Ronaldo

btw isn't 7 goals more than Gutierrez has in his career?

it's sheer madness. Seeing him in a b&w shirt makes me feel sick

Dont understand why we let him go and kept the likes of Edgar tbh

that is f***ing hilarious

are you in the least bit surprised? When Ameobi is in the time it gives JFK that extra incentive to play stupid long balls with Shola flicking them onto the linesman's flag

It's absolutely incredible that he's still here tbh. Possibly the best ammunition when discussing Robson's somewhat sketchy talent judging abilities

50 goals in 9 seasons

They didn't work for various reasons. Dalglish had Shearer's injury to deal with in his first full season, but despite doing OK in the FA cup he produced some dreary safety-first style football at times that no one wanted to see. Gullit was a crap manager who could only deal with players as good as he was, he couldn't understand when players didn't know what to do & needed his guidance. When you're managing players like Zola you can get away with it, when you're David Beharall's manager it fails. Worse, after the Gullit disaster the then board were s*** scared of appointing another foreign manager, limiting ourselves to British managers who, bar Robson, shouldn't be managing a pub team let alone a Premiership team. Robson did pretty well, once he got rid of Mick Wadsworth. I'd rather forget Souness ever existed. A manager in the same style as Gullit but without the charisma. Total reliance on players knowing what they're doing rather than develop anything resembling tactics or instructions. Brought in his inept mates as coaches, told 3 of our better players that they'd never play for the club again, spent millions on rubbish. Makes Kinnear look competent. Roeder, did great when he had Shearer with him to act as his 2nd in command, but had little support from the players when he took the job on full time. A nice guy, but too weak. Fat Sam came in to show us all these new and amazing training techniques & apparently understood tactics. Unfortunately (or fortunately) the players he had here were totally wrong for his tactics and the players he brought in, bar Beye & Enrique, pretty poor. He played football so negative that he made Dalglish's tactics look exciting. If we'd have been winning games too it wouldn't have mattered, but to play s*** football & still lose is unforgivable. For various reasons the proven managers have been garbage & brought in as knee-jerk reactions to deal with some perceived fault from the previous manager's era - players aren''t listening to the manager? bring in that hard nut Souness to sort them, training techniques stuck in the 1800's? bring in Fat Sam & his team, etc. Appointing a proven manager isn't necessarily wrong, but like buying a Chelsea or Man Utd reject you have to ask why aren't they wanted by others?. Get the right manager in, proven or unproven, put the right people around them & give them time to succeed. Faye? otherwise good post

well said

3rd? Glad to see you know your history of the club and that slip was just a one off. obviously as a manager. i dont anticipate him coming back as a player unless he really wants the money. or are you counting the time he briefly f***ed off during his first time as manager, making it a technical 4th coming? idiot, 82-84...1st 92-97....return 2008....3rd someday.....4th fucking hell, give it a rest man

Avram Grant would be my first choice, followed by Bruce

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Bullshit. I'm no Ashley supporter, but so far he has put money into the club and there is no evidence of him taking anything out. Ok he is crap at running the club and that needs to be sorted damn quick, but he is not Freddy Shepherd who was happy to line his pockets with a paycheck. do you line your pockets with a paycheck btw?

going to be a god

Like I said, this has nothing to do with Ashley. Butt's contract entitled him to another year if he wanted it. the fact that there's a place in the squad at all for Nicky Butt IS Ashley's fault

what are hell are his strengths? he's a woeful excuse for a footballer

There is a difference between "battlers" and a player who "has a bit of fight" and players who are just so limited they have to kick people! this

I dont trust really Kinnear's ability to organise players into a formation most will be unfamiliar with tbh but might be worth a try anyway, cant get much worse

how will it improve him? he should have been made to work hard until the end of the season for the extension

Says everything you need to know about the Ashley setup. cunts

i think we have improved, but only a little, maybe not enough to keep us in the prem. we may have strengthened the squad (very slightly) but we haven't strengthened the fight against relegation because our rivals have strenghtened considerably more than we have highly impressive contradicting yourself dude!! -esque!! but i take your point, we've strengthened the least and perhaps needed it the most, so net strengthening is in the minus figures or summik!! what i meant was, we haven't strengthened the fight against relegation, despite the squad perhaps being slightly better off. Teams like Brom, Stoke and Spurs are better than they were 4 weeks ago.

without Martins we have not one player capable of causing serious problems in the final third. The midfield has ZERO creativity and the wingers are average on their best day. The defence whilst solid enough is one injury (Bassong) away from total collapse (L'pool) and, our manager is clearly incapable of getting the best out of these players. Worrying as fuck

article is spot on