Since the takeover, we’ve seen some unrealistic names bandied about. We’re going to sign Mbappe and Messi and win the league. Haaland is going to turn down Manchester City and Real Madrid to sign for us.
We know they’re all a bit daft, but now the silliest one has come from none other than professional numpty Danny Murphy, who has said we’ll go in for…
Jordan Pickford.
Just imagine it. The man who asked NUFC supporters out for a fight (he winked, but there’s a part of me that thinks he was just panicking), who loses his head every time he comes to St James’ Park, who is so untrustworthy against Newcastle United that he’s been dropped twice against us despite never being dropped even when he underperforms, signing for us?
The player who said “get the rave on” when we got relegated (only to be silenced now that his beloved SAFC are languishing in League One) and even got it on his boots.
When asked who could come in for Pickford in the summer by Jim White, Murphy responded with “Newcastle. Straight away, there’s one.”
Straight away?
The player who wound up supporters at St James’ Park after saving a penalty, only to leave the pitch beetroot-faced when we ended up winning? Who allowed us to snatch a point at Goodison Park from 2-0 down because the occasion got the better of him and he fumbled some easy saves?
It’s also madness to suggest we’d even consider going in for him beyond the mutual hatred between him and the club. He’s undeniably excellent every time he pulls on an England shirt, but he’s not been short of howlers in the past couple of years and has deserved to be dropped in the league on many an occasion.
Saying that, it might be fun to buy him and watch him sit sour-faced on the bench.
But let’s be honest, this isn’t exactly a match made in heaven on either side’s part, is it?
As much as his league form is patchy, he’ll undoubtedly get picked up by a half-decent side in the Premier League if and when Everton go down.
But Eddie’s billionaire mags can and will do better than Jordan Pickford.
If Jordan Pickford we’re to come to Newcastle he would let that many goals in deliberately we would end up in the National league.
Not only has he vowed he would never cross the divide, he has shown himself to be mentally unstable when he plays against us, he just has that sad Mackem mindset.
As for Danny Murphy he talks through his A…!
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