Abra Dubravka

Looking forward to the Pauly Belta remix vid

I'm a believer of peak trajectory of managers, and right clubs/wrong clubs or wrong/right when judging situations or circumstances when they take up clubs. Watched Lampard's podcast/interview with Neville on Youtube, and he was under no illusions his gig wasn't a long term thing. That was right club, and right circumstances for all involved. Rafa going to Everton is wrong club first and for all, and Everton being Everton is giving you a handicap. Following on from the managers reaching their peak, it feels disrespectful saying it, but as soon as Newcastle and Rafa parted - off to China - he'd peaked. The harshest of his detractors would say he hit his peak at Valencia, lesser so - his time at Liverpool. However others judge him, I believe he'd have been on a hiding to nothing whatever job after coming back from China, but Everton was perhaps the worst job he could have ever taken. Harry Redknapp for example best example I can best(quickest) example of managers careers peaking and hitting glass ceilings. Took Spurs to top 4, Bale in the San Siro but managing away at the Bernabéu in a Champions League Quarter Final - started managing in 82 with Bournemouth in 3rd Div ffs. Levy tossed him off soon after, England didn't want him nor could afford him due to contract his was blind enough to sign with Levy. Rafa hit his glass ceiling in management with Liverpool - Istanbul, final two years later, finishing 2nd. As much as it's enjoyable to see Everton nose dive, but it's sad to see Rafa take shit for it. Objectively speaking, whilst hierarchy of Everton is a laughing stock, Rafa needs to take a lot of blame for how poor Everton have been. Injuries happen, bored of hearing that comment - DCL isn't a 30 a season goalscorer, he's not Everton's difference from finishing 4th-7th to suddenly finishing 12th-16th - he's good to decent on a PL comparison, he's no Henry/Arsenal, Spurs/Kane, us/Shearer, Southampton/Le Tiss degree. The longer Doucoure has been injured the better he's become. Richarlison cost them best part of £50M but I've never seen him have a good game. Other night Rondon seemed to be the player worth £50M up front. Digne last season under was second to Tierney as best LB in the league. Even James turned up and contributed 2/3 of the time. Rafa's job now as a manager in 2021 is to make good from shit you've been dealt, he got it easy to a certain extent with Ashley as he was only offered up with shit and they never cost anything. (He bombed out £20M Mitro.) At Everton he's expected to get huge purchases performing. It's not 2007 and Antonio Barragan anymore for this guy. Hard to see a player like Seamus Coleman not plant his leg and body through that pass fed too him, not fanny a leg through it as last man and fuck the match for his team. Hard to imagine a Rafa right back ever doing such a thing, especially one who has 300 PL games for club and is captain. Fans have never wanted him, and seeing that from Coleman in a home derby can only tell me dressing room doesn't give an arse either. At the moment Rafa's failing horribly on every metric and deserves the sack.

Kevin Mbabu left Newcastle and has done well for himself, and kicked on his career. It's honestly boring that his name keeps on being mentioned. Nobody gave a toss about him when was actually at the club... He left Newcastle to play in the Swiss League, and has progressed - good on him, well done. By the same standard - what are your thoughts on Haris Vukic, Ole Soderberg, Fabio Zambrela, Oliver Kemen? Have you been tracking their careers lately? It's boring to hark back at players like Mbabu just because they are actually now good - likewise with Toney, Armstrong. Haven't heard much latley about Shane Ferguson, or Adam Campbell's season for heed

Aye, but doubt Joselu was top of Rafa's list for strikers that summer. Doubt even loaning Tammy Abraham from Chelsea was top of the list either. No, wait - Islam Slimani to the rescue!

Where were Spurs 20 years ago? But apparently Spurs are a big club now, and in the 'top 6', and there is nothing anyone can do about it...

£9.5M, my bad. Same article says we sold Mitro for £22M. Selling off Mitro then for £22M, Sissoko(£25), Wijnaldum(£22) and, Mbemba raised Ashley some funds. Only when Rafa left he spent it on Joelinton - an agent tax dodge. Rafa refused Joelinton, because he's shit. £40M, record siging out of nowhere? on a player that's, well shit?

