Raconteur Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 :'( This. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shearergol Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 He's the only thing I've liked about this club for the last 8 years. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEEJ Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 Couldn't do it in the Prem. Accept - move on. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 Couldn't do it in the Prem. Accept - move on. I honestly don't think he's fishing like. Or at least that's what he genuinely thinks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fenham Mag Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 Losing him was worse than relegation. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanshithispantz Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 It is pretty hillarious like considering he did do it in the Prem, hense why nobody with their tounge removed from Pardew's arsehole is in any way surprised he's tearing up the French leagues. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanshithispantz Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 http://www.themag.co.uk/2016/04/statistics-lies-hatem-ben-arfa-newcastle-united/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hughesy Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 This is the most telling part of that: "Over the course of the 4495 minutes, it works out at a goal or assist every 179.8 minutes, which is basically a goal or assist every two PL matches." In what world could we, of all teams, ever have deemed this to not be good enough? Absolutely baffling. And this includes minutes where Pardew would bring him on and hope for a bit of magic. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shak Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 http://www.themag.co.uk/2016/04/statistics-lies-hatem-ben-arfa-newcastle-united/ Anybody who didn't rate Ben Arfa is unlikely to be literate tbh, so articles like this achieve nothing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lush Vlad Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 I love how people keep using his time at Hull City, to back up their flawed argument. "Yes but why was he crap, when he was playing for a crap team and a crap manager, who went on to get relegated." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEMTEX Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 Couldn't do it in the Prem. Accept - move on. I honestly don't think he's fishing like. Or at least that's what he genuinely thinks. I mean, he's finishing, he always is, but it's genuinely his opinion. Repulsive from all angles. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanshithispantz Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 "Tony Taylor: French league is crap and you can get away with being greedy. Explain why he failed at Hull City please." We've been clamped, lads. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 "Tony Taylor: French league is crap and you can get away with being greedy. Explain why he failed at Hull City please." We've been clamped, lads. Of course I had to bite and reply didn't I? I dunno why I keep making this mistake. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pata Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 Good lord, some of those comments are still coming Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wullie Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 French league is so crap we keep buying worse players from it to replace him. Sensible transfer policy see? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 Class front page on L'Equipe. Mapou made the team of the week as well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wullie Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 I really don't understand why some people follow football. They didn't like Ben Arfa, they didn't like Robert. I don't know what they're hoping to see when they buy a very expensive ticket to watch elite sport. It's like some of them expect and want the quality to be worse, the higher up the pyramid they go. "That exceptional dribbling ability and fantastic finishing might wash in the poxy French league but it's no match for passing it safe back to the centre half that I'm paying £45 to watch at Newcastle." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andymc1 Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 I really don't understand why some people follow football. They didn't like Ben Arfa, they didn't like Robert. I don't know what they're hoping to see when they buy a very expensive ticket to watch elite sport. It's like some of them expect and want the quality to be worse, the higher up the pyramid they go. "That exceptional dribbling ability and fantastic finishing might wash in the poxy French league but it's no match for passing it safe back to the centre half that I'm paying £45 to watch at Newcastle." Absolutely spot on. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattoon Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 We're 19th in the league and struggling for goals, meanwhile he's tearing players a new arsehole and scoring for fun because someone knows how to use him. How is this even a topic for debate? Smh. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Crooks Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 I wonder if Shelvey is going to get similar criticism despite having the same issues defensively and apparent similar temprement? I think not. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shak Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 The people who took Pardew's side and wrote Ben Arfa of as "selfish and lazy" are just in too deep at this point. They're not going to come out and say "Yeah, I guess I'm just an idiot who knows nothing about football." He could go to Atletico Madrid in the summer and score 15 goals and be one of the best players in the Champions League and they'd still try and justify their shit opinions. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 It really is as simple as skillful=lazy with a lot of these people imo. They have severe learning difficulties. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shak Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 I wonder if Shelvey is going to get similar criticism despite having the same issues defensively and apparent similar temprement? I think not. Big, inbred looking Englishman like Shelvey? Lazy? Impossible marra. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEMTEX Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 French league is shit anyone who performs there is a cunt. Meanwhile: we've been shit ever since we let Frenchman Yohan Cabaye leave, the player we signed from France, who left NUFC to go sit on the bench of a French team Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 The bottom line in all of it is that every argument on our side should just be to use your eyes. It's shit that we even have to back it up with stats and examples when it's so fucking mind-numbingly obvious to anyone who even has the remotest idea about football. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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