Stifler

It doesn’t help that he keeps playing half teams. I know it’s about match fitness, but how are they meant to figure out each other if they don’t play together as a team? I think part of it is down to his power play. ’We are shit, so give me exactly who I want’.

I’m sorry like, but Spurs and Arsenal should not be playing each other in a pre-season friendly.

He said overpaying for players like we did for Bruno and Wood isn’t sustainable. It was right for the time and scenario we were in, but not right moving forward. Howe went to the press to spit his dummy out. Apparently Staveley was his biggest backer and he lost support when she left.

This. He should have input, but he shouldn’t be in charge. We don’t live in an era where managers can stay at clubs for decades to built dynasties anymore.

Nah. Genuinely thought we would beat Celtic, and win today. That was all before we realised Isak had went AWOL though.

I don’t think Howe lacks support, in fact I think he has too much. Like you said he had a public spat with the DOF, and the DOF left less than a year in, I.E. he won that. Last year he wouldn’t move away from Guéhi which meant that we missed out on not only getting a CB, but doing well in other areas. We kept players like Ritchie around because ‘he’s nice to have around’ when we could have used those wages elsewhere. His loyalty to former players he had at Bournemouth is bizarre, Ritchie obviously, we also offered a contract to Wilson, and should have pushed him out of the door last summer. Now we are getting in a keeper who used to play with him at Bournemouth who most people agree is no upgrade on our first team keeper, and are debating if he’s as good as our 2nd keeper. Again we have 5 goalkeepers on our books already and are crying out for depth in the squad elsewhere. When we do sign players, he fucks them off for a year in anyway. Now we have a situation where they are trying to find a DOF who works with him, rather than the other way around. Don’t get me started on how his nephew is a key part of our recruiting staff. Howe has too much control over transfers, and there’s going to be a day when someone like Liverpool come knocking and he’s going either fuck us off and take everything with him, or use it against us to manipulate a move away.

Aye, I think he scored 8 in 8 that he played in, but it wasn’t a straight run for Newcastle as we played Arsenal who he was ineligible to play against.

I’ve said it before, he checked out on us ages ago. He knows he’s never going to be a first team player here again and is just going through the motions until his contract runs out or someone somewhere gives him an opportunity. He’s always out injured for long periods of time for injuries that shouldn’t take that long. Even today it hardly looked like he was touched, and he’s made a reaction like he’s broke his ankle.

They’ve got things ready in the past year. Had they not won the title last season even Liverpool fans would have knives out for them again. Being financially well ran doesn’t mean that they are well ran in general, Spurs are financially well ran, does it make them a well run football club?

Yeah, he has barely even touched him. An absolute liability. I’ve said before, he checked out on us.

That’s a fair gotcha like, I clearly don’t.

Hard to tell if they are 15 or 25 to be honest mate.

Yeah, literally had one on social media just saying they are the best owners in the league and saying they took them from being ‘banter club’ to the top. Since the 70’s, Liverpool at its lowest ebb have for the most part finished high up in the league, and always been capable of winning trophies. Fucking banter club my arse.

They did spend a lot of money beforehand and have had a perfect storm of players they have reaching their peak, and other clubs dropping the ball. Again, I reiterate my point, they are well financed.

Is it? Their owners tried to steal control of football through project big picture. They then a few months later tried to cause massive damage to domestic and European football by helping found the ESL and join it. They employed a manager who at the same time as getting arguing for the 5th substitute under the guise of players playing too much (which benefitted the bigger clubs) also changed the landscape of stoppage time meaning games regularly have 15 minutes added on now. They have rebuilt 2 stands at Anfield which still means that their stadium is behind others, and doesn’t allow them to host UEFA finals (including Euro’s games) and means that the first rows of seats have to be closed for Liverpool UEFA matches. They aren’t well ran, they are well financed.

If they did that then they would have to lay out how PSR works, which doesn’t suit their agendas. Just today some Liverpool fan on Facebook was saying that Liverpool have been saving up for years and years for this windows spend. I tried pointing out that PSR means you can only account for money from the previous 2 years plus the current year. It seems lost on them that they can’t simply just use the Suarez money anymore. This is one of the reasons why Aston Villa have PSR issues, the Grealish money I don’t believe was fully spent and they couldn’t roll it over.

Guys a full on Qatari shill. He did their bidding for them during our takeover saga, even Man City fans don’t have a nice thing to say about him. He’s landed upwards since our takeover, it’s literally thrusted him into the limelight, all because our media are stupid to think that Qatar=Saudi Arabia once the Saudi clubs had money to spend.

This Stellex?

Possibly, but also the Women’s team sell off doesn’t apply to UEFA. I know Chelsea and Villa have got away with fines but you can’t blame our ownership for not taking that risk.

This, Man Utd became the giant they are today because of what they did in the 50’s when they bought every young player they could. I mean a young Newcastle United fan who’s father worked most Saturdays down the pits in Ashington had no right to go to Manchester to play football and become one of their legends without vasts amounts of money being given to him. I know that they suffered in the 70’s, but they still had a platform to rebuild themselves due to what they did 2 decades earlier. Liverpool did the same in the 70’s, before that they were languishing in the 2nd tier. Arsenal were going bust in the early 20th century, but got bought out by a very rich man who moved them from South London where they were surrounded by competition with Charlton, Millwall, and Crystal Palace amongst others, to North London where there was only really Spurs. They even bribed league officials to give them promotion over Spurs. Spurs are the only team who you could argue are in there organically, but even then they were key in the breakaway of the Premier League, and since they worked their way into the top 6, have campaigned for and implemented rules changes which gives them a greater portion of the revenue over other clubs.

Classic rewriting of Liverpool from their fans. They had secured a refinancing package. RBS were only calling in the loan in the first place because of how fucked up they were. Gillett & Hicks opted to sell up instead.

Jackson? Fuck me man, we’d be better off with Ramsdale upfront and Jackson in goal.

And people say that Eddie Howe doesn’t have too much influence on transfers. Buying Ramsdale is an absolute waste of fucking money, we already have 2 keepers at the club better than him. Howe needs to cut out the ex-Bournemouth player loyalty.

Obviously transfers aside, and hopefully keeping Isak, we really do need to hear something about the new stadium, and the training ground by the end of the year. I would have thought that we would have had an update on the club badge by now as well. Christ, that’s going to get fans backs up if theirs no progress transfer wise soon.

Imagine being a Chelsea fan and telling other Chelsea fans that they shouldn’t buy or wear a Chelsea product that after TV money is probably the biggest revenue generator for the club.