Kanj

Makes you wonder what he wanted that we weren't prepared to pay, like. Didn't he chose city Bc he could play CB and not LB? The rumours at the time were that he wanted wages similar to what Robert was on, I think, but again you never know what to believe. Think the the CB/LB thing could have been an issue as well, definitely. Surely he would had played at CB since Bramble was the backup for that deal? Good point

Still can't believe Kompany was 6M

Augero is easily one of my favorite strikers these days

Makes you wonder what he wanted that we weren't prepared to pay, like. Didn't he chose city Bc he could play CB and not LB?

Anybody else still get pissed about Distin and not playing his career out for us?

Can Chelsea cancel this loan?

I still can't understand how Chelsea felt Lukaku wasn't worth building their attack around. God I wish we had this fella.

We look like a joke with Pardew in charge. Getting massacred to Liverpool at home, Sunderland at home, nearly getting relegated....getting mauled at Man City, Everton on Monday. We're a laughing stock on the pitch right now, we have a joke of an owner and a "director of boozing" who is apparently our "football" person at board-room level.

NOBODY KNOWS. We are just simply stating THE CURRENT MANAGER HAS FAILED AT HIS JOB AND NEEDS TO BE SACKED.

Responses below.... 1. Yes. 2. Yes. And No. I think you should close your browser before you EVER question my support for this club. 3. Wut 4. Wut x2 5. Wut x3 6. Pardew deserves to be sacked.

if she hit him and hurt him she'd probably have to leave the city and assume a different name and identity.

You're not even grasping my post man, let me say it another way and more clearly - WE HAVE NO CLUE WHO WE WOULD HIRE NEXT - NOBODY DOES - BUT PARDEW HAS PROVED OVER THE BODY OF HIS WORK HE DESERVES TO BE SACKED. That clear enough?

On the proviso he's more than adequately replaced I presume? What a task that'll be. Who do you think they'll appoint? Will they succeed in their task? HV - sacking Pardew gets rid of 1 fraud. Does it mean we get Frank Rijkaard or Louis Van Gaal or does it mean Joe Kinnear rides in on his golden chariot? No clue mate, its a simple statement. I hope Pardew gets sacked. David O'Leary could be our next appointment for all we know, but my statement remains, for the 65th time...I hope this c*** gets sacked.

I pray this cunt gets sacked.

our points this season have literally been because of him. So essentially our 2 wins...basically him. Fucking ridiculous AP.

Yup.

I think I agree with this mate.

Mixed perhaps?

Just hoping the silver lining here is AP is doing the only worthwhile thing he's done here in some time and that's give HBA a kick up the backside for his last 2 showings, coupled with how he could have easily played his way into the France call-up and failed to do so, that he goes to Cardiff ready to tear it the fuck up. The sheer fact we are going there looking to tighten things up worried about Cardiff fucking city says it all really.

Hopefullly this is just a kick up the backside for HBA who will be responding in training and will get a start (?? wishful thinking)

What kind of style did RDM have? Always read he was well-liked by his players and played a very offensive style of football...

I think keepers distribution is overrated a little at times tbh. Elliot is probably the best I can remember, Given's was pretty abysmal but he was an outstanding keeper. I wouldn't say there are many out there who are great, that's why the play in goal Aye it's a very difficult thing to quantify, but at the basic level having a 'keeper with excellent distribution can be a superb weapon for counter attacks while providing a base for a possession-based tactic too. Typically you'll see the bigger sides placing a high value on this sort of GK. I'd suggest having a good shot stopper is obviously more important if you tend to be a side who allow more attempts on goal, or one who has little interest in using the 'keeper in an attacking sense. In terms of NUFC: the difference to us would probably be as minimal as you suggest, given that we're not the most tactically astute side by a long chalk and we don't really have any set style of playing anyway. Interestingly (or not) I just watched Napoli this weekend and Reina was huge for them in this regard, while Genoa built much of their defensive gameplan around stopping him from being effective. They positioned themselves high up the field to cut off his short routes into the defenders and tried to force him to kick long out of his hands wherever possible, though this obviously left more space for Napoli's midfielders and attackers further up the pitch as a knock-on effect. He still managed to create a chance on goal by claiming a set piece and then quickly bombing a kick forward for Insigne, IIRC. Reina was actually on my mind when typing that, one of the rare keepers that I have actually noticed their distribution (for good reasons). Cheers, thanks Caj and Rich.

Wish we had Remy - Ba - HBA tbh. I really do miss this syrup drinking beast.

Did you watch the game? this is flat out not true. He lost it once or twice but more times than he lost it he got round the outside of Coleman and the one time he switched with Sissoko to go central he beat his man and had a decent shot. Pardew taking him off could be a number of things: he got mouthy at halftime and questioned tactics?, he was injured?, or pardew was annoyed with his selfishness and/or lack of work ethic. He was the only player trying to make something happen for us in that first half. The fact it's been 2 years running now that Pardew has refused to play him in his usual position because he's scared of Baines really annoys me. For 1, once baines was on a yellow card Ben Arfa should have been switched immediately to try and get him sent off by taking him on. Secondly if he was so scared of what Baines would do going forward surely him having Ben Arfa behind him would have meant he couldn't attack as much anyway. It's amazing how different Pardew views things though, he's far more concerned with attempting to stop other players, rather than letting the opposition worry about us, which would actually help stop opponents, as you said with regards to Baines and Ben Arfa. It honestly baffles me how somebody can be so negative all the time despite seeing very little in terms of positive results. This is my biggest issue with Pardew, out of all the issues that surround Pardew. He is s*** scared of the opposition and rarely sets his teams out in a way that gives them reason to be s*** scared of us; it doesn't matter who we play, we're always trying to control damage rather than cause it. I can't decide whether it's cowardice or a simple inability to formulate an attacking system, but either way it's his biggest limitation as a manager. In that sense even Kinnear would be a step up. Even Kinnear for f***s sake. We have Hatem Ben Arfa and Loic Remy ffs. 1 player is capable of giving any defender a nightmare, capable of beating 2-3 players at will who can create or score and in Loic Remy, a man with insane pace and great eye for goal and we've a defeatist manager too busy losing his mind over if Hatem will put in a tackle or not. Fucking hell.

Terrible statistical analysis being peddled by Ryder. But the silver lining was he called out Tiote in all of this?