I only tangentially pay attention to English soccer so honestly from watching the last handful of seasons of Champions League and Europa League and a bit of FIFA, myself and most people outside of England have heard of every single transfer Newcastle have gotten. Hate to break it to you but Newcastle weren’t the only ones to know about Tonali, Bruno, and Botman but teams like Brighton, Villa, Crystal Palace, etc wouldn’t have been able to buy that combo of players not even including Gordon, Livramento and Barnes.
They have done a good job of not bending over or just going for players like Neymar and coaches like Ancellotti but they are still MUCH closer to the tier of Chelsea/ManCity/PSG than Brighton or even Nottingham who keep buying any player that pops into their minds.
I call bullshit, the fact that you even call it soccer makes me not give credence to what you say lol,. But anyway, we’ll be laughing all the way to trophies and I actually don’t give a fuck what you think.
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I only tangentially pay attention to English soccer so honestly from watching the last handful of seasons of Champions League and Europa League and a bit of FIFA, myself and most people outside of England have heard of every single transfer Newcastle have gotten. Hate to break it to you but Newcastle weren’t the only ones to know about Tonali, Bruno, and Botman but teams like Brighton, Villa, Crystal Palace, etc wouldn’t have been able to buy that combo of players not even including Gordon, Livramento and Barnes.
They have done a good job of not bending over or just going for players like Neymar and coaches like Ancellotti but they are still MUCH closer to the tier of Chelsea/ManCity/PSG than Brighton or even Nottingham who keep buying any player that pops into their minds.
Average US “soccer” fans didn’t know those players but goodbye anyway
I call bullshit, the fact that you even call it soccer makes me not give credence to what you say lol,. But anyway, we’ll be laughing all the way to trophies and I actually don’t give a fuck what you think.