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I'm where wullie is basically, wish I was looking forward to it but feel apathetic to it all.

Nailed it. How has nothing changed? there's a far superior backroom in place, we had John carver calling the shots for 6 months ffs. we've brought in three potentially very good players. de jong and aarons finally look to be fit. things aren't perfect by any means but f***ing hell, try to look on the bright side. Your missing the point I think, we are still run for the benefit of Ashley and his companies. We've appointed a manager who has failed at such clubs as Derby and Nottingham forest and who will remain manager as long as we steer clear or relegation. Yes the above is an improvement on Carver and Pardew but that's not saying much is it? Ok, we've appointed a manager who has succeeded at Boro and twente. he has also come out and said he will try and win a trophy. so, where do we go from here? Any manager should/would say we should try to win a trophy. Feel free to be optimistic but as far as I'm concerned it's business as usual with slightly more competence moving forwards. Well yeah but we have been actively trying not to win a trophy and now we (apparently) are, Nailed it. How has nothing changed? there's a far superior backroom in place, we had John carver calling the shots for 6 months ffs. we've brought in three potentially very good players. de jong and aarons finally look to be fit. things aren't perfect by any means but f***ing hell, try to look on the bright side. Your missing the point I think, we are still run for the benefit of Ashley and his companies. We've appointed a manager who has failed at such clubs as Derby and Nottingham forest and who will remain manager as long as we steer clear or relegation. Yes the above is an improvement on Carver and Pardew but that's not saying much is it? Ok, we've appointed a manager who has succeeded at Boro and twente. he has also come out and said he will try and win a trophy. so, where do we go from here? Any manager should/would say we should try to win a trophy. Feel free to be optimistic but as far as I'm concerned it's business as usual with slightly more competence moving forwards. but you said nothing has changed. Well we are now (apparently) trying to win a trophy, so there's a start. yes, it's what every in should be doing anyway but it's one of the reasons I fell out of love with club. if they change that idea, then it's a positive move. the rest of my point was avoided so I'll leave it at that. I'm not going to sit here and be negative for negatives sake. ill call it how I see it. Given the clubs history of telling fans lie I'll prefer to judge them based on actions not words and so far bolting the cart on has consisted of spending money on players which amounts to about the same as last summer (which pretty much everyone said at the time wasn't sufficient. Hiring a second rate manager which no other premier league club would have gone near. The key difference between this summer and last summer is that instead of spending smaller sums on more players, we've decided to spend more money on smaller quantity of players. I'm not sure how the club acknowledging the fact they didn't try to win trophies previously and saying we are going to try now wins anyone over though? I'll be won over when I see sustained investment in the football club with us striving to be the best we possibly can. Well of course they'll be judged on actions, no one is arguing that. but to just sit and moan nothing's changed without actually thinking about what you're saying is a waste of everyone's time. Not thought about what I'm saying? Let's just agree to differ, you believe things have changed, i believe we are doing the bare minimum.

Nailed it. How has nothing changed? there's a far superior backroom in place, we had John carver calling the shots for 6 months ffs. we've brought in three potentially very good players. de jong and aarons finally look to be fit. things aren't perfect by any means but f***ing hell, try to look on the bright side. Your missing the point I think, we are still run for the benefit of Ashley and his companies. We've appointed a manager who has failed at such clubs as Derby and Nottingham forest and who will remain manager as long as we steer clear or relegation. Yes the above is an improvement on Carver and Pardew but that's not saying much is it? Ok, we've appointed a manager who has succeeded at Boro and twente. he has also come out and said he will try and win a trophy. so, where do we go from here? Any manager should/would say we should try to win a trophy. Feel free to be optimistic but as far as I'm concerned it's business as usual with slightly more competence moving forwards. Well yeah but we have been actively trying not to win a trophy and now we (apparently) are, Nailed it. How has nothing changed? there's a far superior backroom in place, we had John carver calling the shots for 6 months ffs. we've brought in three potentially very good players. de jong and aarons finally look to be fit. things aren't perfect by any means but f***ing hell, try to look on the bright side. Your missing the point I think, we are still run for the benefit of Ashley and his companies. We've appointed a manager who has failed at such clubs as Derby and Nottingham forest and who will remain manager as long as we steer clear or relegation. Yes the above is an improvement on Carver and Pardew but that's not saying much is it? Ok, we've appointed a manager who has succeeded at Boro and twente. he has also come out and said he will try and win a trophy. so, where do we go from here? Any manager should/would say we should try to win a trophy. Feel free to be optimistic but as far as I'm concerned it's business as usual with slightly more competence moving forwards. but you said nothing has changed. Well we are now (apparently) trying to win a trophy, so there's a start. yes, it's what every in should be doing anyway but it's one of the reasons I fell out of love with club. if they change that idea, then it's a positive move. the rest of my point was avoided so I'll leave it at that. I'm not going to sit here and be negative for negatives sake. ill call it how I see it. Given the clubs history of telling fans lie I'll prefer to judge them based on actions not words and so far bolting the cart on has consisted of spending money on players which amounts to about the same as last summer (which pretty much everyone said at the time wasn't sufficient. Hiring a second rate manager which no other premier league club would have gone near. The key difference between this summer and last summer is that instead of spending smaller sums on more players, we've decided to spend more money on smaller quantity of players. I'm not sure how the club acknowledging the fact they didn't try to win trophies previously and saying we are going to try now wins anyone over though? I'll be won over when I see sustained investment in the football club with us striving to be the best we possibly can.

