Interpolic

Sorry everyone.

Can't see this being true like.

Me dad's packing it in after 20+ years as a season ticket holder. Shame tbh.

Is Pardew still managing this lad brilliantly? Have lost track. Did he just manage him brilliantly for 4 months, then the players gone on like a dickhead so there's been nowt he can do?

Fucking mental, that.

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Most of the top managers suffer with under-performing players who have a fundamental lack of professionalism, motivation and no desire to keep fit. Out of Pards' hands.

Fuck you, Rich.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succ%C3%A8s_de_scandale

It's the same old story on here - it occurs with every single issue, people with space for only one idea in their brains. Sports Direct's rise is due to them buying out the competition, end of story. No more reasons allowed, especially ones that are notoriously not tangible such as increased marketing/PR.

We spent loads, for us. Spent an actual fraction of the Carroll money, net. Didn't we spend like £3m net? I'm looking at it and we didn't actually spend much. Think you might be right. Cabaye, Obertan, Ba on a free. Santon to replace the departing Enrique on a lower fee. Am I missing someone? I've been brainwashed.

Sports Direct's share value has increased 22 times since 2008 after experiencing a rocky start to their life on the exchanges. Might be other reasons as well, but I think NUFC has been very, very good for his SD aspirations. I would say the influence of NUFC has been fairly minor TBH. He's ruthlessly smashed the competition and the economic downturn means people have to shop at bargain-basement retailers. No doubt it's been good to get his name in the papers a bit more, but not worth the money he's spent. You work in marketing. What you driving at? Becoming synonymous in the press with the biggest football brand in the world (the Premier League) at one of the more historically big and interesting clubs. "Fairly minor". Nobody's saying it's the biggest reason and only you're bringing the idea in that it's covered his spend so far in its entirety or anywhere near. It helps. A lot. If you don't agree I'm not sure why you're working in marketing, go and work in accountancy with Quayside. In reality it's not very tangible so it helps your agenda, you can downplay it. If marketing wasn't that big a deal he'd sell the advertising space in the ground and get real money for it, since the benefits for him of plastering Sports Direct all over the ground are "fairly minor".

Sports Direct's share value has increased 22 times since 2008 after experiencing a rocky start to their life on the exchanges. Might be other reasons as well, but I think NUFC has been very, very good for his SD aspirations. I would say the influence of NUFC has been fairly minor TBH. He's ruthlessly smashed the competition and the economic downturn means people have to shop at bargain-basement retailers. No doubt it's been good to get his name in the papers a bit more, but not worth the money he's spent. You work in marketing.

We spent loads, for us. Spent an actual fraction of the Carroll money, net.

What are you on about then? It's obvious to anyone with eyes that Hatem isn't giving nearly enough in his training or in an attacking sense in matches. Just as well the players being picked ahead of him are doing so well then. What's your point? Mark Viduka, Joey Barton and Michael Owen were hardly highly conditioned athletes. Keegan got the best out of them. That's my point. They played well for 8 games under Keegan. Ben Arfa's had better & longer spells under Pardew. When Ben Arfa's not producing though he's easy to drop for managers and let's face it, every manager in his career has done it not just Pardew. Keegan didn't have 2 years or so after that spell, so your point's totally redundant, sorry.

Just getting ignored, must be making a decent point.

What are you on about then? It's obvious to anyone with eyes that Hatem isn't giving nearly enough in his training or in an attacking sense in matches. It's chicken and egg, but I doubt Ben Arfa's fitness or motivation would be an issue if Keegan was manager, spending the whole week preparing for how we'd blitz the opposition.

Definitely, it's what comes with having a manager who gets their thrills from hurting the opposition, coaching their best attacking talents to score goals and that. It really pisses me off what happened with Keegan, swear he would have made a success of the job before he realised he was dealing with lying cunts and fucked it off.

Actually not sure if he will, because the one way to cause a national media fuss is to fuck with the national media.

He'll be banned either way.

You seem to be treating player work ethic and management style as mutually exclusive concepts, which is very strange. Players would run through brick walls for Keegan.

Sorry to play Devil's Cunt, but how do we know that's true? Could easily be conjecture. It's a new one on me but wouldn't surprise me.