Away Toon

With defenders as poor as the ones we have fuck knows what Jones is meant to do.

All the earlier whining about the team selection, people need to get real, we have a very poor set of players with huge weaknesses in defense where none of them are either quick or good and in midfield where they are also not quick of physical. Jones has picked a team that is difficult to beat, like Rafa used to, and if we can start picking up the odd draw it will be an improvement on what has gone before. Palace are a better team with better players, a draw would be a good result.

Close the thread, the quicker Bruce fades from our collective memory the better.

Barcelona forward Ousmane Dembele, is open to a move to Newcastle United when his contract runs out at the end of the season. The France international, 24, joined the Catalan club in a £117m deal in 2017. (Goal) Newcastle held an interview with former Roma manager Paulo Fonseca over Zoom on Wednesday as the 48-year-old Portuguese emerges as a leading candidate to replace Steve Bruce. (Daily Mail) The Magpies' new owners have not made a final decision, though, with Belgium boss Roberto Martinez, former Chelsea manager Frank Lampard, ex-Borussia Dortmund coach Lucien Favre, Rangers' Steven Gerrard and ex-Bournemouth boss Eddie Howe still being considered. (Guardian)

So are we looking for a manager or a head coach because it's not at all the same thing. Some can do both, Rafa for example, some can only coach and some can only manage. If we are getting a DOF surely there's no need to get a manager, you just get the best tactical coach that's out there.

I’m coming round to the idea that AVB might be the best option out there if he’s interested.

I agree irrespective of who the new manager is until we can buy some new players we are going to struggle. Even if you bring in Schar, Fernandez and Lewis to change the defense I'm not sure it's an improvement. There are no real options in midfield or up front though the 40m Brazilian should never play again which might improve us marginally.

The second half has been one long piss take by Spurs, so easy.

Reasonable I would have thought. I think he stays until we get a new manager, who knows how long that might be. Hope not relegation beckons unless we drop 100m or so in January.

It's both. apart from ASM and Wilson we are pretty much all shit.

Willock looks like a very poor footballer this season.

If we haven’t sacked him because we don’t have a manager and they have decided not to sack him until we do, he might be here for a lot longer than a couple of games. Doesn’t bare thinking about.

So many excuses as to why SB can't be sacked. History tells us club plays on a Saturday afternoon, loses, manager sacked by the time the next days papers go to print. And repeat, it happens all the time. Apparently we can't do that because, of all the excuses I've been reading about.

SB is going to be getting some serious shit on Sunday if we go behind from the crowd, I cant see in any way that that is the kind of message that this new supposedly shiny NUFC wants to send out as a first impression to the millions that will be watching the game.

People making excuses as to why Bruce hasn't been sacked yet, there's something wrong with you. Maybe after 14 years of absolute shit you think it's acceptable to continue down that road with keeping Bruce as manager with no indication as for how long or if he's going to be replaced at all.

If you had asked anyone a week ago when the takeover was announced if SB would still be our manager for the Spurs game, everyone including yourself would have said no way.

The idea that SB will go out and do the press conference tomorrow and then be in the dugout on Sunday is disgusting and shows if nothing else that our new owners are not as yet any of the things we would like them to be.

Probably start on Sunday if Bruce is still in charge. I’ll be cheering on Spurs.

Newcastle's new Saudi owners plan to look to Germany in an attempt to mirror the success of Jurgen Klopp and Thomas Tuchel in England. Chelsea's Germany striker Timo Werner, 25, is a top target, along with Bayern Munich and Germany centre-back Niklas Sule, 26, Barcelona's Brazilian midfield flop Philippe Coutinho, 29, and a German manager such as ex-Dortmund boss Lucien Favre. (Bild - in German) The Magpies have contacted the representatives of Leicester City's French centre-back Wesley Fofana about the possibility of making a move for the 20-year-old in January. (RMC Sport - in French) Juventus' France midfielder Adrien Rabiot has also been linked with Newcastle, with the Serie A club open to selling the 26-year-old in January to help fund potential bids for Monaco's France midfielder Aurelien Tchouameni or Manchester United's Dutch midfielder Donny van de Beek, 24. (Calciomercato - in Italian)

I thought it was all pretty accurate and fairly unbiased.

If he is in that dugout on Sunday I'm supporting Spurs.

There is a lot of goodwill at the moment for the new owners and especially for Amanda Staveley however they do need to get most of the big decisions right and quickly. Getting rid of SB is a no brainer, we don't need a permanent manager to replace him Jones will do for a game or two. I'd have had Bruce out within an hour of the takeover being announced. No excuses.

Newcastle United's new owners are considering replacing manager Steve Bruce with Leicester City's Brendan Rodgers, Rangers manager Steven Gerrard or ex-Borussia Dortmund boss Lucien Favre. (Mail) Former RB Leipzig coach Ralf Rangnick is also being looked at by the new Newcastle United hierarchy for the role of sporting director. (Telegraph - subscription required) Newcastle United will target four Manchester United players when the transfer window reopens in January with France striker Anthony Martial, 25, Netherlands midfielder Donny van de Beek, 24, 27-year-old Ivory Coast defender Eric Bailly and England attacker Jesse Lingard, 28, all said to be on their wishlist. (Mirror)

From the BBC Very technically by the rules, that might have been the correct decision to allow Kylian Mbappe's goal. But it definitely seems against the spirit of the game. If Eric Garcia had let the ball go, the goal would have been disallowed. By trying to cut it out and only getting a little touch, the goal stood. It seems to be counted as a second phase of play. Hmmmm. Kylian Mbappe still looked offside when the ball was played by Theo Hernandez. So I'm still not convinced. Spain defender Eric Garcia did get a touch onto Theo Hernandez's through ball to Kylian Mbappe - so that must be why it was allowed to stand.

Must have touched the Spanish defender who tried to intercept the ball, as if it didn't he was offside