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thought he was a bit quick with the cards first half but he calmed down in that respect and generally did well on what is a bloody difficult fixture to ref most of the time, may as well give credit when they get it right

by christ it shouldn't be this hard, its football not fucking quantum physics

If it wasn't Leeds I'd feel sorry for the poor fuckers. Crazy situation. seriously why the hell are there so many incompetents running football clubs?

so did ashley, eventually the same pattern will fall into place and grumbling about the board will continue. Unless we get someone like Citys one. Someone who tries to compete and treats us with respect is all I ask. meh I just think its the natural state in football to have fans grumbling about the board, obviously not to the extent we've had here for the last decade

so did ashley, eventually the same pattern will fall into place and grumbling about the board will continue. Unless we get someone like Citys one.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/feb/01/leeds-united-brian-mcdermott-owners?CMP=twt_gu chaos

whats needed is a balance between the 2 extremes. Someone with an actual plan to improve us as a football club and not just the clubs ability to turn a profit, but also someone who has the courage to stick with his plan when things aren't going well.

here's the thing, by the standards set out by the club before the season (top 10 finish) he is meeting his performance goals and also avoiding europe. Except in one regard, and that is he is devaluing the squad. If Ashley wants to buy players as future investments, the one surefire way to wipe millions off their value is to put a clueless manager in charge. The two major sales from players who were brought in under Pardew both turned a nice profit (7m odd for Ba, 15m odd for Cabaye) he's succeeded in that respect thus far. Those players sold themselves, and the run of form individually had little to do with Pardew. Cabaye hit a hot streak with his eyes on the world cup and that probably added a few million to the final price. How is that going to happen with the likes of Santon, Sissoko, HBA and Tiote? These are players that need a manager who can mould a team, not jumble random players until he gets a nice result. usually when a manager moulds a team he has a say in the transfers in and there's a philosophy behind the purchases. He doesn't have that say and the only philosophy is "value" not even the needs of the squad just who's cheap nothing will change in this respect until Ashley goes and its a chaotic way to run a club. We will continue to have ups when we hit the jackpot on a good player and major dips like this when we sell our most important player the one which the entire team and tactics were built around and don't bother to replace him.

the moment someone offers him his full money back and probably a bit on top he's off. The thing is who's going to pay £300m for us?

This result could easily be the kick start to not achieving Top 10 though. or it could just be another bump along the road and we finish in the top 10 anyway. At which point ashleys won again, sold best player for £20m and stayed in top 10 and avoided the nasty europa league.

here's the thing, by the standards set out by the club before the season (top 10 finish) he is meeting his performance goals and also avoiding europe. Except in one regard, and that is he is devaluing the squad. If Ashley wants to buy players as future investments, the one surefire way to wipe millions off their value is to put a clueless manager in charge. The two major sales from players who were brought in under Pardew both turned a nice profit (7m odd for Ba, 15m odd for Cabaye) he's succeeded in that respect thus far.

achieving better results ie finishing higher risks europa league and in order to have a serious go at the high reward of champions league cash requires large investment which is a big no no

what he wants and has probably wanted since day one is to find someone to buy the club and give him a profit.

here's the thing, by the standards set out by the club before the season (top 10 finish) he is meeting his performance goals and also avoiding europe.

I'm fairly sure no amount of bad press concerning nufc will affect SD in a bad way. I guess what I mean to say is until and unless he starts getting picked up on by mainstream media on what we can all see is happening. Are they blind, choose not to see or just far enough departed from the club to not see it though? they don't give a shit. to the mainstream media all that matters is the title race and we're just making up the numbers

Tend to agree as well. Pardews agent must have pulled a blinder because the only logic I can think of as to why he didn't get the boot last season was the amount of compensation must be for the whole length of the contract.

I'm fairly sure no amount of bad press concerning nufc will affect SD in a bad way.

He refused to talk to sunderland because he thought our job would be going soon after, or at least that was claimed before they got Poyet. sounds like bull to me tbh

still getting paid by Abramovich, won't go for a job until its finished

Ashley doesn't want to make that mistake again. He should have sacked him after Liverpool last year, but then the cunt fooled everyone with some good results this season and it's set us back a year. Ashley has no long term vision and we're exactly where he wants us why the fuck what mistake from his pov is there to make?

why would he? he's won a cl he can wait for a better opportunity to go for the top Believe it or not despite what Pardew says we are a big club. I can't see a club bigger than us going for him and it's a perfect chance for him to prove he could run a big club and use us as a stepping stone if he was successful. forget anything with the size of our club perceived or otherwise just focus on Ashley, why in gods name would Di Matteo a man who can get a fair few jobs based of the CL win alone go to work under him?

well that was a worthwhile transfer

the hell is going on at leeds James Willoughby ‏@jwilloughby26 1m Official statement from Leeds: "The club would like to make it clear that Brian McDermott remains our first team manager." #lufc

Our victory there is completely worthless it is most vexing, stop losing your making our only achievement worth a damn this season worthless!

I really don't think he, any of the local press or even employees at the club have anything resembling a clue as to what Ashley will do in any situation