Theregulars

Can folk see now how we can upgrade at manager?

Well Eddie Howe has had his first absolute disaster here.

Hate to engage in the NUFC360 shit but Bruno has been so mediocre.

Yup, one of his weak areas, alongside playing the big teams.

Why are we so afraid of passing the ball?

Hate to say it but Howe deserves so much criticism for this. Really cowardly second half.

You can tell that we’re still completely not accustomed to competing at the top level of the league in my view. This is a nervous and immature performance.

He did dive

This is pretty poor, we look scared to grab the initiative.

Big time

That’s a sitter for Botman

too timid here.

Literally almost scored a goal which would have been in contention for goal of the month, if not season, 10 mins ago. Come on

Why do you think so?

Because his employer demands it, literally that’s the answer

Morrison “why did you not send him though?” - never would have credited him but that’s good journalism straight away, and hilarious in his accent.

Right?! I genuinely believe that club embodies institutionalised cheating. No matter the era, player, manager, weather, occasion etc, they always manage to grub their way to profiting from breaking / bending / stress-testing the rules. Arteta is a total creep in my view, and i so want him to be found out.

Infantino must feel particularly female today.

Post of the decade.

I think the answer is simple. Just another crass automaton who has likely risen to the top of an organisation due to a total lack of conscience and morals and an absolute obsession with money and perceived power. As long as organisations continue to rely on sociopaths / psychopaths / people with severe personality disorders to be the face of their organisation - because they’re that grotesque and stupid that they’re able to be the meat shield - more and more of this is going to happen as the world wakes up to what the capitalist class is doing to it. It’s really fucking entertaining I think. Fuck him, he’s cornered and he’s too much of an imbecile and narcissist to concede. Guaranteed downfall on a growing bed of hubris. Passez a moi le popcorn.

I got 10 mins or so with him before the Philly event, I really enjoyed speaking with him. Obviously a man who speaks corporate and plays that game well, but didn’t come with the normal feeling of vortex of poison and malevolence when you’re near suits. Very amicable and happy to answer all questions, and seemed interested in what I had to say. If it’s an act it’s a convincing one.

If it’s true I really hope he gets a massive send-off. Seriously underrated captain and bloke. I accept it was probably a great deal for him and his talent level but he did some very useful things in some very shit times to stop things getting shitter.

While I certainly agree that it would be extremely difficult given your sexuality, I don’t think it would be hell on earth for footballers. Some of them are devout Muslims, some come from insane poverty which we can’t begin to understand, some will just enjoy sunshine and living in new lush buildings like living in a holiday resort. It has genuine appeal to people - I don’t personally feel the appeal, but I get it fully. And that’s before the nuts money is thrown in.

I disagree. I am giving the transfer window a rating on the contribution it has made to the squad, that being the primary objective of actively participating in the transfer window. It would be a better transfer window, in my view, if we added another player or 2 in positions of use to the squad. It would have been worse had we added less to the squad or added inferior players to the squad.

I'm not sure there is an objective numerical answer. Even if we assigned the window a "10" on grounds of (presumably) buying more players and keeping ASM, we wouldn't know whether ASM would have continued to be peripheral (likely in my view given obvious defensive limitations and, to my mind, equally obvious physical limitations) or whether all the signings would have worked out. I think essentially it all depends on your expectations, which are inevitably tempered by excitement and a steady diet of inaccurate information and boredom with daily life. My expectations and hopes were a bigger squad which was obviously better than last year's vintage and capable of competing on 4 fronts. I'm happy we've achieved 2 of those 3 and it remains to be seen re: the third.