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This is exactly the issue - who's picking the targets? Who's negotiating the deals? Is Mitchell's list the same as Howe's? Who's speaking to agents? They've had fucking months to prepare for this summer and nothing has happened at all. Eddie Howe is a brilliant football manager and he's more than done his bit over the last 10 months, expecting him to be on the phone tying up deals when he's on his holidays is ridiculous, there has to be a system in place where other people step up and execute basic transfer/scouting shit? Putting all of this on Howe isn't fair imo, he has to take a step back and ask others to step in and help out a bit. Surely?

Sorry but this bloke is currently being let down massively atm. He's delivered a trophy and CL football despite no major first team signings for multiple windows and there's nothing backing him up off the park. Last season was a hell of a struggle at times but the results came and created genuine momentum and excitement and that needed to be built upon but there's been nothing since. Trafford could be close but that deal has been in the pipeline for more than a year. Howe's more than doing his part, the players have delivered and they're all being let down as we speak off the park It's not good enough tbph. Match the stuff the players and management have done ffs. Get your shit in a pile and back this bloke up

Always going to be tough to tempt players to come here as opposed to Chelsea unfortunately. Legit reasons to choose them over us too, just got to hope we have a plan B and move on. Not sure why we spent so long on the deal if he only wanted the Chelsea move though, that doesn't make sense to me

Yeah that's fair enough, what's happened to Eales is awful and something no-one could have predicted, such is life, these things happen unfortunately. I still think it's fair game to at least be informed of what's happening as far as his eventual replacement is concerned though. It's now a billion pound club and we've got no idea who's calling the shots or who is responsible for each aspect of the operation (unless I've missed it) and it's been like this for a while now. I don't expect miracles and don't need precise details but there's no excuse for the zero communication we've had for a long time now

My frustration is at the speed we appear to move at rather tbh. It seems biblically slow compared to others. While I'm having a little moan I'll also bring up the poor communication between the club and fans as regards new roles and responsibilities now that Mitchell has gone (?) and Eales moving on. Who does what now? Who's responsible for what?

Yeah, from what I've gathered, from other people on here and elsewhere, is that the Saudis take an age to get decisions made/approved and it's not a unique problem to NUFC. Just raises the issue of the board members being aligned and ready to move in different directions without needing the official nod every half an hour. There's so much to be positive about regarding the club: Fantastic young English FBs in Tino and Hall Solid keeper/CB and could get even better with Trafford Best CM in the league according to a lot of people/neutrals World class CF in Isak Brilliant manager in Howe Fans completely united behind the club First trophy in 60 years Champions League football again Money to spend by all accounts Yet we can't seem to get any shit done off the park. At all. Really fucks me off

I'm dreading the moment people, maybe legitimately, start kicking off and openly question if the people currently negotiating for players are actually capable of getting a big deal done for a player we want. Could be completely off-beam here but we seem to move so slowly in virtually all aspects of running the club. Obviously none of us know this but the speed and urgency we seem to operate at comes across as a bit embarrassing. Whether it's signing a big player or replacing a key exec or getting a decision on a stadium or training ground it always seems to take an age to happen relative to how other clubs operate. This isn't a toys out of the pram post by any stretch but the failure to follow up on the most successful season in decades is frustrating. The momentum seems to have been killed in the last 5 weeks as we've essentially stood still while others have moved quickly and strengthened. Not saying it's easy but other clubs seem to be dynamic and reactive to opportunities and benefit directly from it. We seem to be just plodding along

Allardyce, Souness, Carver, Pardew, Bruce, Kinnear & Dalglish - what a pack of utter cunts they all were. All shite, just different shades of brown

My main concern this summer is the fact other clubs know we've got cash to spend. As soon as we make any kind of bid then then the price goes up immediately. This happens anyway but I think it's even more pronounced as they know they can hike the price up and up and up and we're either forced to pay it or move on to the next in the list. Getting deals done at reasonable price is virtually impossible when they know NUFC is the buying club. I don't blame them but it's definitely an issue we need to contend with

I understand that decision even less No idea how you can make a new kit that is a nod to 2 totally different kits, that seems ridiculous to me

It's not bad but given how unusual the original kit was in a bit disappointed with that effort tbh. They've taken the unique aspect of the original and completely ignored it which I don't understand at all. It's a bit of a cop out really, sure loads will like it and it'll fly off the hangers but it's a wasted trefoil for me

"Respected throughout football" iirc marra

Which babies were causing cancer? Bloody Labour

Big risk to take on big Keeet I'll go for a sacking in the first week in December

My only observations would be that if Liverpool wanted him AND if Guehi wanted the move to Liverpool then it would probably have already have happened by now? I'm not that arsed either way but it's an odd one and the fact he's worth 0 in 12 months time means something will probably happen with him after June 30th