Tiresias

Shelvey is so fucking thick

Bruce only values running around a lot in a midfielder. Only quality he wants.

Has any manager for any team in anyones memory spent so much time slagging off a well loved prior manager? It's so baffling

what a bellend

ASM sprints length of pitch, tries to lay off and fucking shelvey is million miles behind, pathetic.

Shelvey has no business being in a premier league side, nor does hendrick. Most other players get a pass for me because this is what happens when you don't get coached. How many players did Rafa make good? None of these have any drilling on passing the ball, have any tactics explained, they are just told to run around a lot and try and hoof the ball to big Callum.

I am not going to get angry at young players, they are having their whole development jeopardized by a total absence of proper coaching and development

Quite frankly there should be a concern Bruce's brain may be contagious

It's a would you rather have your eyes stabbed out or your ears drilled off. Neither are acceptable

Absolutely garbage team :lol:

Also no chance Ashley wouldn't wait until january window is over before any change anyway.

Even if Bruce is sacked who is going to be brought in by Ashley? It's Bruce's all the way down from now on. We will be in the championship with tony pulis next season. We are a dead club.

We don't though we could have kevin de buyne and bruce would coach him into being a shit left back

I like to think I'm no doom and gloomer but I'm sure you don't need me to tell you that Twitter is that last place to go to for believable ITK news. Depends on the source Of course, that's fair but even then, as we've found out over the last 12 months, even when that source is trusted, what was said didn't end up as good news. This, sick and tired of taking people as being 'confident' as meaning anything. I hope it happens, personally I do think it is dead and buried but I hope I am wrong. I will not believe anything though now until it's actually done. I do love the fact that you've kept your avatar in honour of the first failed takeover though. Commitment. Fair, I have never bothered to change it. I should avoid posting here I don't want to puncture any bubbles of optimism especially as I have no personal insight or anything. I just feel burned from all the "buying side are very confident" "buying side are still very confident" etc etc etc that lured us all in.

I like to think I'm no doom and gloomer but I'm sure you don't need me to tell you that Twitter is that last place to go to for believable ITK news. Depends on the source Of course, that's fair but even then, as we've found out over the last 12 months, even when that source is trusted, what was said didn't end up as good news. This, sick and tired of taking people as being 'confident' as meaning anything. I hope it happens, personally I do think it is dead and buried but I hope I am wrong. I will not believe anything though now until it's actually done.

Though most managers lose the dressing room in terms of losing support of players, Bruce just can't remember which room it is

Adore that finish

Reading the grauniads article it is interpreted at Bruce furious at players trying to insist we return to Benitez's 3 at the back. 2 years into the job he is still blaming Rafa for our performances. Its a total fucking joke. It is beyond ridiculous this is even entertained at all. The players want to play like under rafa cos we were better under rafa. Absolute cunt. 2 Years in, has had massively more money than Rafa and still it's rafa's fault he's shit. Jesus fucking christ.

You shake the martini its just watering it down anyway

Its a nonsense, its a contact sport, they are all asked to make contact with each other during the match daft to expect them not to be able to. It's another just way of trying to get cheap popularity trying to make footballers look bad. And maybe it would be worth pointing out to people if a mass testing system had managed to be rolled out successfully similarly to how sport does it would make such scenes more possible elsewhere, but actual testing has been a total mess

I doubt very much MBS would give a single shit as to what we did and I don't think the premier league realistically do either. I guess the point being though if for some reason he did and told whoever is meant to be in charge rename the club 'I'm glad I had Khasoggi killed he deserved it FC' would they realistically say, uh no we are legally a seperate entity and I have authority here or would it be of course your majesty, and that I guess is why the premier league say he should do a fit and proper person test...

I think the excitement is from rumours of the Bein issue being sorted out from that summit between qatar and saudi arabia. I don't expect that will all get solved in some massive rush, even apart from if Saudi Arabia just allows them to broadcast again there are still no doubt a load of legal issues since Bein can;t be happy with basically being denied a market essentially illegally for a duration, they'd probably be after compensation.

Saudis want to buy stuff like clubs to have brands attached to them to look modern and progressive and exciting, they're hardly unique in that, making your country look an attractive brand is hardly in and of itself immoral it's more the size and vileness of the turd you are polishing. That they then also try and say that the investment fund, there to make the state look good, isn't actually controlled by the state is a case of trying to have your cake and eat it. Now as I understand it to avoid the king having to do the fit and proper person they tried to provide some legal guarantee that the king would not have any say over the running of the club iirc and this actually what the arbritration that is so often sought is over. I guess the premier league doubts for all theycould have a written guarantee that is apaprently legally binding how they would ever challenge it if the king was just privately telling the guys in charge what to do without any papertrail though, so dunno.