Dr Jinx

He’s spot on in fairness. The decision to fucking hire him

You’d have to think a 2 or 3 goal defeat today will leave him under a massive amount of pressure.

And again, it’s fine when it’s West Ham or Man Utd but I agree, they would probably punish us, or at least try to. This is what we’re up against.

When they play us at SJP I’d love to see the crowd singing his song non stop throughout the match. Just imagine the imbeciles scrunchy salty face..

The only thing that will make any sort of difference is a mass revolt, either storm the pitch at SJP and disrupt a premier league game (or games..), or have it postponed, or storm their offices. As neither is likely to happen I think it’s safe to say they don’t fear any retribution for whatever part they have in fucking this club/city over.

Not sure why anyone thinks the government are going to intervene somehow. The tories look on the North-East with nothing but fucking derision, this has historically been the case since always. If anything these cosy meetings with Saudi have been about trying to persuade them to invest elsewhere in the country, I’m not necessarily talking about buying a football club, more so investment into financial institutions and property (in the city..), or weapons tech. The government couldn’t care less about investment in this region. You’re kidding yourself if you think they have our backs here.

When you’ve already won a World Cup at 17/18 years of age, the normal things footballers have to worry about don’t really apply. PSG have all the money and will make a strong attempt at the CL this season but they are not and will never be one of the biggest clubs in the world. Qatar will realise this sooner or later too and look to start a new project imho.. Mbappe wants to go and break records at a club that will always be considered one of the biggest in the world. He’s made no secret of it either.

PSG apparently accepted a bid of 170m for MBappe from Real, they must be trying for Ronaldo as well?

An interest free loan? ?

It’s much better when she’s quiet when it comes to this deal to be fair. I could listen to her all day about her plans for the club however

Man United’s cast off defenders have mostly tended to be actually quite decent when they go to other teams. Evans is the obvious example but there’s also Michael Keane, Smalling is doing ok in Italy, Blind has done well at Ajax. There’s probably loads am leaving out.

If that was the case (I’m highly dubious) how long would it take to restructure a deal and make a submission to the league?

If we had a midfield we’d be a half decent team. We don’t and that was abundantly clear when we played them, theirs just took the game and ran with it, we had no response. They don’t need 8 players who would walk into our team, just 2 that trampled all over us.

“Es el mejor gerente que he tenido” ?

There’s literally nothing but misery when it comes to this club, hand on heart, do any of you think we’re going to win the lottery and get this takeover? At this point in time it’s a stretch you’d have to say. We don’t get nice things. There’s no fairytale, well not when it comes to this club, especially with the owner, who’s been given quite an easy pass considering the absolute shite this team have served up due to his decision making. (Manager, transfer policy etc) Honestly think it’s best now if we draw a line under the debacle and channel the anger back on the owner. We laughed at West Ham when the fans stormed the pitch a few years back.. how can you not argue that it was effective? They are light years ahead of us now

Running the show against Man City a few years ago would suggest otherwise. The potential is all there to see, it’s a case of realising it. Rafa is gone over 2 years now and he’s done fuck all since then, we can blame Bruce but the kid has to take responsibility for his own career too, same as his brother.

It’s a mentality thing. He has the ability and size to make an impact like Rice has, if he was inclined to, but he doesn’t have any fire in the belly, him or his brother. They just seem to be going through the motions and happy to be in or around the 25 man squad each week whether they play or not.

Thought ASM had a really poor game aside from the first cross. Lost the ball repeatedly, one of which directly led to a goal. Clark ball watching for 2-2, again individual mistakes leading to goals. We said last season that Shelvey needed to be replaced, it’s still the case and it’s killing us. When you see a player like Rice take the game by the balls, you see what we are missing out on by having a passenger in the starting 11. Miggy has also had better games, fuck all of a pre season with us though so not too fair to judge on that one. And yeah Ritchie was poor but that’s the first game in a long time where can say that. We start that back line often and we will concede loads this season. Grim.

Schär wouldn’t have been able to cope with this, he’d have kicked Soucek in the bollocks 5 mins into the second half. Keeping a level head is not a strong suit of his.

Longstaff and Joelinton with 7 minutes to go. Genius.

Christ, falling apart. Pretty easy teamtalk to give if you’re an opposing manager, just keep at it and we’ll eventually crumble. We could have been 3-1 up at halftime and it still wouldn’t have mattered, there’s no grit in our squad, weak leadership.

It’s a loaded question. There’s no way you can answer that without sounding like you’ve got notions.

They’ve had a pretty good pre season, scoring plenty of goals. I think they’ll have the edge, although our team at full strength and playing well you just never know.

Such a strange decision not to have him signed in time for the first game, I can understand not throwing him into the starting 11 if they’d been preparing to play a certain system all week but surely to have someone like that come off the bench would have been handy.