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He seems to execute short passing better than Shelvey.

I simply don't understand why boo him? Given the injury he is the most sensible choice right? Why?

Ashley is the core reason for our ten+ years struggle Ashley is the one who create chaos for all our transfer windows Ashley is the one who fucked up Rafa uncountable times Ashley is the one who gives a fuck about the fans And according to our captain AFTER GETTING A PAYRISE, he is a NICE GUY To those who defend for Lascelles, I just wanna give you a middle finger.

Don't know why but we are obviously better after the three subs.

I genuinely think he needs to be booed next match for those comments. No way he can get a free pass.

Nowadays every new contract signed amid speculation always comes with a renewed release clause And the player will be sold within a few months.

Wrong. The concept of "profitable championship club" simply doesn't exist. If the fat cunt try to do what you said I guarantee you we will go straight to League One.

Nah I guarantee we will get sold very quickly if we stayed in Championship more than one season. It's simple. He wants to gamble for immediate promotion. That single year would already incur 50m+ loss assuming the team didn't sell any players (we don't have any sellable assets anyway). Once we failed, unless we did a quick fire sale we would incur much larger loss in the coming year. These two year alone could cost him something like 150m imo. However if we did sell everything to fund the loss we will no longer be able to sell for decent money. He won't swallow it. If the fat cunt continue to gamble, fine, that's how Sunderland got sold for basically nothing. The loss accumulated these few years could easily exceed his total investment amount put into the club so far.

RIP to all. Heartbreaking.

Perez our main striker? What?

Just to add, the cost for Rafa to sign > cost for new manager in January > relegation That's why an improved offer (I guess) is tabled now.

No, I genuinely think the club wants him to stay. The unclear future of Rafa does affect the team's morale and the club wants this cleared asap to boost the dress room. But yea they still don't give what Rafa wants. So Rafa please continue to ignore. Don't back down.

What I dislike or disappointed at Kenedy is I think he knows what he's doing. He knows how to play to contribute to our team just like last season. However he changed his attitude early this season and wanna utilise this loan to showcase his skills and thus played very selfishly and always did unnecessary skills, in expense of our team results. And now he knows we are in crisis and so he changed back his playstyle.

The new deal is always there, just not the terms that Rafa demands.

Thats why we need to relegate to get rid of him.

I saw a photo showing the owner and his daughter walking towards the helicopter before taking off...

He is better today, played like last season imo.

If it is explosion in mid-air prior to landing then this sounds like a murder to me.

We would be lucky to get him here if Rafa leaves.

Exploded in the air?

His movement and ability to find space are incredible. A perfect support striker imo.

Muto should play alongside with some big striker like Mitrovic

Bye, good for the lad in fact.

Muto started the last two games tbf. How is Joselu the first choice? Oh, and Rondon is injured. Atsu cost £6.2m. Merino didn't get back in the team following his injury because he lost his form and Diame was playing so well, then he wanted to leave. What could Rafa do about that? Actually, I could easily argue against every point you make there. Rafa bought players for the championship who are still here, because we can't sell them, either because we can't replace them, the wages are too high (nothing to do with Rafa) or nobody else wants them. Muto is not a striker who can play upfront alone. He is simply not that type of player, especially when we play so many long ball. Atsu cost us 10m in total including the loan fees. Merinos problem is about the clause. Basically, he joined us on a condition that he could move on as long as any team would pay the amount we paid to Dortmund. Now tell me what's the point of this deal then? The player plays well - left within a year and we got nothing. The player plays shit - we got a deadwood in our squad. And yea if Merino enjoys life here what should you do? Give him faith and ask him to sign another contract to change the clause. And no, Rafa didn't give him faith after his injury and so that's it. Of course Merino would leave. And of course we would get nothing left behind. Now tell me what's the point of getting him at the first place, and why handle the situation like that given our only way out is to pursuade him to sign another contract? Yea I agree Diame deserves the starting spot but for teams development you should play Merino instead, especially after our safety was guaranteed. For the last point, yea if what we get is that shit and can't move on then what's the point of bringing in other shits that can't replace them and make a change to our team? Yea you got it fucking spot on. The likes of Ki Schar or even Muto do looks like the new deadwoods in the making. Never mind Joselu Ritchie Hayden Manquillo etc.

I don't blame Rafa for settling for 4th 5th or 6th choices but I genuinely didnt feel that Rafa really has a plan to play or incorporate that player into our team. His handling of Murphy and in a way Muto are highly questionable imo. The likes of Gamez Ki who cost nothing okay fine I could accept them being number fillers. But Murphy and Muto who costs us 10m should at least be a player that should bring changes to our team right? No, Ritchie is still the automatic starter despite not up to EPL standard and Joselu is 5m striker is still his preferred choice. Perez is still the only no.10 since Rafa has no plan to play Muto there. Atsu who costs us 10m total is basically non-existent. Manquillo is still the only backup for both side backs. We do have lots of choices at centre back but then why do we need to bring in Fernandez when Clark is still there? First choice Lascelles Lejuene with Schar Clark as backup is more than enough. Of coz Fernandez looks a great signing which Rafa deserves credit but wait a minute is that means Clark or Schar is going to get close to zero minutes this coming season? Is this Rafa's plan? Never mind the strange Merino deal and all the issues regarding the sale of Mitrovic. I genuinely don't agree with a lot of his decisions regarding transfer. Rafa has done an excellent job in making wonders out of a bunch of shits and no way he should be sacked or responsible for the whole disaster created by the fat cunt. But I am really not a fan of Rafa when it comes to transfers.