KaKa

7 minutes ago, SUPERTOON said:

Villa having Emery gives them a big advantage over us (and many teams). He is only behind Pep imo, he’s a world class manager.

I think this season may end up being an eye opener.

My gut instinct is that this season will show that Villa have already left us behind.

Their style of play is more consistent, and they've done a much better job of building up their squad by having a more varied and balanced recruitment approach.

Silva seems to be starting to put something pretty fun together at Fulham. They were really good.

His decision to drop Perreira into a deeper role in midfield and recruit Smith-Rowe to play the 10 position instead is looking like a master stroke. He's tying everything together for the team.

It was also somewhat amusing, in a dark and twisted way, to see the NO forum 'shit' players Iwobi and Adama torment us all game. They've both started the season very strongly.

Feels like everywhere you look at the minute there's a player on the right showing ours up. I'm sick of it.

We are so screwed at this club man.

Just now, Kanji said:

Really going to come at me with that? 

I'm not coming at you.

You don't seem to have read those reports from what you've just said previously.

1 minute ago, Kanji said:

 

Ashworth wasn’t a problem until he was quietly taking emails from his Man United mates on company monitored communication. Ashworth isn’t a scout and never claimed to be one. Eddie only had a problem with him when Ashworth was flirting with another rival club on our time. 

No ... it has since been reported that Ashworth was being marginalised before then. And Howe was working with Nickson, Amanda and Mehrdad mostly.

This is why those reports came out about Eales saying that Amanda and Mehrdad were 'getting in the way'.

I'm not sure you've been following things closely enough, as you don't seem to have all the information.

Based on problems with Ashworth and now with Mitchell.

Who do we bring in next then? These are two of the more sought after names out there by the way.

So who next?

12 minutes ago, Kanji said:

I assume 99% here are Newcastle United over “individuals” but if you one for second think Eddie Howe isn’t thinking what’s best for the fans and his players over the shield that is NUFC than you need a reality check. Mitchell and Eales are suits who bounce around from job to job. Remember that before you want to make sweeping comments.  Remember we’re fans. This man has done nothing but think of what’s best for US and the players. 

 

@KaKa you’ve mentioned a ton of other clubs who had better head starts, an actual functioning academy, an actual functioning infrastructure at football and corporate level and no Mike Ashley. Sadly, we are an absolute anomaly of football. All we had to prop us up was a rabidly supportive fan base and a 52,000 stadium. Other than that, we were fucking useless in every single area. Our best academy talent consists of Sean Longstaff, Lewis Miley and the now gone Elliott Anderson. It should in theory, based on all the new rules created to fucking hold us back, take us a decade+ to compete yet we have a manager who cobbled together the 4th best points total since he joined our club.

 

Mate I will always love your passion and analysis on talent out there, but you absolutely need to step off the gas pedal with some of your takes as of late. Have some patience. Respect EH. He’d school every single fucking person on this forum on football. 

 

 

 

Yes, we were already miles behind in infrastructure and now we have a manager that doesn't seem to be open to the setup, and so how does this help us now?

28 minutes ago, et tu brute said:

I'm in for the person(s) who will make the club progress. Hopefully that will be the people currently in post, but if not then the Chairman has some decisions to make. The club will always comes first not individuals

There's typically always this unhealthy attachment to individuals that are then considered to be capable of no wrong doing.

Man City and Arsenal have set the standard with a strong structure where everyone is aligned and have left everyone behind.

Liverpool this summer got their structure revamped putting some heavy hitters in place, and had a change of manager and hardly made any signings like ourselves, and it looks like they are making a very smooth transition having lost one of the best managers in the league in Klopp.

Villa have had a strong structure in place for a little bit now and are looking like they will be going from strength to strength and are likely going to start edging away from us now.

Chelsea have been an abomination of a club, just throwing any and everything at the wall, hoping something sticks, but unfortunately it's starting to look like they may have something, off the back of first revamping their whole structure.

