Nucasol

Any good points are lost in the word salad and bullshit smoke and mirrors.

GW19 Burnley 1-2 Newcastle Chelsea 2-1 Bournemouth Nott'm Forest 2-1 Everton West Ham 1-1 Brighton Arsenal 2-1 Aston Villa Man Utd 2-1 Wolves Crystal Palace 2-1 Fulham Liverpool 2-1 Leeds Brentford 3-2 Spurs Sunderland 1-2 Man City

I still think Wissa is a good pick up. Just needs to get fit. Watching Igor Thiago yesterday for Brentford was a display of everything you want in your #9. Bournemouth’s centre backs must have PTSD off the combo of him and Schade battering them physically and mentally.

Courtesy of NUFC.com - these are riddled with injuries and AFCON absences, 8 players out. Failure to beat them, is, exactly that - an abject failure and missed opportunity to claw back some ground. Maxime Esteve may return but Connor Roberts, Zeki Amdouni, Josh Cullen, Jordan Beyer and Joe Worrall are injured, with Axel Tuanzebe (DR Congo), Lyle Foster (South Africa) and Hannibal Mejbri (Tunisia) away on AFCON duty.

We have Wissa, absolutely no need once he’s fit. The problem is the rest of the pitch before it reaches him.

He’s completely toast as a PL player and we made a balls up keeping him around, definitely from a playing perspective. Even the much vaunted leadership he brought in those first two years seems to have vaporised since his missus caught him Ringoing for a bunk up with some random.

Watching Cherki yesterday showed the value of someone who can pick a lock when the defence is banked up. We’ve got no one who can do that bar the occasional pass from Bruno.

We “should” have beaten about 8 other teams this season. We didn’t, hence why we’re lumbering about in 13th.

What’s he been up to?

Be still my beating heart.

I’m sure @Kaizero had some ITK about a similar deal to Minteh where we were going to sign some kid from a Scandinavian club. Other than that it’s been the tattle Douglas, Hope and co have been peddling about younger profiles of players from continental Europe.

He’s been glued into a human centipede with four of the cast of Geordie Shore.

STD test came back clear after his Xmas shagging spree.

Yeah. The “told you so” mob are fucking weirdos.

Absofuckinglutely. But at the time keeping the guy who had double figure goals and assists did seem the sensible option. Pity he’s gone to shit since signing his big money deal.

Accountability, yes, as he’s an England winger getting paid at the top end of our wage structure to deliver very little, despite talking a great game.

We have: - An aging defence that needs 4 new bodies for next season: 2 CBs, a back up LB and a back up RB. Trippier, Schar, Krafth and Lascelles all past their best. - 2 goalkeepers who if you could cannibalise them for the best parts of each would make the ideal candidate. Unfortunately we can’t. - A fast fading Joelinton who gets more unfit and unreliable as time goes on, whilst on a hefty pay packet. - A selection of athletic but technically average par pressers who can’t do all out three times in a week for 20 weeks of the season, none of which can break down a low block. I exclude Bruno from this. - A smorgasbord of inconsistent and far from value for money wingers. - Osula likely away in January or end of the season. I’d consider major surgery and an overhaul as required. The eye test suggests something is up. I’d say letting the manager reboot with fresh blood is a better idea than persisting with the current players.

Obviously but we’re operating with that bullshit fully set out and have to comply. For whatever reason Gordon has been well and truly found out and we’ve backed the wrong horse. Fully in the “total reset” camp and let Eddie do a NUFC 2.0 team rebuild with the proceeds as, like Ferguson repeatedly did, . Just don’t let him sign too many “oven ready” Premier League players for £50m+.

Big NUFC sliding doors moment was deciding to keep Gordon and selling Anderson and Minteh. Hindsight is 20/20 and all that but, to quote the knight from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade:

Given the amount spent on the squad that’s a shit excuse.

Cost one of them a fractured rib and punctured lung with a hospital pass.

Asparagus?

Merry fucking Christmas, luv NUFC. Giving easy gifts of 3 points since 1892.

Lifting farts.