John Carver

[Minhosa]

Hold on a minute Carver was perfectly happy with the squad in January and said he didn't need any new players brought in and now he says it was a huge error of judgement not to strengthen the squad.

 

Sorry like but any supporter could have told them that selling Mbiwa and Santon and not replacing them was asking for trouble. The fact that Ashley, Charnley and Carver couldn't see that between the 3 of them is criminal.

Sad thing is this promise of massive investment in the squad (which won't happen) will probably be enough to persuade a few thousand to go out and buy season tickets.

 

They absolutely could see it. They chose to assume we were safe and chance it, in true Ashley style.

 

Penfold and Michael's opinion doesn't matter a fucking jot tbqh. They'll nod to whatever MA wants.

 

We'll see this every year under the Ashley ownership. As soon as we are virtually safe (in percentage terms) he'll flog an asset because he can demand a premium in January that he won't be able to in the summer due to 'distressed' buyers i.e: some cunt showing some ambition.

 

Simple leverage.

[Minhosa]

Some cracking headlines this morning:

 

Newcastle owner Mike Ashley regrets not investing in January, reveals John Carver

 

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3003426/Newcastle-owner-Mike-Ashley-regrets-not-investing-January-reveals-John-Carver-13-fit-players-choose-from.html#ixzz3UuepKpPq

 

Mike Ashley will spend big at Newcastle this summer

 

http://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/565172/Mike-Ashley-will-spend-big-at-Newcastle-this-summer

 

Mike Ashley and Lee Charnley have admitted they got it wrong at Newcastle, says John Carver

 

http://www.shieldsgazette.com/sport/football/mike-ashley-and-lee-charnley-have-admitted-they-got-it-wrong-at-newcastle-says-john-carver-1-7165866

 

 

Someone is going to be getting called in to see the headmaster first thing...

 

Aye, he'll be in the diary room this morning, getting his first written warning.

 

Bit of a change since he was last in there being congratulated for overseeing a splendid cup exit.

[Darth Crooks]

I'm sorry but people continuing to put money into this shit heap of a setup are mental. There is no logical reason beyond sentiment.

[Nobody]

Someone dig up his quotes about the squad being too big and tweet them to the local journos and ask them why the fuck they don't pull him up on it. Why is it acceptable for football managers to lie through their (horribly mismanaged) teeth all the time without anyone questioning it?

[loki679]

I still can't work out why the fuck anyone is giving this guy a serious thought for the job.  Apart from already being at the club there is absolutely nothing to recommend him as manager.

 

Also:

 

Rob Elliot (thigh); Paul Dummett (knee), Fabricio Coloccini (suspended), Steven Taylor (Achilles) Massadio Haidara (knee); Rolando Aarons (hamstring), Cheick Tiote (knee), Mehdi Abeid (thigh), Siem de Jong (lung); Papiss Cisse (suspended), Facundo Ferreyra (back).

 

Makes me giggle

 

 

[Minhosa]

I'm sorry but people continuing to put money into this shit heap of a setup are mental. There is no logical reason beyond sentiment.

 

Yup.

 

Stuck in the routine/a need to feel like they belong to something can be the only reason people now attend.

 

There is genuinely no reason otherwise to attend.

 

A shell of a football club nowadays.

 

And all he had to do was show some fucking ambition. So easy and yet so fucking unlikely.

[r0cafella]

Letting John side with the fans on this one I see.

 

Interesting PR work

[Minhosa]

Loki - nobody in their right mind would have John Carver a job running a premiership football team.

 

The fear is that these morons running the club are totally capable of making that call.

 

When the ambition is survival, they will feel they can chance him and save money in the process and still achieve their aim.

[AyeDubbleYoo]

At least the terrible results make the situation crystal clear - if Ashley appoints Carver it's proof he literally doesn't care about the football side at all. If Carver had shown any ability at all it would be more arguable that it was a football decision.

[Mattoon]

At least the terrible results make the situation crystal clear - if Ashley appoints Carver it's proof he literally doesn't care about the football side at all. If Carver had shown any ability at all it would be more arguable that it was a football decision.

 

I think the ship sailed a long time ago on that one, if he truly cared about the football side of things Pardew would have been pushed way before he jumped. This is just a continuation of the dour football and humiliating defeats, only Carver doesn't have that lucky streak that can keep us alive.

