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6-0 Sissoko hat trick and an assist to top it off. Bruce to put Schar at right back and Longstaff up front.

Great clip. He'll be good to watch this season for as long as he's there in the studio. His thinking is streets ahead of the others.

In typical fashion, we'll make Norwich look like Brazil.

They're more concerned with the super loyal Newcastle fans badge rather than the well-being of the club. Let them sit there in silence in their over-priced replica shirts and watch the club get relegated for a third time. They deserve it.

Total disaster of a first week, salvaged by Man Utd with my bench boost Transferred Sterling out for Salah, then Salah for Mane, as well as Alexander-Arnold for Robertson before the Friday deadline.

Not really, how the f*** can you be so open at the back there at 0-0, that's tactics, or lack of. Because Shar switched of, stayed where he was while the ball played across field to Willems was as weak as the rest of the piss poor lame passing, this easily read by Maitland-Niles leaving the whole back four open. He's bang on about school boy. Schar and the pass were awful, Williams was caught not coming to the pass, but I guess he would have expected more given the wet pitch in terms of zip. There were no excuses for the passing today, it was abysmal. Bruce aside. Willems could see that the pass was under hit, he half started to go to ball then stopped. He spent the next 5 minutes berating himself. We could just have easily won that game than lost, there’s folk on here celebrating and looking for things to criticise. There were plenty of empty seats, the crowd got behind the team, most got absolutely drenched and we lost not because of tactics. Joelinton looks a prospect, Almiron was fairly poor, ASM needs to be aware of his team mates and as a team we need to shorten the gap between the midfield and attack. Arsenal started very deep today and we pressed up to their 18 yard line, we became tired in the 2nd half and that created a big gap between our front line up to around the half way line . We’ll improve from here. We absolutely lost because of tactics. We ended the game with 1 central midfielder and 3 left backs on the pitch man As soon as he took Shelvey off for Willems we were done.

Totally killed the game for us. What a plonker.

I'm of the opinion they should just scrap the windows all together and go back to the old system of buying people whenever. Stops all the panic buying and overspending.

Andy Carroll's official NUFC unveiling

I'd imagine so. 6 PL goals, tops?

I think he'd still be a good option for us. Hoping we can get this one sorted.

The stripes go higher up on the front than they do on the back. That's what throws it off for me.

The whole sorry caper is too much for me; what makes it worse is knowing an insignificant percentage are willing to stand up for themselves. Nearly 50,000 people think what's happened is good enough. I genuinely think I'd feel a lot better if I knew the place was going to be empty against Arsenal. I'd still feel part of something. Instead, I feel completely detached. I'm off to Bradford City next week, I can't wait. Just a case of sitting back and watching those same people complain when the transfer window closes and we've only signed 2 players. They'll chant "get out of our club" like they're doing their part, and Ashley will be sat there next to Charnley having a good laugh at them because they paid something like £700 to do it.

Didn't you read it, he absolutely cares and Ashley's hoping he's the one :lol: Seriously, how can shit like this be printed. Lies and propaganda, without being questioned at all. Couldn't finish reading it. Fucking sickening.

Source? Sky News The results were only published after markets had closed on Friday afternoon, having been due for release at 7am - and previously been pushed back from an initial release date of 18 July. Shares fell 4% on the delay, which was described as a "shambles" by one analyst - even before investors were able to deliver a verdict on the results themselves. They will now have to wait until Monday when trading reopens to do so.

First it rains, and now this. What a day http://i.imgur.com/yHBmJ.gif

Rafa is extremely specific in how he wants everyone to play. Didn't he kick off over a corner being taken differently to how he wanted it to be taken last season? Yeah set pieces are diff, and where players stand, positioning generally can all be drilled but knowing when to release the ball is really difficult to teach My point was he could be coached to play a certain way and when to utilize his pace/dribbling. I agree that it can be difficult to teach but it's easier than teaching someone how to run as fast as he can, or being able to naturally go past people endlessly. Coaching him on where to put the ball as opposed to when to play it is different as well. I'm not dismissing footballing intelligence or anything like that but look at how Rafa got the best out of his players.

Rafa is extremely specific in how he wants everyone to play. Didn't he kick off over a corner being taken differently to how he wanted it to be taken last season?

Definitely has poor decision making in the final third but I'd rather us sign someone like him who has the traits you can't teach and lacks the ones you can. His pace and skill are unquestionable. He just needs to look up when he gets into the box by the looks of it. I’m not too sure you can reach decision making personally, perhaps to a certain level but if Traore couldn’t learn it at Barca, then I’m not so sure. Being able to choose correctly in the final third is often an innate skill. He could be coached to look up and pick somebody out when in the box though which would help his game, rather than just seemingly toe-punting it anywhere when he's out of dribble room. Teamwork can be coached into a player. Wtf coached to look up and pick someone out in the box, don't you get taught that at like 8 year old ffs Well clearly Maximin didn't

Definitely has poor decision making in the final third but I'd rather us sign someone like him who has the traits you can't teach and lacks the ones you can. His pace and skill are unquestionable. He just needs to look up when he gets into the box by the looks of it. I’m not too sure you can reach decision making personally, perhaps to a certain level but if Traore couldn’t learn it at Barca, then I’m not so sure. Being able to choose correctly in the final third is often an innate skill. He could be coached to look up and pick somebody out when in the box though which would help his game, rather than just seemingly toe-punting it anywhere when he's out of dribble room. Teamwork can be coached into a player.

Definitely has poor decision making in the final third but I'd rather us sign someone like him who has the traits you can't teach and lacks the ones you can. His pace and skill are unquestionable. He just needs to look up when he gets into the box by the looks of it.

I'm saying a section of our fan base will be fickle enough to jump straight back in now that we've paid £40m for one player who's going to wear the #9 shirt.

Hence Ashley gets a portion of the 12k unsold tickets sorted. He knows what he's doing.

Lets hope he has minimal input on team selection and tactics as well. He's probably just being told to stand there and look pretty for the cameras.