Matt1892

Worrying

The 10/10 police will be here shortly.?

We bought 2 LW’s over the course of 2 transfer windows with the cheapest costing a reported £7 million though. If we wanted Diaby we could have gone for him instead of Barnes, who is looking like being an expensive back up to Gordon.

The thing with Almiron is that he is someone that can be well drilled to carry out a task… Link up with Trippier for him to overlap.✅ Give and go for Bruno to lob over.✅ Press like a mad man and track back.✅ This is all great but it doesn’t take away from him being an average player for us apart from an outstanding month last season, he creates very little for team mates in terms of attacking threat and if Transfermarkt are correct and he only had 5 Premier League assists in all of his time here then that really is indefensible. Bruce or not. I’m not saying he is the worst player in the world as he isn't; however if we want to improve then we need better players and if people don’t think wide right is the next attacking position we need to upgrade on then which attacking position do we upgrade?

He was told that we plan on using him as part of a 70th minute triple substitution along with Wilson and Barnes for the remaining games this season

Most suggests a small minority don’t, which is on par with those saying he needs to be replaced. For the majority in the middle it will be how he responds to this setback and learns from it going forward. That we will find out in time.

A lot.

I haven’t read through the whole thread but there are extremes on both sides. Most sane people sit in the middle ground where he rightly gets both praise for doing well and criticism when he makes mistakes. He is not infallible and time will tell if he has the ability to match where the owner’s ambitions are.

Surely the Saudis can take them off the wage bill as free transfer?

I see it the opposite way in that there are some on here who see Howe and the club above criticism, it was only a week ago people were getting laid in to for having the audacity to say the transfer window hasn’t been 10/10. As a manager he was given a huge amount of credit for the good work he has done since taking over the club; however the shambles that was the Liverpool result is on him.

There was one point in the game where he got behind the fullback in the box and it was a great opportunity to put it across the box, it was on his right foot though so by the time he stopped to bring it on to his left the moment had gone. I can understand being one footed but surely he can use the outside of his left foot if it is that dominant.

Brighton 2 - 1 Newcastle Isak to score for us. Subs prediction. Wilson 64 Barnes 64 Longstaff 72

No need for this at all. Take it to Twitter if you want to get involved in comments like that.

Joelinton as defensive midfielder… Gordon on the right… Trippier or Livramento left back… We should be signing players for positions and not trying to shoehorn players around to make up for ingestion in the wrong positions.

You never have the game at 1-0, even against 10 men. Certainly not against Liverpool.

He seemed to run more at him before the sending off than after. Trent is not a good defender and is prone to errors; however he was never forced in to mistakes or pressured anywhere near enough as he should be.

We didn’t look to get Gordon running at Trent at all, quite the opposite. Once the sending off happened we hardly isolated Trent at all.

Gordon was the best player on the pitch up until the sending off so I have no idea why Howe didn’t instruct the team to get the ball to him at every opportunity and to constantly run at Trent, he was a sending off waiting to happen. There was no effort to isolate Trent or pressure him after the sending off.

Liverpool did not play well, they were second best for the whole of the game which is the real kicker. Our issue is that we did not attempt to finish them off and kept with the same tactics when they dropped to 10 men, at no time did we look to use the extra man as an advantage to us and instead let the clock run down to the point where we were caught between finishing them off late and sitting on what we had. The result is 100% on Howe.

He’s right, we do need a more skilful winger and pace at the back. He is saying what some have been saying all summer. He is right about the defensive midfielder too, if we had signed one then we could play Isak off Wilson rather than him being isolated up top with no support from the midfield. It is going to get worse this season as more teams sit deep for us to try and break them down but top teams need to evolve as they progress which the players we have signed suggest we are not going to do that. Instead of working on the above signings we spent £70 million on back up players to Gordon and Trippier.

Newcastle 5-1 Aston Villa ✅ Man City 1-0 Newcastle ❌ Newcastle 1-2 Liverpool ❌ Same points and +2 goal difference. Next up Brighton. 22/23 score… Brighton 0-0 Newcastle

He is usually good with his tactics when he needs to change things but he didn’t change anything tactically when Liverpool went a man down nor in the second half when we needed to step up the intensity to put the game to bed, just the same subs. I think he’s also making a mistake with the midfield he has built; the current set up of having three players that can interchange is the reason Isak looks so isolated at times, compare that to Man City who go with a traditional holding man and then an attacking midfielder who can get forward to support. Maybe that will change when Willock comes back as he wants to break and get forward but we are crying out for a Maddison type player to pull the strings and knit the attack together. EDIT - He should have brought Wilson on and dropped Isak in behind him early in the second half.

Twitter football chat is just the worst.

He was also complimentary about or performance and season when he was interviewed after we beat them at the end of last season. He came across as really likeable.