Dr Jinx

I don’t know how they aren’t at least 3 goals up. Shocking performance apart from 3/4 players trying to do anything.

Something I never thought I’d consider, but Llambias was a better “managing director” than Charnley. Like we’re talking pond level increments here but not wrong

Being inept and losing regularly doesn’t seem to be a problem for Mike Ashley but having a mutiny going on between playing staff and management is something he’ll take notice of.

Yeah once he dismantled a great team and replaced them with his Liverpool pals for one last pay day. He’s up there for me and maybe the fact that if he really was motivated to succeed he could have done better. He didn’t give a monkeys though. McClaren, Bruce, Pardew, Allardyce, Souness.. they have two things in common, they are all shit and they all have massive egos.

What we know is that Rafa could turn that side into a well organised unit that performs better than the sum of its parts. Eddie Howe isn’t that kind of manager and I think he would struggle massively coming into this absolute mess, knowing that he probably wouldn’t be backed in January. His final season with Bournemouth they were a shambles. Don't underestimate the absolute rot that Steve Bruce has allowed set in, it would take a remarkable manager/coach to turn that around.

I don’t think he’s nearly as wealthy as you’d think he is. Not skint but not able to afford his lifestyle either. I’d say he lost loads through gambling.

Perfect way to ruin someone’s special occasion

I’d pay 135 quid to absolutely berate him. https://memmo.me/gb/en/profile/michael-owen

He’s such a deluded prick I really believe he thought his time here would be different than the others, that Ashley wouldn’t hang him out to dry. He’s adrift now, I’d say he’s getting minimal contact from boardroom level and he basically never had the skills to manage a club of this size anyway, communication is suffering at every level, even the physios. He’ll hang the players out to dry, we’ve seen that already. He’ll look out for no.1 and maybe the other two Steve’s will get shielded a bit, Jones will be put in the firing line sooner or later, but of course if that works out, he’ll take the kudos for that. The absolute fucking prick.

At this point I’m working from a presumption that we won’t get a takeover and that Steve Bruce is going to be allowed relegate us.

This thread is pure aids once again

Vindaloo or a phall?

Time will tell, the updating of their other companies is probably more so a legal requirement as opposed to being anything significant but then, if it was all dead in the water, why keep it as an active company at all.

It’s the internet, it’s not real life!

We know this but what difference would it make? The club wouldn’t spend 40 million on a dud just so they could get someone that may or may not have been excellent for 18m. ASM’s club we’re happy to accept that fee, if he was worth more at the time they would have looked for it surely? Has anyone ever checked out Hoffenheim’s accounts to see if that money actually went there?

See, that’s the part that confuses me most. Mike Ashley hates all that side of football, there’s no way he’d approve a deal that was about getting agents paid. Now if there was a middle man that had something to do with a property deal or something similar that was external to nufc, that would make more sense. It should be investigated. My initial take on it when the deal happened was that it was a punt on Joelinton actually being decent and being worth 100m or more within a season or two, but like everything with this club, it backfired spectacularly. You’d be lucky to get 10m for him now

Easy to mix up influential and a Walter Mitty type these days it seems.

Caulkin has Steve Bruce’s mobile and rings him for a chat from time to time, there’s no way he’ll ever write or speak the truth about him. If anyone doubts this, he talked about it in one of the podcasts back around the first lockdown while the takeover was still actually in play. A particularly dull conversation about fences is the type of crap they talk about. It’s the kind of relationship that would make Luke Edwards jealous and he’s avoided any and all ridicule over it.

In years past I’d be following all this nonsense all day and would be fairly annoyed by how it all turned out. This year I barely thought to check, I’m not annoyed, something has changed in me

I’d imagine there was never anyone but that Mexican coming in which was agreed weeks ago. Todays, will they/won’t they is purely a PR exercise to get sympathy for Steve Bruce so there won’t be as much booing next time. Dont fall for it.

He’s been in or around a very good Leicester team for the last 2/3 years. He’d easily be an upgrade on most of our midfield.

I remember a time when Lascelles was being linked with the higher up clubs, and there was a case being made for him to get a chance for England. In fact, there was even a debate amongst us at the time that he was a better player than Harry Maguire.. we played Leicester, Maguire scored and bossed the defence all game. Thats literally the point for me when his decline began. He knew he’d never get to the top level and began coasting it. Again, Sean Longstaff being tipped by everyone to hit the top and we played West Ham, Rice stole the show as far as those two were concerned, Longstaff went off injured. Never quite the same from that point. We have a core in the team of “almost but not quite” types in the side. They’ve settled for less for themselves and you can see that on the pitch.

Remember him laughing and joking with OGS after they beat us last season? I can’t really find the words to accurately describe how much I hate this cunt.

Commentator says “boos echoing around SJP, not necessarily for Steve Bruce, probably more for video technology” Has to be the most mental thing I’ve heard in ages

That’ll be awarded for sure