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A very solid nine. We are in serious, serious trouble.

Got to go. Seems like a nice guy but completely uninspiring. This has to have been his last game as manager. The new guy needs to be at the very least directing from the stands against Brighton.

From Overmars & Ten Hag.....to Charnley & Martinez. Brutal.

If its true then they really don't know what they are doing. It can't possibly be though. Can it?

It's going to be Martinez isn't it. I suppose he should be good enough to avoid relegation and get us into a comfortable mid-table position, so if he does that he will have done a decent enough job. I'd be very worried going forward after that though, giving him a chequebook. The money we have to spend in these early years needs to be spent incredibly wisely and I could see us wasting tens of millions on garbage like Ross Berkeley under him.

It's an indicator of what we are going to have to put up with when the club aren't signing Mbappe/Haaland/Salah within the next few years. There is an element in our support who unfortunately do live up to the deluded Geordie stereotype. Thankfully I think they are amongst a very small minority.

Don't understand the angst on here about that Athletic article. It's perfectly fine IMO. I can't make my mind up about Hurst. He gets a lot of negative feedback on here but on most occasions I've heard him speak I find myself agreeing with him. The guy has an ego though, no doubt about that. What I definitely do NOT agree with is the narrative coming from some supporters that we "had no say" in this takeover. That is utter bollocks, we actively campaigned for it to happen for 18 months FFS. I went on record many times on here, stating that the PIF takeover was the only one that I wanted, and now that it has happened I have no regrets about taking that stance. The shitstorm that has ensued over the last 3 weeks has certainly been an eye opener but I'm still comfortable about the direction we are now travelling in with this consortium. I just pray that we don't get relegated because the celebrating from many quarters will be unbearable.

These fuckers have been running a multi-billion pound industry like a country club but that's coming to an end now. These fucking amateurs have no idea what is coming to them when this ends up in court. They will be wishing that they had kept their mouths shut and not rocked the boat.

I like how they are keeping numerous elite managers dangling. Reinforces the message to the lucky successful candidate how big the job is and what will be expected of them. Sky high standards at NUFC. What is this sorcery?

Nah, but the likes of Rodgers and Ralf Rangnick being mentioned, as well as Ten Hag. But it seems that Conte is the one that they want most of all.

Looking on Red Cafe, they seem confident that Ten Hag could be going there. In fact their preferred manager list is pretty similar to ours. Imagine saying this a month ago.

Not a fucking chance. NUFC do not need that lot doing well in way, shape or form to assist our progress. Personally I hope they stay in the 3rd Division forever and we never play them again. And anyone thinking of feeling sorry for them, have a read through last year's thread here, at the point when the Saudis appeared to pull out of the deal... https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/june-to-july-2020-nufc.1519229/post-32095731

The simple fact is that, while we are all pinching ourselves to be sure that this amazing thing has really happened to our club, they are all slapping themselves in the face in the hope that they can wake up from the nightmare that is seemingly unfolding in front of them.....their most hated rivals becoming the richest club in the world with the resources to become one of the biggest in the game. They are collectively in a state of complete shock as it dawns on them that the relationship between the two clubs might just have changed forever, and not in their favour. Only time will tell if that does happen, but the fact that this possibility is giving them mental trauma is hilarious to watch.

I know nowt about Ten Hag but his apparent lack of enthusiasm for the job is a huge red flag for me. It's got to be Favre or Fonseca IMO.

That thread will never leave the top of their board now. This has utterly consumed them and it's going to be like that for a long time. To be honest I don't even click on the thread now because it really is toxic. The bitterness, hate and envy just makes it completely unreadable. There is zero rationality & they have completely & utterly lost their marbles over this. Some of them seem to be teetering on the edge of an online nervous breakdown over it man.

Hope not. I imagine the last two weeks have been a massive eye opener for her as to just how high profile and subject to scrutiny her role at the club is going to be. I hope she can handle it.

What's this stuff about Staveley seen crying at the end of the game? Did that actually happen?

Have they really spent half a billion in recent years on that squad? Mindboggling if true.

They definitely aren't happy, lol.

If we go down, could they rewrite the test to exclude us? Wouldnt be a surprise.

I've been thinking something similar and it would be peak NUFC for it to happen too. 7 months of relentlessly negative backlash from fans and owners of other clubs and it wouldn't be the greatest surprise in the world if they did a U-turn and got out before ploughing in serious investment.

It needs to happen. They simply cannot afford to dither about with this like they did with Bruce.

We are going to need a manager with a huge personality and supreme confidence to get us out of this. If its the likes of Lampard then we are going down.

They are living in a bubble of total denial now. Telling themselves that momentum is building, up to a point where this will all somehow be reversed, based on a few critical articles on the internet. This is going to eat away at them for years and years now. Absolutely delightful stuff.

I'd have no problem with it being something like "The Aramco Stadium at St James Park". As long as that full name gets said by commentators etc at games etc then there's no issue for me. I guess the two most important issues with a renaming are the St James being in the title, and the whole name needs to sound prestigious. That's one of the main reasons why people were aghast at the SD Arena.