jdckelly

well deserved

£24m first year, £19m 2nd, £9.6m 3rd and 4th year then nowt.

while I hardly disagree with the fact he's nowhere near up to the task, he didn't exactly leave himself in charge, during the "search" for the next puppet/head coach he never demonstrated anything to suggest he was a safe pair of hands but still he was left in charge. Also the approach to building the squad ie ignore what the squad actually needs and reluctantly sign players based on possible resale value alone and not little things like we need fucking defenders is coming back to bite the club in the ass nicely. And to top it off the players have basically been on holiday since Pardew left so lovely attitude from them.

is there actually anybody with a worse point total in the time since Carver was put in charge? No. QPR is as bad; 9 points from 45. I'm surprised there is anyone as bad tbh. Mind you they've probably played a lot better than us in the same period. The club deserve relegation for the last 2 seasons, last season to not even bring in one player on a permanent basis was staggering (and I remain baffled how in gods name we didn't end up anywhere near a relegation battle) to let your manager go without much of a fight and not bother to replace him just leave someone who has never demonstrated any ability to manage a club and to top it off just make it somehow harder for him by having basically 1 fit defender worth a damn.

its on par with QPR as it is.

Miguel Delaney @MiguelDelaney · 28m 28 minutes ago Liverpool's massive recent decline literally started the weekend Rodgers started banging on about how he turned it all around.

is there actually anybody with a worse point total in the time since Carver was put in charge?

Southampton 2-1 Spurs Burnley 1-2 Leicester Crystal Palace 1-0 Hull Newcastle 0-1 Swansea QPR 2-1 West Ham Stoke 2-1 Sunderland West Brom 1-2 Liverpool Man City 2-0 Aston Villa Everton 1-2 Man Utd Arsenal 2-1 Chelsea Hull 0-2 Liverpool Leicester 0-2 Chelsea

wonder if Sunderland will re-suspend him

GW33: Crystal Palace 2-0 West Brom Everton 1-1 Burnley Leicester 2-1 Swansea Stoke 1-2 Southampton Chelsea 1-2 Man Utd Man City 2-0 West Ham Newcastle 0-3 Spurs

De Gea and Kane imho

premier league clubs shouldn't be loaning in players to begin with let alone loaning from other premier league clubs.

3-2 Leicester!

oops Week 32 Southampton 2 v 0 Hull Sunderland 1 v 2 Crystal Palace Tottenham 3 v 1 Aston Villa West Brom 1 v 2 Leicester West Ham 1 v 2 Stoke Burnley 0 v 2 Arsenal QPR 0 v 1 Chelsea Man Utd 2 v 1 Man City Liverpool 6 v 0 Newcastle

True, they have the resources to afford almost any player, but would they really look past Sterling? 20 years old, already one of the better players in the league, and English. Not sure if there are any players with his skill set they'd sooner buy. throw in the fact he's home grown which they need a few of for the cl squad and I wouldn't be surprised to see City try for him in the summer.

oof strike toure

Ancelotti IMO him for Rafa's my bet, after the inevitable failed attempt for Guardiola obviously

Reminds me of how we were at times in the 2011/12 season. Only results we didn't deserve where QPR 0-0 away and Blackburn 0-1 from that season imo. At least from memory. A lot of tight games won through confidence, motivation and a bit of magic though. I would agree with that. it helped the defense was mostly good then colo at his best and saylor/williamson solid.

credit to palace for taking their chances but wtf has happened to city in the last few months?

I can understand that you stick with the club through thick and thin but for us we've seen a manager litterally rip the heart of football away from us, and an owner litterally ripping the heart of the football club away from us. I can't understand why you would want to attend games. Ashley is laughing his arse off at everyone who walks into that stadium on a match day. I attend games in an attempt to support my team. Do you think Ashley would lose any money if Newcastle United went bust due to fans boycotting every fixture all season and we were relegated? Newcastle United would go bust, but Ashley would be in Barbados sitting on £50 notes. Not attending games does not hurt Mike Ashley one single ounce. hurts him more than attending games. He holds all the cards it's true, every little helps though. Maybe the lack of support would get us relegated? One would hope, he's doing a good enough job on his own. Relegation would hit his wallet and he'd sell. didn't last time.

well holy shit

jesus, should be 1-0 Palace

difference is then the club was costing him money, a lot of it. Now its making him money and going to make even more in the near future. Thats assuming the club was actually put up for sale in reality instead of being "for sale" until things blew over The club is in a good state financially now, making it a more attractive proposition to buy, and I honestly think he would jump at the chance to sell up, if he got the right offer. no doubt he'd go for the right offer but thats the great unknowable what is the right offer? I wouldn't be in a hurry to sell something making me money for doing very little and that also gives free advertising on a global scale for my company at every home game. I agree with you on all that, but we can't control that side of it. Again it boils down to, 'so we should just do nothing', and this could well get a positive reaction. Perhaps suffering a fifth straight defeat against one of the worst teams in the division will finally unite the majority of fans in this. I wish them the best of luck but I'm not hopeful of anything coming of it. Fact is the ones who will boycott the game are the hardcore (well those not already boycotting it anyway) but there's plenty of more casual fans who might want to go see a premier league match or bring their kids to see man city, chelsea etc play. Plus the effect of a large boycott is neutered since the gate income is nowhere near as important as it was 20 years ago.

difference is then the club was costing him money, a lot of it. Now its making him money and going to make even more in the near future. Thats assuming the club was actually put up for sale in reality instead of being "for sale" until things blew over The club is in a good state financially now, making it a more attractive proposition to buy, and I honestly think he would jump at the chance to sell up, if he got the right offer. no doubt he'd go for the right offer but thats the great unknowable what is the right offer? I wouldn't be in a hurry to sell something making me money for doing very little and that also gives free advertising on a global scale for my company at every home game.