Who would you go for?

[Disco]

If Howe is under consideration his compensation must be tiny.

 

Bournemouth paid £1.4m for him so it's not a given.

[Guest neesy111]

Bet his wages are cheap though

 

Not a given, they've got a rich russian owner who's backed him well in the transfer market.

[hithere]

I mean the likes of Howe are the ones that should be getting a shot at better clubs, rather than these relics like Pardew, Warnock and Allardyce. It's absolutely ridiculous.

I despise Warnock but he seems to be doing alright.

 

West Ham have been excellent this season so far as well.

 

Pardew was sacked by a League One club. I'll agree in that instance. However he did manage to get yourselves to 5th. Luck?

[hithere]

I mean the likes of Howe are the ones that should be getting a shot at better clubs, rather than these relics like Pardew, Warnock and Allardyce. It's absolutely ridiculous.

I despise Warnock but he seems to be doing alright.

 

West Ham have been excellent this season so far as well.

 

Pardew was sacked by a League One club. I'll agree in that instance. However he did manage to get yourselves to 5th. Luck?

 

 

Let's not open that door

Fair enough :lol;

[KaKa]

I mean the likes of Howe are the ones that should be getting a shot at better clubs, rather than these relics like Pardew, Warnock and Allardyce. It's absolutely ridiculous.

I despise Warnock but he seems to be doing alright.

 

West Ham have been excellent this season so far as well.

 

Pardew was sacked by a League One club. I'll agree in that instance. However he did manage to get yourselves to 5th. Luck?

 

These guys are all so uninspiring though, and you know what you will get from them for the most part. It's all very functional, and very much based on survival. All steeped in doing things the old way too. These guys are very averse to change or trying anything new, and will tell you it's all rubbish. Sad thing is they would likely benefit if they expanded their horizons some.

 

Look at Allardyce! it took being threatened with the sack if he did not improve to finally getting him to do things a bit differently, and he's reaping the benefits now isn't he.

[Ryan]

Don't believe that a list is being drawn up, Pardew is here to stay no doubt about it.

 

Remember a few weeks ago as well Bailey saying that he would be gone if we suffered a heavy defeat against Southampton...

[Kanj]

I mean the likes of Howe are the ones that should be getting a shot at better clubs, rather than these relics like Pardew, Warnock and Allardyce. It's absolutely ridiculous.

I despise Warnock but he seems to be doing alright.

 

West Ham have been excellent this season so far as well.

 

Pardew was sacked by a League One club. I'll agree in that instance. However he did manage to get yourselves to 5th. Luck?

 

 

Let's not open that door

 

Yes. Luck. Krul, Colo, Ba, Cabaye, HBA, Cisse and the 400 goal line saves of Danny Simpson over a span of 38 matches. All random goals, all random goal line saves, and all random moments of divine intervention.

[DJ_NUFC]

That season, man. So much potential. So much to be built on to take us to the next step. All fucking washed away.

[Kanj]

Why I always say Ashley is f***ing idiotic. Take the core of that team, fix up the defense, add some more depth in the team to handle Europa League. And have someone employed at Board level who knows football, who will tell you that many of the results came off of fortunate bounces/calls or brilliant individual performances from the spine of the team. Add a manager who can get the best out of that core, galvanize the crowd, and finally add more depth and quality in the squad and you make a full-on assault on the top 4.  And maybe, just maybe we do make CL? Ashley is in the fucking money on a bet. Which he loves to do.  And SD.com is being touted all over the place in "good light" as he's this maverick Englshman with his passionate Newcastle side and he's a self made billionaire with a sports store empire.

 

Nope. Not with us. Never with us under Mike f***ing Ashley.

[Disco]

Di Matteo named as Schalke boss

[Pilko]

About time he got another gig, like.

[AyeDubbleYoo]

Why I always say Ashley is f***ing idiotic. Take the core of that team, fix up the defense, add some more depth in the team to handle Europa League. And have someone employed at Board level who knows football, who will tell you that many of the results came off of fortunate bounces/calls or brilliant individual performances from the spine of the team. Add a manager who can get the best out of that core, galvanize the crowd, and finally add more depth and quality in the squad and you make a full-on assault on the top 4.  And maybe, just maybe we do make CL? Ashley is in the fucking money on a bet. Which he loves to do.  And SD.com is being touted all over the place in "good light" as he's this maverick Englshman with his passionate Newcastle side and he's a self made billionaire with a sports store empire.

