up happy

Wolves had 2 7th placed finishes before FFP caught up with them.  Hopefully, we're better prepared for a longer run at it, but like Everton before them Wolves are paying for reaching for the stars and missing.  FFP seems designed to punish any club that has the audacity to have a crack at the Sky 6.

Wolves didn't have the cushion of selling Grealish, Archer, Chukwuemeka, Ramsey A. and Philogene for a combined £160m to help.

They can't be far off with the likes of Jota, Patricio, Dendoncker, Gibbs-White, Neves and Collins etc. Of course that's not all profit when they're not youth players, but they've still brought a lot in.

They've wasted a fortune though on the likes of Harpo Marx