Kanj

I think the major theme for me is we were an absolute force 2 seasons ago, and we had shown signs of it before the injury crisis and yet still worked our bollocks out to be 7th and should be in Europe. Yet, this summer was pure shit storm and now we have all this unnecessary drama where we had to scramble for PSR, Gordon + Bruno out all summer on international tourneys, Trips having personal issues, squad all out of wack, Mehrdad and Amanda leaving/needing money, Mitchell in, Howe and him butting heads potentially. All this fucking drama is so annoying.

Really takes us out of any rhythm.

This game is mad

I jinxed city massively like

Wow. Insane.

I miss happy, summer scout Kaka. This version of you is bad for the forum.

Wow. Feel for Rodri.

This is just man city’s world and we’re just attempting to shave a few points off their titles.

Need to be doing everything imaginable to get this lad more than 2 chances a game with one being a hope and hit. Hes absolutely deadly.

My favorite thing about him is how quickly he decides to move the ball on and it’s generally forward.

Howe apparently really likes him.

I know he probably won’t change but I’d love to see us get Bruno and Tonali in a 2 man pairing with Willock as a 10; Gordon, Barnes and Isak up top. Hopefully that solves isolation issues for Isak, it brings much needed pace to the attack, and can be the makings of simple triangles to keep the ball. Defensively it gives us better chance of not being cut through as well. When we counter we will have the front 4 bombing on. This also allows willock to float a bit and do us under and overlapping.

Great post mate.

just look at what we did to Paris at home and Arsenal at home just as early as last season. The Arsenal one in particular was an all out slug fest.

And neither got a minute today, but thank you.

FYI I literally work in acquisitions, where my entire life is based on convincing my key stakeholders and fellow folks to agree to a deal. It’s my job, not theirs, to make the case. And if they say no, that’s literally on them and I have to find ways to make a deal work. I don’t throw my toys out and say “fuck them!” I find out what they want and are looking for and rebuild my case or change tact. While I want Mitchell to knock it out the park and find us our next Dani Olmo and Sadio Mane, it’s also on Mitchell to work with our manager to convince him as such. It’s also on Mitchell to convince his corporate colleagues to keep driving the commercial side to fund deals. it’s also on Mitchell to convince Eddie that selling Miggy or Murphy makes sense because the underlying data + the replacement supports that thesis. If you think Eddie is just going to say NO, my way or highway then you are lost. He’s never acted on his own self interests at NUFC.

*didn’t sign obscure CB *why don’t we shove out Miggy to Saudi, fuck his feelings *we should be run like a corporate club ^^news flash, for our entirety of the last 30+ years the reason we’ve got this absolutely mad fan base is the absolutely mad way this club has always been run, good and bad. It just so happened to click beyond measurable levels the past 3 years post takeover. But it’s all very start-up hype and it’s raw, unorthodox and fun. We back the absolute freaks who go 100% all-in on NUFC and not the corporate stiffs and suits. Every time you see one of those, you probably get run the fuck out of town. You back the ones who get IT. Never did I truly grasp that more than my last 3 trips to Newcastle in the last 18 months.

Bruno gets that foul every game, so no, it wasn’t embarrassing. Gordon’s. Yes. Awful.

I think the world of his talent spotting and his record at Southampton, Spurs and RB, but his time at Monaco from 2020 onwards wasn’t perfect. There wasn’t Olmo or Mane there, maybe, yet.

Expand please. Why are we so screwed?

I think Ancelotti would have us winning trophies tbh. I’d also love to see our Paul Mitchell brigade back Paul over Don Carlo fucking nerds.

To be fair, think KI is clearly pointing to 13th and 10th @ Everton under Ancelotti.

Ah and to make it clear, football clubs are fans, the players, the manager. When the suits and corporate boys make it about them they are lost and should be fucking shot out of a cannon. The best operators are the ones you don’t hear about or from. They get on with their jobs and make it work.

I read those reports but I’ve also read the other ones that talk about what Ashworth wasn’t doing, what he wasn’t good at. What his actual functional problem was. The fact he wasn’t a scout. The fact he was dragging fucking ass getting deals done or negotiated. The fact that the manager in the prior setup was a final-say person and the owners, the ones EH and Ashworth reported to, weren’t happy with. It only became this weird obsession that EH was too tight with Amanda and co when the CEO decided to say some comments that you are now taking for gospel Again. Ill repeat this and we can agree to disagree - you are taking the opinion and word of a CEO who’s been here for a couple of years and a DOF who spends a couple of years at clubs before leaving. Yep, Mehrdad and Amanda have no experience in footbal, but the decisions they made with Jamie and PIF > Eales ‘charge’. And if he felt he was underminded by two folks who had 10% of the club, he shouldn’t be shocked. He doesn’t and will never have a fucking once of cred they did. They saved us from MA. I’ll take their unorthodox level over his at this point. He’s been in charge of growing commercial and all he’s got is a friendly Adidas deal (thanks PIF/Saudi) and Sela (thanks PIF). Darren Eales has ALL to prove and absolutely 0 credit in the bank for me and should for most fans. Same goes to Paul Mitchell. Track record elsewhere means nothing here once the season starts for corporates.

The fact isak’s looking for tap ins and not banging in worldies and curlers or neat finishes is a real problem that needs to be solved by EH