Premier League table<\/strong><\/a> with the second-lowest goals total for the season.<\/p>\nIt may also have led them to the \u2018scary stats\u2019 of 26 goal attempts and 77% possession against Bradford, but we suspect fans would have taken a few less shots and a little less possession in a clash with League One opposition for two more points in the Premier League.<\/p>\n
Bruno \u2018put in a near faultless performance at St James\u2019 Park\u2019, apparently. I mean, we should bloody well hope so.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere on the same website, we\u2019re told that \u2018Newcastle United make Lewis Miley decision after perfect audition for Arsenal clash\u2019.<\/p>\n
Is a League Cup game against Bradford City the \u2018perfect audition\u2019 to face Arsenal? Is it balls. And the sad thing is that we suspect that Newcastle United writer Lee Ryder absolutely knows this, but when you are tasked with writing six stories on one cruise of a game against a weakened Bradford City side, what the f*** else can you do?<\/p>\n
He literally wrote after the 0-0 draw with Bournemouth that Miley \u2018battled well but will struggle to stay in the side on the back of this\u2019 and he was absolutely right; there is zero doubt that Bruno Guimaraes, Sandro Tonali and Joelinton will be the midfield on Sunday against the Gunners.<\/p>\n
And yet here Ryder is a few days later writing that \u2018he has proved in back to back matches he has what it takes to swim not sink when thrown in at the deep end\u2019.<\/p>\n
When you read that \u2018Lewis Miley looked to be exactly where he is meant to be last night at St James\u2019 Park\u2019, it was hard not to think \u2018yes, against lower-league opposition\u2019.<\/p>\n
Do we have to pretend this was a \u2018perfect audition\u2019 for an entirely different class of opposition just days after he was outplayed in midfield at Bournemouth? Apparently so, because content innit.<\/p>\n
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What\u2019s in a number?<\/p>\n
But the Newcastle United Information Service were not the only ones getting carried away by the Carabao Cup with Ian Herbert of the Daily Mail<\/strong> writing that Eberechi Eze \u2018staked a serious claim last night\u2019 to \u2018the No 10 role which is his natural position\u2019.<\/p>\nAnd this \u2018serious claim\u2019 came in a game against a team 19th in League One.<\/p>\n
As for \u2018that magical position he feels he was borne for\u2019 (sic), Herbert does rather dilute his (laboured) point when he was forced to admit that Eze and Ethan Nwaneri were \u2018operating as a pair of eights, to be quite precise\u2019. Is that position still \u2018magical\u2019?<\/p>\n
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When is \u00a3156m not worth \u00a3156m? When it\u2019s at Manchester United<\/p>\n
Over at The Sun<\/strong>, Samuel Luckhurst is getting his shiny shoes under a new table by writing that \u2018CASEMIRO is set to lead the most high-profile Manchester United exodus in four years\u2019.<\/p>\nHands up anybody who is remotely surprised that Casemiro \u2013 soon to be 34 \u2013 will be allowed to leave on a free transfer next summer. Or that Jadon Sancho and Tyrell Malacia will follow him.<\/p>\n
Even Manchester United would not be ridiculous enough to offer a new contract to the Brazilian. Would they? WOULD THEY?<\/p>\n
But we have no beef with Luckhurst here; it\u2019s not groundbreaking and it\u2019s absolutely not an EXCLUSIVE but a man has to do a job, and his job is to churn out content on Manchester United.<\/p>\n
But the headline did make us cringe:<\/p>\n
\nMan Utd to cut losses on \u00a3156MILLION worth of talent to fund Carlos Baleba transfer\u2026but Maguire to get new contract<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\u2018Worth\u2019? There\u2019s a massive sodding difference between what footballers are \u2018worth\u2019 and what they cost.<\/p>\n
But the galling thing is that this line is then blithely repeated elsewhere, with The Sun\u2019s supposed rivals at the Daily Mirror<\/strong> merrily doing a chop-and-shop job.<\/p>\n\nMan Utd ready to let trio worth \u00a3156m leave for FREE to fund huge summer transfer<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Of course they will let them go for FREE; they will be OUT OF CONTRACT. And they are \u2018worth\u2019 nowhere close to \u00a3156m. You could move the decimal place and make it \u00a31.56m and you would be a whole lot closer.<\/p>\n
And over at Luckhurst\u2019s old stomping ground of the Manchester Evening News<\/strong>, we are told that \u2018Manchester United are prepared to let three of Erik ten Hag\u2019s costly transfer flops leave on a free transfer\u2019.<\/p>\nPrepared? They can\u2019t bloody wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newcastle United beat Bradford City 4-1 and that really does prove a \u2018masterstroke\u2019 from Eddie Howe. We also…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[2725,3011,18,793,794,19,17,31043,1270,5004,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-84716","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-arsenal","9":"tag-eddie-howe","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-front-page","12":"tag-home-page","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-mediawatch","16":"tag-newcastle-united","17":"tag-popular","18":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}