Eighteen months without a signing and then a summer’s worth of average arrivals has led to a stagnant and complacent team sheet, some 5 year plan…

Mike Ashley’s grand 5 year plan had worked and was even supposedly now ahead of schedule, a plan which bizarrely had included the team getting relegated!

Remember the Newcastle United 5 year plan? The one that should have concluded 12 months ago.

Writer Rex N looks at Newcastle United now 7 years into Mike Ashley 5 year plan for Champions League qualification.

I’d take 5th spot and the FA Cup. A team’s name on silverware lasts a lifetime. Being a competitor in a European competition isn’t something that’ll go down in folklore.