Other than Aarrons we don't really have the players to suit him anyway to be fair.

Nailed it. How has nothing changed? there's a far superior backroom in place, we had John carver calling the shots for 6 months ffs. we've brought in three potentially very good players. de jong and aarons finally look to be fit. things aren't perfect by any means but f***ing hell, try to look on the bright side. Your missing the point I think, we are still run for the benefit of Ashley and his companies. We've appointed a manager who has failed at such clubs as Derby and Nottingham forest and who will remain manager as long as we steer clear or relegation. Yes the above is an improvement on Carver and Pardew but that's not saying much is it? Ok, we've appointed a manager who has succeeded at Boro and twente. he has also come out and said he will try and win a trophy. so, where do we go from here? Any manager should/would say we should try to win a trophy. Feel free to be optimistic but as far as I'm concerned it's business as usual with slightly more competence moving forwards.

Plus he'd actually get games at City too. Think they've blown the load on Sterling and possibly De Bruyne though.

Nailed it. How has nothing changed? there's a far superior backroom in place, we had John carver calling the shots for 6 months ffs. we've brought in three potentially very good players. de jong and aarons finally look to be fit. things aren't perfect by any means but fucking hell, try to look on the bright side. Your missing the point I think, we are still run for the benefit of Ashley and his companies. We've appointed a manager who has failed at such clubs as Derby and Nottingham forest and who will remain manager as long as we steer clear or relegation. Yes the above is an improvement on Carver and Pardew but that's not saying much is it?

Wish I could be optimistic but I really can't help but feel not much has changed in terms of overall strategy which makes anything NUFC hard to get excited about.

Lille vs PSG about to kick off

Well, nah, there's allowed to be a balance. Carver was the most important member of staff; as manager, arguably the most important person at the club. And was woeful. I want us to sign a squad member that is going to galvanise the other players in the absence of real leaders. Joey Barton the man who stubbed a cigar in a players eye as a man to galvanise

It's the same sort of thinking which saw Carver and stone welcomed in the beginning

Barton

I hope not, i'd like nothing more than to be proved wrong and that the club have actually learnt from past mistakes.

I'd be fine with a new contract but keeping him on as captain is a mistake, which basically consigns us to him being a starter when he's past his best.

There goes another centre half

That's fair enough, but I don't understand why anyone would go out of their way to spin everything in a negative light. What's the point? Lol the negative spin is usually correct though isn't it?

Not sure what's wrong with having no faith in Mclaren or Ashley personally. Don't recall any sort of mass support for him managing us prior to his appointment other than "he's better than Carver /Pardew"

pretty sure 500k was reported It was, Mclaren is just pulling numbers out of his ass to make his boss look better

As If those s*** players are on "stupid wages". Of course they will be. You don't think Taylor, Gouffran, Williamson etc will all be on upwards of 40K? Taylor possibly but bare in mind Colo is our highest paid player on 60k a week I doubt Willo and Gouffran are on anything close to that. Plus it's just besides the point we have no ambition it's business as usual as far is the club is concerned and the only goal is to stay in the league with minimal outlay.

It's just a shift in strategy from buying more players for less to buying less for more to give the impression we have some ambition. I know the club has more cash on hand than we've spent and that's without favouring the 25 million black hole from the last published accounts.

As If those shit players are on "stupid wages".

Spent his entire toulouse career playing centre mid

He probably will, I can't stand West ham or the golds but fair play for showing some sustainable ambition which is all we are asking for ffs

De Jong causes an issue IMO, i really think Mitrovic flanked by Perez and Aarons with Sissoko and Wijnaldum making runs behind Mitrovic could be class with someone holding it all together behind them. If we had a capable holder then this would be ideal but we just don't have a player who is physically imposing enough for the roll. I wonder if this is where the link from Lemina originated from, he'd do the job from the looks of it.

My team too. On paper yes. In reality fuck no, one of our biggest problems of recent times has always been the lack of protection the defence has received and this side provides absolutely no protection. We'd have to revert to a 433 and swap De Jong for a decent holding player (which of course we don't have) for it to stand a chance.