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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.

If we were mid table and comfortable I'd say this was a dream appointment as the guy seems to tick a lot of boxes. But the next two months could be brutal for us and we are going to need steel, resolve and a "fuck you" attitude to all of these cunts who are going to put an extra shift in to try and relegate us, before we even think about playing stylish football. That's my only concern.

He has got to hit the ground running though. We won't have the time to adapt his philosophy with this squad. I hope the owners are making it clear to him just how mediocre this bunch are, and the job that he's going to have in front of him.

4 wins in 24 against the top Italian teams too....

Me neither.. I just worry that he has no idea how much good coaching has been drilled out of this squad of players. Fulham were a great team to watch last season, very attack-minded and look where it got them. On the flipside I guess we do have the January big spend coming that they didnt.

If we are paying him £6m a year I'd say he's not being brought in to make up the numbers in the league. A lot of the comments suggest the guy doesn't know how to get a team to defend. That's worrying.

Reading this quote in the comments makes me nervous about this guy..... I'm an AS Roma fan and I tell you this interview sounded to me like an attempt to sell Paulo Fonseca to Tottenham fans as something he is not. It is true that human resources of the team were not that good but it is also true that if at the end of a first half at Old Trafford you are winning and if you know what players you have to line up you can play any way but conceding your opponents to score on counterattack. Fonseca is surely known as a well dressed gentleman with a nice hair style and all the rest... But he is not a manager for great scenes. Ukraine can be his dimension or maybe some portuguese outsider team or whatever, but surely not Serie A or Premiership. When you make 6 substitutes in a game it means you are not focused on the final result. And I could go on with exemples for hours... Wish Tottenham the best but I don't believe Fonseca to be a good choice. The last thing we need is style over substance in our current plight. Didn't realise his Roma team got hammered 6-2 off Man Utd a few seasons ago too.

If we can get to the January window and we aren't any more than 3 points adrift from 17th I wlll feel better, but I'm really not sure that we will. All of the teams we play up to that point will smell blood and up their game by an extra 10% against us.

What's everyone's thoughts on this now then? Right now I have to say I'm at a solid seven, maybe even an eight. It's really worrying, to say the least, and I'm not sure if the damage has already been done, with the fixtures we have got up to the New Year.

Please God, not Martinez.

I mean, I will gladly take this guy as he must surely be a significant upgrade on Bruce, and he does appear to have an actual footballing philosophy. But is 5th & 7th in Serie A anything to get excited about?

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We are on edge because every game that he remains is three winnable points lost, with a nightmare set of fixtures coming up. If he is here on Saturday we are getting 100% turned over again. Right now we are going to be properly cut adrift from 17th in a week or two if he isnt peddled before the weekend.

I hope you are correct my friend. If he is there in training tomorrow then we will know for sure.

This is so true. It doesn't matter what happens, we won't be given any credit whatsoever. Trophies won will be accounted for because it was "always going to happen because of the money spent". Bitter, bitter cunts. I'm enjoying how their new reality is to check the fortunes of NUFC well before even contemplating what is happening at their own club. The NUFC thread on there will never depart from the top five threads on that board from now on.

I love how he is held up as some kind of wise old sage over there when in reality he is as dense, bitter & twisted as the rest of them. Literally a day or two before the takeover went through, he was soothing them all with his words of wisdom as to how it would be impossible to prove the separation between Saudi state & PIF. I would love to have seen the look on the prick's face when the bomb dropped.

How would a scout for another club know, so quickly? Sounds fishy to me.