Amir_9

"Family club"

I think they will to be honest, if they waited for a year to get the purchase finalised then I can see them sticking around to get the club back up again and going once promoted. I had concerns over the "saving face" sociological aspect of Saudi culture once Masters and the EPL fuckers were twating around and PIF withdrew so I could not see the actual sale happening a year later, they did stick with it so I can definitely see them sticking with the project beyond whatever happens and having them treating the players and the staff with such a warm welcome is reassuring. However, I remain to be entirely convinced about their approach this month, its all well and good you want to play it smart and not be taken advantage of by overpaying but then when we go down because we didn't spend an extra 10 million once or twice in important positions then that doesn't look very smart at all. Lets see what the next few days bring. Personally, I have always thought of Saudi as a country with money but not ability to execute (no pun intended) vision/possess intelligence akin to UAE or Qatar (the fact that Qatar more or less found a way to thrive perfectly fine during the political tensions with Saudi Arabia last few years, as Saudi tried to ostracise them, should tell you something). This can change though and NUFC can be part of that change, I hope. Look up MBS - Saudi Vision 2030.

My guess means fuck all. I never thought the Saudis would stick with this deal in the first place after being fucked around, hence why I practically never popped up in those two threads that were going at the time. The Gulf Arab amused thing was more at me being amused at them enjoying traditional Gulf style Music/Dancing. Unless you're being sarcastic here then shit man, with you being on an online forum where I cannot hear your tone of voice the last thing I need is reading this at midnight. Got me worried again now about being gullible.

Happy clappers man. Clubs like Brighton with grounds like theirs are a dime a dozen in this country File under 25,000-30,000 seater generic dispensable club. QPR, Wigan, Norwich, Sheffield United etc etc etc the list goes on...

This is twice as funny to me being an actual Gulf Arab To be honest, given the treatment they are giving the squad its a made me feel a bit more reassured that they are still interested in the project and the club even if we go down this year

I fucking hate them. Long may it continue.

Journos know nothing 90% of the time

The Irish Colback The invisible man Jeff, please do your invisible trick and this time don't come back from it.

Donny on de Bench

Sam Allardyce was a survival specialist and WBA got relegated. I wouldnt worry too much about it as football in this country at the highest level has clearly changed and some managers with certain reputations have ideas that just aren't effective anymore They are still very much in the thick of it and it's still very much a gamble.

Leicester's title winning season was momentum, exceptional form from Vardy and all the top teams being inconsistent. Spurs finishing 2nd that year tells you everything you need to know. I suspect Ranieri had the ability to keep those things going rather than any kind of tactical mastermind. Pardew finished 5th with us - sometimes all you need is someone who has the personality and capability to maintain that harmony and momentum.

It says - We welcome Newcastle United Football Club in Jeddah and look forward to our first friendly meeting source: im arab

End product non-existent, supposed to be an alternative outlet when the attacking play doesn't involve ASM but he's just not producing the goods at all

I'd be more confident if they hadn't just found some form, a month ago would have been a different story.

I'm tired of having these European teams waste our time. Pretty bad that we're about to go into yet another very important game without a new CB and it's the 20th today "They're trying their best / January is difficult / Our league position is off-putting" - by this point surely you should be targeting the best players that wouldn't mind playing a season in the Championship. Are there no top tier Championship defenders that we can consider to offer a higher payday at a bigger club or players from midtable teams abroad that want to move to test themselves in England?

Fuck my life that's bad..

I was there at St. James' when he scored that goal against Bolton - still remains to be one of the most edge of my seat moments I have experienced going to games. On his day he was the definition of scintillating. The lad had a thunderbastard of a strike on him and some canny tricks - the people who didn't like him were based on his supposed attitude and selfishness but players like him are naturally "selfish" for lack of a better word because they have the skill and magic to make something out of nothing.

Bumped into him at Newcastle Airport I believe with him flying to Paris, this was when he was still recovering from that disgraceful De Jong tackle Canny lad.

I think its about time we looked at more realistic targets (i.e - best of the Championship / midtable teams from abroad)

Seeing that early yellow and how fucking slow Shelvey is mentally and physically was peak Long pass aside - It's like the motherfucker plays the game with shit internet high latency connection Dipshit should have been rid of eons ago

With new CB 1-1 No new CB 2-1

Its true though, when you see someone like Trippier joining up and some other talents from other countries showing interest publicly in the news then why haven't we signed more by now? We should have never ever went with that CB pairing against Watford the other day. Had plenty of time and was arguably our biggest area of concern.

How is it we're halfway through the window and we still do not have a CB in? You seriously telling me we can't find anyone short term better than the shit we've got?

Moshiri is just a rich Persian Steve Gibson

Don't know if been posted yet but this is from their forums. Pretty alarming if true: Just looking back objectively now at his time here, based on facts of what’s happened: - came in, insisted he’d done a full squad audit and knew what Everton fans wanted, talked a lot about running and effort - definitely improved the fitness of the side - brought in Gray which is an excellent signing for that price. Townsend on a free is very meh and he’s a Benitez player - he’ll be useful for whoever else comes in because he’s always committed. Begovic is what he is, Lonergan for training needs - did well first few games in terms of results, team looked fitter but wasn’t really organised bar the Brighton game. There seemed no real plan to how we played but the intensity was there at least - poor deadline day, demanded we got Rondon and we got Rondon - injuries hit, results start to tail off, matching the poor level of performance - James Rodriguez left the club even though Everton couldn’t replace him - Bit of a bounce around that United game, the last good display. I credit Benitez that day, looked like he had got something to build on even with limited options (DCL and Rich out), but Utd were awful - Went very, very rubbish very quickly. He tried to replace Doucoure with Tom Davies. His insistence on only ever playing 2 in midfield became apparent. By the wolves game, it was clear he was stuck in a time football forgot - worst derby home defeat in 40 years, fans protest, but try to be too clever and insist that it’s not the manager’s fault. This results in DoF going and the manager gets more power - half-decent performance v Arsenal, but relied on moment of magic and could easily have lost. Overshadows it by ditching Digne - hapless v Palace, he changes it up after 20 mins and thinks Gomes can play second striker in his absurd 4411 - resilient display v Chelsea but very lucky to not have been 3-0 down by 20 mins in. Decides same formation must be used in every games - completely loses his head over Digne, alienates one of the best players then inexplicably puts him on the bench v Brighton, even though he was never gonna bring him on. Seemingly gets annoyed by fans clapping Digne when he warms up, when Everton are 2-0 down at home after 15 mins - Sells said player having already spent more than what we got for him on two very inexperienced players, one of whom is thrown straight into a struggling side - leaves by suffering a defeat which leads Everton to become the only side to lose to all the newly promoted teams - gets fat compo packaged club’s now a complete mess. No DoF, owner’s a lunatic, Bill’s crying and the fans hate each other and the players