AlanSkÃrare

Like Pardew, he's fucking shite and lost in the modern context of modern football. This is a fake club, McClaren is one of many expressions.

This. Fans of other teams and pundits who only know about the SKY 6. Usually like to bleat on about how wrong it is to sack the manager, they should stick with him etc. I always thought Monk was a fairly strange appointment and possibly a risky one. They haven't progressed under him and now they appear to be going backwards. That is worrying. I think I'd be wanting our manager gone with form like that. 6 points from a possible 33, plus a cup loss to a lower league team?! That is form. I'm not even sure Pardew went on a run quite that bad? He'd just have his insane 5-6 wins in a row. Coupled with 5-6 losses in a row. But to be that bad for 12 games, is a massive worry. It's not like they've had a really horrible set of fixtures, either. From the 29th of December 2013 to the 4th of October 2014 he did this. LOST Arsenal (h) 0-1 LOST West Brom (a) 0-1 LOST Cardiff City(h) 1-2 (FA Cup) LOST Manchester City(h) 0-2 WON West Ham (a) 3-1 DRAW Norwich City (a) 0-0 LOST Sunderland (h) 0-3 LOST Chelsea (a) 0-3 LOST Spurs (h) 0-4 WON Aston Villa (h) 1-0 WON Hull City (a) 4-1 LOST Fulham (a) 0-1 WON Crystal Palace (h) 1-0 LOST Everton (h) 0-3 LOST Southampton (a) 0-4 LOST Manchester United (h) 0-4 LOST Stoke City (a) 0-1 LOST Swansea City (h) 1-2 LOST Arsenal (a) 0-3 WON Cardiff City (h) 3-0 LOST Liverpool (a) 1-2 Which was then prolonged LOST Manchester City (h) 0-2 DRAW Aston Villa (a) 0-0 WON Gillingham (a) 1-0 (LC) DRAW Crystal Palace (h) 3-3 LOST Southampton (a) 0-4 DRAW Hull City (h) 2-2 WON Crystal Palace (a) 3-2 (LC) LOST Stoke City (a) 0-1 DRAW Swansea City (a) 2-2 W: 6 (2 in the LC) D: 5 L: 18

What the fuck is Steve Black even doing?

It's not so much about who we could get or who would actually want the job, but rather who fits Ashley's idea of a manager. It'd be someone to do his bidding and someone who's forever indebted to him for lending him the chance. Like Pardew and McClaren. The manager is key to his construction, but will always expose him for what he is.

So fitting for Zlatan to take us to the Euro's. We'll never see anything like him. Loved this after the game: "They were supposed to send me into retirement. Instead, I've retired their whole country".

Nothing can convince me that him leaving was due to anything other than Pardew being a fucking moron.

Spoke to a Premier League scout in that region who said he was one of the brightest prospects in Netherlands/Belgium. Him and Youri Tielemans, who's been linked with Manchester United and Chelsea in the last week.

Starting to alert people outside of NUFC now and gaining a reputation. Been our most important player for more than a year, I don't think we'd have stayed up without him and his role in our attacking play is absolutely vital now as well. His composure and skill wins us time and opens up defences all the time. His turn before Mitrovic's goal yesterday was sublime.

Been the case for two years now. Not arsed anymore.

Can't fucking stand this.

We've got players to do much, much better than this. Reminder that we've appointed another sacked lower league manager to oblige and agree to whatever, rather than bring competence.

This is so obvious. Another thing, we're too direct when we go forward. Nobody can rest on the ball and have others get into position or come forward other than Perez. Sissoko is always looking to go to the byline, Cissé is too weak to hold it up, Wijnaldum looks for quick solutions. We end up trying to penetrate with one or two players all the time. Still not worried after last night, we'll be fine, we have the right ideas. Need to gel and to adjust the team a bit. Colback or Anita needs to sit the next one out, Colback for me. Get Gini down deeper and play Ayoze from the start.

This squad is approaching the capabilities of what we had by the start of 2013/14 (the starting XI at Aston Villa that autumn has been discussed here many times, it was full of potential). That squad was then actively and conciously dismantled by Alan Pardew and his idea of football. I feel this summer has gone some way to repair his damage. This time is different as the main change, what makes me look forward to games, is the fact that we have an actual person as manager. This club is, historically, relatively easy to galvanize, there is this powerful momentum always waiting to be activated. fucking Alan Pardew did it for a short while, Glenn Roeder too. I therefore believe Steve McClaren won't need to dig deep in order to find the necessary ideas, especially as he doesn't seem to hate technically gifted players and love long-balls and Mike Williamson. We're capable of top eight this year and should expect to close in on Everton, Swansea and Spurs with continued investment - squad wise.

Spoke to a scout from a Premier League-club today, responsible for Holland/Belgium. Said Mitrovic is "hopeless, can't play football, only head it". He's good friends with Carr. Carr asked him about Anita when we signed him, he suggested Clasie instead. Also confirmed Carr always thought Pardew was a shit manager.

If anyone on here is in Stockholm for the derby between AIK and Djurgården, or you know anyone who is, I'm doing a feature about international interest in the game (+40 000 expected to attend) for my newspaper (if you want to feature).

I'm interviewing Somen Tchoyi in the next hour. Will probably thank him for ruining a top ten finish for Pardew in May 2011.

Like how it's now reported that Matip and Thauvin aren't interested at all (which makes perfect sense), it's usually something you try to get an understanding of before bidding. It's as if we plan a transfer window for the first time every summer.

You seem pretty confident in yourself. I guess you're a SUBDIT to the KING OF SWEDEN. I guess: KINGDOM OF SWEDEN x KINGDOM OF PORTUGAL will be a good game. I actually am confident, we look really good at what we're doing. Reminding me that this team represents a monarchy however, makes me less patriotic. The SWEDISH ROYAL FAMILY is FANTASTIC. Santa Claus too.

You seem pretty confident in yourself. I guess you're a SUBDIT to the KING OF SWEDEN. I guess: KINGDOM OF SWEDEN x KINGDOM OF PORTUGAL will be a good game. I actually am confident, we look really good at what we're doing. Reminding me that this team represents a monarchy however, makes me less patriotic.

Standard England tournament performance that, Southgate seems to have stuck with the more conservative approach of withdrawing his team into itself and hoof it when things won't turn. Did not utilize the ability of Redmond, took Ward-Prowse and lost the most efficient and intelligent passer, over-relliance on Kane to produce stuff on his own. Sweden will prove a tough one on Sunday. The morale in our team is one of the strongest I've seen in any side. Came back in the qualifiers, most notably against France in the play-offs, but today against Italy, with 10 men from 28th minute, was fucking fantastic. The coach, Håkan Ericson, got everything spot on and today was very much his doing, outclassed Di Biagio by keeping two strikers on and forcing them out on the flanks in every attack. Oscar Lewicki in our midfield, previously at Bayern Münchens academy, was man of the match and looks a far better player than many in our senior squad.

We'll never pay the money.

Bundesliga and Eredivise people don't think highly of him.

Remember when Ryder used to have headlines portraying the club as "refusing to be pushovers" when not paying the asked price? I think that's how this will end up. "But United will not be drawn into a bidding war." We used to get them all the time, as if they did something honourable in not paying money.

Pardew The fucking tool.

Wrote this on his nonsense a while back when he backed Carver rather than "big names". http://www.themag.co.uk/2015/03/ask-bobby-moncur/