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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

It's some wonderfull imaginary number that dorks use to slam their team when they lose, and praise them when they win. So in the real non-spreadsheet world its nothing more than the fantasies of wannabe statisticians

A whole world of nope to this. I don't want EH to go, but if PIF are as ambitious as most think the trigger fingers ( so to speak) will soon start to be itching without an improvement soon. And to which ever poster said that Stavely/Rubens will stop PIF from doing what they want, they are clearly in a dream world. Al Rummyan could fly in tomorrow and boot the pair if them out of control and there'd be the square root of bot all they'd be able to do about it

Well no one can say they haven't done well with their whole Man U experience....none of their money down, a few hundred million in their pockets every year, spend more than anyone but City and Chelsea, and now and extra billion for basically sitting on their behinds. They've pulled a blinder for themselves....years of free money and a massive bonus for failure.... Either way sod Man U, they deserve a few years of actual suffering given how they are according to the media 'long suffering'.

I try not to judge them by RTG. Most makems I know are fairly sound and aren't actually too different from us. However rtg are a foaming mess of rabid paranoia and bile

As much as he's a Sunderland player, hope nothing snapped there as if it has its at least 6 months out. No player deserves that

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Issue is i know football very well...no manager is more than 6 games from the sack. Bad days at the office can happen, but they're happening far too often at the minute. Yes EH has done a great job and has been stuffed by injuries and bad luck this season, but that won't be how it looks when going across a desk at PIF.

Bet your mortgage on that? Would not be remotely surprised if the owners weren't looking at other options

Well not really. He will be under pressure given the aims of our ownership...out of 2 cups in the space of a week, and now losing to one of the worst teams to ever grace the Premier league. He wouldn't be if we hadn't overachieved last season, but the expectations were set and he's falling massively short of them this year

Well to be fair he is. He'd improve every team in the league possibly with exception of Man City

De Gea isn't looking like such a bad idea now

As much of c**t he was he's head and shoulders above Bruce. At least he never once claimed to be a life long fan/geordie

I think you're overestimating how much companies place on social fallout. They may well analyse it, but if they can make more money by doing something unpopular that will be the result unfortunately. 1000 corporate customers paying 1000 for a box/ticket is better than 1000 paying 6/700 for a regular seat

That would be so delicious. He'd love another chance to rub our noses in it and bring up Casa St James. Unfortunately he seems to have dropped off the radar now, so as someone else said...it'll be a proper pfm or some random from abroad. I reckon it'll be Heckingbottom from Sheff U when he gets binned. Seem to recall he may of had a loan there when they were taking every man U reject/youngster they could

It may be harsh on them, but we've had 2/3 keepers on the bench purely to make a point of injuries. If it continues I'd rather have DeGea sitting on our bench than Gillespie, as I do agree that Dubs deserves his chance and has been mostly reliable in his whole time here. I'd happily wager most on here have seen more of de gea playing than either karius or gillespie. Regardless...this lot seem to generally know what they're doing with transfers. The only really major balls up coming with Tonali

Thought he was doing OK for them. Not performing miracles or anything but still giving them a decent promotion chance....are they just hoping for their usual manager bounce in time for the cup tie??. Got to make it 7 in a row Marra

Catts for me like

Schar is so underrated by everyone outside of Newcastle its almost criminal. He clearly is one of our best defenders, but getting any opposition fan to even k ow his name is virtually impossible... Suppose every team has a player they rate and love that no-one else seems to rate at all