Armchair Pundit

'The Snake' Levy hates spending money and there's no way they would give Conte the money he's likely to want to bring players in. I just can't see Conte getting on with Levy for long at all, if he goes there it'd have to be purely to work in London again (god knows why though, it's a shithole).

I don't get that mentality at all, it's blatantly obvious that a decent manager can get a better tune out of the same players as a crap manager. I mean, we've seen it personally with our own squad and there's still bell-ends that put everything on the players.

My bad bud, I don't think I've seen your name before so I'm guessing you've changed it?

There's some right odd buggers turning up on here of late

Exceptionally saddening...

Was thinking that myself, I still don't think there's anything he can do at Everton that would ever endear him to their fans and now that he's had an iffy result it'll be even harder. Everton just need to be sure they can line someone up at short notice that will be good enough for their aspirations, then they could release Rafa to being bought in by us.

Chuff me, I go on holiday for a few days, come back and we're now talking about some bloke I've never heard of! What happened to Fonseca? Or Favre?

ASM will be proper upset with that, probably go 'full French' by the next game.

I'm thinking this thread would be better served as an 'Up the Arse' corner, ala Viz, for this match anyways.

I'm not sure how much weight can be put into transfer rumours prior to a new manager coming in. That aside, what was that I just read about other Prem clubs not wanting to do business with us? Link

Full training week needed next week, none of this day off mularky. Players need to get stuck in, need to see what Jones can do with a full week in charge (unless the new manager comes in ofc)

Think Chelski will take us up the tea towel holder dry next week

Not a bad away result after the recent number of days off and the tomfoolery from last week.

Everton board offering Rafa to us by the end of this evening

Lol, listening to Ando on the commentary, anyone would think he wants us to lose I get the feeling he doesn't like Rafa much from some of his comments too.

We have to go with what's available currently I guess, I'm not going to slate the selection until I see how they do on the pitch, I'll give them a chance - let's be honest, some of these lads came in under Bruce and we all know how different players can be under different managers. Hasn't Krafth done well for his international side while at us? Or am I thinking of a different player?

Always nice to have actual hope in a match, even with the same players, we have that today. Exciting to see if they do anything differently.

Thing is, Rafa certainly wouldn't break his contract, but Everton might. If they agreed then he'd be able to leave with a clear conscience and not having broken his contract. ... still, I think there's more chance of knitting fog on the Tyne, to be honest I was trying to think of a coach, who might have managed in Saudi, someone like Frank Rijkaard, but he's not done much for years.

Out of the recently mooted list of short-listed managers, I think mine would be, in order: Fonseca Favre Howe Gerrard Lampard In fact, to be honest, I'd rather not have Fat Frank anywhere near us at all. I don't rate him in the slightest and his annoying accent winds me up no end. He's just a younger Bruce from London imo.

That Sports Direct branding needs shifting, one day.

He's been talking to Gazza about how he was going to help with Raoul Moat, he's subbed the chicken for kebabs though.

Clearly a protest about the reduction of bacon in the lunch orders

So, I'm right in thinking this only affects monies brought in that are applicable to FFP spend on players? Essentially, we have to find some way of getting money into the club, solely to balance out spend on players. We can spend what we like on everything outside of the playing staff, so the improvements to the ground, training facilities and wages of a new manager aren't included?

As sad as it is, Bruce's reputation isn't being damaged, no matter what he does. The pundits continue to fawn over him and other clubs will always give him a job. I'm sick of seeing the useless, ballbag faced bastard moping around the club and being given so much leeway but it doesn't appear to be changing any time soon, the cnut