LionOfGosforth

Mendy like a modern day Sepp Maier

Jammy buggers Chelsea, hard lines Brentford

Sheep stomach head vs male genitalia. Quite the debate in here like.

Just realized you posted something similar a minute earlier

Think Chelsea, the times i've seen them this season, are a pretty tedious watch like. Very rigid, not a lot of creativity and not a lot of goals in them. Watched them a few weeks ago against Villa and they should have gotten well beaten. Not much cop today either. Werner makes runs all day but couldn't finish if his life depended on it.

80m

Boos at Villa, things not quite as brilliant and progressive there

Wolves score in the 94th minute with a mad free kick deflection, fans aal ower the shop

Tielemans delivering with quality there as usual, great player

Geet up Leicester, 4-2

Vardy like an English hard man version of Benzema there

3-2

FFS, Rashford equalizes, heck of a run and finish though

Pogba and Matic have been horrific

Leicester deservedly lead, been coming

Villa 2 up

Watching Villa vs Wolves, fucking shite first half

So sick of the sight of this God-awful character and his seriously low IQ and defensive outbursts. He's had dozens of opportunities to display humility and to get the fans even a little onside and he's wasted every one, from the first day to now. So tired of the media and the hard-done-by narrative that continually gets spewed. I doubt there's another manager would get this sort of universal media backing, with nothing of substance to support it. Every single day he continues to represent NUFC and be the manager makes me want to vomit. It's a truly sick marriage and the sooner it's over the better.

It's a daft statement for him to make it's not even truly possible in reality, unless FFP is relaxed and then we're competing with everyone with money.

Looking ahead...in an ideal world, we get a good management team in, in the next couple of weeks, pick up some results, make one or two decent January signings, we stay up. It's summer 2022, we've got 200m to spend (approximately given what's been reported, before we hit FFP issues). So, let's say we spend 200m on 5-8 players, I think realistically, that gets us somewhere close to the 8-10 spots in the league. Maybe that's a little pessimistic, but something like Villa, Everton, West Ham area. 200m is a large sum of money, so much more than we've spent for so long, but what does that get you these days? Most half-decent players seems to cost 30-40m. So let's say we're a somewhat established top 10 side, now what? We can't outspend anyone given FFP, unless there's loopholes i'm not aware of. So, and I know i'm getting way ahead of myself here but, what's the realistic plan to crack top 6, top 4? I think it has to be somewhat the Leicester model. We can't go out and sign the world's "best" or "elite", FFP won't allow that. It's not 2008 anymore, we can't just do what Man City basically did and outspend everyone. So how do we get there? Huge investment in the training ground and managerial and coaching setup is a must but I think the scouting....the scouting team has to be the best there is. Just as important as the manager, DoF etc. Who that might be? No clue, not up on the best in that area. Investment in the academy is needed but that will take years to bear fruit. If we're going to somehow get near the top 6 or top 4, we need the very best scouting to unearth those gems that we can spend 10-20m and make the leap. I don't even know if it's realistic honestly. Those top few clubs are light years ahead of us. I'm as excited as anyone but realism is starting to kick in a bit and although it's been obvious from the first moment this became real, this really is a very long-term project. Dunno, just a few random thoughts

There could be many reasons for the perceived lack of action in the past week. Could be legal, could be financial, could well be they've been knocked back by several candidates due to it being "too early" for more established people, too much risk etc I'm not saying this is the case but it's entirely possible that the consortium, in the days before the takeover was fully completed, had pre-conceived ideas that their financial clout would lead to a quick resolution to the managerial situation. It's not inconceivable that they've since come to realise that it's not quite as simple as they hoped it would be, and that finding the right manager and staff who would be willing to come in, with the right team, might take a bit longer than they initially assumed. It's also entirely possible that's bollocks and there's some legal stuff to sort and it's better to have the current setup remain until the right team is ready, to get through the next game or two. I hate Bruce and his gurning self-pitying mug as much as anyone and want him gone ASAP. Nobody really knows what's actually gone on, but we have to trust they're working their arses off behind the scenes to make the right choice and it'll happen soon.

A little bit of responsible journalism would be helpful in the coming days like. There's obvious reservations to be had away from the sporting side of things and a few influential journalists with some common sense could certainly verbalize this appropriately, without whitewashing anything, or pushing it under the carpet. It's gonna get a little bit tiring that our fanbase is being held to account by many.

Not totally up to date with modern continental managers, Is he the lad who played up top for Napoli in the 90s?

It's an astounding viewpoint and honestly betrays, at least that individual's, true colours.