Begbie

Dont remember if we released him, but he is still on our official homepage

Keep: Given and Krul Enrique, Baye, Faye, Taylor, Cacapa, and Rozenhal. Zoggy, Milner and lett Butt finnish his career here, and become a coach here after his playingdays. Martins get rid off: Harper isnt getting any younger, and we need to let our youngsters get experience. Carr, Ramage, and Babayaro Emre, Duff, Barton, Geremi, Owen, Viduka, Smith and Ameobi Buy: Cover for Beye and Enrique. Hole new midfield, Priority should be a creative and a defensive midfielder(PS! The defensive midfielder needs to know how to pass the ball) 1 topp class striker, and two real talented ones(no ameobi talent).

I dont know how to feel, its just crazy I hope he doesnt ruin his great reputation, and that he can finnish what he startet the last time, and lift a trophy here. Would love him to beat Man Utd at the finnish line :smitten: But i cant see that happening...

Jose Pekerman is the only one who comes to my mind.

Best Game: Beating Bolton 3-1 on the opening day of the season. It gave me so much hope for what was comming. Best Signing: Habib Beye and Faye atm. Great signings like many of you allready said. Enrique is a player i think will become great. Worst Game: Losing 1-0 away to Derby. I was gonna bet money on Derby not winning a game this season, and they tok 4/6 points against us this season Worst Signing: Barton is the worst signing. I hoped he was gonna be our Gerrard, but he is gonna be more like Mean Machine Parting thoughts: It was time for him to quit,he wasnt up to the job. If he had taken it 1-3 years ago I think he would have been the man to get us in to top 4. But it seems like he has lost his motivation for the game, and wasnt the authority he needed to be. He wasnt so "big" afterall.

Would love to see Pekerman here But cant see that happening

I think it was the right decision, but the wrong time maybe. The problem for me is, Big Sam didnt seem motivated enough. For me it seemed like he had lost the player group, and many of the fans(maybe the majority). So it was no way back, unless he got a new team to work with, and with his comment that he would trust the players not to get him sacked(or what he said), didnt do things any better. I thought Big Sam was an authority figure like Alex Ferguson or Fabio Capello, but here at our club he didnt seem like a big enough person. Chris Mort and Mike Ashley seems like two smart persons, and I can think they sacked him without having a plan about it(atleast i hope so =) I just hope they get it right now, its time to get an authority figure, a Big name manager who can attract players himself, a manager like Benitez, Mourinho etc. We can only wait and see, but just won 2 of 15 games isnt good enough when you play as shite football as we have done. Good Luck to Big Sam(and maybe his early retirement), and good luck to Mort and Ashley to find the right manager.

Florent Malouda went out and said: "“Training sessions here are terrifying. They are just like matches, and you go flat out. During the actual games it is as though everybody’s brains are switched off. People play by instinct, spontaneously, in the way they did when they first discovered football.”" http://lyon.theoffside.com/player-news-and-rumors/florent-malouda-is-not-impressed-by-chelsea.html Maybe there is something wrong with our training session, cause our players doesnt play by instinct. I think we our biggest problem is that we lack a game plan, we have no attacking play. We just shoot the ball forward and hope for the strikers to do something with it. If we had attacking play, our midfielder could pick out players, I think our strikers would score more goals.

What do you mean by a free role? To me he needs to be told exactly what to do, and if it was down to me I'd have him playing on the shoulder of the last defender. I wouldn't tell him to play where he wants. Although he looks like that's what he is doing at times. When I say free role, i mean he can move over the hole pitch up front, not just down the wings or in the middle(and it isnt just a Football Manager Phrase. But whenever ppl dont agree in here, they just say stop play football manager, its getting old). But like ppl say, he need seriously coaching too. Does he genuinely strike you as having the intelligence to take up good positions if he was told to play where he wants? He seems totally ill-suited to such a role to me as he takes up such poor positions (starting positions and anticipatory runs etc.). Actually he does to me, you dont need to be a rocket scientist to play football. Martins is more of a working striker for me, a player who can score goals from long range, and need to start doing this. He isnt like Owen who is class in getting behind the defenders, so why play him like that? We need to get the best out of him, and a free role would suit him imo.

What do you mean by a free role? To me he needs to be told exactly what to do, and if it was down to me I'd have him playing on the shoulder of the last defender. I wouldn't tell him to play where he wants. Although he looks like that's what he is doing at times. When I say free role, i mean he can move over the hole pitch up front, not just down the wings or in the middle(and it isnt just a Football Manager Phrase. But whenever ppl dont agree in here, they just say stop play football manager, its getting old). But like ppl say, he need seriously coaching too.

