Guest firetotheworks Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 Gaddafi is up there with Pardew like. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shayno Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 If he is going to stay, i hope they announce it early. The flicker of hope is killing me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vinny Green Balls Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 To be fair, Gaddafi showed much more attacking intent during his tenure. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 Ooooh. Oooh no. That's, that's nasty. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interpolic Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 If he is going to stay, i hope they announce it early. The flicker of hope is killing me. Seems like they're gearing up for it. Will probably do it this week. As I say, it really needs to result in floods of people cancelling direct debits. The World Cup might work against NUFC this year, as people aren't really going to be as arsed about them pretending to sign loads of players, given the backdrop of real football being played. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtype Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 All we need is Wenger to retire now. Voilia, the Premiership's longest serving manager Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Duper Branko Strupar Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 Ooooh. Oooh no. That's, that's nasty. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 http://imgur.com/pnV3lsc.jpg Reading - 1428 days, West Ham - 1148 days, Charlton - 701 days, Southampton - 409 days. We're on 1250 days. Sadly we're on course to facilitate his record tenure as a football manager. Far lesser clubs than us have seen through him ages before we have. Southampton were like "Fuck off!" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_R Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 Not one penny to this lot until he's gone. No match tickets, no merchandise, no Sky TV, no setting foot in his tatty chav clothes shop. Bleed the fucker dry. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Flash Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 Southampton were in League 1 when they sacked him in 2010. 4 years later they've finished above us 2 years in a row and he constantly tells us we can't compete with them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 He's a fucking blanket bomb in a glass house like. You don't know which bit to pick up first because he's so twisted and multi-faceted in his hypocrisy that you just end up doing things like scoffing, or calling him a cunt. By the time you get around to making your point it's about 5 minutes later and people are telling you to calm down. It happens every time he's brought up, I end up getting asked to calm down. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 It's disheartening because it's difficult to determine exactly what the owner wants. The team is consistently terrible and he's been an embarrassment...but he gets to keep his job? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 To quote Kevin Keegan: "Mike Ashley knows nothing about football." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 To quote Kevin Keegan: "Mike Ashley knows nothing about football." Such a long season waiting for us. God. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 It's disheartening because it's difficult to determine exactly what the owner wants. The team is consistently terrible and he's been an embarrassment...but he gets to keep his job? I honestly think "what does Mike Ashley want?" is just about the easiest question to answer. He wants: Income from the Premier League Maximum exposure for the Sports Direct brand He knows he can have those things by running the transfer policy at a profit and by having Alan Pardew as manager. That's why I've no doubt we'll sign some players in the summer and why Alan Pardew will still be manager come September. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtype Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 It's disheartening because it's difficult to determine exactly what the owner wants. The team is consistently terrible and he's been an embarrassment...but he gets to keep his job? It's difficult to reconcile his ruthlessness with regards to certain managers (Allardyce/Hughton) and his stubborn perseverance with others (Kinnear/Pardew). I suspect the answer is just that he's just incredibly loyal to people in his inner circle. Ashley wanted to keep Kinnear on despite relegation and his heart giving out, and went out of his way to offer his old buddy another job years later. God knows to what extents he'll go to protect Pardew. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 It's disheartening because it's difficult to determine exactly what the owner wants. The team is consistently terrible and he's been an embarrassment...but he gets to keep his job? It's difficult to reconcile his ruthlessness with regards to certain managers (Allardyce/Hughton) and his stubborn perseverance with others (Kinnear/Pardew). I suspect the answer is just that he's just incredibly loyal to people in his inner circle. Ashley wanted to keep Kinnear on despite relegation and his heart giving out, and went out of his way to offer his old buddy another job years later. God knows to what extents he'll go to protect Pardew. Pretty much means that we'll never be totally rid of Pardew, even if he leaves the seat. He'll always be looming, lurking, waiting. I was gonna reply to Yorkie, but his post bummed me the fuck out. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 It's disheartening because it's difficult to determine exactly what the owner wants. The team is consistently terrible and he's been an embarrassment...but he gets to keep his job? It's difficult to reconcile his ruthlessness with regards to certain managers (Allardyce/Hughton) and his stubborn perseverance with others (Kinnear/Pardew). I suspect the answer is just that he's just incredibly loyal to people in his inner circle. Ashley wanted to keep Kinnear on despite relegation and his heart giving out, and went out of his way to offer his old buddy another job years later. God knows to what extents he'll go to protect Pardew. Absolutely, he is. But I don't think Pardew is one of them. He's just like any other Mike Ashley employee. And like any other employee, Pardew's been given a set of instructions and has fulfilled them. If you were Ashley, you wouldn't even consider sacking him. Football itself doesn't come into it at all. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 It's May and 2014-15 is already written off. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparkzter Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 It's May and 2014-15 is already written off. That's depressingly true. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtype Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 It's May and 2014-15 is already written off. That's depressingly true. How many years left on this contract again? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 Overall, I think Ashley is transparent as fuck. I don't know much about the financial world but from a 'football club owner' standpoint, I think he's become extremely easy to read. Like I said - we know what he wants, we know what sort of people he employs, we know what our future holds under him. The last thing he did that surprised me was sign Cisse. He had a bit of a lapse there. My guessing is that someone convinced him that a new striker could get us into the Champions League, or - possibly - someone even told him that being in the Europa League would be beneficial for Sports Direct. Remember the .europe advertising boards? Obviously, Pardew ensured that the potential negatives of the EL far outweigh the benefits of some extra advertising. It's fair to assume he's continually learned as time has gone on, so we'll make signings when we have to, but we'll never make another genuinely progressive signing like Cisse. Unless it's by accident (like Cabaye, for example). I bet he's delighted with this season. A big sigh of relief after last year's scare. He'd have it this way forever I imagine. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest H09 Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 It's May and 2014-15 is already written off. That's depressingly true. How many years left on this contract again? 2241 days, 21 hours, 57 minutes and 45 seconds Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 The number of years on his contract means nothing going forward. If, in six years time, Ashley is still here and we've finished 10th every single season, Pardew will get an extension. The only time the number of years will 'mean something' is if, at any point, he absolutely has to sack him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 Yorkie pls. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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