Kanji

2ish years from now.... I say Kaka.

So as of today our pre-season plans are pretty shit no? Or are other teams in similar predicaments as us?

We backed up the talk of being a big club during those days by marketing and performing on the pitch. It was a big draw with a big vision. Now a days the manager opens up each window with this defeatist mentality that any of our top players are susceptible to the "big clubs." This same crap is veiled all over the club now a days I'm afraid.

He'd have to double his weight man, not even you could expect that much from him. Although I can see him winning everything with Barcelona within a year or two (thanks to Messi) and then going back to being Brazil and losing himself in the mountains of cocaine. If we get a Ronaldinho kind of deal from him, where we win stuff and still earn back our transfer free when he starts not giving a f***, I'll be happy. VI - whats the Barca lineup looking like with Neymar in the mix and whoever else you decide to buy or promote from within?

This. Nees on point. Ref should have sent off 2 Bayern players. Crazy as this sounds, I was totally gutted at that result. Still am.

He actually needs to start saying that and needs to show a bit of confidence.

Kloppo man. What a man. His interviews are insanely entertaining and his team/philosophies are basically what the sport is all about.

Krul Debuchy MYM Colo Santon Sissoko Cabaye Ben Arfa Marv Aubameyang Cisse If we sign Aub and nobody else in attack.

Who's everyone cheering for besides a cracking match? Dortmund for me. Klopp and Lewandowski.

If Taylor were to leave, his injury record would improve massively and he'll be fit as ever. You just know it Seriously can't see him going to OM and living in France man.

RVP? Wat.

This forum has missed Baba a helluva lot. Top post man.

Post above, ftw. That would be dreamworthy stuff

A front 6 of Cab & Sissoko in CM with Aub, HBA, Bony, and Cisse? Me like.

Only Ben Arfa has vids of him boxing one summer, driving around tourists in his car in town, or playing some offseason footie with friends/randoms.

Obviously have to back him and the board now even though I'm not pleased with their decision. I think we'll be OK next season - just hope we get a move-on the transfer front and making backroom changes in terms of coaching and physio/fitness to make sure we keep our top players on the pitch and not pulling up with muscle injuries so much. I just hope we get to see a fully fit Ben Arfa and Sissoko bossing it out there and Cisse with some thunder bastards of epic proportions.

100% spot on. We've been crying for a turn-around for every season since Bobby left! Minus last season of course. It's exhausting man.

Make the necessary changes in the backroom staff, sign players in-need positions, clear the wasteful members in our squad, sort our overall tactical plan and hopefully we improve. We must. Last season can't ever happen again.

Wish he had the foresight and dignity that he's clearly not up for the job and walked.

We should aim for a sugar daddy / Russian Billionaire / anyone in Arab. Dunno, i'm torn on that. I like our club the way it is. Nobody is laying us fat stacks, we do it ourselves. In the same vein I think George Osbourne and Richard Branson are both t***s but I respect Branson a lot more. Been thinking about this today, and things "we do ourselves" has given us mediocre finishes, a relegation, a Europa league finish, and a 16th place finish. What exactly have we done ourselves? This post is NOT aimed at you loki man, just really wondering about this whole thing. Mind you, I'm a finance person - I've always been fond of our lack of indebtedness to a bank and how we've scouted great young players before others have. I'm just sort of thinking I've fallen into the Ashley trap here. I went to uni in newcastle way back when. I worked 30 hours a week to pay my rent, tuition etc. Missed loads of classes due to work but I still got my degree, I didn't have any other choice. The guy I was living with was studying law and his father was a lawyer. His parents were divorced so he never had to work a day the whole 4 years. He got full grants, full loans and a generous allowance each month from his dad. His degree is worth no more than mine in the real world. Even to him, his degree is worth just as much as mine, as it should be, but you're damn f***ing straight I worked harder for it and that does give me some pride. Was wondering where you were going with the story, but nicely done at the end. I feel you man.

The only way they show ambition without sacking Pardew is sanctioning some really, really early signings of names Ben Arfa, Cabaye etc get excited about.

We should aim for a sugar daddy / Russian Billionaire / anyone in Arab. Dunno, i'm torn on that. I like our club the way it is. Nobody is laying us fat stacks, we do it ourselves. In the same vein I think George Osbourne and Richard Branson are both t***s but I respect Branson a lot more. Been thinking about this today, and things "we do ourselves" has given us mediocre finishes, a relegation, a Europa league finish, and a 16th place finish. What exactly have we done ourselves? This post is NOT aimed at you loki man, just really wondering about this whole thing. Mind you, I'm a finance person - I've always been fond of our lack of indebtedness to a bank and how we've scouted great young players before others have. I'm just sort of thinking I've fallen into the Ashley trap here.

What's so wrong with money? Why do people harp on "doing it right" when nobody is doing right, and never has. The clubs that spend the most money win trophies or at last compete for them. What is the point in sport if you just want to be "10th place"? There are few clubs in the world who actually win their leagues that have done it the right way, and those happen in leagues not dripping with cash. Soon or later, Monaco will start challenging PSG in France if not next season, and so it goes on. "Stability" - sure I'll take stability when we are consistently fighting for a title, a cup or a champions league position and the following year we can be optimistic that we could challenge for the title. But the fuck does stability have to do when you go from 1 end of the table to the other and you're penny pinching?

It all goes back to the top, if the man up top has failed to identify the quality of players he's OK'd to be brought in aren't performing because the man charged to manage the football team can't, then we've got an idiot owner who's failed us once again. Its all great to see Hatem and Colo on the pitch, but Pardew and co. are completely wasting the talent on the pitch and Big Mike is just as much to blame for backing him. I'll maintain this point and hope I'm proved wrong one day, but shit won't change until Mike sell's up. Its clear as day.

We've all been fed an incredible story about a blue print and hiring the man take us forward and push on. The lies started a long time ago when he bought us and they've never stopped or learned a damn thing.