loki679

mangers are too transient to reliably instill a footballing philosophy especially these days for me it has to come from the board. I'd take Swansea as an example of it working more or less right, they base their appointments on guys who fit into how they want things done and explain how they want things done and for the most part its served them well. Sure you get strange occurrences like Wenger who can completely change a teams philosophy but thats ridiculously rare. Also without going too much into whats wrong with that lineup (plenty) i'll stick to the main points MYM/Colo don't work together and that central midfield is lacking anyone with an ounce of creativity. I'll just agree to disagree

Krul Debuchy MYM Colo Santon Tiote Anita Sissoko HBA Marveaux / Gouff / Sammy Cisse Our players don't fit together? Maybe if they were played in the correct positions they would I disagree on the board setting the football philiosophy for the club aswell. It comes from the manager and ideally should permeate through every level down to the lowest youth team.

Getting to be a pet hate of mine, this. Everyone agrees that Ashley is the overarching problem, but that doesn't alter the fact that it's infinitely easier to bring about a managerial change than depose a billionaire owner. Pardew is rubbish and doesn't get a free ride just because his boss is a cunt. while true its simply papering over the cracks, whenever Pardew goes the next guy will be much the same and end up in much the same situation so long as the manager has no say in the slightest over who comes in and goes out and the criminal under-investment. Do you think we've signed poor players and do you think they've been used correctly? I do think we've bought some very average players with the very occasional gem like Cabaye who made the rest look better than they were. And the main problem is none of the players were bought with any kind of philosophy in mind at all, they weren't bought because it was what the squad needed or even considered if they even fit in the team or league in the slightest just they're cheap they'll do so it can't be a surprise none fit together. Plus they're they most spineless heartless bunch of players I've ever seen I wouldn't be sorry to see the whole lot of them sold tomorrow for a bag of magic beans. Who's job is it to instill a philosophy at the club? We don't have one and haven't had one for 3 years. Of course the pieces don't fit together when they're used in the most retarded fashion possible. Normal teams buy a central midfielder to play in central midfield, not right wing back. Normal teams buy a striker to play up front, not left midfield. Normal teams don't have a drinking game depending on how many left backs the retard in charge manages to get onto the pitch.

Getting to be a pet hate of mine, this. Everyone agrees that Ashley is the overarching problem, but that doesn't alter the fact that it's infinitely easier to bring about a managerial change than depose a billionaire owner. Pardew is rubbish and doesn't get a free ride just because his boss is a cunt. while true its simply papering over the cracks, whenever Pardew goes the next guy will be much the same and end up in much the same situation so long as the manager has no say in the slightest over who comes in and goes out and the criminal under-investment. Do you think we've signed poor players and do you think they've been used correctly?

Exactly how is Ryan Giggs qualified to manage one of the biggest clubs in the world?

Pardew is just a complete moron. Given a choice of one of Carr's young, hungry, talented strikers or a contract extension for a player who has managed 1 premier league goal in about two years he'd go for the latter. Imagine Carr's face at the transfer summit after he's just run through a detailed breakdown of some of the top striking talent in France and Pardew goes 'Nah, let's give Shola a new contract instead.'

Just this once please let twitter not be full of shit.

They're nearly spending enough to extend the metro.

Not as bad as ours, ours suddenly raked in the spending too quickly, gave us four relegation struggles and stopped caring about the club. And thought Alex McLeish would be a good appointment. Ours gave us an actual relegation, Joe Kinnear twice, Dennis Wise, renamed our ground, a relegation struggle, Alan Pardew, the tackiest stadium in England and no signings for 18 months.

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He says as he proceeds to put a glove on his right foot and shove his left shoe up his arse.

He left in January and he's still a shoe-in for player of the season

I think you should go to the game and chin them all.

The universe just hates us, we even got the shittest billionaire owner

Not sure about Sir Les. While I have a lot of respect for him as a player he is unproven as a manager and would be getting the job just on his reputation from his playing days most likely which rarely works out. Would be a useful fella for Mike to have around on deadline day like:

Probably thinks he'll sell more caps.

Stoke probably received about £200m in TV money in that time mind.

Bear in mind that if that team does the business we (and I include our children and probably grandchildren in this) are going to have to hear how Liverpool won the world cup ad infinitum.

Nailed it again neesy

Smelly shell of a dead tramps ringpiece

Is Stifler trying to pimp his mum out to bimps?

Jabba the Hut looks at him and goes 'fuck dude, go on a diet'.

Yeah, if they needed to beat us until our stripes turned red they'd do it. 10-0 wouldn't be a problem against this shower.

Get a pretty good showing of that in black and white each week tbf You should probably get a new telly, they're not that expensive nowadays.