samptime29

Rafa's training is incredibly intense and to a certain extent repetitive and boring. He will make players repeat drills, positions till they are 100% perfect. It is a lot of information for folks to process. And he is incredibly cold and brutal apparently during training. His attitude was "you train 4 hours per day for 4 days, get paid millions of dollars, why are you complaining, this is nothing compared to what the rest of society do, if you cant take this get out of here". It takes players of a certain mentality to appreciate Rafa - Torres, Reina, Baraja, Mascherano, Garcia. I think there is a big cultural mentality difference in how players from some of these countries approach training - they are ok with it being hard, repetitive, and boring. At LFC too, when Rafa left, there was a lot of statements from players like Gerrard, Carra on how training was "more fun" now. Even Bellamy, who played for LFC under Rafa and King Kenny said how training was more fun under King Kenny. However, at the end of their career, almost all of them acknowledged that Rafa was the best manager they trained under. I think pretty much all of them realized it once we started dropping down the table. So I don't think the NUFC players are being disingenuous or anything. I think they are genuinely enjoying freedom. They don't have a person walking up to them shouting at corners, when the opposition is making 32 degree runs in front of you using zonal marking, you should stand 26 inches from the goal line at 48 degrees. You were at 24 inches and standing at 41 degrees. Let us repeat this 37 more times till you get it right. Interesting post. Makes perfect sense tbf.

Love this :lol:

Can't slate The Athletic for lack of content like

Back for Liverpool away.

Because everyone's fucking miserable and no matter how much rationality you try to use, it doesn't fit their outlook on life/NUFC/the world? Can't write Muto off yet, need to see how he performs this season to make a fair judgement.

Clearly better than Joselu tbf.

That's the spirit

A year deal is worth a gamble. If he stays fit, I've no doubt he can contribute with a few goals.

Correct answer.

Sniffing out dat new contract.

Calculating and cunning. Streetwise and slippery. Big fan of him.

Mark Douglas: strange comments like. Class article about Edu in The Athletic - didn't realise was working behind scenes at Arsenal.

totally agree. paid way too much, way too much self importance. If anyone can tell me why either Custis brother deserves to comment on football then go for it Custis is utter gash, but The S*n isn't journalism. If you get no enjoyment from well written football articles, then fair enough.

The Chronicle is turd. The website is horrific. Ryder is snider. Gash.

Each to their own, but disagree with this. Clearly there is some shite football journalism, but there's some great content out there IMO.

Had a look this morning, and they're are loads of new articles. Loving how bitter that snide Neil Custis is about the situation. Well funny.

I've had it since last year because of other sports i'm interested in, worth every penny. I didn't know they were investing in staff for football mind. Good to hear.

I like the comments sections on the articles. You often have the journalist's interacting and making further points, and users debating the article.

It's an embarrassing comment like. Calling fellow Toon supporters scum. Unreal.

I know I sound like I work for them but I've been shocked at how good it is. I like reading stuff at work, at home, on phone when travelling. Perfect for that. I spent £30 on a meal and a couple of drinks on Saturday FFS. For an avid Sport lover and reader - it's a no-brainer tbh.

Shows as £60 in the app? I signed up onto website this morning. Free month, then £30 paid in a lump sum for next 12 months. Seems to be loads of 50% codes on twitter from all journalists.

Been reading throughout the day. It's fantastic, so much different content about teams and sports I'm interested in. Seems like they're having daily Q&A's with podcasts being added. Early impressions: £30 for the year is an absolute bargain.

Scum.

The Perez article is an interesting read. “Things could be done better over there at Newcastle, but Leicester have given me the opportunity to do great things hopefully. There is big ambition. I think how football works, the way you have to look at football, that is the difference between Leicester and Newcastle. There is big motivation here to keep growing and to get better here at Leicester. I didn’t feel they had it at Newcastle."

I've signed up, been browsing around the site and it's looks great. They have Boxing and MMA which is an added bonus. Will get the app on my phone, and it will be useful when I'm travelling. Not convinced by Chris Waugh but will give him a chance.