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I don't know who Bailey, Romano, Craven, etc. are, but their informations are often inaccurate. I mean, Bartesaghi may have played 3 games as a CB in his entire life (including his youth career) and yet they list him as a LB and CB.

Do you think that Rummenigge, after calling you "idiots" for the amount spent on Wolte (who was coming off a great season), wants to spend a sum close to what you paid after he had a terrible season? As I said before, it could only happen if he has a great World Cup, and by great World Cup I mean being decisive in the games that matter, not scoring a hat-trick against Iran.

Perhaps I'm seeing things from an Italian perspective but I assure you that if a major Italian club had spent as much as Liverpool this year, Slot would have been sacked before Christmas. I find Liverpool's decision to keep him all season absurd and incomprehensible and I'm very surprised their fans didn't take to the streets en masse. Regarding Howe the decision to keep him isn't as absurd or unspeakable as Liverpool's... it's certainly less serious, but I truly believe it's bizarre and risky. It's based (as you say) on a debt of gratitude that exposes your work to enormous risks, besides being unrewarding ("We're keeping you because we're grateful to you, not because you're an excellent coach"). As for Wolte, his sale isn't a technical disaster... it's a financial disaster.

Keeping Howe was a bizarre and very risky decision, confirming my feelings... the biggest problem is the club's management, more than Howe and some players who haven't performed well this season. Next season will be the first in which Howe doesn't have the unconditional support of the entire fanbase and the added pressure on him and the risk to make mistakes from the first few games could be a significant handicap. Then there are issues surrounding some players (Hall and Wolte above all). The only way out would be, for the German, to have a great World Cup so you can sell him without losing a ton of money... unlike some of last summer's hopeless signings (Elanga, Wissa), Wolte could redeem himself (because it certainly has some qualities) but I think Howe's confirmation would be the final blow for his adventure at NUFC.

Not really...it's true he had good performances in some matches and pushes a lot on the left flank, but there are much better players in his position. He's good in possession but without the ball and defensively he shows his limitations; he is playing as a starter because Estupinan has failed miserably. Hall is infinitely better than him in every technical aspect but I understand that physically he is exactly the type of player that Howe likes.

If he likes Segantini he can come to us to admire it, we also have some interesting Caravaggio's... we'll give you Leao + €7 million + 5 carbonara !!

I checked Inter's buyback option for Stankovic... In Italy, newspapers are saying that Inter will exercise the option this summer but it's unclear whether to keep him or sell him. The buyback is set at €23 millions but Inter will only have to pay Club Brugge €13m (Club Brugge had him for €10 million). His price tag could be around €30-€35 million but given that three European teams are interested it could go higher.

I saw him twice when he was playing for Inter's youth team three years ago and on both occasions he was the best player on the pitch. He's a pure 6 who would be very useful to you. I don't know how much he'd cost but he's definitely a good player.

Exactly!! He was a striker with no technique, no physical strength, no dribbling skills, and often in offside. BUT...when the ball was in the box you knew he'd somehow get to it before anyone else, and he was lethal at that. Pure goal instinct.

As a striker he could still do well and steal Wissa's place... jokes aside, Pippo Inzaghi is a case that should be studied in universities.

Fabregas, Alonso, Inzaghi, Mancini... if I had to choose I'd go with Fabregas or Mancini. Inzaghi is excellent but he doesn't know the PL like the other two and plays with a system no one uses in the PL, which could be a positive thing but it's risky. Alonso did great things with Levrkusen but the way he tactically faced Gasperini in the Europa League final leaves me with some doubts.

I disagree...you always forget that the PL is the center of the world and even though you are not a top-tier team, you remain more attractive than many European Clubs that have more "history" or trophies than you. Aside from those two or three really big names (Ancelotti, Guardiola), I don't see why a Fabregas, Alonso, Inzaghi, or Mancini wouldn't accept a job at Newcastle!!! And if they don't accept it's because they're not convinced by the owners' project, certainly not because your club isn't attractive. Oh, about Fabregas... Inter had chosen him to replace Inzaghi, and he said "No thanks, I'm staying at Como another season."

I'll give you an example from my team... seen from an outside perspective, a defense of Cafu-Stam-Nesta-Maldini (mid-2000s) is unbeatable, but the defense of Tassotti-Baresi-Costacurta-Maldini in the late 1980s was even more impenetrable, and all the difference was made by Baresi who was practically God. In a similar way KDB was the perfect end point for City's midfield, while Isco often squandered what Modric and Kroos offered him on a silver platter.

Of course, but you have to include the attacking midfielder to complete all. City had De Bruyne and Real had Isco (good player but not as good as KDB). Maybe the City midfiled is not that much stronger but it is better mixed. If we want to limit ourselves to three... Xavi-Iniesta-Busquets trio is unbeatable.

