gjohnson

Using certain metrics we've been the best ran club in the PL

Give over. He'll have spent all night with his finger plugged into his USB port reviewing the last match, and how he can make his team not make the same mistakes in the next match.

For them it's time for Levy to go....he had his good years with Poch and now its starting to unwind a bit. Everyone is wise to his getting massively inflated fees for their players which was essentially his best trick. He pushed it too far with Kane this summer, and they're paying for it now that his form has dropped and the 150/200m he wanted for him is looking weaker by the match. Combined with a huge stadium debt, they could easily and gradually slide back to mid-table for a fair few years if Conte doesn't perform miracles immediately.

Of course there is....are you forgetting the elite manager with 1000 games experience in Bruce? If ever a club deserved him it's them.

WAIT :-)

Dear lord is it 2010 already? If you're serious its Wind Up Merchant If not you're the biggest one going :-)

Brown cow

Agree. He doesn't need to risk it, but think how highly he'd be thought of if he took someone like Burnley to the champions league. He's still got a Fair few doubters as he's not won the champions league with city

If he joined us and turned us around he would rightly be acknowledged as one of the greatest ever. Appreciate his success has bred his own success, but taking an average team to the top would push his reputation through the ceiling

Maybe Pep should do that. His entire career has been like playing FM with all the cheat modes on. He's always been able to choose or buy the best players at the best clubs. It would be interesting to see how he'd do at a club where he has to make do, and cant simply go and buy a backup for 50M if one of his best players gets injured.

There is no solid evidence beyond his arrival coinciding with a slight upturn in our results last year, and the fact that Southgate took him to the Euros as a coach. As painful to admit as it is, we've probably been worse in his two matches than we would have been under Bruce. I think a lot of his goodwill has simply been down to the fact that he's not Bruce, and worked with Martinez at various points.

From what i saw they don't...it all seems to blend in to Southerners just choosing which team they like. It's a right mess of Southampton/Reading/Portsmouth, and West ham oddly. Then of course the obligatory Chelsea/Man City/Man U lot. Noticeable lack of Arsenal and Tottenham though.

Debatable...they're making decisions on the hope of staying near the top of the table, but as we well know a wrong decision at a key point can easily send you down the table quickly.

They've become us after Sir Bobby. Looking for a solution to a problem they didn't really have in the first place, and getting the answer wrong very quickly. Admittedly 10 games is a very short time to panic with a new manager.

Well the North Sea belongs to them. We do have a bit of a different thing going to the rest of the country mind...Newcastle itself is so compact, but draws so many areas. Just spent a few days in Basingstoke, and it's city centre is larger and more spread than Newcastle...so much so that you can go out almost 15 miles before anyone even says theyre anywhere else than Basingstoke.

No. Just no. He'd be massively underwhelming considering some of the other names supposedly looked at. Probably wouldn't be instantly hated like Lampard or Rooney, but would have to get results pretty quick to get any sort of good will that a Fonseca/Ten Haag/Le Favre would get immediately

Is it not conceivable he might have learned something from his decent Everton spell, and by managing the top ranked international team for several years?

I seem to recall they got plenty of criticism at the time.

Knew he said it about someone.

Sure Ferguson said he would never have even tried to sign him cos he ran 'wrong'

Kompany was already well thought of but wasn't considered an 'elite' player. He was good, but became so much better at City. I'd suggest if he wasn't playing for them when he was at his best for them he would have been a 40-50m player

Always seemed to me like he had some irrational dislike of us too. Always delighted when we were scored against, and had a face like a slapped arse if we scored. Probably just me though

Never saw Berger as a proper winger, more a player who would sit on the outside of a 3 now. Didn't have the pace to go on the outside, nor the ability on the ball to know where he was putting a cross before he even got the ball. For context....Robert was a winger who relied on speed to beat a player and do something dangerous. Had the skill and power to do it as we often saw. Ginola was a winger who had the natural talent and ability to either walk or run down the left side and still be dangerous. Solano was a winger, but his ability came from intelligence and knowing exactly where to cross or pass a ball three passes before he even got it. Gillespie was a pure speed merchant who would beat a defender with pace and hoof in to the box.

Of course they have. However would like to add that the last 14 years has shown that owners don't five the shortest flying figs what the fans think of the manager. If they did we wouldn't have had Pardew, Kinnear, Carver, McClaren, or lost Rafa

Completely this....might not be the right thread, but actually being able to talk football and be able to appreciate the good things of the game is a welcome change of pace rather than the complete and total ennui of Ashley