Ronaldo Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 Dignity? Accusing a journalist of having an anti-NUFC agenda for merely telling the truth is dignified now? Bullshit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanj Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 Bunch of unqualified and unprofessional pricks at the boardroom level. A total lack of infrastructure from the football side has proved to be a brilliant master stroke by Ashley again. We have no long term or contingency plans for anything. Just a bunch of crap about "due diligence" and finding "right characters" and all that load of guff. It's all far simpler than that. Cheap, willing to come, somehow affiliated with some old boys club of hacks or that French agency. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlito Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 Dignity? Accusing a journalist of having an anti-NUFC agenda for merely telling the truth is dignified now? Bullshit. Can't argue with this. It was very Pardew-esque of him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlies Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 Rafa Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mag_in_NZ Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 Who are the 9 f--kwits who think we should keep the charlatan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deuce Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 "Foreign men" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
samag Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 Back him or sack him sick of checking my phone for up date's. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ads Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 Here's a fun scenario. Benitez is confirmed. We win the last 10 games and finish mid table comfortably. The line ups are balanced, the football is better, the players look passionate, Mitrovic and Perez score for fun. Benitez expresses a strong interest in the permanent post at the end of the season. We rehire McClaren. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Five o Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 Here's a fun scenario. Benitez is confirmed. We win the last 10 games and finish mid table comfortably. The line ups are balanced, the football is better, the players look passionate, Mitrovic and Perez score for fun. Benitez expresses a strong interest in the permanent post at the end of the season. We rehire McClaren. http://replygif.net/i/1484.gif Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chopey Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 Bunch of unqualified and unprofessional pricks at the boardroom level. A total lack of infrastructure from the football side has proved to be a brilliant master stroke by Ashley again. We have no long term or contingency plans for anything. Just a bunch of crap about "due diligence" and finding "right characters" and all that load of guff. It's all far simpler than that. Cheap, willing to come, somehow affiliated with some old boys club of hacks or that French agency. this Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppe Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 Or we get Benitez in until the end of the season, we pick up enough points to stay up, Fat Mike get loads of millions and is very happy, Penfold hires another sub-par "coach" because it's cheap and we are right where we want to be and nothing will ever change because we're still on the gravy train Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nufc4eva Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 I reckon they have every intention of keeping the spazzy one and are just delaying, hoping we don't notice until after Leicester game where we will draw and keep the loser Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Crooks Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 Who are the 9 f--kwits who think we should keep the charlatan Nazgul Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hhtoon Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 I'm not a particular fan of Benitez as a figurehead, seems a bit whiny to me (that dossier was embarrassing) and although technically renowned his man management has always been suspect. Hopefully his rep would boost the players and get them fighting for him.....they'd have to at least respect him compared to the previous jokers. But is 10 days enough to embed his own methods in to our weak-willed squad? All that being said, if we stayed up and he was a summer appointment Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Varadi Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 Looks like Ashley is disancing himself from this clusterfuck so that Charnley will be the one to take the fall if/when it all goes tits up. His only real chance of saving his job at this stage would appear to be making an inspiring appointment that keeps us up. No, I'm not confident either. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nufcjb Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 Wouldn't it be stupid and foolish of Benitez if he was to sign a contract without anything guaranteed after safety is confirmed? It'll be Shearer all over again only that Shearer couldn't save us. Surely if Benitez wants the job, he has it in his contract stating that if we avoid relegation, he stays on permenantly while relegation would mean he can walk away if he or Ashley are not interested to carry it forward. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elma Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 Here's a fun scenario. Benitez is confirmed. We win the last 10 games and finish mid table comfortably. The line ups are balanced, the football is better, the players look passionate, Mitrovic and Perez score for fun. Benitez expresses a strong interest in the permanent post at the end of the season. We rehire McClaren. Maybe we wouldn't have to re-hire him? I was thinking this through last night. I think the reason for the delay just might be that they want to keep him on and are waiting to see who we get, and whether McClaren will accept it. They just might have stitched McClaren up contracturally with the title Head Coach, allowing them to restructure and bring in a Manager above him without McClaren able to do them for constructive dismissal. I think it's fairly well accepted that the new man (if there is one) will most likely only come in for 10 games. The chances of him bringing his own team in for that time are slight. They may be already in work and wouldn't leave a given job for one which might end after 10 games. The club will also want to avoid ditching the existing team team with over two years left on their contracts and will want some continuity to provide a smoother transition for the critical final ten games. McClaren's salary is apparently 700k a year, so we would owe him somewhere in the region of 1.6-1.7 million to pay him off. The players do suport the generally held belief he is a good coach but at the moment Simpson and Cathro are taking most of the sessions. Maybe they see him as suited to the Championship and would do what they did with Shearer/Hughton if we dropped. i.e. have him support the new man as head coach, but save themselves 1.7 million should we actually drop by having a ready made championship manager on the books for that eventually. If we stay up they will then have no qualms in sacking him if they believe the new man (who will then want his own coaching team longer term) to be the way to go as 1.7 million plus the cost of the contracts of Simpson and Cathro will be small change compared to what we will have saved. To me that seems the most logical reason for not sacking him at the moment. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 Dignity? Accusing a journalist of having an anti-NUFC agenda for merely telling the truth is dignified now? Bullshit. I said this week, not last week. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Froggy Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 This cunt sacked yet? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lush Vlad Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 I heard that fat twat Porky Parry on Talksport, this morning. They were doing the paper review. It sounds as if everywhere is reporting that Benitez is our top target and that he's supposedly interested. Another article made it seem like we haven't even spoken to him and we're trying to gauge his interest, through a third party This club has stooped to new levels of incompetence. Should have got rid of the manager about a month ago. Instead, he's a dead man walking, still trying to coach a team that have given up on him. It's taken us four days to decide whether or not we're going to 'sound someone out.' Basically, if we haven't spoken to him. There is no chance he's coming. We won't offer enough money for a start and I think it will be the same as when Vieira supposedly spoke to us. It will take Rafa about 5 minutes, to realise we're an absolute shambles. If he doesn't already, of course. I think we'll either stick with McClaren, or we get some absolute shithouse journeyman in. Or just a complete c***, like Sherwood. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 To be honest, for all the (probably misguided) excitement about Benitez, it's far from certain that we'd stay up even if we brought him in. The squad is all over the place, and they clearly don't care. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickthemagpie Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 Who are the 9 f--kwits who think we should keep the charlatan Hithere, Stray Makem....... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parky Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 To be honest, for all the (probably misguided) excitement about Benitez, it's far from certain that we'd stay up even if we brought him in. The squad is all over the place, and they clearly don't care. No relegation wage clauses inserted. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minhosa Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 To be honest, for all the (probably misguided) excitement about Benitez, it's far from certain that we'd stay up even if we brought him in. The squad is all over the place, and they clearly don't care. I think we'll go down anyway. There's a massive danger in making a ten game appointment. Benitez doesn't even really put his reputation on the line because, if we stay up, he's held in higher regard and able to command more money from his next employers (if not us) and, if we go down, then he can tell the world what a clusterfuck we are and everyone would be sympathetic to that. That will be the appeal I would think. There's so much fundamentally wrong with NUFC, I maintan that we'll go down. It's an entirely failed institution. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Venkman Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 I can believe he'll take the job, because ridiculous stuff happens to us. It's specifically how it's going to go wrong that I'm wondering about. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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