[AyeDubbleYoo]

At least the terrible results make the situation crystal clear - if Ashley appoints Carver it's proof he literally doesn't care about the football side at all. If Carver had shown any ability at all it would be more arguable that it was a football decision.

 

I think the ship sailed a long time ago on that one, if he truly cared about the football side of things Pardew would have been pushed way before he jumped. This is just a continuation of the dour football and humiliating defeats, only Carver doesn't have that lucky streak that can keep us alive.

 

I know, I just mean that there was a tiny sliver of hope when Pardew went that they would appoint an actual competent manager.

[Paully]

February 6th;

 

“But to have a group of players that we have here now I am delighted. We are going to have problems this weekend because I will have to leave some people out of the 18 which is the first time we’ve had to do that for a long time.

 

“So we are in a healthy position. We are looking forward to it.”

 

 

March 19th;

 

“The good thing is I haven’t got a selection problem for Arsenal because I’ve only got 13 fit senior players, plus two keepers so that won’t be too difficult,” he said.

 

“The squad needs to be stronger and Lee and the board have acknowledged that to me"

 

[AyeDubbleYoo]

A month is a long time in football

[Yaron]

Carver talks like he will be the manager in the summer too

[Norseman]

The high res photo of him is absolutely revolting. Looks like a hobo dragged off the street with no credentials.. oh..

[Collage]

“That’s from the top, and the fact that I am sitting here now telling you this is a fact. That fact that I’m sitting here talking about this acknowledgement tells me that they have realised.

 

I’m excited by the fact that I’ve been part of the process."

 

For a fraud, he's very occupied with fact. That first sentence is mint btw.

[loki679]

The fact i'm posting on this messageboard is a fact.

 

Derp.

[Nattfare]

“That’s from the top, and the fact that I am sitting here now telling you this is a fact. That fact that I’m sitting here talking about this acknowledgement tells me that they have realised.

 

I’m excited by the fact that I’ve been part of the process."

 

For a fraud, he's very occupied with fact. That first sentence is mint btw.

 

He speaks his sentences the same way Lee Ryder writes his it almost sounds like.

[merlin]

The only thing Ashley regrets is that its all gone pear-shaped and shown him up for the conniving penny-pincher and asset-stripper that he really is - he is terrified that one day the Sky cameras will show a half-empty SJP and his credibility will be illustrated for what it really is....all smoke and mirrors.

Carver is just another Ashley puppet and stooge.

[Ash]

If anyone wants AIDS, have a read of this. Thought she'd been quiet for a while.

 

http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2015/mar/20/john-carver-newcastle-united-problems

Click-clack, click-clack, click-clack. It is the sound of crutches on linoleum and something John Carver has become horribly accustomed to in recent weeks.

 

“I keep hearing crutches coming down the corridor outside my door,” says Newcastle United’s head coach, who could be forgiven for believing his office is doubling as an orthopaedic surgeon’s consulting room.

 

With Cheik Tioté, Steven Taylor and Papiss Cissé (who brought forward knee surgery scheduled for the summer after receiving a seven-match ban for spitting) among the eight senior players sidelined by injury, Carver’s side are not in the best of health to entertain Arsenal on Saturday. He has 13 fit outfield players available and a recent acknowledgement from the St James’ Park hierarchy that the squad is far too thin will prove little consolation.

 

Fabricio Coloccini’s suspension means Carver has only two fit established defenders, Daryl Janmaat and Mike Williamson, at his disposal. Janmaat, a Holland right-back and Newcastle’s best crosser, must play out of position at centre-half.

 

Up front it is arguably even worse. In Cissé’s absence there is only the potentially brilliant but young, inexperienced and increasingly tired-looking Ayoze Pérez, the inadequate Emmanuel Rivière, the unproven youngster Adam Armstrong and the unutterably hopeless Facundo Ferreyra.

 

Anyone who has seen Carver work, either coaching on the training pitches or in the “strategy room” at Newcastle’s training ground, where his video analysis of matches, tactics and players is impressive, knows he is being sold horribly short.

 

Viewed in context, his record of two wins, three draws and five defeats in 10 Premier League games since succeeding Alan Pardew is a bit more respectable than it appears on paper.

