Newcastle spend cash like a drunk in a strip membership – followers don’t have any proper to moan about PSR
BRENT A GOB: This week, Harry Brent’s going after Newcastle fans moaning about PSR, Fabrizio Romano’s pompous haters and Mohamed Salah for moving to Trabzonspor
Our man Harry Brent is fuming in his latest column
I’m sick to death of Newcastle fans crying into their brown ale about Profit & Sustainability Rules.
For starters, supporting a state-owned Saudi oil vessel while complaining about financial morality and inequality is like a cannibal lecturing you on animal rights – it’s hypocrisy on an industrial scale. Secondly, have you actually looked at the wheelbarrow full of overpriced garbage they’ve signed over the last three years?
It’s a recruitment list as laughably unremarkable as Sol Campbell’s political career. Bazoumana Toure for £43million, anyone? Then there’s Ewen Jaouen and Lukas Hornicek – two backup goalkeepers who together cost more than the £35m fee they wrangled from Nottingham Forest for Elliot Anderson. A deal for the £116m man they rushed through without a sell-on percentage clause. Smart.
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Newcastle’s expenditure over the last three years has been very questionable (Image: Getty )
Oh, and there’s Aladji ’18 senior appearances in my entire life’ Bamba… for £30m.
Spaffing over half the money you just made selling Sandro Tonali, Anthony Gordon and Bruno Guimaraes on more obscure, unvetted nobodies than the Reform Party churns out is pure negligence. And it’s not just this summer either.
Last year they p***** a quarter of a billion quid up the wall on Yoane Wissa, Nick Woltemade, Jacob Ramsey and Anthony Elanga – four blokes who, collectively, have made as much of a positive impact as Liz Truss did on the British economy.
Newcastle fans have no leg to stand on when it comes to financial morality and inequality (Image: getty)
The summer before that, they blew half their budget on Odysseas Vlachodimos, a fella who played just one League Cup match before getting binned into irrelevance faster than Alan Shearer’s managerial career.
Newcastle spend money like a drunk guy at a strip club, so it’s no wonder they’re in the s***. They have absolutely no right to moan and deserve as much sympathy as Prince Andrew does.
Pompous Fabrizio Romano haters can do one
I’m no fan of ‘transfer guru’ Fabrizio Romano. In fact, I think he’s ruined football discourse the way Nicolas Jackson ruins a one-on-one.
But what I hate even more are the holier-than-thou fans who now look down their noses at him after spending years kissing his backside, human-centipede-style.
Fabrizio Romano’s popularity has dipped this year
They treat Romano like Ryanair: they’ll slag him off to anyone who’ll listen, but the second summer hits, they’re crawling back to his page with their tail between their legs, begging for cheap updates.
Sure, Fabrizio is an irritating content w**** who, like Brooklyn Beckham, has perfected the art of ramming irrelevance and mundanity down our throats – and just like your average Liverpool fan, he fundamentally refuses to take a day off.
But trying to high road him after years of gagging for his updates like a hungover bloke staring at his Deliveroo tracker is pathetic – Arsenal’s-record-in-European-finals levels of pathetic.
Mo Sa-laughable
Mohamed Salah has joined Trabzonspor(Image: Anadolu via Getty Images)
Mo Salah signing for Trabzonspor is utterly bizarre – more bizarre than the fact that Roberto Martinez keeps getting good managerial jobs despite being useless for more than a decade.
Either his reputation in the UK is about as overinflated as Gianni Infantino’s ego, or he’s finally getting the cold, hard comeuppance his whingy, self-absorbed, club-sabotaging antics last season deserved.
How else do you explain him only managing to land a soul-crushing, dead-end gig that no one will remember at the fourth-biggest club in Turkey, like some washed-up DJ who hasn’t had a hit since 2007?
Salah threw Arne Slot and Liverpool under the bus last season(Image: Liverpool FC/Liverpool FC via Getty Images)
What happened to the mega bucks offer from Saudi Arabia? Or the interest from European giants like Bayern and Real Madrid? Either those reports were faker than Jurgen Klopp’s teeth, or interested clubs pulled out faster than Trent Alexander-Arnold in a 50-50 tackle.
If it’s the latter, can you blame them? In his final year at Anfield, Salah treated Arne Slot and Liverpool with all the class and respect Roy Keane showed Alfie Haaland’s knee.
No wonder his options this summer were about as limited as Darwin Nunez’s shooting ability.
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