KaKa
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I only turned it on at half time, and already this is the best i've seen us play under Bruce
We have a lot of possession mostly due to a big gap in athleticism and quality.
When we don't have that advantage further up the leagues, the manager can't figure it out, unfortunately.
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Fraser on for Clark.... Is this an attempted murder?
Pretty certain we'll be playing 3 at the back against 5 goal Tottenham this weekend, knowing scaredy cat Bruce, so resting Clarke for that.
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Joelinton bags his 2nd with a screamer!
bUt joElinTon CaN'T sHoOT gUYs!
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We have the ball and are creating chances and the striker is scoring. Revolutionary.
Give them the business Joe.
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Lets go big man.
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They may well be lining their pockets with Wolves money, but at least it's coming off the back of some quality players, a quality manager and a team that is a joy to watch and follow for their fans.
We on the other hand have benefitted from absolutely nothing.
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I trust Carr's judgement overall, but the signing of Riviere was inexcusable! He's always been crap. I remember watching him for St.Etienne during his early days of his career, I was thinking to myself: 'That's the French Shola Ameobi'.
He was worse, of course.
Aye. That coming at the end kind of ruined the moment for me.
nee one gets it right all the time.
Riviere would have been the cheapest option at the bottom end of his recommendations too. It was MA being cheap.
Now MA is prone to spending a bit more money I would love to see what Carr could do.
Goodness knows what he would have done with that £40 million last summer.
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He got a player wrong, so what? He clearly knew football and had a passion for it- and we're worse off without his input. We've generally been less effective in the market without him than we were with him.
If he'd been made DoF and not had to go through Charnley and Ashley we'd be better off.
I have to agree man. It made no sense to allow Rafa to let him go, and then not let Rafa sign the players he wanted!
Sounds like the guy wants the job back. I would trust him ahead of anyone we currently have.
If only he had brought in a competent manager when he was finally given that responsibility man. That was his biggest error really.
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The Nakhi Wells one for me man.
Bloody Alan Pardew. So wretched.
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After reading that I genuinely feel MA was trying to get into it, but was just so damned clueless abut football
However, if under Carr we had got the right manager that really knew the players he was bringing in and could organise a team to play good football, I really think things would have worked out.
The biggest tragedy is that when Carr finally got the chance to bring in a manager, and I'm sure he knew which ones could have got us playing decent football with the players he brought in, he went and opted for his fried McClaren instead. Terrible stuff.
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OH MY GOD ...this is a must read
Graham Carr talking about scouting for Newcastle and Ashley.
We started talking about Ben Arfa. Mike had this thing with a 4-4-2, first-team players on £40k a week and understudies on £20k. 'He couldn't understand why we'd want Hatem and Jonas Gutierrez, two left wingers, on £40k. I knew Hatem could be brilliant, so I cut in, 'He's a No 10, actually, and he can cut in from the right'. That was it, done.'But he had this plan — buy them younger than 25, with sell-on value. If I asked him to spend £10m on a 29-year-old, he'd f***ing laugh at me. Over time, that plan hasn't worked. But I do believe that he meant well.'It was often said that Pardew was frustrated with Ashley's trust of Carr's judgment over his own.Carr insists he has a good relationship with Pardew, but does laugh as he tells one tale from a St James' Park transfer summit.
'Alan had a new centre forward in mind and the analyst was ready with the clips. I'd been brought up on Jackie Milburn and watched Malcolm Macdonald, Alan Shearer. And there on the screen was (Bradford striker) Nahki Wells!
'I'm thinking, 'F***ing hell'. Sometimes, you have to think how the fans would react. That one never happened.'
:lol: :lol: :lol:That leads into perhaps the most revealing conversation of all — the ones that got away. Carr takes a deep breath.'If the club were honest and went through the records… Hakim Ziyech, Wilfred Ndidi, James Maddison. I saw Raphael Varane play for Lens when he was 17 and I called Derek Llambias (managing director) that night. You get excited when you spot one.
'Mike and I went to Saint-Etienne to watch (Pierre-Emerick) Aubameyang. Mike just said, 'Who am I watching?' You recommend them, but then you just don't know what happens sometimes.'
Riviere was the £6m striker signed on Carr's say-so in 2014. He scored even less than Joelinton during a disastrous two years on Tyneside, culminating in relegation. 'He'd played for France Under 21s and was doing well, we liked him. And then he came here…' The manner in which Carr trails off is telling.I kind of want him back
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I also find it weird that Bruce has previously had a similar player in Huddlestone, who he used far more sensibly, and in the way I think Shelvey should be used. No idea why he can't see it.
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He's far from perfect, certainly, but I think he could be useful in initiating our play from the back, because we have two centre backs that are completely hopeless passing the ball forward without hoofing it. I think we really ought to use a 4-3-3 in order to achieve this. Lining up in the formation below.
---------------------- Wilson --------------------------
--- ASM ------------------------------------ Fraser ---
--------- Almiron ---------------- Hayden ------------
---------------------- Shelvey -------------------------
Lewis ----- Fernandez ----- Lascelles ----- Manquillo
Ideally Shelvey should then be dropping back as far as needed to get the ball of the centre backs and should be encouraged to get the ball to the midfielders or wingers ahead of him without always looking for the longest pass, and certainly without constantly going directly to Wilson over the top. It's essentially what Leeds do with Kelvin Philips, not that we can expect to come anywhere close to being that proficient at it even, or even need to at this point.
Defensively, I don't think he should press at all, as every time he does they pass it round him like a cone and there are massive gaps behind him as he can never recover. Just ask him to sit deep and close down only when a free man is ahead of him at the edge of our penalty box. A combination of 2 from Almiron, Hayden and Hendrick can do the harrying just ahead of him.
It certainly won't be perfect but I'd like to see that given a go. At the moment Hayden is the one that mostly sits and Shelvey is going forward at times when he is never capable of getting back in position. Bruce is having Shelvey go forward more because he got 6 goals last season, which is just the dumbest thing, because it will ultimately cost us more goals than he could ever score.
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Mike Ashley thinks he's so smart, but he's just getting played by all these pitiful managers. They are all just robbing a living off of him.
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Well, you know, Joelinton wasn't playing, and the savages must have their pound of flesh!
Never been happier for big Joe than I was on Sunday, it's nice seeing the big guy get a break this season.
It will be his turn for abuse tomorrow night mind, as the balls go sailing over his head ...
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Debut penalty save. Nice.
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Didn't Egan do the same thing to Joelinton last season
Why foul there and risk going off. The game just started. So crazy
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They'll look a lot better than we did though, as will Villa.
Just realised both teams have an Ollie upfront. Exciting.
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Didn't realise Oliver Burke joined Sheffield United with Callum Robinson going the other way to West Brom.
Starting for them today. Interesting to see how he gets on, he's playing upfront.
The other games today 2019/20
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If England keep this guy as number 1 man