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Beggars belief this like. Our recruitment is the envy of the all the teams in the league that aren't mega rich. We absolutely could attract a better manager than Alan Pardew man, without a doubt. I've no faith in this lot whatsoever to bring in anyone up to the job. It may be a completely baseless opinion but I really do think they would prefer to work with a British manager and we would therefore be stuck with another Pardew clone. I cannot imagine them going out onto the continent and picking up a Laudrop, but I hope I'm wrong. Agreed.

Beggars belief this like. Our recruitment is the envy of the all the teams in the league that aren't mega rich. We absolutely could attract a better manager than Alan Pardew man, without a doubt. I've no faith in this lot whatsoever to bring in anyone up to the job. That's understandable, I'm positive we could get someone better if we wanted to though. We could buy someone to fill the gaping gaps out wide if wanted, mate. We've had numberous windows to do it and we never do. It took us 5 years to spend more than £1m on a CB fffs.

Beggars belief this like. Our recruitment is the envy of the all the teams in the league that aren't mega rich. We absolutely could attract a better manager than Alan Pardew man, without a doubt. I've no faith in this lot whatsoever to bring in anyone up to the job.

He doesn't keep the ball, though. He gets pushed off it like a dog trying to nick a newspaper. Fucking Nasri outmuscled him easily today ffs.

Why is it unlikely? For the same reason our last 4 managers have been Pardew, Hughton, Shearer and Kinnear.

Needs to go at the end of the season if someone better is willing to take the job, which is unlikely.

God knows, taken from wiki: Pardew win % for us - 38% Hughton win % for us - 56% For goodness sake, man.

What are you on about?

Jonas, Simpson and Perch? Gouffran's no winger, Obertan's mostly a nothing, Anita's completely out of his depth in this league, Elliott came from League One, Gosling isn't really a PL player yet. Pardew's doing a dreadful job, not disputing it, but he's a symptom, just like the rubbish wearing the shirts.

We've got almost a pitch full of players out of their depth, out of position, or both. Why anyone would have an ounce of faith in them to bring in a new (and improved) manager is beyond me.

We didn't. City let us play, like they did at SJP in the second half. Oh, and guess what, there were 'positives' to take from it.

Like shoveling shite against the tide, this.

That went well.

Except they often have an impact.

Without the additions we'd have 100% gone down. 19th or 20th.

His main attributes being that he was picked once or twice for Holland for some reason.

The above.

Our plan seems to be to keep the score down, that's unacceptable. I quite agree. How we actually go about scoring a goal is beyond me, though. There's not a hint of creativity anywhere. There is, but the bloke was left on the bench. Like Cabaye he'd have no impact against this lot.

Anita makes Cabaye look like Papa Bouba Diop. Like a little kid from the youth setup.

Our plan seems to be to keep the score down, that's unacceptable. I quite agree. How we actually go about scoring a goal is beyond me, though. There's not a hint of creativity anywhere.

It's awful stuff, but we've hardly got the players to blow this lot away, either.

Hoof it to Gouffran.

Urgh.

Haven't seen City much, either.

Completely agree with that.