Froggy

Where has the £5.5m come from? £4.1m were the total costs for Ashworth's involvement with us. Including hiring and firing costs. Newcastle got ~£2m for him. Still bad of course.

20timeschester

Wouldn't read too much into the West Ham one. According to sources they rejected him as he had never managed abroad and they wanted more experience. Fair enough, but it would be a bit strange as to why they still spoke with him when they knew these things beforehand. Other sources suggest he had a change of heart and apologised to Sporting for meeting with them. I'd say the latter is more likely. It's well documented though that Liverpool went with Slot because Amorim's system would have required a squad overhaul which they didn't need. The difference is that we badly need a squad overhaul and most fans want him to gut the team. Sign young and hungry players (Dorgu), and get rid of the overpaid passengers (Rashford). It's going to take time but I do think he'll be a success if he's backed. If Ratcliffe and co. decide to sack him, it would be a display of gross incompetence, and the only person who comes out of it looking good is Dan Ashworth.

You'll be paying for it once you move over here.

I would agree. By next February, he'll have been in the job 15 months and will have had three windows and a full preseason to implement his ideas. How much patience the fans will have depends on how well he's backed in the summer and how the team is performing. The players he has are better than 15th.

I understand this view, but at the minute he's not going to come under much pressure from fans as we mostly understand that he's walked into a complete shitshow. What's happening now is what could and maybe should have happened in previous seasons. He basically has had an extra 5/6 months for prep and will get a full preseason. I understand why the board wanted him to come in now.

Big clubs only mate.

I do think we've packed the league in entirely and will put all focus into the Europa League which we have a realistic chance of winning. Don't think us battling our way through 7 matches against the likes of Lazio, Bilbao and indeed Spurs is more likely than Newcastle winning a one off game against Liverpool though.

Our bench today is Harrison, Amass, Fredericson, Lindelof, Heaven, Fletcher, Kone, Moorhouse and Chido Obi.

Or amazing for the neutral.

Ugarte, Mainoo and Collyer all injured in training too. Was wondering when our good friend injury crisis would pop in for a chat.

I'm just happy they made a mistake so I didn't have to sit through another 30+ minutes of that.

This feels a bit harsh no? 56/69 points for them. Best attack, best defence. Topped the CL league stage. They seem extremely well balanced to me and have arguably the best player in the world right now tearing teams to pieces.

We're all Newcastle here aren't we? The forum is completely United on this one. Unless wacko makes a return.

Newcastle are 2/1. Don't back down, double down.

I can look after Bear.

He's awesome this guy. Starting to think he's better than Hojlund.

He's such a little bitch. Not even a single word of congratulations. He has zero class, and is one of the most overrated managers in the Premier League. Roughly £650m spent now, over 5 years into his project and his only trophy to show for it is an FA Cup won with Emery's team? Fucking hate Arteta.

I need to save my money to go to Bilbao so can't make this. Apologies.

Amorim and his 3 CB's knocked Arsenal out of a bigger cup than this one less than four weeks ago. Just enjoy your victory lads. There's no need to bring Man United into every conversation.

Mad that Anzhi don't even exist anymore.