Kaizero

There is no "off topic" forum. It's a chat section full of threads with various actual topics to discuss inside.

I'd take essentially anyone other than Potter. Not at all convinced from before and just saw he is one of two managers with an even worse PL record than Bruce.

It owned 10 percent of Juventus for a while and like 5 percent of Man Utd.

didn't know @oldtype had a twitter account

What about Barriaga?

So... you care then?

What if a British owner got jailed/died and had to give up running the club and whoever took over weren't as ambitious. It's the nature of ownership, it could change and ambition levels could change. PIF owns us, they could throw tons of money at us for 10 years and then scale back investment after if we don't fit their plans anymore, even without being at war with the world. You can't get stuck on "what if" scenarios like those, man A responsible owner will try to make the club somewhat self-sufficient with academy and training ground investments and they are looking to do that. It's as responsible ownership as you can get in this day and age.

Was 17, sat on the toilet at school thinking Newcastle were finally going to be great again. Been on here about a year or so at the time after @BlufPurdi allowed me to write articles for the long gone N-O front page about who the fuck other teams were. I didn't really accept the reality of just the utter and complete shitness of the ownership until Pardew strolled through the door. Seeing Ben Arfa play in black and whie srripes will probably be the only memories from the Ashley era I will cherish, or well, Tiote's mad thunderbastard and whatever the fuck Cisse tried to do when he scored that goal against Chelsea. Colo, Jonas, Cabaye and Ben Arfa are probably the only players I will remember ten years from now. Or wait, the straight like a banana days on N-O with Nile Ranger's arrival will also remain a highlight of my Newcastle related life. Though that is more a shared N-O experience than a Newcastle one. I'm thankful for N-O, Sack Pardew, Ashley Out and more to have kept me at least somewhat interested in NUFC and footy in general. The last few years since Rafa left I've only watched international games, not a minute of NUFC. I'd even started taking longer and longer breaks from N-O and I'd not been logged on for over a month when I had to return to remind @Shak and the other cunts that I still wanted to play NFL fantasy football, only to find out the coward had pulled a @Mike and pussied out of participating himself. On a personal level there's been highs and lows. I've gone down in weight, up in weight, down in weight, up in weight and so on for nogh a decade. I've worked jobs I loved and jobs I've hated. I lost my father to a sudden cardiac arrest out of the blue, and knowing he'll never see the good days ahead for Newcastle breaks my heart. I've lived in Oslo, Trondheim, Berlin, Milan, London and Los Angeles. I've made a TV pilot that got optioned by a major streaming network and we're shooting a first season next year after living through the sadness of knowing they had shelved it as they didn't order episodes immediately, only to get a call four years later at 4am on a Friday night from a US number asking if I could send them an updated logline. I've lived through gaining friends and losing friends. Business partners have stabbed me in the back, making me almost lose out on my dream project. But things are looking better. Last year around this time I tried to end it all and had to spend a good while on suicide watch. A year later I am close to realizing a pet project (starring John Carew and a well known ex-boxer), investors have lined up for my dream project that I almost lost in 2019, a streaming network wants my show and I am moving back to LA in a few months with my now fiance, who's a fullblown actual Playmate. If myself from the future arrived and told that story to the depressed and overweight 17 year old Kaizero sat on the toilet reading the news of Ashley taking over the club, I wouldn't have believed him. Now I'm just dead scared of the better times stopping, things can turn quickly in life, sadly. But in my last few years I've learnt to truly understand that for every dark night, there's a brighter day. I'm excited for my own future for the first time in ages, I'm excited to follow Newcastle again, I'm excited to still be an active member of this community. I'm grateful for each and every one of the N-O members whose path I've crossed in the last 15 years. This place and Newcastle (up to a certain point) were the escape from everyday life I needed and no doubt still needs. I'm glad Newcastle is back on the list of escapes in life that I can enjoy again.

I watched an episode of Lie to Me once, and therefore I am naturally a body languge expert; in Staveley's interview when asked if Bruce will be in charge at Spurs, she immediately starts shaking her, thus head implying her true thoughts, even though her answer was saying she doesn't know

This has made it's way around the block a fair bit more than I expected today

At one point we owned 10% of Juventus.

Kudos to @HUGZ (or whoever else did it) on Newcanstle-Online

If anyone want to help me with sorting out two tickets for Spurs I'd love if they could send me a DM Got a stupid online purchase issue due to being in Norway and our banks being crazy restrictive on foreign online purchases. In short I forgot a stupid code device that verifies the card belongs to me at home and now I can't complete the transaction. Would paypal whoever helps the sum and all of course

People keep overlooking OGS actually having the best record of the ones that have tried their hand since Sir Alex retired, but let's just stop it there as it's a shit argument anyhow and I can't believe I am even entertaining it as I hate Molde and I hate OGS. I just hate shit arguments based on feelings and not facts more. You could easily pick away at OGS' time at Man Utd using actual facts rather than "lol norway lol shit" Also you could say the Swedish league is shit as well then as I'm not impressed by Potter at all. That said, I honestly would want Zidane just for the star factor so I'm a shit person to ask

If you come up and we fly over we should get drunk

You just said we should look at Potter's past history in Sweden, yet we're not meant to look at OGS'. That's my issue with it all. Not comparing their current situations. Fwiw I can see what OGS is doing as it's the same as what he did at Molde to great success, his issue has always been never having a proper plan b.

Anyone know if there's still tickets available for the Spurs game? We want to fly in for it.

I wasn't having a go at you, just stating the double standards in saying Potter is great because he did great in Sweden when OGS has never accomplished anything in his career and he established a club that had never won the league in over a hundred years of playing into knocking the Norwegian equalent of Celtic off their perch and becoming the dominant force and going into European competitions.

So doing well in Scandinavia means you're a good manager? I thought managing with success in Scandinavia was a joke and not something to say made someone good?

My fiance better be prepared to wear a Newcastle shirt in all her social media content today to celebrate

https://themastermindsite.com/2020/12/30/ole-gunnar-solskjaer-manchester-united-tactical-analysis/

OGS plays a high-pressing counter attacking system, which he has done his entire managerial career with some minor alterations here and there. He has a clear chosen style of play and what criticism can be leveled against him is that he far too often doesn't have a great plan B when his preferred system doesn't work. Then again you can say the same for Pep who can't do a plan B for shit and never has done. His style will be very different to the expansive style of Pep or the gegenpress of Klopp or the defensive approach of Tuchel. Those three again, when compared against each other, would also have very different styles. It doesn't mean they don't have a tactical approach - it just means it differs from the people you compare them to. Not going to go into a defensive shouting match here but it's nonsense to say OGS doesn't have a preferred style of play that he tries to implement on his players. I've had the misfortune of watching him manage Molde for far too long.

The house on Bodø/Glimt -1