thomas

I'm all for whatever solution keeps us from having our forwards play on the halfway line and picking up the ball in their own half. New forwards, new manager, new fullbacks, I don't give two fucks what it is.

whoever it is will be found out for shagging underage goats or something such is our luck

Realistically? Yes. By a fucking mile. In FM2007 land no. We would have Mancini in as DoF with Hitzfeld as manager by now.

Allardyce really is the point on the graph where the lines "chances of newcastle landing him" and "managerial ability" cross. Mancini or Sven or whomever I think we've got no shot at and alternatives are worse.

let's swap him for their reserves back 4. Surely one of them has a better chance of coming good.

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THE CHAIRMAN DOESN'T* BUY PLAYERS * DOES, BUT SHOULDN'T** ** PROBABLY SHOULD WITH GLENN IN CHARGE TBH*** *** BUT WHOS FAULT IS THAT?

die and rot in hell, glenn roeder

Are you just a bad comedian or a functionally retarded xenophobe?

31 of them to date. Surely a better fate than being one of the 19 braindead mongs voting "yes" ...

He has 2.

"I didn't touch his balls, or if I did it was no more than he touched my balls. We have to compete for all balls. Please tell me something is lost in translation here

The next Bobby Pires tbh

rest assured when I eventually buy the club I'll relocate to the northeast so none of this "running it from across the atlantic" mess.

Strange I know but I want to say > £20m, despite all our various debts. One last roll of the dice by Shepherd. The development deal goes through and we'll get some kind of loan based against future returns from it as well as the new Sky money, sales of players and maybe a judge eats a dodgy lasagna and decides to rule in favor of us against the FA. Can't explain it but I have a feeling there'll be a war chest there for Roeder to misspend. Of course £20m won't be able to buy what £20m once did.

Scunthorpe.

I think Souness deserves another crack at it

first time for everything

Carr and bramble are shite, plain and simple. Would not pardon. I don't think Bramble will improve under anyone, ever, and Carr has racked up more chins than appearances this season. Babayaro could conceivably be consistently average-good. Luque I just don't know. Has been shite since coming here really, don't know what it would be like to see him under a top class manager.

So long as he at least takes the fat man with him

simpleton attitude when do you judge this? after 18 months? over a similar budget than Roeder has? how would the 'but I've only signed 3 players excuse be treated when it comes from Sven's mouth? how about the fact SGE would demand a 5 year contract, whereas Roeder had enough balls to admit for the good of the club he would take 2 and be fairly judged at the end of that period? How about you answer a question for once in your miserable life instead of trying to put the other person on the back foot by deluging them with questions in response? It's pointless attempting a flimsy defense of Roeder with all these hypothetical questions because absolutely nothing would have played out the same. Simple yes or no for a simple boy: Do you think Roeder is doing better than SGE would?

Does anyone honestly disagree with the assertion that we'd do better under SGE than Roeder?

No I'm going to need some help with that one.

I AM NOT DOING MATH ON A FOOTBALL FORUM.

Assuming we did want to sell him it's established no one would take him on current wages, so he wouldn't move. So if we don't want to keep him around we'd have to buy out his contract, saving no money and costing us a bundle all at once. So it's bleed a little over time until the end of his contract and have a decent player on board, or go a few million down at once and have another position to fill that was well down on the priority list already. Option A every time. I don't understand this "get rid" bollocks as though it's easy enough to phone up clubs who would both afford and want him, and demand they take him off our hands. It's not happening.