Newcastle Fan Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 So what is he planning to do now? i'm a bit gutted was looking forward to follow whichever team he plays for Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conjo Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 I like HBA, actually. I just don't worship his arse. Weirdo. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
plenum Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 So what is he planning to do now? i'm a bit gutted was looking forward to follow whichever team he plays for Join the Heed for free and take them to Wem-be-ley. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ_NUFC Posted September 5, 2019 Share Posted September 5, 2019 That's amazing I really wish he'd had a role model or a mentor. Watching his early footage and reading up on his troubles, he was the typical outsider kid crying out for a successful role model who understood him. With even one coach who "got" him, he would've worked wonders in this sport (more so than he already has). Too bad we won't be able to watch him play this year. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanj Posted September 5, 2019 Share Posted September 5, 2019 Puel was the only one in recent memory who got him playing for the team and it was that brilliant season they had with Nice Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ_NUFC Posted September 5, 2019 Share Posted September 5, 2019 That's amazing I really wish he'd had a role model or a mentor. Watching his early footage and reading up on his troubles, he was the typical outsider kid crying out for a successful role model who understood him. With even one coach who "got" him, he would've worked wonders in this sport (more so than he already has). Too bad we won't be able to watch him play this year. Yeah I agree, I'm sure I read a quote about his relationship with his dad. Yeahm here: id terrible things during my career, which weren't normal or morally good," he said in a long and open interview with L'Equipe on Monday. "It happened everywhere I went, in Clairefontaine, in Lyon. Since I was very small I've been very impulsive, I fought all the time. "It is true that my father never told me that he loved me. Such generosity has been lacking in my life," Ben Arfa, the son of Tunisian immigrants in France, added. The 24-year-old also reveals that several of his former coaches were afraid of him. "They didn't dare talk to me," he says. "It was like this with coaches and with everyone. It was because of my attitude. When I realised that, I changed. I opened up. I work a lot on this part of my personality because I have to." Holy crap. Makes me want to hug and marry him even more. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lush Vlad Posted September 5, 2019 Share Posted September 5, 2019 Reading that. I’ll just add for the 700th time. He would have been perfect under Robson or Keegan. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanj Posted September 6, 2019 Share Posted September 6, 2019 Sir Bobby would have made him one of the best players in the league because he’d have mentored and looked after him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinho lad Posted September 6, 2019 Share Posted September 6, 2019 Yep, and he would have probably ended up taking the mickey out of him; ala Dyer, Jeans, etc. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted September 6, 2019 Share Posted September 6, 2019 Jeez man, just let this be the three for people who like Ben Arfa FFS. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinho lad Posted September 6, 2019 Share Posted September 6, 2019 I do like Ben Arfa. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyt Posted September 14, 2019 Share Posted September 14, 2019 https://twitter.com/AdamNUFC_/status/1172801626538729472 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infinitely Content Posted September 14, 2019 Share Posted September 14, 2019 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted September 14, 2019 Share Posted September 14, 2019 He was fucking wonderful, like. The perfectly right player and the desperately wrong time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted September 14, 2019 Share Posted September 14, 2019 This. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Away Toon Posted September 15, 2019 Share Posted September 15, 2019 So has he retired? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 10, 2019 Share Posted November 10, 2019 In talks with a return to Nice, and also Nantes. Disappointed Puel hasn’t taken him to St-Etienne. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikon Posted November 10, 2019 Share Posted November 10, 2019 Get him in and play him as a false nine. Not gonna happen I know. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanj Posted November 10, 2019 Share Posted November 10, 2019 HBA and ASM would absolutely embarrass so many defenders. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest godzilla Posted November 10, 2019 Share Posted November 10, 2019 Get him in and play him as a false nine. Not gonna happen I know. Bruce probably dislikes him more than even Pardew . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infinitely Content Posted November 10, 2019 Share Posted November 10, 2019 https://twitter.com/AdamNUFC_/status/1172801626538729472 I think this one of my favourite football related things ever. I doubt I'll ever love a player as much as him - the fact I had the pleasure of watching him live for a few (of his best) seasons makes the mire we've fallen into since worth it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted November 10, 2019 Share Posted November 10, 2019 https://twitter.com/AdamNUFC_/status/1172801626538729472 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEEJ Posted November 10, 2019 Share Posted November 10, 2019 https://twitter.com/AdamNUFC_/status/1172801626538729472 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LV Posted November 10, 2019 Share Posted November 10, 2019 https://twitter.com/AdamNUFC_/status/1172801626538729472 I think this one of my favourite football related things ever. I doubt I'll ever love a player as much as him - the fact I had the pleasure of watching him live for a few (of his best) seasons makes the mire we've fallen into since worth it. Fat though. Doesn’t track back. Rob Elliot doesn’t like him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyne81 Posted November 11, 2019 Share Posted November 11, 2019 He made those bleak Pardew times worthy of a match ticket. Made football fun to watch and was worthy of a place in any of our best teams through the ages. Bit of a stretch but we could have won the league back in "that season" with him there under Keegan. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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