AlanSkÃrare

Roma's new stadium looks cracking. http://stadiodellaroma.com/images/inside-the-stadium

It's always like this with Hatem. He comes on, reminds everyone that he's the best talent at the club. The situation with him potentially leaving is a travesty and down to one man's incompetence only. He's been unable to utilize his talent as we're never aiming to impose ourselves, but rather hand over initiative and play opportunistic attacking football. In a team looking for initiative and control, Hatem is the sort of player who creates space for others as he draws attention, and unlocks opposition when passing and movement is being cancelled out. Watching Deolofeu last night was painful with regards to this.

Think he could flourish with movement and aggression around him. Won't happen under Pardew and we can't afford to carry another striker who's allergic to goals.

Why did the left-back subs stop when we needed them for the first time? This feels somewhat forced because he's an academy lad. It's painfully obvious Haïdara should be playing.

If Pardew vanishes, at least there's more chance of turmoil and Ashley packing in. He fucking has to go. He's holding things together for Ashley. Without him we'd be left with someone that couldn't even carve out results with half of France's starting XI and subsequently implode. I'd rather we flirted with relegation and a possible Ashley/Pardew exit than this tarnishing fucking nothingness. It eats me up.

Decent technique but no threat whatsoever. Spend the money () elsewhere.

It's one thing seeing us get fucking humiliated. It's another thing anticipating it, explaining why it happens and pointing to the fix needed for a fucking year and still sit yourself down and watch it happen time and time and time again. He's the most shining defeatist fucking scum I've ever seen in association with NUFC and the most infectuous symptom of the Ashley tyranny.

So Satka - any good?

Can't wait for all the substantial bids.

Beyond caring if he's getting better. He's in on the whole act of reducing the club to a fucking black hole.

"Teams normally hit 40 pts and switch off but we haven't done that." 1. We lost 7 of 8 games and sold Cabaye as soon as we were safe. 2. Which teams quit on 40 points? In January?

If Pardew was in charge of transfers we'd be left with: Butland Rosenior Tomkins Taylor Dummett Obertan Noble Perch Sissoko Long Bent

Aye, like the masses of goals and assist provided by Obertan, Shola and Sissoko and the rest of the players that have been preferred over him during the past seasons.

This is a fucking tragedy, the club's fading away. The Benjamin Buttons of football clubs.

Tbf Sturridge has always scored goals when ever he started games. At Bolton he couldn't stop scoring and at Chelsea when he got regular games even though it was on the right wing he still was their top scorer at the time The bloke clearly has a knack for finding the back of the net. As for Sterling i have always liked him right from the get go, sure he was raw as all kids are but he clearly had talent to do something great if he continue to improve. I'll give you Henderson, but at the end of the day none of these players are scrubs they all had potential to be good players and in Sturrridge's case great. While Rodgers deserves a boat load of credit, its not like he's taken Shola type players and made them quality. I think he's done a lot to utilise the talents of these players, Sturridge being the most prominent beforehand, but he's not been playing to this level before. I'd add Flanagan to the list as well, plus his ability to make Coutinho effective.

For me it's very strange how they don't seem to analyse their patterns and ideas when it costs them again and again. Moyes last night, and on many occasions this season, makes substitutions and tactical changes that reduces his team's ability to relieve themselves of pressure and keep hold of the ball. We see this with Pardew all the time as well. Instead of soaking up pressure and punishing the opposition, like most functional teams do when they lead (Liverpool being the prime example this season, us leaving Robert at the half-way line under Sir Bobby), there's some sort of no-mans-land structure that leaves defenders with no options in midfield, and strikers not stretching the opposition. Their entire teams are sitting ducks for the majority of the 2nd half, unable to play themselves out of pressure, hold on to the ball or counter-attack. Another thing that strikes me is the use of wingers. They're practically being used as extra full-backs when they lead. Instead of countering the opposition further up the pitch, it creates a situation where there isn't any option out wide when the ball is won back. Instead, they (and us) have to operate in small pockets of space in and around our own area and find strikers who seek space out wide. I don't know how many times we've locked the ball with Rémy or Shola just below the half-way line and consequently lost it to a throw in etc. Meanwhile, if a team like Liverpool score first, they've practically won the game as they will pick off their opponents for 90 minutes because they leave options further up the pitch. Again, how this has not sunk in for Pardew or Moyes is beyond me.