 

He might not be a fashionable name but there was a reason why Ruud Gullit, then Newcastle’s manager, plucked the young Carver from academy obscurity almost 20 years ago. The man can coach, can communicate with players – and who is to say that, given a strong hand, he could not do just as well as Rémi Garde, Christophe Galtier, Thomas Tuchel or anyone else with more than half an eye on taking the St James’ Park job in the summer.

 

The shame is his chances of trying to prove himself are being undermined by the very same forces which led Pardew to make – on the face of it – the extraordinary move of exchanging Newcastle for Crystal Palace at new year.

 

Pardew had wanted at least one striker and a centre-half in the transfer window. He knew that without them Newcastle would struggle but the board were reluctant to spend. Selhurst Park suddenly seemed like nirvana.

 

Mike Ashley, Newcastle’s owner, and Lee Charnley, the managing director, do not like waste. That is why there are strict restrictions on electricity use throughout the club. It also explains why, with the team in mid-table, they took the risk of loaning Davide Santon to Internazionale in January. How Carver could do with the left-back, who will not be returning after Roberto Mancini persuaded his board to make the move permanent last week.

 

It would help if Carver’s strikers were sufficiently rampant to camouflage defensive deficiencies. Unfortunately a record of three goals in the past five games indicates this is not the case, while also suggesting that Graham Carr’s invariably golden transfer-market touch apparently deserted him last summer. For once Newcastle’s chief scout has failed to come up trumps.

 

With the £1.5m move to bring Pérez from Tenerife – and what smart business that was – driven by Pardew, Rivière arrived from Monaco for £6m while Ferreyra, seemingly a friend of Coloccini’s, turned up on loan from Shakhtar Donetsk. He has been injured but is said to be barely good enough for the reserves, let alone the first team. Some say Ferreyra is the club’s worst recruit since Fumaça – nicknamed “Formica”, aka “the only Brazilian who couldn’t play” – during the Sir Bobby Robson era.

 

Armstrong is highly promising with some wonderful movement but, like Pérez, he is not really an out-and-out striker.

 

Pérez has scored five goals this season but Rivière, whose game has enough about it to suggest he might be a hit in the Championship, has still to score in the Premier League this season after 15 appearances. Had Cissé not registered 11 in 19 appearances Newcastle would not be in the relative comfort of 11th place with 35 points, 10 clear of the bottom three and within touching distance of safety.

 

Siem de Jong, a £6m summer buy from Ajax, was supposed to score plenty of goals from his No10 role but he has been out for virtually the entire campaign, most recently with a collapsed lung, a problem that had sidelined him in the Netherlands.

 

Now Carver – toying with the idea of shifting Gabriel Obertan from the right wing to attack (although it is to be hoped his shooting is not as wayward as much of his crossing) – must avoid subjecting Pérez to mental collapse.

 

“There was an awful lot of pressure on this young lad coming from Tenerife and being thrown into our cauldron,” he says. “When we signed Ayoze, we thought he’d have a full season in the under-21s developing but he was thrown in at the deep end. He’s dealt with it well but I’ve started to see him looking more jaded, finding the physical elements a bit tough. It’s part of my job to deal with him, and one of the other young players – Adam Armstrong – to make sure they don’t disappear into the wilderness.”

 

Whatever the result against Arsenal, Carver is not the cause of Newcastle’s travails.

 

[AyeDubbleYoo]

For the love of Christ.

[Guest Roger Kint]

“That’s from the top, and the fact that I am sitting here now telling you this is a fact. That fact that I’m sitting here talking about this acknowledgement tells me that they have realised.

 

I’m excited by the fact that I’ve been part of the process."

 

For a fraud, he's very occupied with fact. That first sentence is mint btw.

 

Think he has passed on his dubious facts to the Chronicle staff

 

Mark Douglas ‏@MsiDouglas 6m6 minutes ago

 

@dcb72 They won't sign 12+. It'll be 4 or 5, maybe with a spend of £40m or so.

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[AyeDubbleYoo]

I would bite their hand off for £40m on 4-5 players now TBH, it's beyond my wildest dreams.

 

With a new manager obviosuly.

[AyeDubbleYoo]

Oh I know, but realistically I would take it. The manager is everything anyway, no way I can follow a season of Carver.

[Guest Roger Kint]

I would bite their hand off for £40m on 4-5 players now TBH, it's beyond my wildest dreams.

 

With a new manager obviosuly.

 

Until you factor in Krul, Sissoko, Janmaat & Perez leaving to fund it.