 

Nope. Not with us. Never with us under Mike f***ing Ashley.

 

Yep, pretty much any of us could give him one piece of paper with a bullet-point guide on how to be absolutely worshipped on Tyneside. It would be so easy for him to do more if he gave a shit.

[Hughesy]

Di Matteo named as Schalke boss

 

Keeps the Tuchel dream alive..

[Dave]

Anyone that isn't the football manager equivalent of Derek fucking Acorah.

[Incognito]

Id take Derek Acorah tbh.

[Guest neesy111]

Might find if we are haunted as a club at least with Acorah.

[Kanj]

Why I always say Ashley is f***ing idiotic. Take the core of that team, fix up the defense, add some more depth in the team to handle Europa League. And have someone employed at Board level who knows football, who will tell you that many of the results came off of fortunate bounces/calls or brilliant individual performances from the spine of the team. Add a manager who can get the best out of that core, galvanize the crowd, and finally add more depth and quality in the squad and you make a full-on assault on the top 4.  And maybe, just maybe we do make CL? Ashley is in the f***ing money on a bet. Which he loves to do.  And SD.com is being touted all over the place in "good light" as he's this maverick Englshman with his passionate Newcastle side and he's a self made billionaire with a sports store empire.

 

Nope. Not with us. Never with us under Mike f***ing Ashley.

 

Yep, pretty much any of us could give him one piece of paper with a bullet-point guide on how to be absolutely worshipped on Tyneside. It would be so easy for him to do more if he gave a s***.

 

My extra emphasis was on him doing all of the above after the 5th season. Where we could have easily competed with others for top signatures. Should have nailed Debuchy, another LB, and a CB to partner Colo. Should have cashed the fuck in on Tiote, and brought in a better "protector" who could pass the ball too (Capoue), should have signed Cabella or Grenier to play in the #10 role (if Marv wasn't the answer) and have him ahead of Capoue/Cabaye. Should have signed a natural left winger or wide forward (PEA) to basically hold down LW, HBA RW and then let Cisse/Ba duke out the CF spot. Hell, cash in on Cisse or extend Ba, Cabaye, and HBA. Sign of mother fucking intent. Probably would have been the right time to get a Rudi Garcia or Rene Girard - someone capable of playing good football with lower budgets.

[henke]

To be fair we made one hell of a statement of intent that summer. Can you imagine what Cabaye was thinking when the transfer window slammed shut and his best mate was still in France?

[Kanj]

All we signed was Vurn Anita. And Pardew was fucking mouthing off like the lieing shit he was all this "control the ball, control the game" bullshit.

[simonlemagnifique]

What a difference the manager can make, even in the most trying of circumstances...

http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2014/oct/06/nuno-valencia-atletico-madrid

Mestalla feels different: renewed, excited, positive, optimistic. Nuno has worked hard to bring supporters on board. At the end of every game, he takes his players into the middle of the field to applaud them.

 

The best way to get them to applaud back is to win and Nuno is doing that too. “I was Lim’s man, now I am Valencia’s manager,” he said at his presentation. He is charismatic, open and energetic, and the results have been spectacular. Players speak of a new, collective spirit, and there is a clarity about the way they play too – direct, aggressive, quick and intense. More Jürgen Klopp than Pep Guardiola or José Mourinho. Against Atlético, they committed almost twice as many fouls as their opponents. Nuno wants his team to go straight for the throat. “The midfielders always pressure,” Nuno said. “I want the team to always attack.”

[KaKa]

Really feels like we aren't even playing the same sport as some of these other folks.

[Deuce]

Really feels like we aren't even playing the same sport as some of these other folks.

 

You'd be hard pressed to call Alan Pardew's Newcastle a "football" club.

[Ronaldo]

Anything really to suggest De Boer wouldn't fall flat on his face like Magath or Pepe Mel, by the way?

[Deuce]

Anything really to suggest De Boer wouldn't fall flat on his face like Magath or Pepe Mel, by the way?

 

Could easily happen. Especially at this club.

[Ronaldo]

Moyes is really the only sensible choice from that list. Shame he's unrealistic because he'd have us finishing top half comfortably in spite of the shambolic start.