It's impossible to replace them... the fact that Guardiola, with a midfield like that, has only won one Champions League is inexplicable. Or maybe it's my fault, overestimating Guardiola. Before anyone says it... Kroos and Modric's Real Madrid didn't have a better midfield than City's.

...and it would be nice, in the last game at St. James, to give him a well-deserved "thank you" for what he's done. Something similar to what was done for Pioli, who in his last year made many mistakes as a coach, but who will always have our respect and gratitude.

Exactly !!! Howe wasn't God last year and he's not a terrible coach now...he's simply no longer the right coach for you for the coming years. The best thing the Club can do is not humiliate him by firing him now, and communicate (before the last game) that there is a mutual agreement to terminate his contract.

It reminded me of this...

If I may clear up any doubts... Mancini took over an Italian national team whose technical qualities were embarrassing and achieved a streak of 37 consecutive unbeaten results ( world record for a national team), also winning a European Championship. 20 years ago with Inter he did an exceptional job and I don't think he failed at City either. I still consider Ancelotti a better coach but while we all agree on Ancelotti, many (abroad) underestimate Mancini. His only real flaw was his hot-headed nature as a player and in his very early years as a coach, a flaw that has almost disappeared over the years... temperamentally,now, he's the opposite of Conte.

My first live experience with English football was Arsenal vs. Aston Villa in the mid-1980s. Up until then I'd only seen it on TV (one game a week on a private Italian channel). You should know that, unlike other European fans for whom Wembley was the most iconic English stadium, for us Italians it has always been Highbury because of a memorable match between England and Italy that had been passed down from generation to generation, so the choice of match and stadium was no accident for me and my friend. The impact outside the stadium was a shock: a large group of Villa fans walked among the home fans escorted by a small police force... something out of this world compared to what was happening in Italy in the 1980s. Inside the stadium, another surprise: we knew the stadium was old but it was still much better than 90% of the Italian stadiums of the time, and the proximity of the stands to the pitch was something we loved. The atmosphere among the fans, though very different from the Italian one, was good and, above all, much much better than what I experienced many years later in the same stadium during the Wenger era. In the '80s that was the only match I saw; in the '90s I saw many because I had many friends in London who were studying or working there...the football had improved greatly but the atmosphere had deteriorated significantly compared to that match I saw in the '80s.

Mancini, as a player, had extraordinary intelligence on the pitch and that's still his best quality as a coach... he would be a "soft" treatment for your club, unlike Conte who would be a shock for the club and even some of your players (Bruno for sure). Inzaghi could be another good alternative but certainly inferior to these two.

Mourinho would be the worst thing that could happen to you...that said, I'd like to explain why I went from being absolutely pro-Howe to hoping he leaves: 1) Many of you are attached to Howe because, in addition to being an extremely pleasant person, he was certainly a good coach and helped you reach goals you hadn't seen in a long time, but thinking he should stay for life out of gratitude is always wrong, especially when, like this season, he gets almost everything wrong. 2) For me Howe is English football from the '80s, intensity and physicality and nothing else...and I don't mean that in a negative sense because I loved English football from those years, and everything is fine when you have a season like last year; but when you struggle like this year, his solutions have been ZERO...it's not that he tried to change anything and failed, he just didn't try to do it. 3) The 4-3-3 is your cancer, I said it in October and I'm even more convinced now. Those very few times Howe changed the system, the wingers were still present and the wingers are your weakest point. 4) You yourselves told me (I was skeptical) that, perhaps apart from Woltemade, the rest of the new signings were definitely chosen or approved by Howe...nothing else to add here. 5) Very often, we criticize a coach for his lineup choices, which is purely subjective ; I wouldn't even let someone like Elanga play in the Italian Serie B but Howe sees him every day in training, and I don't...so I'm probably wrong and he's right. Other times, the criticisms are objective and no reason in the world can justify certain choices. Three examples: a) February, you're playing every three days between the league, cup, and the Champions League, you win 6-1 against Qarabag, and in the return match at home you field the best possible lineup??? (never seen in 45 years of football). b) Last game, you're a goal down and with 30 seconds to end you make two substitutions? (never seen in 45 years). c) Imagine Guardiola playing Haaland in midfield !! That's the only thing Howe has tried to change this season is... putting Wolte in place of Joelinton (never seen in....no, I've seen this and usually from coaches with huge Egos, Mourinho put Eto'o at left back in one match). Considering that Eddie fortunately doesn't have a huge ego, I have no logic explanation to that tactical move. I've watched a lot of Premier League matches this season and I'm pretty sure Sunderland have one of the worst squads in the league...which means Le Bris is an excellent coach, certainly the one who's done the best job (in the entire PL) considering the quality of his players. He could be a man to bet on for the future. I'd still go with Mancini, as Howe's replacement, and I think he also wants to return to Europe.

Portishead ?

You're good with Italian...

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