Geordie Ahmed

The article ends with the following line in relation to Carlos "It is believed they have already agreed personal terms and are still trying to thrash out personal terms." Huh?

So Burnley are not likely to spend the £20-25m they got from us for Wood on a new striker

That tweet is bollocks like, I watched the game on La Liga TV, Guedes was the first player off the pitch and the camera didn't show Carlos going off the pitch

And Man-U have a second, was a well worked goal that Harsh on Brentford considering how well they had played

I do like ASM but Ben Arfa was a different level, much more graceful when it comes to dribbling

That dink gets overlooked and dismissed as the defenders just letting him pass, that dink mugged them off and allowed him to get through otherwise he would have been tackled

Whenever I speak to another Newcastle fan I use Ben Arfa as the yardstick, if they criticise him then I consider them to be 1) full of shit and 2) not a lover of football

I agree he's not worth that, especially with his injury record but he is in the stronger position to negotiate Once he's on a free then some teams will pay him the crazy wages he is after

They've offered him a contract, that's hardly like them wanting to get rid but he wants more than they are willing to pay So if he isn't going to stay then it makes sense for them to try and sell him Xavi does want him to stay

They don't want to get rid, he's out of contract in the summer and the money he wants is too much for them Dembele does have fitness issues and his end product is a bit hit and miss but he is a quality player, just a massive risk

Plus you add in we have taken the lead in a number of those games (Brentford, Norwich, Man-U, Watford) but the mentality of this squad is so pathetic that we know an equaliser is inevitable, be that through individual mistakes or a collective of arse dropping from the squad I'll be damned if I judge Howe based on crap squad he's inherited

They'll not say anything like that until it's mathematically done And I fully expect them to say they are disappointed but committed to getting the club back up

Of course it isn't limitless but we've put up with 14 years of Ashley and 3 years of Bruce, I expected it to last a bit more than it has for some I'm not going to make a judgement so soon, especially when the issues we have is our squad is not balanced and it's crap The squad being shite isn't on Howe, that's on Bruce and somewhat on the new owners in giving him some better players If we lose to Leeds, sack Howe, who do you honestly expect to come in? Who will suddenly make Lascelles be a competent footballer or give us legs in midfield? No manager/coach is changing that

Questions is one thing, talking about sacking the manager and blaming the new owners if we go down is another, that's the issue I have. People were largely happy with Eddie Howe (go to his thread and read the comments) and now we have lots of people (it's not isolated) already chucking the towel in on him after 10 games? Is that reasonable? Where is the patience? They need time, time to implement their plan and structure, they don't need people putting blame on to them for our relegation or even questioning their ability (that may well come but once they've had a fair crack at things, not after 3 months man)

People have paid serious money, that is true but the current owners are not responsible for the shite on show week in week out, certainly not yet Once they've had an opportunity to put a structure in place and employed people across the board and give a reasonable amount of time then I think it's fair to get vocal about it Getting vocal now is absurd imo, though it is reflective of issues we have in society in general and football is a reflection of that, we want everything and we want it now Let's recognise we've had 14 years of absolute crap at all levels, expecting perfection from the new owners in 3 months is unfair and unrealistic Have some patience man and focus on the bigger picture

He came off the bench on 89 mins, a bit generous to say he played

You mean to say people will make judgements based on context and react differently, such as Ashley being here for 14 years and Bruce for almost 3, whilst the new owners/Howe have been here for a few months, shocking that ?

If we really analyse it we have 3 appointments really Howe Trippier Wood I'm prepared to give Howe more time and I'm certainly prepared to give Wood more than 1 game. You carry on losing your shit though if that's what helps you

There's literally no alternative to Shelvey and Lascelles, unless you regard Hendrick as an alternative And that is a huge factor as to why we are in this mess Howe should have identified that and demanded a new midfield, though we have no idea if he has done that

ok is a massive understatement, overall he did a brilliant job and to keep a club like Bournemouth in the PL for as long as he did was a remarkable achievement.

I think league position is the bigger draw Now would Gerrard have had us in a better position? That's a different question but ultimately not worth dwelling on too much I am surprised at how quickly people have turned on Howe, I understand the frustrations and there have been things which aren't good enough but I do believe he will come good. It might not be this season, the rot in the club was perhaps too much to fix but I think eventually once he has a bulk of his own players we'll see better. And if we don't, then fair enough, serious questions can be asked

Just about everyting? Bloody hell, talk about exaggeration

Midfield is key, ours is shit You can give Longstaff and Shelvey to Pep, Klopp and they'll not be able to polish them If Howe had better alternatives and he was persisting with them then I'd give him stick but we literally have no one else, it's a dire situation However what Howe should be doing is demanding 2 new CM's because the current lot will relegate us comfortably, if he can't see how crucial that is then I do worry long term I think some of the comments are mad and very knee jerk, I thought us of all fanbases around would be the most patient, we put up with 14 years of Ashley and I thought resilience is just a given but I'm seeing far too many people slagging Howe off and writing him off, despite the main issues with the side/squad not of his doing

We can challenge all we like, it just requires 14 clubs to vote to change things, as they did with the sponsorship I agree going down negatively impacts FFP but that's a possibility they will have been well aware of I'm trying to look at relegation as a set back rather than a disaster, which it would have been under Ashley/Bruce

What rule book would that be? They can make rule changes now when we are in the league?