Tiresias

Ben Arfa esque

Leeds should be accumulating points with draws, they'll never get anywhere with entertaining football

He definitely has ability but his general lack of finishing really impacts his usefulness as an inside forward and he's definitely not a striker. He is not able to hold up the ball or create in a second striker/no 10 role really either. I suspect in the right system he could be handy out wide if he can be drilled into focusing on beating a defender and squaring balls across goal and maybe his finishing can be polished up, however he's one of those whose occasional flourishes make you think there's a player in there but I am not sure. Maybe in a league with more amenable defending he could be a better player, and maybe he could click and find his shooting boots. The problem is he is one of those players capable of getting in shooting positions so if he was quick on the trigger and accurate by rights he should score plenty, like he did yesterday, however that has thus far evaded him.

ahaha

Spurs are abysmal

On The Athletic I um and arr a bit about keeping subscribed to it. They do decent writers though. I understand why everyone has lost faith in Caulkin, he ended up looking a mug over the takeover and he is compromised by his friendship with Bruce. The podcast is rubbish too. He's still a great writer though when on other subjects. I do think they are critical of Bruce, the article today was depressed about it all. Honestly though what keeps me with it is more other stuff, I can barely read this form I'm so depressed about NUFC let alone too many articles about us.

Athletic saying there are rumours that he's being offered a contract extention in the event of our relegation? Have I missed this? Noone is lucker than him there are no fans. I know a lot of fans in the crowd can be disappointingly licking the boot that's stamping on their face but still think it will be totally untenable with constant abuse waving down on him.

Yeah I agree a bit, but we have so many coaches so incompetant at getting the best out of playres or developing them it's really hard to judge a lot of players from the last 10 years excepting the rafa period

It's at the point where there is something wrong if the players arent refusing to train until he is gone

Probably fair but I think he would be getting a fair amount of stick by now...surely... (honestly the best needle would have been singing rafa benitez still)

Yeah but I am not sure Andy Carroll is really management material

fyp

If he is sacked i am genuinely a little sad he never had to face the fans this season.

Really?

lol

ahahaaha thank god this rank strat hasnt worked

He's going to 0-0 his way to safety isn't he and claim how brilliant he is isn't he...

If anyone thinks Ashley has some kind of master plan think again. We've been here so many times before, he isn't doing 4th dimensional chess, he is cheap, when he does invest he does it bady and is stubbon so won't make changes when necessary. It's pathetic cos I hate how quickly managers get sacked normally these days but part of that his hiring ones with at least some level of competance in the first place. Letting Rafa go was a terminally stupid thing. Buying Joelinton was a terminally stupid thing. Hiring Steve Bruce was a terminally stupid thing. Keeping Steve Bruce is a terminally stupid thing. this is how Mike Ashley operates, desperate gamble to save every penny.

Hmm he was a bit more progressive and all but it felt like he had absolutely no dressing room charisma, the squad was suddenly quite different and it didn't work at all. Maybe he'd do ok in a director of football roll but don't think he can motivate a squad of players and while he was more astute than Bruce not so astute as to make a huge difference. McClaren has achieved things in his career but feel he had got rather outdated and been out of premier league too long. These are the managers Ashley likes, devalued due to being out the game for a bit and poor results so are cheap and won't complain. I don't feel McClaren was at all malevolent, Bruce is just squatting for pocketing half big andy carrol's appearance bonuses.

In fairness he only gets half as per his agreement with Brucey

Holy shit willing to bet the 75% pass accurace is 3 passes and 1 failed one :lol:

To be honest we could have Mbappe and Bruce would have 'coached' him into utter uselessness

Absolute disgrace to the club.

Bruce is so fucking lucky there are no fans this season.

gets paid for every game he appears in. Brucey probably gets a cut.