KaKa

The downside of having hired and ultimately got rid of a number of PFMs. They'll all be in the background bitching about it to their media pals and it just spreads from there.

Allardyce running his mouth off via text into the studio.

Wretched manager's always talk about bad defending and never the despicable lack of goals their team's produce.

Becoming a common theme this. Southampton had their "best performance of the season" against us. As did you, apparently.

 

Now Man Utd are playing really well.

 

Going to have to sort it out quickly, a great start to the season is fast turning into an average one.

 

That said I'm banking on Lindelof to gift us a goal.

As soon as Holgate, Digne, Coleman, James and eventually Richarlison settle back in you'll be fine.

Those injuries have thrown you off the last few weeks that's all. You'll be more than fine.

If you had played your team today last week, you would have annihilated us.

So when Rafa was here and we were all happy with the team, they all criticised Rafa for sitting deep against the top teams.

Now the football is terrible and all we ever do is sit back regardless of the opposition, we're always unhappy and want to be winning the Champion's League.

Yeah ... makes sense.

I wish we had a manager as bad as Ole.

Lindelof is all over the place. My goodness.

Brilliant equaliser. Great build up leading up to that.

I don't doubt that Bruce is responsible. But this guy has not been nowhere near around Bruce long enough to be this level of shit. Honestly, complete passenger every passing game. It's incredible he's started every game.

I think all of it is just a mess. The players, the manager, the setup ... all of it. I really would marvel at any player that could be inserted into this and perform well.

I mean as you say, why is he even playing every game? Who is making that decision? Is it not the manager? Bruce is a disaster.

It's been eight weeks now. We still have not seen Wilson upfront with ASM, Almiron and Fraser off him.

ASM is now playing a position that makes him a lesser player, as is Almiron really. They're all just out there doing nothing that impressive at all.

Yeah Kaka, players can't be shit. It's always the management. 

 

He rejected AC Milan didn't you know

You completely missed the point. They're all crap.

Just like their manager, who is absolutely culpable for it all, because it doesn't make sense that a whole squad of players can be this inept.

It's going to be a tough one for him that's for sure.

James, Coleman, Digne and Holgate all return. Ouch.

Quit throwing a tantrum sissy boy.

The whole team stinks just like your terrible attitude.

He really doesn't

I mean at least be honest about it

He doesn't come on here giving anyone crap. He gets baited and responds to it.

This guy is just the new whipping boy.

Who in the team is actually producing anything of note really?

Only Wilson has and that is a damn shame.

He's a wide man. Every time he gets the ball he wants to run at people. He's best placed to do that out wide.

At this stage of his career he doesn't have the discipline or subtlety to play the role being asked of him. He's dropping way too deep, and trying to do way too much in very crowded areas of the pitch.

It's extraordinary that at this level we would use a player this way. It's what you see at school boy level when a kid is just better than everyone else and he just gets the ball all the time wherever he wants, to run past everyone and try to score.

Cringe worthy stuff.

Newcastle United under Bruce are just so boring, I get nothing out of watching them apart from apathy, take Saint Maxim and Wilson out of that team and it's nailed on relegation

Boring is far too kind, as it leaves open the possibility that we are even somewhat effective.

We are incompetent and embarrassing.

It's been over a year now. Players are not showing any consistency. The team is not showing any consistency. Every game is STILL painful viewing.

ASM has been rendered ineffective, Almiron also, Longstaffs are long gone, Joelinton is now worth about £4, Fraser still hasn't really been worked into the team, Hendrick is already completely lost out there, Hayden is now on the bench and Wilson is now finally injured from chasing around for scraps every game.

But hey, we're 11th, so all is well in the world.

We aren’t that shit , these are just very good tbf.

 

Nah

 

We had 10-15min of decent football post conceding, then promptly fell apart and are lucky to only be down by 1. Again, no shape, movement, other than hoofball, ASM carrying the ball up the pitch while getting hacked to shit with one easily saved header on goal in 45min. Whew.

Nothing good we do is ever sustainable, and is all just happenstance.

The team just makes it up as they go, and so the majority of the time it's all just rubbish.

Would be interested to see how many times Max has given away possession, he seems to be reverting to his careless reputation that he had in France.

 

He’s being played in a position completely ruining his game. Of course he’s giving the ball away as nobody is within 40 yards of him.

 

A position he wants to play in

 

Completely irrelevant. If he isn't effective there, it's on the manager to play him where he is effective.

He only works wide left.  That way he can terrify defender.  Playing through the middle he doesn't have the space he needs. 

He's brilliant either side. In the two positions the manager is not playing him in.

Hendrick boils my piss so much.

 

Yep. He's fucking awful.

 

He and Longstaff are hiding in the midfield. Especially Hendrick, doing that thing where a player will make it look like they're trying to find space to make themselves available but really he's hiding in and around opposition players so he's not available to receive the ball and inevitably fuck up. So non-committal and lacking courage or responsibility. Worst thing is, despite the fact he does absolutely nothing in a forward sense, when the ball is turned over, he's somehow always behind play and chasing back.

They have a plan and know what they're all supposed to be doing.

We just go out there winging it. No matter who plays for us it always looks like this.

ASM drops so deep in this free role man. Just ends up being a 3-6-1.

The whole shape of the team just stinks.

We're playing 5 across the middle and can't keep the ball against a 4-4-2. Pitiful stuff

Hasn't he also got the best we've ever seen out of Rashford and Martial? And also brought Greenwood through well last season.

Pogba is the one guy really letting him down right now and the central defenders are bad, and we're not improved upon, which he wanted I believe.

Just doesn't look like he knows how to fit van Der Beek, Fernandes and Pogba into the same team

Should have just started Van Der Beek for one of Fred or McTominay in this diamond formation. Think he'll try that eventually.

Been quite a while since I saw Pogba justify his place.

He's been so terrible.