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I could not in my wildest dreams have imagined people thinking Alan Pardew wasn't THAT big a cunt in comparison, man. Brucey, take a bow.

We've quickly gone full circle from "A cardboard cutout is better than Steve Bruce" to "We're too good for Paulo Fonseca" I see.

"Steve Bruce favours patronising the Clayton street chippy of an evening. This tactic affords him the option of pivoting to Best Kebab, or Ottoman Turkish Restaurant on the flanks if Clayton is shut, or if he's feeling peckish for afters. Clayton also serves as a "trequartista" for him to venture further into a front 3 of Toon Takeaway, Ameen's or Athena on the High Bridge, with Bigg Market Chippy "in the hole"."

From minute 9:30 in that video above. Can you ever imagine Steve Bruce doing that big screen-projected play-by-play analysis of the opponent and then drilling the plays on the training ground? You know, like a modern, professional manager earning his wages and passionate about outwitting his adversary? Never in a million years, the man is a fucking dinosaur.

Manchester City wouldn't abstain for this one FFS

He know's he's hated and he's gone. Might as well take the piss.

AVB is out of work? Cool. He has horrendous spells, but he's young and has a modern, methodical approach to the game. We kind of have the players that would suit his preferred 4-3-3 style of play too, just that the fullbacks are pretty shite. But if there's going to be a DOF on top of all that, then they'd have to be aligned in footballing philosophy. A nice writeup on his Marseille style here.

Nailed on that he’s going to slyly mention that Rafa lost a match in his post match interview too.

Hope the reporters remember how he said he was hoping they get slapped earlier in the week and tear into him after this match.

Bringing Shelvey on is just Bruce’s final “fuck you” to his haters (everyone). He knows he’s gone, he’s 3-1 down at home. He’s not going to fluke a win and a chance to say “you see, I showed them what I could do”. He’s burning it all down now.

If I were the new owners, I’d rather spend eight million pounds on the best lawyers and not give him a single penny, the fraud. Fight it in court if need be.

If we get hammered, it’d make the pressure of a relegation rescue mission that much more worse for a new manager. That snub list will grow every minute Bruce is sitting here losing us matches.

Boils my piss that, after the stoppage, the Spurs players regrouped around NES for instructions and our “manager” was literally just standing there with his hands in his pockets whilst our players went for drinks.

The word "cartel" comes to mind. Its corrupt as fuck.

"Stuart Bruce" the level of "journalism" on display there, man. The Express quoting The Sun with an article that says the club "may" hold talks with Lampard but other names are under consideration. I did better compositions in grade school FFS.

And now people are thinking of snubbing Zinedine fucking Zidane cos “anyone could win trophies with Real Madrid”.

You just know that if Ashley buys over Derby and installs him as manager, his first interview will include: "It's refreshing to be at a place where the fans won't have unrealistic expectations"; "The Newcastle fans never warmed to me because I managed Sunderland."; "It's great to celebrate my thousandth match in charge here, it's clear the new owners at Newcastle didn't give me a chance to show them what I could do.". Dead cert.

"Out of work Dream Team" of Antonio Conte and Paulo Fonseca. One of them can be "Sporting Director", doesn't matter. Unveil Fonseca at the match against Tottenham for extra seethe.

Kudos to manorpark for sticking with the #WAIT - must be absolutely buzzing right about now.

https://youtu.be/SLWthImGFks You can hear Evangeline Shen speak in this video. A video about robots, and she comes across as the most mechanical thing in it. But hey, maybe Rob Elliott's replacement will finally become reality! https://media.tenor.com/images/82f24ba5cc572130a5e7a84963891437/tenor.gif

And for a taste of the men behind the takeover attempt. Turns out their uncle in China wasn't merely a car dealer - he was also Vice-Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Committee. In before the PL insists on having President of the Peoples Republic of China Xi Jinping named as the Director of NUFC.

Breaking my nine-year posting duck to offer some light reading on the cousins. https://www.thepeakmagazine.com.sg/interviews/roulette-spin-leads-cousins-leave-jobs-now-run-asias-largest-medical-aesthetics-chain/ Some other snippets: 1) Although Singaporeans, the Loh cousins are related to one of China's richest car dealers. President Xi Jinping attended the auld geezer's funeral when he passed on, which is saying something. 2) Evangeline Shen is the newcomer - from China and prior to the merger with the DORR group (named after Danny Ocean and whoever was Brad Pitt's character in Ocean's 11), she was running, get this, a jewellery distributorship. 3) The cousins were big in the healthcare market and very likely made a killing from the sale of PPEs and other medical essentials, especially in China, in the Covid crisis. 4) Their "publicist" (for the Bellagraph Novia group), Claire Jedrek, is quite well-known in Singapore. Married to an F1 driver and quite an active driver herself. She's on instagram if you want to venture there and maybe ask a few questions. Looking up the Lohs in their previous capacity as founders of the DORR Group throws up a good deal more insight than looking up "Bellagraph Novia". This new entity sounds dodgy as fuck, and the standard of English sounds like it was cooked up in China. Does that give any insight as to the seriousness of the gang in buying NUFC and taking it forward as a club and city? Fuck knows. The only potential positive is that they could be flush with Chinese money, or acting as frontmen for minted (but shadowy) Chinese interests. If you read the article the cousins seem like the types to gamble on unorthodox investments. If you ask me though, it certainly does smack of the lady partner showboating for attention, then thereafter lowballing Mike to scupper the deal.