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Not sure any of the top teams would take ASM on. They all demand relentless pressing from their front three, and not sure how disciplined ASM would be with all that.

5 minutes ago, HTT II said:

Sad thing is the coach he had problems with is a brilliant young coach and wanted nothing but the best for him, from my understanding he wanted in the first team quicker than he was probably ready and took offence when that didn’t happen and then sought a move away so the club sent him on loan, now by all accounts his attitude is fantastic, I think he felt even at an early age he could do a job for NUFC, that confidence is something I love and don’t regard it as arrogance or anything wrong and I’m delighted he’s doing well and his former coach, which says a lot about him, has given him nothing but praise and they are good pals thankfully now. 

That's really interesting. It would be even more interesting to know which knacker we were playing up front at the time. He was probably looking on knowing that he could do a better job. Would that have been around the time when we were playing Riviere upfront perhaps?

Ultimately his judgement has proved to be right. He backed himself and went down the leagues and has made his way back to the top and has looked great. I have massive respect for that. Guy actually wants to play football and not just sit on the bench and pick up a pay check every week.

4 minutes ago, HTT II said:

I’ve heard he had problems with some of the coaches (not surprised as most are rubbish) and other players and relished going out on loan and wanted away as soon as he found his feet when out on loan, got the impression his coaches rated him even ones he fell out with one who o know personally, but not the manager/s who were in charge at the time. He will do very well and we will regret letting him go, but with any player here, you’re better off away from NUFC.

Makes me even rate him more. He could clearly see the club was a complete shambles and didn't want them to ruin his career.

Certainly not the management that's for sure.

3 minutes ago, Super Duper Branko Strupar said:

For me he has one position and that's the 10 behind the striker. With 4 behind rather than 3 in front (so traditional 4411). Have 1 ahead of him and 3 of 4 midfielders behind bursting forward to support leaves him in possession in the opposition half with 3 or 4 options to pass, then support and join in. No one plays that anymore though. We couldnt.

 

 

 

It's his only chance of ever looking half decent. I agree.

Not sure why we have never seen him playing off Wilson, with Almiron out left, ASM out right, and a midfield of say Hayden and Willock, with Willock playing more of a box to box role and so getting forward late on.

That way there's lots of speed around him and others that are looking to score and he can just find space and link up with them all, and maybe score by accident once in a while ...

2 minutes ago, samptime29 said:

 

The current situation with Newcastle is depressing. The game was entertaining. They're not mutually exclusive. ?

Yeah, I know they're not. For me I just find the team so infuriating I can't even enjoy the game unfortunately. But I get what you're saying though.

2 minutes ago, TRon said:

 

You can't blame players for doing their jobs. It's not their place to worry about team dynamics. 

Yeah, he's doing what he is supposed to do, but it's really fucking irritating that it is bailing out that fraud in the dugout.

Just now, TRon said:

 

Bruce has basically told Maxi that he's the team's saviour and given him free reign, why wouldn't he love him? Unfortunately you don't win many games with one player. 

I'm beginning to resent ASM tbh. Same way I did Cisse under Pardew. So sick of all of this.

4 minutes ago, Klaus said:

 

He said Joelinton was amazing? Did I just hear that

Even worse he said he loved, yes loved Steve Bruce. After Neville made out Steve Bruce was somehow responsible for getting the best out of him. Every single thing with this club stinks.

4 minutes ago, samptime29 said:

 

It was a very entertaining game. I don't see how you could disagree?

I find this Newcastle team so depressing. I genuinely cannot believe they couldn't find a way to find another goal against a Leeds team that were wasteful and so careless who had one centre back playing and the other makeshift one going off late.

They've neither lost to maybe continue to build pressure towards some changes being made, but are also too wretched to get a result. Bloody awful team. Takes all the joy out of everything.

Gary Neville is a snake. Set ASM up with the Steve Bruce question. Disgusting.

Bruce is so pathetic. So because the pressure on him was so high he suddenly decided to have Jones beside him all game? 

