Newcastle United Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2022/2023

Come on lads into these today!! Trippier fit to start seemingly.

Massive win!! Where's the bedsheets now Villa??? Delighted with that the organisation togetherness and workrate in 2nd half was a joy to behold these boys care! Big Dan Burn was brilliant you'd swear he'd been here years Schar top class as well. Ah it's great to be proud if the lads again the absolute refusal to concede or feel sorry for ourselves there was excellent.

Add 3 or 4 quality players in the summer boys and we are seriously motoring. PS I hope Ollie Holt and Barry Glendinning enjoyed that.

Great bloody result today, we have proper momentum now, with the way these guys are playing, they might even fancy getting a win away to West Ham in the next game. First half we were excellent, in the second half, when Trippier & Manquillo came off especially, I thought we looked vulnerable. Hopefully Trippier isnt out for too long but early indications are is that it doesnt look great. Huge loss if its the case because you can clearly see him leading & organizing the team as well.

Shelvey looked good today I thought, Gaimaraes coming has encouraged him & willock to up their game I think. Dan Burn was excellent, Schar too, Saint Maxim didnt get much success as he was being double marked all the time, Wood missed a great chance again but tried at least, Fraser looks revitalised & threatening.

Some space between us & the relegation zone now finally.

Craig Hope reporting Trippier has broken bone in his foot after being stamped on during game bad news I'm afraid.

They reckon he'll miss 6 games however Palace might be called off if they win in the cup so it'd be 5 games against West Ham Brentford Brighton Spurs and Chelsea if we could nick 2 wins out of them without him I reckon we'll be fine.

Yeah he looks a bit of a donkey but so did Wood when he ballooned that shot over the bar instead of passing it into Fraser for a 1 on 1 .

😂😂Hard to take seriously anyone who relies on Neville for their football analysis, a guy who had the lowest win percentage of any Valencia boss in La Liga history, some feat that. Not only this but he was part of the coaching set up that resulted in England getting knocked out of the 2016 European championship by Iceland. Their worst humiliation since getting knocked out of the World cup in 1950 by the USA. He's perfect for Sky though, loves sensationalizing things, getting the soundbites, making the bold statements.

Weghorst has played three games already, two of those have been against top 4 quality teams, United & Liverpool. He got an impressive assist & man of the match against United. In the Liverpool game, two chances didn't come off for him but the runs he's making for a big man are impressive & the positions he's getting himself into. Only a matter of time before he starts putting them away. Id be more concerned if I was Dyche if he wasnt getting into those positions. Wood on the other hand, has played more games, is playing in a better team high on confidence, hasnt had so much as one assist & missed an absolute sitter on Sunday which fell into his path. I understand he's being asked to do some of the donkey work & wasnt necessarily bought for his goal scoring abilities but still. To top it off, he cost over double the price of Weghorst & is nearly a year older.

Some fair points but football management isnt all about shouting & gesticulating on the sidelines. Some of the greatest managers in the game were relatively quiet when the matches were in play.

In the 12 games since he joined, Gerrard has won 5, drawn 2 & lost 5 in the pl. 3 of those 5 losses came against the three best teams in the league. City, Liverpool & Chelsea & one of the draws came against United. Not great but not terrible either. He went out of the FA cup away to United. They've only lost the three games against the top 3 by one goal but we were smashed by them on the other hand. The exception being when they lost 3-1 to Chelsea.

Transfer market wise, I think he's made two very good signings in Coutinho & Digne. I dont think either of those players would have gone there if it wasnt for him.

They were asleep in the first half no doubt against us but dominated the second in my opinion & we were lucky they had that goal ruled out for VAR.

Will be interesting to see where they end up at the end of the season & if he makes it as a manager in the PL.

Oh yeah if we stay uo 100% a star striker will be signed the Saudis will see to that I think we'll sign 3 or 4 this summer and ship out some of the dead wood. I personally think we'll sign 4 in the summer Targett permanently a Shelvey replacement a star striker and Botman.

Howe has ideas on Burn continuing to play at centre back id say & with Lascalles being English & the captain, id be surprised to see him sold this summer. Would prefer them to keep Schar though, I think he's a much better defender than Lascalles.

Having these four centre backs to choose from going into next season would be ideal, Burn, Schar, Botsman, Carlos but its unlikely to happen. Id say more likely Lascalles, Burn, Botsman/Carlos & possibly an up & coming youth player

Kelland Watts signed a new contract today, good young central defender, they must be planning on him being our fourth central defender I'd say. No talk of Schar getting a new contract.

Some funny stuff if true😂

Very encouraging performance today, thought we were better than them for 70/75% of the game. Disappointing to concede a goal to one of their set pieces as thats what they specialize in & we should have been better prepared for it. Great to see Willock performing as well as he is currently, he seems to be getting better & better these days.

Only downside today is Burnleys & Watfords great results & performances against Brighton & Villa. Weghorst scored a goal & set up another one. Probably another man of the match performance from him. Watford looked tight, compact & dangerous on the break against villa. Looks like alot of teams are going to be dragged into this relegation battle, Everton, Leeds, Brentford to name a few.

Overall though, how we played today was excellent, i doubt there has been hardly any team in the division thats gone there this season & played against them the way we did. Onwards & upwards hopefully.

I watched a good bit of Chelsea Lille last night I thought Lille overall were poor but Botman looked a step above everyone on their team he's not the quickest but his positioning and reading of the game looks very good and looks a leader as well could be our Vincent Kompany all going well. Also Hatem Ben Arfa came on as well a blast from the past.

Great result and performance early red helped Schar Joelinton Willock and Fraser were brilliant.

I thought Howe summed up our new attitude brilliantly in his interview try and win every game but if you don't win don't lose for so long we were a soft touch not anymore.

Telegraph reporting that Schar & Shelvey are set to be offered new contracts. Definitely want Schar, Shelvey not so much, shouldnt have taken the arrival of Bruno Guimaraes for him to up his game. Wouldnt miss him if he was sold at the end of the season, reckless on many occasions & not the type of player we'll need to break us into the top 6/8 next season.