Martins has gone backwards since he joined us. When he gets the ball in a decent position, he is always stopping it, instead of going forward. It seems like he lack confidence, and has become aware of his first touch. Big Sam really need to adress the problem with Martins, and like Skrige said I think he needs a free role up front. He alse need to shoot more, he seems afraid to shoot these days...

Many people are screaming for a new back four, but if we got nesta, rio ferdinan etc back there. Would that solve our problem? My answer would be no. We need midfield players who can pass the ball, keep possesion(if we have possession the other team wont score, cause we have the ball. Isnt that logic? ), be creative, can score from long range, has lots of pace, and can help out the back four. To score more goals, should we just keep buying strikers? We still need midfield players who can feed them the ball, not those long balls from defence, cause they are so easily for the other team to deal with. I would love for us to get Bentley, but i think he would be priced to high. But we should find a much simular player to him, or a new ronaldo type of player. Im not a scout, but if Big Sam has such a huge network out there, its time to use it now.We need central attacking midfielders also, and we need a box to box player.

I say, Buy 3 attacking creativ players. And one of them should now how to score from distances, someone like Juninho in Lyon. We also need players who has lots of pace and can run with the ball. Remember attacking is the best defence!

I agree with most of what you are saying. But saying that we dont have blamed the players is wrong. Just look at Bramble, Dyer, Robert, recently Cacapa and even milner , those are just a few players that we have blamed. I think one of our problem is, that we have to get behind the team even more when its going bad, instead of just booing everyone. But at the end of the day, it is the manager who picks the players, buy and sell , pick the tactics etc. So he is the person to blame, and his job to be questioned first. I like Big Sam, and much of his training methods and stuff, but his tactics are shite, and it seems like he is loosing the dressingroom and the players arent motivated. I would love to move him into becomming the first DOF for us, and get a GREAT manager to take over our team.

Our freekicks are just wasted. We need a player who can score from freekicks! I think Geremi is the worst freekick taker in the premiership.

is Jose Enrique injured?

England should go after Lippi.

Mike Ashley should get his wallet out if we can attract/get the right players. I dont think he should go out and buy just because he can, and we end up with another luque or so. I feel we need a midfielder who can shoot from distance, and it would be great if he was creative too.

I agree with everything youre saying here. And it was the same thing I was thinking.

First of all; didnt Gullit resign from his job? "Newcastle's under-fire manager Ruud Gullit has resigned blaming the media for invading his privacy" SBR took over a squad that had played 7 games without winning in the league, so comparing the start of SBR area and Big Sam area would be wrong imo. The transfer window was closed, so SBR couldnt buy players, he had to wait till the january transfer window before he could get his "own" players. Well enough with the history lesson for now. Big Sam was never my first choice as manager, but after the appointment of Graeme Souness and Glen Roeder, we couldnt excactly pick who ever we wanted. But I wanted Svennis more than Big Sam. Svennis can attract bigger and better players just for his name, he also has a large network around the world, and he wants to play football - Not just try to get a result. Big Sam hasnt had the best of starts for NUFC, but thats not the problem. IMO we havent come anywere from last season, the only thing that is better is the team morale. We have gotten lucky points from teams we should go out and out play, instead we have gotten outplayed. When was the last time we played out a team? When was the last time we had a tap in goal? I actually think it was in the start of Graeme Souness's time. If Big Sam doesnt qualify for European football, he should get sacked. And i feel the transfer window in january, then we will see what his intentions are. In most games we should enter the field trying to outplay the other team, against Chelsea, Man Utd, Liverpool, and Arsenal its ok to try to out muscle them, but the rest should we control the game. Sorry for my bad English :-)

Why is Owen on the field instead of Martins?

He hasnt played this season, that is worrying me, and he aint getting any younger But if he is gonna make it in the premiership, Big Sam is the man to coach him.

Most people in here say they want to wait til the end of the season before sacking Big Sam(if he is gonne get sacked). So the question should be, which pos will save or loose his job?

I dont know why Big Sam started Cacapa and Faye in central defense, they were strugling with the pace against Reading to. ¨ I dont think Big Sam has taken us anyway yet, I still have high hopes, but his tactics doesnt seem to be so very good :|

I think Geremi should be dropped, and he shouldnt play in the winger position. And he should stop taking our freekicks, corners etc. The guy cant shoot or pass the ball, cant believe Big Sam cant see this.You don try to chip the ball in goal from 35 meters, It is such a waste of the freekick. Think Milner was good last game, when he came in as a sub. and he got a goal. We need to buy aa world class winger to replace milner, atleast fight for his place in the team.