Jonathan JE Brown

Jonathan JE Brown

@berty2001.bsky.social

Digital marketing at Edge45, Newcastle (NUFC) fan, love films, currently writing first book.

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Classic seeing all the Newcastle fans go from seeing Jaissle as the next big thing after a few games to out by Christmas. It's almost like they have no idea how hard being a manager in the PL is.

We've seen positives and negatives from Jaissel's NUFC but negs outweighing positives. But we still carrying too many players. Too much youth, not enough leadership. We need a striker who scores. Botman needs dropping. We're missing a spine in the team in all senses.

For City, let punishment fit the crime. Remove them from the seasons involved in the charges. No asterisk, just removed from the record. Fine based on earnings during that period (close to £700m). Transfer ban for the same period. Current players free to leave. They could only replace with youths.

Unbeaten in league and cup. Scoring goals. Yes, the defence needs to get better and fast. It's been fine margins but in the past we would have been on the losing side of those margins.

Plenty of positives from that half. Even if we don't get it over the line, there's lots to like. Hornicek looks good, Wissa a different person (though playing v deep), Steur and Miley calm in the middle. Be interesting to see what happens at half time and whether we change things up at all

Getting a quality RB in to Newcastle gives us so much more scope in terms of flexibility and development. Miley can focus on being a world class CM, gives Tino chance to fully recover and rest, and we can send Sahar out on loan to develop properly.

Predictions for league - 1-7. Big 6 + Villa. Ars could take advantage of changes to win. Man U & Che might struggle - 8-12. NUFC, B'mouth, Forest, Brighton, Ful - 13-17. Pal, Brent, Leeds, Sun, Eve (think Europe will hit some of these) - Relegated - Hull, Ips, Cov Wild card: Eve down. Cov top 10.

Things I'm interested to see from our new manager: - Wissa or Osula up front - plans for big Nick - what he does with fringe players like Willock, Murphy, etc - who will be captain - will be give youth a chance - Miley in CM or RB

#nufc fans - what are your hopes for this season? Not just in league position but in terms of message we send to other teams, progression of players, style of play, behind the scenes? I'd like us to become hard to beat again, with young plays growing, & real progression in terms of stadium/training

Interesting that they're saying he's known for 2 weeks and wanted manager in place. Compare that with the Bruno deadline of this week for 'getting his future sorted' and think Bruno may have been waiting to see who we get in.

So Bamba and Steur going to be the new Tonali and Bruno in a couple of years. Big Nick sat in front as a number 10. (Also, after Manzambi and Bamba, definitely going to refer to Bamba as Bambi).

On the NUFC transfers, greats we're signing young talent but don't see Bamba as a direct replacement for Bruno. If Bruno does go we would need experience. Same issue with GK. If we sell Pope we'd need someone with experience. If we keep him, hope Jaoeun pushed him to start.

The new Avengers trailer does seem a little, shall we say, packed. My theory is that within the first act we'll see a lot of these killed off. Thor, Gambit, the New Avengers, Prof X, maybe more.

Don't worry Newcastle fans, just asked Google's AI mode who we are looking to buy and we are apparently targeting Elanga, Madueke from Chelsea, Pedro from Brighton and an exciting young winger Toure.

If transfers continue as they're going, we could almost put out a pretty strong first 11 agreed 25 and under. Building for the future. Jaouen Hall Livramento Thiaw Manzambi Miley Ramsay Steur Osula Woltemade Toure

Would be genuinely interested to know how much our new transfer strategy is down to Wilson and how much Howe. These new, young players don't seem like Howe types but imagine he'd have had some say

If Howe stays on after we lose Bruno it's going to be a proper chance to proven himself. Almost completely new leadership team of players needed, working with untested but talented youths, and no European football. Expectations for the season of already so low, so a chance to reinvent Newcastle.

God knows what Burn is coming back to. From the so-called leadership team, he might come back to being the only one left - Tripps gone, Bruno possibly going, Pope and Murphy also look like going. Honestly doesn't feel like we'll have many leaders in our team anymore

Genuinely think the penalty miss and getting knocked out had changed Bruno's mind. Think he wants to win stuff and he's not going to get that with Newcastle or Brazil. Hope he doesn't go, especially to Newcastle but if he does he'll leave a legend

So basically, Farage saw the boost the local win gave Burnham in his bid to be Labour leader and thought, I'll have some of that. I just hope Labour puts someone good up against him and we get rid of him for ever

What US fans who support the red card overturn is that as fans, we can moan about decisions, call for refs to be sacked, ask for rule changes, knowing that nothing will be done. That's what being a fan is. We've got decades of bad decisions we want to over turn but we know it won't happen.

If a club wins PL & Champions League, & you add in TV rights etc they'll take home up to £400m. Which is a lot but not when you have to spend £1bn to get there. So the main value players provide is their sell on cost, not their football ability. Which is why team values youth over someone like Bruno

For me, offering Bruno a huge new contract is a no brainer. It says to both current players & potential signings, if you bring both the passion and performance, you'll be rewarded. So many #nufc players underperform or have an eye elsewhere for big money. This would be a motivator for them.

Wouldn't we rather all have settled and on form Tonali's, Livramento, Halls etc on good wages instead of having to pay transfer and agent fees to replace them with someone who might not work out