Even Man Utd are trying to get their house in order nowadays, and so will likely soon start pushing forward too. We've seen for years now how letting the manager dictate things at that club has led to a mish mash of players and no cohesion or continuity. And this with them hiring some big name managers even.

Meanwhile ... people at Newcastle are pining for Amanda coming back with her husband, even though neither had a background in football as executives, and didn't seem to be managing things behind the scenes as well as they could have. And they just want Howe to be allowed to work as he pleases with no one questioning or challenging him, in the better interests of the club.

If we're not careful we might be royally fucked. And this will start to become more evident.

If Villa get back to back Champions League qualification and Chelsea get themselves back in there, we might be locked out for a while. As they will be in even greater position to build their squads up further.

Meanwhile we are still using the likes of Burn, Murphy and Longstaff regularly, and none of these would even get into their 25 man squads.

10 minutes ago, The College Dropout said:

Didn’t Eales start it? Perhaps unintentionally which is poor. 

Nothing he said brought much attention, until Howe's interview coming off of all of the England talk, which the media ran with and haven't relented on since.

8 minutes ago, The College Dropout said:

That’s something Rafa would do. Rafa wouldn’t mind shaking things up if it meant he got more power at the end. By doing what Howe did - the club then had to come out publicly and state Howe’s position of authority unambiguously. 
 

Reaffirming authority and power is important. 
 

I don’t think he got 100% what he wanted. Which yes has meant the vibe isn’t at its best. 

 

 

 

Once they had let Amanda and Mehrdad go, he was never going to get the level of assurances he was after.

I think it's clear someone higher up at the club wasn't happy with how things played out with the pair of them, Howe and Ashworth not being aligned, and the issues we ended up having with PSR.

Just now, Whitley mag said:

You’re right he was the first one to come and play power games publicly in Germany.

Yup, this is being overlooked, but it was not fair on Mitchell, especially as they had not discussed things yet like Howe himself said at the time.

Any subsequent issues likely arose from there, as I doubt Mitchell appreciated that.

1 minute ago, Stifler said:

Man Utd, and I guess Chelsea will though.

He’ll get a little while out of both clubs before they likely see his limitations.

8 minutes ago, The College Dropout said:

Howe has a bit of the political nature of Rafa. Doesnt mind playing internal club politics in the media if he thinks the results will be favourable. 

That interview he did just after Mitchell came in and prior to them even sitting down to discuss things, was not a smart move.

It invited all of the speculation that has come since then and probably also put Mitchell on the defensive right off the bat. It has all ultimately led to a bad vibe around the place.

Not sure what on Earth it was meant to achieve, but it's going to make things difficult for him going forward.

Villa nick it at the end to ensure everyone that we are in the mix with has won today too.

Man City next week. Absolutely fantastic ...

Bruno has taken risks with the ball in dangerous areas all season.

Think he's been poor.

Just now, Chris L said:

Hall has shown again why he shouldn’t be dropped for Kelly. IMO. Hes made that left side play so much better. 

And so what was the problem last game then or the others that he started in?

8 minutes ago, The College Dropout said:

Tbf that’s not his natural position either. We don’t have one. 
 

Yeah, I know, but I'd rather play him there tbh. I'd trust him more defensively.

So many gaps in the team still. The recruitment has been so confusing, and quite frankly, just not good enough.

1 minute ago, Shearergol said:

Need to throw big money at a number 6 and let Bruno play with more freedom.

Or actually start Tonali and play him there.

This has been an issue for a while now, but still not addressed.

Just now, SUPERTOON said:

We can’t keep possession and we don’t press. What is our actual game plan ?

Our players are so well suited to pressing and a lot of our good play and chance creation came off the back of that approach.

No idea why we've stopped doing so. Because of last season's injuries perhaps?

Whatever the reason it is not working and it's a bad decision.

Even with this lineup we stink.

We are in big big trouble.

Oh dear ...

Semenyo at it again.

Offside!

Mbuemo at it again.

That thriller celebration from Jackson was hilarious 

Think Potter would be a good fit for this West Ham team.

If they do eventually get rid of Loepetegui though, think they'll go running back to Moyes again