mrmojorisin75

it's not a statement is it? just some insider spouting off

well that thing dave posted said: The new manager will not be handed a treasure trove of cash to spend and nor will he be handed a contract which means he can be rewarded for failure." big difference between nothing and a treasure trove, but agree that if the real budget is next to nothing we'll only attract the out of work, desperate, or up-and-coming looking to make a name for themselves types

guaranteed

all the stuff nixon said was what i first thought, how come not just Hughton then? presumably he wouldn't accept the terms, or there's also some truth in them wanting more experience for whatever reason - those two things aren't mutually exclusive imo

so in short pardew seems to have: done ok at reading started well at west ham and then the wheels came off (perhaps complicated by the new ownership and all the tevez/masch circus) shit at charlton not bad at southampton, maybe even well, but dismissed for non-football reasons allegedly solid but unspectacular and his only effort with higher profile players WHU ultimately ended badly looking forward to it

on a fundamental level i have no problem with this approach, assuming the rewards for success are enough to attract a good manager i think it's ok, but the manager would have to be very canny and ensure his budget was built into the agreement legally otherwise he's agreeing to something he has no control over like keegan did and is then on the hook to be fired with no payoff i think some of the stuff people are saying is bollocks, like you can't run a football differently to the others - why the fuck not? on the other hand the glass half empty crowd would no doubt look at it as guaranteeing an out of work desperate manager coming in (which is probably going to happen) with the hope he can succeed and get bonuses galore however all of that said i reckon it's probably a load of shit they're spinning and think this is extremely on the mark:

can someone sum up the pardew hatred outside of his ability as a football manager? it's something to do with shagging players wives and so on right, or is there more i don't know about that makes him a bigger cunt?

Wouldn't have a problem with them doing this, the FA would probably come down on us like a ton of bricks though. you wouldn't mind losing 50-0? this season?

is ashley's daughter old enough for someone to pick up, shag, and post pictures all over the internet and newspapers? if not not someone should have a crack at his wife, get pictures of her playing the trombone and that

absolute cunts

christ i'd forgotten about o'leary

brilliant!! by the way you must be loving this oldtype? dragged yourself out of your despair only for this to happen

i'm not a million miles away from the nufc.com reaction personally - i liked hughton but i also have the feeling he might have been overachieving and that it might not last (we'll never know now), not that i wanted him gone i must say he deserved the season imo everything depends on the next move, if it's a manager like jol or o'neill that comes in and the plan is to build for the next few years then so be it, if it's a pardew then there's no justification for it whatsoever as it's ashley we're talking about it'll almost certainly be a total clusterfuck

o'neill available and free, jol available and free, pardew available and free strokes beard and puts self in mind of mike ashley: http://images.sportinglife.com/10/04/330/Alan-Pardew_2446033.jpg

just read that the aussies spent 25m on their failed bid, 25m http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/how-englands-bid-unravelled-in-24-hours-of-doubledealing-2150855.html

Looks very unlikely Brazil will get their shit together in terms of building the necessary infrastructure in time. Every chance FIFA could come begging to a European FA to run it at short notice, tbh. they say that about every Olympics and world cup these days man (except where everything is already in place) and it always make it

The only way Qatar will come close to working is if they make the flights cheap as fuck and flood the place with fans from around the world. But let's face it, they'll have to be very, very cheap flights/hotels etc. to get enough people going.

probably right in the sense that they'll not win the league anyways

not that hughton's not doing a good job but it'd be ace to see what a ferguson or a wenger could make carroll into doncha think? just have to lure either one to the toon really

how come no-one has posted anything in this tread since the game Monday? weird i mean i'd imagine VI might still be pissed but still...