Kanj

Eales publicly inviting bids for our top players was more ridiculous than expecting Europe when we had no money to spend. And whether you want to debate one in and one out, that’s another story but he and our our board can fuck off if they attempt to try and push anything on Eddie after the injury luck we’ve been dealt with.

ah come on man, don’t come on the game thread and speak about Miley not being up to it after he put in a great all around performance, esp if you didn’t watch it yet.

ya, Tonali Joelinton and Willock are fast and strong. I think Libra should be our first choice LB until Trips hangs it up. And 100% issue not having a fast CB.

It’d be a far different discussion if we were nearly fully fit and playing this way, yet still being 7th seems fine with me, in any circumstance. I didn’t spend 27 years of my life following club to lose my shit after finally being relevant and having fun again under this current run with Howe.

What do people really expect? We’ve been without half a team all season. I’m annoyed about the left back issue but otherwise I have no real other things to say about the matter. We’re still 7th with half a squad and still in the FA cup.

How do people watch the game and think Miley wasn’t pretty damn good and almost everything he did today? And calling him naive is fucking insane. Calling a 17 year old kid naive when he’s playing football with grown men is really odd. He made numerous tackles today and actually did quite well 1 v 1. His passing and driving forward very good. I think he’s absolutely ready. What seems bigger issue to me is the third partner lacking the pace or physicality to make up for his more elegant style of play. The left back issue. The right wing issue. The lack of striker issue. The lack of depth or rotation issue. Lack of quality subs issue.

How many do we concede on the left too?

Should studs = VAR check ?

Ref better give us this much yellow card leniency

Eddie has always been a “if you’re not all in then you gotta go” kind of person. I love it. That’s my manager.

If the stadium was out of the city right now and was trying to be moved in city the arena site / along the river would be a lottery win of a location. But as it stands I don’t know how you don’t just maximize what we have and where we have it. Cost aside, it’s absolutely perfect. And always, the only way you can get round to building a new one nearby now is basically replicating the one that failed under SJH but not making it look like a soulless bowl.

Tore his peck doing a completely useless and unnecessary tussle at the end of an away match. When a shield, boot it into row z would have sufficed. If anyone wants to try and make excuses you’re insane. He’s 32. He’s not 50. It’s beyond a joke how often this guy gets hurt. And before anyone says anything else I’m someone who thinks cal is a king. Love his drive and where he came from and what he represents as a man who made something of his life.

I don’t really know the names but someone from abroad who has the contact book, who’s our main negotiation person on the deals, and doesn’t neglect the infrastructure building we’ve begun since the takeover and Ashworth came on. Whether that means we have 1 for 1 replacement or 1 for 2, don’t care.

I’ll have a go: 1. Wenger rule offside, there is no single advantage of a guys shoulder or knee cap being marginally ahead and therefore at an advantage 2. Pen only for deliberate denial of a legit goal scoring chance: ie handball when shot taken has real chance of going in, trip or tackle of a player when he’s 1 v 1 or getting past goalie etc. 3. All other fouls in box are indirect kicks 4. No foul or penalty given for diving, contact needs to be real and players selling fouls of any type deserves a yellow 5. Sin bin blue cards scrapped immediately 6. Ref decisions for cards or fouls are announced to the stadium + on tv like rugby 7. VAR is used but fully transparent while live. 8. Champions league is smaller 9. Uefa Cup returns and is bigger (no more Europa league) 10. Rebrand conference league badk to cup competition 11. Bin FFP/PSR and create a proper inflation adjusted, moving target wage cap based on the league overall health and revenue (ala NFL) 12. In order to protect insolvency and overspending, club owners need to provide escrow cash reserves each season that should cover unforeseen or help fund working capital. 13. Bin the rules re related party sponsors and fair market value nonsense and let it all trade and be free market 14. Make every club pay a % of revenues from sponsors into a football fund to support grassroots and women’s games

We'd laughing our faces off if we replaced him with michael edwards.

Not a single person in italian press or media, or the Milan fan here, or social media had any rumor of the "ringleader" and people knowing. You thinking Milan knew, ya, many of us did. but that shit never leaked. It wasn't even joked about. It all came out and hit a head pretty quickly. So while I appreciate what you're trying to say, you've made a hefty # of assumptions. There isn't a single person in football who would have uncovered this in their standard or additional deep dive DD of a footie player.

Really do miss first season loan spell Targett. He was strong, good in the tackle, offered a left footed set piece and had good reading of the game.

Need to get ya in the gym, mate.

When Pope is fit and full of confidence there's not many better in the league and in Europe. He upped his level with us IMO. Our goals conceded/defensive record with him vs. without him is massively telling.

“He has lived his life at nicely-run teams that people like. Now he’s gone to possibly the most-hated club within football and it will be hard for him to get cheap deals done,” the former colleague said before he joined Newcastle. “Everyone knows how much money they have and everyone will want to do him over; it’s not somewhere he’s been before.” Regardless, Newcastle’s owners certainly saw Ashworth as the sporting director they needed to mastermind their St James’ Park revolution, and now Manchester United’s do too. ^from the athletic. ^^ first off, fuck you, whoever said that to the athletic. "possibly the most-hated club within football" "everyone knows how much money they have" ^^^ remember when we were owned by a guy who drained the lifeblood of a city? did anyone care then? remember when he made a mockery of our stadium with his logos? did the culture and sport government folks give a single fuck? remember when he relegated us multiple times with negligent decisions? did anyone care to question why this man is in football? and now because our club is owned by PIF, a company nobody cared about until they got into football, we're suddenly having to still hear how hated we are? have we made any vanity signings? have we broken any rules selling fringe to Saudi for massive premiums? are we signing above market sponsorship deals and behaving like anything other than a club operating within its means? FUCK OFF.

Look at tbd previous page and comments to articles online and social media. We’ve got a solid active base of fans who freak at this sort of stuff. I’m glad he set up our foundation of a proper club and cleaned up the mess. If he goes then the next man up.

If he goes we’ll sign a new one and keep moving forward. People need to fucking relax, man. This happens in football. See Pep’s comments about their guy leaving for Man United. Have some pride or backbone.

We’d have made it out of their group.