Jack Flash

First time I've watch MOTD in over a year and I now remember why I stopped. Utter shambles. Prioritizing piss poor games just because they feature top 6 teams. Liverpool next?

They did spend nearly £100 million in the last 2 windows and ended up 9 points behind the leaders. Might have been harsh to sack him but he could have done far better, especially after the start they made.

Cost cutting measures. Entertainment costs too much.

He's such a liability. Does that stuff far too often.

Movers get a new card.

Is it not a responsiblity of the manager to pick things like this up and work on them then? Yeah. I'd have hoped one of our coaches had noticed this but as far as I know we only have attacking coaches.

His constant backing off continues to infuriate everyone yet he's blissfully unaware.

From what I remember he completely missed his first attempt to head the ball in the build up The second attempt was brutal. After than he did nothing and people around me still chant his name

He set up the second goal and had one cleared off the line. For Ameobi that's an 8/10.

Hope the new manager doesn't rate Torres.

Must give credit to Wigan. If they had fans they'd have done them proud recently.

For the people directly comparing Hughton and Pardew, bear in mind that Pardew has many years more experience than Hughton.

This joke doesn't work on any level.

“I don’t care about Sunderland. Even if the newspapers said Chelsea, I wouldn’t care. I worry for my team – I love the city, I love the club and I don’t care about signing for another team. “I don’t read the papers because I don’t understand English that well! Some players were joking with me about what it said. I want to go back to the Premier League, that is true, but I want to go back to the Premier League with Newcastle. This is a big, big, big club in England and it is important that it gets back into the Premier League.”

Harper will be number 1 until he retires.

So the close of the season and Circus begins. That officially starts when our manager is "HANDED A WAR CHEST!!!".

If our new striker/s can get us 15-20 goals and Ben Arfa plays his part It's very possible. I'd also not class Villa as a top 6 team any more.

90+% of clubs wouldn't have turned down that much for any of their players so I doubt that's a reason why we're "laughed at". It's mostly just a force of habit these days.

Yep. If you're leaving then just come out and tells us, f***ing p*ssed off with that t*** now. Although, the board still have to take a lot of the blame for making us the unattractive s*** that we are now. f*** off, Jose. f*** off, Ashley. f*** THE WHOLE LOT OF YA! We aren't unattractive at all. We're looking at a top 10 finish this year and with few decent signings in the summer and we could quite easily finish higher next year. Combine that with 50,000 fans every other week and I'd say we're an entirely attractive club.

Surely the best thing would have been to let it all die down after the injunction "failed"? He's only giving the media more ammunition by doing this, which defeats his motives, and also keeping it firmly in the headlines when it would have been mostly forgotten by now.

. He won't get that at Liverpool! They're trying though, which is kinda the point. Liverpool sold their best striker for 50M and bought one good replacement and one with potential and it seems to you "they are trying". We sold our best striker for 35M and are planning to buy replacements in the summer and yet we somehow show no ambition, such blatant double standards in interpretation! The least you could do is wait till the end of the summer transfer window before concluding that we are going in a different direction from Liverpool. Why wait when we can be negative now!

We could try listening to what Enrique has to say if he actually said anything.

Players/agents have more power than the clubs. If he wants out, he'll be off.

Very much agreed. We've given him nothing but support since he got here (or started playing here) and he cant even be slightly honest with us. Shouldn't be in the team tomorrow either if he doesn't want to be here.

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