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The mental torture of the transfer window is made far easier by a quick scroll through the previous thread say circa 2018. Just read some posts about the club being so desperate that our best transfer attempt was a swap deal for our goalkeeper.

Has it been reported anywhere what PEA actually did to piss arteta off so much? Saw about the late back to training thing, but not much else.

Spunking our new found wealth on the likes of dembele is such a stupid waste of money. Would be very disappointed if any owners were daft enough to fall for his agent's crap.

Going into the window we needed that spirit and not a hammering, will do transfer negotiations with unsure players the world of good.

Looking at our bench thinking christ maybe covid hit us or something, then realising that no our squad is just absolutely awful.

This is an amazing thread to read back about 10-20 pages ago. Perfect example of bruce's ineptitude.

Just read gerrard's press conference comments. Christ i am so happy we have got howe and not him. Regardless of how well he does the patter is clearly going to be a pfm wankfest.

If Howe can form a relationship with asm then i'm confident he can coach him to be a much better player in terms of his positioning. It is very obvious that oppo teams deliberately foul him when he tries to transition and counter around the half way line, and that they fear doing so in the final third. I'd just have him switching wings throughout the game and to be the guy who receives the pass from transition and not other way round. Almiron bringing it out would be better, similar to what Jonas used to do. My only fear with ASM is that he doesn't like strict coaches, and i suspect thats what g jones has been doing. Up to Howe to see how he handles that aspect to get the best out of him mentally.

Stressful few hours ahead to see if he turns up. Like him or don't like him, if it collapses that is seriously damaging to their credibility in negotiations with players etc in Jan.

Might sound bitter, but i really hope he does well before january just to show how incompetent bruce was and what an actual football manager can get out of the squad. That's as good a reason for any fan to get behind him!

Do the media and PFM pundit gang like Howe? Could be helpful if so to have some positive narrative against all the post takeover sniping.

The takeover and Emery is nice. Luke Edwards becoming even more of an irrelevance overnight is fucking beautiful.

Haha jesus not in talks...maybe Steve Bruce left a manuscript of his new book "manager" with the new owners and they have read chapter 1 titled "do nothing and go on holiday".

The question isn't "is he a half competent manager better than bruce?". It is "is he the best candidate available to us?". The unequivocal answers to those questions are yes and (probably) no. If other candidates rejected us then fair enough, but no way on earth should he be top of anyone's list.

Martinez and Lampard are the two i really don't want. Absolute fraud and would be so gutting in the context of the quality of other candidates discussed.

Bruce to Pearson. Like escaping Fritzl's basement then going round Harold Shipman's house for tea.

Bit meh about these coady rumours. Was hoping for better defensive targets than that, given how much he would cost.

Why did he not play? Has he been injured?

Mount hadn't scored in approximately 25 games. Which is exactly why 2 or 3 people ahead of me picked him today. This fpl season is an absolute joke.

Players will be exhausted after 20 minutes. Having to turn up to work this week instead of multiple days off under cabbage head will be too much to handle.

Amazing how far gone we are with battered wife syndrome. Must be safe, must defend, we are shit, worthless, we can't attack. Time to take a leap of faith for me and shake off the last 14 years of absolutely eye bleed inducing football. As the old chant used to go before this turned to shit - Attack Attack Attack.

Lots of chat about whether he deserves a pay off or not from his mates, which is odd given all managers get one when sacked. Which makes me wonder whether behind the scenes they are trying to work out a way not to pay him? Clutching at straws i know, but him staying makes me more miserable and driven to insanity by the second.

Big river was good, but jesus christ there is some relentless shite blared over that PA system. Just leave the crowd to build the atmosphere. And as said above, what on earth is that blaydon races version?

Exactly same here. Logical head says it probably doesn't matter long term, but i can't hide the fact i'd feel so underwhelmed by it when i turn up on sunday. It is a once in a generation game of pure optimism, wor flags with an amazing display.... then us all just sat there hating on bruce and telling him to get out.

Love their new video that popped up on fb this morning. Hope they have the keegan quote one up again.