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Also depends on how long his initial contract was for....if it was 2 years than anything over £6m will show as profit, and will be helpful on paper. On the pitch the other hand...

Pretty much a cross between Shearer, Messi and Ronaldo from what I've heard on here... Meanwhile in real life. No. Only the most dedicated weirdos who watch French football have probably only heard his name once or twice

Reckon he was one of those players who looked great every day in training, but didn't translate to match days most of the time. On his (very few) good days he could look a world beater, then in the next match would look like he'd never seen a football let alone kicked one.

Obviously didn't see his time at Leeds. Garbage for us but was brilliant for them

No to changing Howe with Mourinho. He was brilliant about 20 years ago and built a Porto team from nothing to trophy winners, but since then everything he's done has been driven by a pretty much bottomless cheque book. His own hype went to his head and has clearly lost his original magic, and has turned so poisonous that it's virtually impossible for him to spend more than 3 years anywhere without upsetting someone to the degree that he's either sacked or leaves. Without ffp restrictions he could be a short term option to get a trophy quickly, but with the current situation he's very much yesterdays man and is rapidly heading to PFM territory

I genuinely thought Willock had already left

Apart from the fact that we didnt, and actually made a loss on him

I struggled to tell them apart if I looked away for a second

To the tune of Louis Armstrong..... I see trees of black, I see trees off white, red stripes too, and they're crying in their s***e. And I think to myself...what a wonderful world

Exactly this....plenty of world class managers fail at world class clubs. Has to be the right time and fit for both. Man U are a great example of this...

Scored more goal at St James Park for Forest than he did for us. Sickening

It's not a single result though....its now 5 losses in 6 games. Unacceptable for a team trying to survive in the league let alone challenging for the top 5/6

They sat back, and we made basic mistakes in attack which they took full advantage of....their front players tore through us at will, but they always seemed to have 9/10 back when we were trying to get at them. We were poor again they were effective and could have easily had another 2 or 3 goals, while we were just slinging ineffective crosses to their goalkeeper

Well from our perspective he has credit. Unfortunately from an owners point of view credit runs out a lot quicker than it builds. Like it or not 5 defeats in 6 will have questions started to be asked. The January window will show if PIF actually have the same faith as most of us

Totally anonymous today. Barely realised he was playing till he was substituted. Great Colback impression

Must have been watching a different player...he did nothing of any use

I smell cricket

Something tells me we won't be dealing with Milan any time soon

Whoosh

Well the xG says 12, so they better start biting

Exactly....we didn't know much about howe before he came here....so there's basically no chance AR had even heard of him

Nah...adds to the flavour

Know the club marra

So basically what I said

Everything you said is pretty much spot on apart from EH being Yassirs first choice. There's not a chance in hell he was. Despite the widely reported first choice being Emery there's very little chance AR had even heard of Howe before someone from over here put his name forward. And let's not try to pretend that most weren't more than a little disappointed when EH was named after chasing Emery for so long