Leeds were pathetic. If we can't win that game at home we are definitely going down.

Good friend of mine is a huge Arsenal fan and has been despondent about how Edu and Arteta are managing things over there.

 I directed him to that Craig Hope article and the guy could not believe what he was reading. Just kept saying surely they'll sack Bruce. He's convinced with an article like that coming out, that Bruce is going to be sacked any second now 

Kept trying to explain that this is Mike Ashley we are talking about. An announcement of a new six year contract is probably more likely than him getting sacked at this moment in time.

15 minutes ago, WarrenBartonCentrePartin said:

 What a barrel of embarrassment he is. 
 

The comments about West Ham and Southampton are cringeworthy, the comment about scoring goals is pathetic and the line about keeping the club ticking along where it is - 19th in the PL - is that of a self-accepting patsy.

 

I’m honestly stunned his family haven’t told him he’s best off jacking it in. Either they enjoy seeing him suffer, they’re as greedy as he is or both.

 

 

 

You really think they want him sat at home with them and writing more football novels that they'll have to proof read?

"We were 2-1 up against West Ham ..." is absolutely hilarious 

What an exceptional achievement that is. Well done

We lost 2-4 for goodness sake. This is all beyond embarrassing at this point.

Watch PSG not even get out of that group.

I just knew PSG would still look incredibly unconvincing in this competition. Ridiculous club.

3 minutes ago, ManDoon said:

The best and most often seen is throwing on strikers and taking off wingers. So there is literally no supply to the forward 

It's astonishing man

I mean this isn't complicated stuff. The guys doing this have been managing for decades for goodness sake

Throwing all the strikers on when behind late on man ... classic hallmark of the PFM

Every single PFM does that and they all can't seem to see it hardly ever works because it instantly destroys the build up play needed to get the ball in forward areas to the strikers to even have a chance of scoring 

Honestly, it's one of the main reasons I enjoy American sports so much, because if a player or coach is crap everyone just comes out and says it. The journalists openly lobby for coaches to get fired if it's one of their teams 

14 minutes ago, TRon said:

 

Dacoure did an interview in the Times on Monday before the game praising Rafa's coaching. He was raving about the attention to detail and how he was making him a better player. I was going to post it here but honestly it was just making me depressed reading it. 

The season has barely started and Doucoure already feels like his individual game has been much improved, never mind the rest of the team on the whole.

Our manager still needs more time to teach the team to come out of their own half.

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"I happen to rate him and think he's a decent football manager."

These are the types of people that end up buying these football clubs. Completely utterly clueless.

What on earth is such a statement based on for goodness sake?! What has Bruce done to be rated and considered a decent football manager?! Why do these people think it's okay to say such things with absolutely nothing to back it up?

Just come out and say you like the guy because he sucks up to you and massages your ego, because that's all it ever is with Bruce. That's how he gets these jobs and makes money. Millions in fact. The ex Man Utd captain that makes them feel like they're one of the boys in football just so he can get his hands in their pockets.

45 minutes ago, ATF said:

I do think you can say the back five didn't work for them last night. The thinking was obvious but without Calvert-Lewin they lacked the aerial outball and they were too passive and deep to put the squeeze on Burnley (also without a ball playing centre back against Burnley's press). Part players, part manager for not foreseeing the possible system breakdowns. The change though was very clever - I doubt many were thinking Gomes on for Godfrey and play 4-3-3. Created a 3v2 in midfield on transition, allowed Townsend and Gray to play higher and more inside, and freed Doucoure as well.

 

This stat is telling.

 

Oh, absolutely. The back 5 certainly didn't work for Everton going forward, and I'm sure Rafa was hoping they would be more effective than they were in that respect.

However, I'm pretty sure the priority for him in lining up that way was to stifle their front two with the three centre backs to start with and that was largely achieved.

15 hours ago, Kanji said:

 

Thanks for reposting this. Completely forgot about it. So bloody hilarious