Club x Club: Newcastle United

With Gary safely absent, the podcast becomes a fully biased Newcastle fans' cast, and resident Geordie Karl leads the way through a summer of upheaval and, somehow, renewed optimism. Eddie Howe gone, a young high-press manager in, Tonali, Gordon, Trippier and Bruno all out the door, and a raft of young signings in. Fast, direct, heavy-metal football that the lads think could reshape a lot of Fantrax values.They dig into the assets that matter. The back four the group rates as the strongest part of the squad, headlined by a centre-back the hosts are convinced is one of the outright steals of the draft given where he finished last year versus where you can get him now, and a full three-way comparison of the players around him. There's the returning striker Tim stakes a bold twenty-goal prediction on, the pacey wide men who could feast in a get-in-behind system, and the rental-for-five-weeks winger who might lose his spot after the first international break. Plus a genuinely under-the-radar multipositional sleeper Karl didn't even want to name on air, and the usual reminder about not drafting a goalkeeper.It closes where every Newcastle episode should: wildly optimistic, faintly deluded, and already counting down to game week one. As always, everything's timestamped to August 3rd.Join the community and the listener leagues through the Discord: 👉 https://discord.gg/FAuaGADgEA