20 years ago we we're playing in the Champions League were we not?

Amanda/RB/PIF aren't daft enough to look at a house and not see it's foundations are made from gold, yet glossed over with oversized freebie mugs. First action was to sack the fat arsed mug. Accomplished. Ashley tied him into a lovely contract, contractually a sweetheart-deal but Bruce was fucked the moment Ashley signed off. It wasn't overnight, Bruce left. Charnley has gone as well. Sports Direct signage still stands, but that will fall....

Emil Krath? Just shit. Jamal Lewis, he's shit as well. Mikel Merino was good, he didn't stay too long. The closest thing to replacing Cabaye. Came from Dortmund, within 2 months was linked at Barca. Mitro, replaced with Joselu. Adam Armstrong allowed to leave and replaced with Muto for 11M£.

Fernandez should be playing for a side like Getafe. Raul Albiol is going at 36.... Lascelles' standard last couple of years has been Championship - fuck off back to Forest and drag Darlow too. Nobody reading this wouldn't bat an eyelid reading Ciaran Clark's name on Burton Albion's teamsheet. Enda Stevens, played LB alongside Clark in that Villa side - his next contract - League 1.

Clark has had his moments. Don't really judge a CB on scoring headers at corners, or having good games in the Championship. Solid, but recognising Ciaran Clark as a good player really is testament to low our values of this club have fallen. Ciaran Clark was shit in an Aston Villa defence that was relegated from the PL. Federico Fernandez was shit in a Swansea defence that was relegated from the PL. Jamal Lewis was shit in a Norwich defence that was relegated from the PL. Manquillo was shit at Sunderland. Ashley employing ex-Sunderland is another topic, but Manquillo was shit at Liverpool and Athelti. Any ideas why we lose more games than we win - because these players are playing - just shit week in week out; at the extreme best 6/10.

Okay, when was the last time you saw Fed play well? I don't think finishing 13th under Bruce was a fair reflection? I think we deserved to be relegated - Joe Willock to the rescue. Coloccini was a top player, so was Cabaye; the players that have that have come in to replaced them haven't been good enough. It's quite frankly boring discussing whether Fernandez would be better than Lascelles or Clark - all three shouldn't be playing for this club. Not so long ago, even Willamson and Taylor would start ahead of this dross...

"We're rich as fuck and fucking shit - rich as fuck, we're fucking shit" Discussions over whether Lascelles should play over Fernandez is redundant. Fernandez was relegated with Swansea, he's only a bit less shit. Same conversation with Ritchie at LB - aye, Ritchie is shite, but Lewis is shit as well. Any discussion on our players now really is throwing shit in the air and arguing over which pile smells best. Ashley/Bruce have left us now with the worst squad I've seen in my time... Dubravka/Schar/ASM/Wilson. Going into this season those players were the only players I thought good enough to be starting for Newcastle United. It's so sad how low the standards of this club have fallen. Media take the piss, thinking we all expect to be in CL; but honestly, take a good look at what Ashley and Bruce left us with - would Fernandez get in any other side in the PL?

Us all twisting our dicks into wonder why Fernandez isn't playing isn't going to get him playing sooner. Might be a personal situation with Federico, he might need to take time away on for personal shit - hope not, but nobody knows. The sooner that Fed and Schar play in the same defence the better!

"I just knew that you had to win. If you didn't win, well you're contract could be terminated very quickly - you live by the sword." Managed Ronaldo, World Player of the Year! After knowing he's being sacked for van Gaal just oozes respect and dignity. Barca give him a Technical role; he talks on signings of Dugarry, Sonny Anderson and Rivaldo. (Who signs three world class forwards in one transfer window?) Roll up sleeves can get fucked.

