jonny1403
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18 minutes ago, wfmk2 said:
Thanks pal. My £1 a month sub was just two days away from kicking into a 60 quid a year sub. Thank you very much.
I signed up for the 'free trial' and was immediately charged £60 despite their T&Cs saying I had 5 days to cancel. You hear nothing back from them aside from automated emails. Literal robbery and there's nothing you can do about it.
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53 minutes ago, joeyt said:
Not sure I'm comfortable with people just copying and pasting Athletic articles into here
Not sure why people don't just pay the £1 a month or whatever it is
The Athletic are a shocking organisation. Read up on how they offer free trials to people and how they operate their subscription services before defending them.
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12 minutes ago, Foluwashola said:
OK is very generous. Potentially the worst striker we've had in my lifetime, and we've had some stinkers. Although it never fails to amaze how some players can revive their careers when leaving our once toxic club.
Rivierie was a million times worse. Joelinton has been a million times worse excluding the last few games.
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1 hour ago, Hanshithispantz said:
It tells you nowt tbf, being in a relegation scrap doesn't mean you need to shut teams out and flap your arse trying to scrape draws and 1-0 wins.
Howe and Rafa have completely different philosophies, Rafa also didn't like Ben Arfa, completely understandable given the type of manager he is but you'd be hard pressed to say Hatem looked bad for us.
Gini was a forward/winger when he was here too, we also had a much better squad.
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Ben Arfa left a year before Rafa even arrived!
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13 hours ago, Away Toon said:
He's young and much better than anything we have already and he's comfortable as a RB or a RWB. We have to start improving somewhere and he's a realistic target as Norwich will sell if we put in a reasonable offer. he might not want to come this shambles of course.
This could literally have been written about Lewis 18 months ago.
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14 hours ago, gjohnson said:
There's no reason Haaland is not realistic now
Can we stop with shit like this please.
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BBC have confirmed he will be banned from playing our next game.
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1 hour ago, Shearergol said:
Players out:
Atsu
Muto
Lejeune
Carroll
Saivet
Players in:
Willock
Woodman (return from loan)
Squad's full lads.
Atsu and Carroll were both in the squad from Jan onwards. So adding Woodman to that means we should have one space left.
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Bruce also admitted that United's first option had been to loan Willock once again, only resorting to a purchase once a temporary deal proved unworkable.
Of course
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How much did we get for him?
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Ashley spending millions to try and fight for a takeover, whilst keeping the fat flid in charge of the team who is going to knock 100 million value of the club and most likely kill the takeover.
Makes no sense at all. Even for Ashley it doesn’t. Hope the fat c*** kicks the bucket very soon.
It’s not his money. It’s the clubs.
It is his money. It's his asset that is depreciating in value.
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Confirmed Wilson is out.
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Always fun when players are suddenly world class after they escape from Alcatraz. Mad to think how good Wilson must be.
Even more fun when you know that he was a fantastic defender, but because we didn't feel he fit in with what we think a central defender should look like, he must be unsuited to British football.
He left because he didn't follow Rafa's instructions
Yeah, at the end of things, Rafa didn't want to play him for whatever reason and the club was not wanting for quality centreback play while he was manager. Like Mbabu, it was a poor economic decision, given the way the player developed and the low return on investment, but would not be a problem if Rafa was still here building.
I have always been a fan of Chancel though, and it has been intriguing seeing him as a fairly dynamic midfielder for DR Congo while being strictly a defender in Europe. Boy is definitely talented too, I hope things continue to progress well for him.
Yeah spot on. Another one who, because they're doing well elsewhere, makes you automatically jump to "should never have got rid of him," or something similar. When in reality the context dictates that it was probably the right decision for all parties, including NUFC. Chancel leaving paved the way for Schär and that tasty three-man CB dealio Rafa constructed in the second half of the season.
Mbabu is just about the only player who Rafa didn't fancy where I think he objectively got it wrong. Mitro, Armstrong, Toney, Mbemba, Merino - all perfectly justifiably outgoings only brought into question by them being allowed to excel elsewhere and/or NUFC insufficiently replacing the player.
Mbabu isn't tearing up trees, I fail to get the hype around him. Just because he plays for a decent European team doesn't make him a good player, he's only consistently started in the Swiss league ffs.
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]“Me and Arma speak about this quite often,” Woodman says. “We came back from winning a World Cup with England and I remember seeing Rafa (Benitez, the then-Newcastle manager). He slapped me on the face and said, ‘Well done’. That was literally it. All the other players were getting raved about.“It was a low point for me because nothing really happened in my career. I didn’t get to push on, I didn’t go on loan and I wasn’t even on the bench. I remember thinking, ‘How can I go from the Golden Glove and winning the World Cup, to playing in the under-23s?’ I was absolutely fuming; I probably thought maybe I was bigger than I was. It was definitely a reality check.”
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"Every coach has different styles. I talked with Rafa on numerous occasions; he loved his goalkeeping and he’d tell me to get low and try and block, like Pepe Reina. I remember going home to my dad and saying, ‘Rafa wants me to do this’ and he was like, ‘No, that’s not proper goalkeeping. You need to dive at their feet’. It made me think, ‘God, there are just so many different styles’. None of them are right or wrong. They’re just different. It’s important to find the one that works for you.”
'Winning a World Cup' ffs. It means absolutely fuck all.
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Play Gayle before the other two.Agreed. I fully expect big Joe to start though.
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Swansea and Bournemouth are two of the scummiest clubs in world football to be honest.
They have both gone from the depths of the lower leagues and possible obliteration to the Premier League, and rather than being a beacon of inspiration for upward mobility of other lower league clubs, they have repeatedly voted in favour of measures that benefit them in expense of the lower leagues.
Hypocrites of the highest order who I hope get their just deserts and a trip back to the bottom half of League 2
Such an exaggeration - as if any club isn't going to vote for measures that benefit themselves
Two of the scummiest clubs in world football ffs -
Hendrick has a 4 year deal doesn’t he? Insane.
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f*** off Karl. You utter t***.
He didn’t have a chance man
Funk off man, totally at fault
One of the best free kick takers in the league putting it into the top corner, aye ok
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Fuck off Karl. You utter twat.
He didn’t have a chance man
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Still doesn't look fit enough to start...
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That nutmeg and pass through to Fraser was sensational.
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So short sighted from Bruce. He could have been useful for the last 10 games of the season.
If he's not fit he's not fit. He had a terrible injury, there's no point signing him based on the player he was for us.
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I don't think it's quite that strict (i.e. it can be assessed over the course of a season), but yes they will be selling Digne if they do buy this new lb.