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Ayoze will have to stay closer to Bellerin, twice already he's been in

Good start

If it ain't broke, why fix....umm.. Newcastle 0-1 Everton Newcastle United manager Steve McClaren pleased despite Everton loss "That kind of performance, that bodes well for the future" Possession Newcastle 41% - 59% Everton Shots on Target Newcastle 1 - 7 Everton "If we carry on like this - performances, attitude, the way we fight for things - we'll have a better second half (to the season) than the first." In all fairness our chances were headers and are not classed as shot on target. Shots on target is a misleading stat, keep hitting them from 35 yards out and it's classed as a shot on target when the keeper gathers it. We were much better in the 2nd half in that game, the first half was terrible. Headers are classed as shots as far as I know

For this particular game it isn't a bad idea to play this kind of set up given that we'll be able to counter like against Spurs and Liverpool. The problem is that if it works again McClaren is so thick that he'll think it will work against all teams and do the same again the next game

Don't know what people were expecting like Liverpool have about one good player

Really like Andy Carroll

Not according to Swansea fans

He'd be playing under his tactics. (If he doesn't get sacked) He'd get plenty of freedom in the position he'd play, not like Bale and Ronaldo are tracking back that much. The problem is he wouldn't play very often

Think Villa will beat them

Tiote wiping his arse?, Tiote couldn't wipe his own arse. He's completely brainless, and Colback's non existent. They looked like the chuckle brothers against West Brom when Tiote came on for Anita, literally tripping over each other FFS! As someone mentioned earlier, its going to be interesting (painful but interesting) to see the state we're in if Anita isn't fit and we have to field Tiote and Colback together for a few games. Aye we'll probably start losing games or something

Don't think Carrick has the legs to play in centre mid for a team like us but at least he'd be an upgrade on what we have

Happy new year you cants

My problem with him is mainly his lack of being able to pass more than five yards not physicality

Comparing Ozil to Anita or De Jong is hilarious

Unbelievable will know better than me like but I think I remember reading or hearing at the time Cruyff got back involved at Ajax that the thing he was unhappy about was that Ajax were bringing through players with good technical ability but there was nothing special about any of them. They all had a very good touch and could keep possession but there was no real substance to them or any real creativity like Bergkamp, Seedorf etc. This is what I think of Anita, he's a decent player technically, good at passing it short but there just isn't anything to him. He can't play a long pass, he keeps it safe, he can't get up and down the pitch, he presses alright but you never really expect him to win the ball high up the pitch

Neither Anita nor De Jong (in his present state) would get near the English squad no matter what kind of game you want to play

Don't really agree that a manager should be solely based in control of buying players as managers won't have the time to endlessly trawl through footage of players and thus may buy players on reputation rather than actual ability. What should definitely happen though is that McClaren should tell scouts what kind of player he needs eg. Dominant centre back, good in the air and then scouts should all work together to find the most suitable player we can. What we are doing at the moment is just buying random highly rated players to eventually make us a profit down the road a few years. See that is where I differ, I'm kind of old fashioned in that why appoint a manager if you don't trust him in the one area he should or ought to know about, players and their strengths and weaknesses?! Of course he will need help on the scouting front, all managers do. But the manager should always be the one who says yes or no to a player and what type and kind of player is to be bought or sold. Ashley's interview pre WHU was very telling with one of his comments where he cited emphasised pound for pound value as being a core component of how the club is to be ran, it is THE core component. He doesn't want a manager buying and selling players incase he buys flops, flops on long contracts hard to get rid of. That's why we have Carr and why we only buy players who are going to cost us next to nowt and who could if things go well, be sold for a good profit. It hasn't failed him as a model, despite Ben Arfa's departure or Santon not filling his potential, but it has failed the club and his managers and massively. Could you imagine us signing a Kilcline or bringing a Pav back on loan as cover? Two types we are crying out for. No chance, there is no money to be saved or made and that's what it is all about with MA and this NUFC. MA said the buck stops with him and it does, but when it comes to players the buck should always stop with the manager, always. He got his fingers burnt with Big Sam, but in KK ironically he had a manager who would get maximum pound for pound value out of players bought and sold. If a manager really doesn't want a certain player and has a good reason why then of course he should have the power to say no, or of course if a manager sees a player he likes the scouts should then have a look at him a few times but I think it's just too risky to have one man in control of transfer especially when that man may not have seen that much of the player. In an ideal world you should have loads of different scouts but we seem to only have a few which is also a problem

Did he say he wanted front foot football? It was pretty cautious but thought they actually played alright in the second half and probably didn't deserve to lose

Don't really agree that a manager should be solely based in control of buying players as managers won't have the time to endlessly trawl through footage of players and thus may buy players on reputation rather than actual ability. What should definitely happen though is that McClaren should tell scouts what kind of player he needs eg. Dominant centre back, good in the air and then scouts should all work together to find the most suitable player we can. What we are doing at the moment is just buying random highly rated players to eventually make us a profit down the road a few years.

Watched Villarreal today and Denis Suarez seems a very good player, bit like Deulofeu but more intelligent maybe

He isn't though He is, imo. Offers very little, whether that's the way we play or what, I'm not sure, but he'd be one of the first out the door for me. He definitely wasn't shite in the few games before he got the recent injury

If we were to sell him now why did we recall him in the first place given we are in the exact same situation now as we were when we recalled him? Assuming we aren't buying a new centre half

He isn't though

Think he'll stick with the same kind of team for the Arsenal game which is probably fair enough given it worked well against Spurs and Liverpool. I actually think a decent result against Arsenal could be a bad thing in the long run as it will convince McClaren again that this system is the right one to use all the time which it clearly isn't

Think it could be a fairly high total this season. All teams bar Villa and Sunderland are picking up points fairly regularly