But he's still crap though. No other PL side would swap their LB for Jamal Lewis... Comparing Matt Ricthie and Jamal Lewis is like having a deep-mirror talk discussing flavors notes on your last two pisses. Whatever is said, both are piss. Responding to highlighted - being a player that played a whole season playing in a defence that couldn't defend has to stand testament to the player. Max Aarons is still at Nowich - Bayern yet to buy him? Godfrey who played CB in a defence that couldn't defend was instantly was played at RB by Ancelotti, and hasn't really done much since. Since playing for Newcastle he hasn't once shown me he can defend, many times per game he's thrown around like a rag doll - dominated physically; quite honestly he seems afraid and scared. Never has he worn a Newcastle United shirt and 'won his battle' against the opposing player. He's 23, a regular International for NI as much as Dubravka is for Slovakia - the notion that he's young is redundant. He's a £13M Shane Ferguson.

His best season for Bouremouth was 14 in 30, last season in a Bruceball side he scored 12 in 26. He has 4 in 9 this season, in a side that is the only team in the 92 not to actually win a game yet. Wilson is never going to pick up a game by it's balls and go win it for us. He'll score goals, his strike rate stands up to anyone playing lower PL sides. When we are on top for periods in games, and creating enough chances, he'll score and help us win games. When he's missing sitters constantly from 10 yards out, then I'll criticise him. Even throughout Bruceball, he was best I've seen for years up with Rondon at holding up a ball that's launched at him with two CB up his arse, and no support from miles around.

Jamal Lewis would be defensively exposed in a crowded lift. Lets not all forget how bloody rubbish Lewis is as well. He played nearly every game for Norwich in a season they went down, a whole season that they were an open shit show in defence. Never understood the thinking he is actually any good. Lewis poses same potential to let us down as much Ritchie does, what probably Howe sees in Ritchie, and what Rafa did when playing him at LWB years ago is his ability and willingness to cross, and play forward. Aye, Lewis can run around a bit faster - but he's just as shite.

No ideas on that idea. My suggestion would be to post article, but give a spoiler on it.

Anybody that sets up a direct debit to read 'news', realises.

What would be really great is you actually copied and pasted the article. You've gone to enough trouble to type and send a message to this forum after all...

No idea what journo wrote this, but I'll always remember it - was West Ham under Allardyce, paraphrasing but "when your castle is under attack, playing Andy Carroll akin to looking at your horses and placing them in the trebuchet."

What boils my piss with Jonjo is that he shared a dressing room with likes of Gerrard, Carragher, even fucking Craig Bellamy - and seemingly learn't fuck all. Likely down to his personality. I don't think he's lazy by mindset - if he was he, you simply can't be lazy in application to sustain a PL career even under Bruce. Not everyone can be James Milner, hungry for the power - I can accept why I would take exception to him being lazy. Aye, I've never believed for once he's not trying his best - but I'm sure if we hoyed a 39 year old Xabi Alonso in our midfield, he'd be able to ping balls around too. JS has a 'shithouse aggression' in him, but it's never throughout his career been channelled correctly. Each season he just continuity fucks himself, and the team. Whatever is said about Wor Jonjo, I'll still stand by the fact he's one of the best players to ever grace the second tier of English football. That 16/17 he was the Zidane of the Championship - Tarrabt QPR, Merson Portsmouth, Shelvey Newcastle

Man U have been transitioning since Aguero scored in that last second goal against QPR - the first transition was SAF's final throw of a dice with Van Persie, before handing over a squad creaking at it's seems over to Moyes. Biggest stitch up in football that. Not even SAF could have finished top 4 with that squad he handed over. All the while, an actual club that have legitimately been in transition, seemingly every other season, continue to win - Chelsea. All I can hope is that our owners see what failures have been made by the likes of Man United, Arsenal, and in recent years Spurs, Everton; but more importantly learn how Man City and Chelsea used their fortune to actually build something, build solid foundations, build dynasties.

Wouldn't say no to Zinchenko here like, but...think Zinchenko wouldn't be anywhere near the player what we all see playing for Man City most weeks. He was always an attacking mid coming through, then Pep developed and conditioned him into playing that inside inverted LWB role. Would be wary of signing players, like say Zinchenko, that Pep is allowing to be sold - not saying he's a bad player, or being a bad signing, but likely to cost 40/50M I'd say, and at that it has massive potential to go tits up. Fabian Delph's career highlight is playing LB for Pep for a season - nothing really done at PL level before, or since. He even went to WC for England on back of it, played CM and he was a bag of shit - think he even captained England at one point.