Jump to content

Recommended Posts

Next home game, everyone just keep shouting "liar" at him.

 

 

 

The silent majority will probably beat you up for that

 

They will no longer be silent then, they will be agents of Ashley.

Link to post
Share on other sites

Guest Roger Kint

Next home game, everyone just keep shouting "liar" at him.

 

 

 

The silent majority will probably beat you up for that

 

They will no longer be silent then, they will be agents of Ashley.

 

They are already agents of Ashley since the Hull game

Link to post
Share on other sites

Guest reefatoon

Yep. He's probably had a rollocking for not bringing in big money for Sissoko, so he is trying to flog anyone at any price now to try and get back on the good side of his lord and master.

Link to post
Share on other sites

He'll quickly realise how good these kind of windows are when he sees his next paycheck. Same way Pardew gave us the tortured artist act for a few days when Carroll left then soon started joining in when he saw the percentage he'd just earned.

Link to post
Share on other sites

I honestly think some of it isn't down to malice or greed as much as laziness. Charnley, Ashley, Lambias before them, they don't particularly seem to have any interest in football, even though the former is supposedly a fan. They don't seem excited about the prospect of new players, they certainly aren't interested in achieving footballing success. There's people who spend their leisure time playing Champ Man and following the transfer market, and I'm sure there are a lot of chairmen, managing directors and the like who are similarly motivated by the thrill of chasing a player who might do amazing things on the pitch. We're a business for whom football is not a priority. We're not in the entertainment industry. All our corporate staff are here because they accept that. So when this is just their day job, can they really be arsed going through all the paperwork to hire a new employee, negotiate, out maneuver other clubs, when they don't have any more motivation to do so than someone at a call centre does to fit in one last akward customer at the end of a shift? You'll still get paid, fuck it, just take the afternoon off and play golf.

 

There's not enough people with any kind of passion for the sport anywhere near the boardroom, and so they don't have the motivation or drive to achieve even basic progress and just coast through what should be the core aspects of their role with the minimum effort.

Link to post
Share on other sites

Daniel White ‏@danwhitepr  55s55 seconds ago

Joey Barton claims the #nufc transfer committee also want to have a say on team selection. Says he was told by a prospective Manager.

 

 

Ha! Not surprised at all. Blame Pardew completely for this.

 

Their probably thinking to themselves look what Cabella is doing now he's being played!

 

Pardew has left permanent damage at this club man. Didn't play MYM, Cabella, Ben Arfa, Haidara, Anita enough at various times, and considering the money spent (which was a big deal in the owners eyes, I'm not surprised their trying to do this). Especially when we've all seen talent in these players when they featured regularly.

 

I mean look at the youngsters and how they never given game time. Abeid, Bigirimana, Sammy, Vuckic just left rotting in the under 21s.

 

I just pray we can find a promising young guy that is really all about coaching talent and then letting them express themselves.

 

Reading that definitely made me lament Pardew more than anything.

Link to post
Share on other sites

We know they have been trying to do it by default by selling off Pardew's favourites such as Perch so that he would play Anita instead.

 

I can imagine there would have been questions as to why Cabella and MYM were not being played especially as they had paid big money by our standards for those players.

 

So we know there has been indirect involvement but whether they actually choose the team on a Saturday (cup games excepted) I am not so sure and if so they are pretty lousy at it.

 

I wonder which prospective manager told Barton that.  He'll know McLaren because he spent some time at QPR but I can't imagine him confiding in Barton.  I can't think of any of the other known candidates knowing Barton.

Link to post
Share on other sites

We know they have been trying to do it by default by selling off Pardew's favourites such as Perch so that he would play Anita instead.

 

I can imagine there would have been questions as to why Cabella and MYM were not being played especially as they had paid big money by our standards for those players.

 

So we know there has been indirect involvement but whether they actually choose the team on a Saturday (cup games excepted) I am not so sure and if so they are pretty lousy at it.

 

I wonder which prospective manager told Barton that.  He'll know McLaren because he spent some time at QPR but I can't imagine him confiding in Barton.  I can't think of any of the other known candidates knowing Barton.

 

It was mentioned in that Mail article when Hughton was sacked that Ashley and Llambias interfered in picking the team and in tactics when Hughton was manager and even when Keegan was there (although apparently Keegan had none of it).

 

I wonder if Barton got this from Remi Garde. He's got a lot of contacts in France now from his time at Marseille.

 

Edit - Sorry, Mirror article not Mail.

 

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/chris-hughton-sacked-newcastle-forced-3344724

Link to post
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
×
×
  • Create New...