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Great finishers aren't strongly affected by pressure or confidence, they just tend to score.

I don't even think Mitrovic himself would say he's a great finisher, like.

Precisely.

Because of what they did in the PL? how do you know they won't score much more at the lower level? Will never understand this considering Gayle has 15 goals in 3 seasons in the PL. Besides Mitrovic goal return since Rafa came in has been very good, i'm not particularly convinced that Gayle will score and the other two won't like everyone else. There isn't any evidence to suggest that tbh. Your point being what? It's not a huge expectation for him to score more if he stays fit. End of.

I don't think it's 'huge' to expect Dwight Gayle to get more goals than Mitrovic and Perez, like.

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He's as close to one as we've got. How's that? Has the best goal scoring record or what? If he stays fit he'll score more goals for us than anyone else this season imo. Maybe, maybe not. Hasn't been the most prolific so far. Not exactly sure why people are expecting huge things from someone with a pretty average scoring record. Nobody said they expected huge things from him. Just to score more than anyone else at the club if he remains fit.

Highly doubt Gamez will start, like.

He's as close to one as we've got. Ugly, little, speedy player. Not a fit for me. Not to say he's not a good player, or not going to score goals. Should have 10 or something, like Bellamy. That notion of a number 9 being big, powerful and fairly static is gone, man. Mainly because that type of player rarely works in English football now.

Who?

He's as close to one as we've got. How's that? Has the best goal scoring record or what? If he stays fit he'll score more goals for us than anyone else this season imo.

He's as close to one as we've got.

You can play attacking football with a DM in place. Learn to tactics mate.

Why do folk keep insisting we play a DM? We're playing exclusively against shit in this division. Everyone advocating a DM is no better than Pardew.

This is a totally different NUFC in a totally different brand of English football (even discounting the relegation), so the direct comparison doesn't really get out of the gate. You can only really look at what they've won and achieved and Rafa dwarfs Bobby whichever way you look at it. I do say that with an enormous amount of respect and appreciation for the latter.

Was it that idiot Ando agreeing? He hates Benitez.

He become a top-class CB under Rafa, one of the best in the league. Gerrard improved massively as well. He was moved to the right and become unplayable. Torres developed into a world class striker. Crouch become a very good player as well. Liverpool were so tough to beat and in Europe they could go to Barcelona away and win. Rafa's Valencia were superb to watch btw, they gave Liverpool a football lesson once and that was one of the reasons they hired him. Ayala was immense under Rafa for example. He's an amazing coach as much as he is an amazing manager, its very rare to find someone who is good at both. I'll go on record now and say he is the best all-round manager we have had, including KK and Sir Bobby! Don't agree he's better than Sir Bob, any man that can almost win the league and deliver Champions League football with a defence of Aaron Hughes, Andy O'Brien, Titus Bramble and Andy Griffin is beyond comparison. Best ever. Could be wrong but I'm pretty sure that was never our defence at any point in any season we qualified for the CL or almost won the league, like. Irrelevant anyway. We had a top class attack, midfield and a good goalkeeper at that point. Bobby did a smashing job but he's not in the same league as Rafa.

Game after, apparently.

He could probably finish top 2 with 18 out of the 24 squads in the league, tbh. He's just got that golden touch of seeing things that other managers don't - in his own team and the opposition.

Profound as ever.

We've got to win 7/10 of our games to be assured of promotion. It's a solid 9.

Krul Janmaat Mbemba Lascelles Dummett Ritchie Shelvey Diame Aarons Perez Mitrovic/Gayle Something like that.

You were being serious, though.

I've said it before: shit people from a shit part of the country. Pay them no mind.

Ah, God bless 'em. Utterly pointless but abundantly inoffensive.