I don't think it points to either. I think it points to self-financing. We're structured to aid "the group structure". The group consists of us and Sports Direct among others and is Ashley's personal revenue stream. He's getting wealthier because of this arrangement. He's not looking to sell. Not an expert on stock markets and all that jazz, but what's stopping him offering shares and advertising space if it's making SD more money at the moment? Would Ashley accept selling, say, 25% of the club and advertising space for a big chunk of money? Surely if SD profits have went up and could be pinned to increased exposure in the premier league, with the club also becoming self sustainable to a degree, that would be an attractive proposition for an investor? Just want rid of this f***ing bandit now That money would have to be the equivalent of what he expects to earn from Sports Direct in the forthcoming years - i.e. how much the free marketing is valued at. In my mind there's no point in investing heavily in an entity (this case club) that is a) already heavily associated with and branded by another brand - there'd be an immediate conflict of interests between Ashley and the parties. b) not expecting or aiming to grow, but rather being conciously handicapped by it's majority shareholder and his self-inflicted debt.

Remember caring about games?

I don't think it points to either. I think it points to self-financing. We're structured to aid "the group structure". The group consists of us and Sports Direct among others and is Ashley's personal revenue stream. He's getting wealthier because of this arrangement. He's not looking to sell.

So many of their players have developed under Rodgers, he's the main reason. Sturridge is a fucking pisstake, he has something like 28 in 35 since he joined. And what's happend to Sterling and Henderson this year is just remarkable.

The difference between his and NUFC's approach and this from Rodgers: "The players believe in it and the work has got them the rewards. You know when you’re employed by Liverpool it is not to sit in seventh" "The money is great and we will be in the market to compete, but what is important is still having a vision of how you want the club to progress.” Compare that to "eight is top of the league" and "Southampton have coordinated their finances".

Look at Liverpool under Brendan Rodgers or Southampton under Pochettino. Doesn't matter if it's Cissokho/Enrique/Flanagan who plays, they attack with the same confidence no matter what. The same goes for Southampton, Chambers, Ward-Prowse or the new lad up fron, Gallagher. It's because they've learnt to play a certain way and aligned with some sort of idea under their managers. Ours is reliant on 3-4 individuals, in whose absence we most often resort to hoof-ball. We're yet to see any bravery from our team after three years as we seemingly cannot turn games around or keep the ball for 90 minutes. He's not the answer to anything. We'll always be an accident waiting to happen (i.e. 2-3 injuries away from shit football) under Pardew.

American sports are way ahead of us when it comes to having a proper competition. Only been to NBA, but the experience was much more about entertainment, consumption and the event in itself rather than passionate support for either team. Well they have a different culture, they have a concert in the middle of the Superbowl which delays the 2nd half by 20 minutes. In terms of competition though ours is too warped financially to really be called sport IMO, it's ironic that the Americans recognise that financial equality is needed but us socialists in Europe are going the other way, we even have clubs being run by nation states. I look at clubs in Sweden, where club ownership is restricted by the "51% rule", a socialist-initiated legislation (prevents third parties from controlling clubs) and I see supporters much less alienated from the sport and their clubs. I even attended a seminar this weekend on how supporters can work with their club to build things mutually and be involved (arranged by AIK). Fans influence on the game is completley different here, they are part of the club, not customers to it. I think it preserves some values that are currently being lost in European football, which is moving towards the American way of support. The money isn't there in the same way, which limits Swedish football and the quality of it, but there is a much more dynamic feel to the competitive dimension and the supporters' influence.

American sports are way ahead of us when it comes to having a proper competition. Only been to NBA, but the experience was much more about entertainment, consumption and the event in itself rather than passionate support for either team.

I'm afraid you're in the wrong here. I think it might work.