xLiaaamx Posted September 1, 2017 Share Posted September 1, 2017 Uhuh, are we sure this guy is as clued in as he claims to be? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
U2 Posted September 1, 2017 Share Posted September 1, 2017 Rafael Benítez open to job offers amid anger over Newcastle transfers https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/sep/01/rafael-benitez-job-offers-newcastle-mike-ashley-west-ham Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ndegwa Posted September 1, 2017 Share Posted September 1, 2017 https://twitter.com/CaulkinTheTimes/status/903481810306252800 Good thread from Caulkin this morning http://i.imgur.com/xP9P23H.png Who are these muppets, man?! Ahh I forget that Aarons is great at staying fit and Lejeune definitely isn't injured Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted September 1, 2017 Share Posted September 1, 2017 They're the minority (that I've seen) thankfully. I expected a lot more people like that banging on about negativity tbh. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted September 1, 2017 Share Posted September 1, 2017 Rafael Benítez open to job offers amid anger over Newcastle transfers https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/sep/01/rafael-benitez-job-offers-newcastle-mike-ashley-west-ham I think he'll stay until next summer. I think he's irritated and annoyed but will work with what he's got. Next summer though, he'll wants a fuckload more money and rightly so. The fees that are floating around the Premier League this summer are the fees we should be able to spend (not the ridiculous amounts but the £20-30m bracket) after a year being on the Premier League gravy train. If he doesn't get that, then he'll definitely be off. Tend to agree, but this summer will have confirmed to him that January wasn't a blip and they can't be trusted. Reckon he'll be open to discreet discussions with other clubs as of next week, where previously he'd have been completely focused on his future with us. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foluwashola Posted September 1, 2017 Share Posted September 1, 2017 That lass knows fuck All, but Still, desperate to see. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sempuki Posted September 1, 2017 Share Posted September 1, 2017 Mackem cow loving it: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBG Posted September 1, 2017 Share Posted September 1, 2017 It's hard to take that article serious when it says: no longer believes it will be possible to fulfil his ambitions of leading the team back into the Champions League under Ashley’s administration, without a fit specialist left back. Aye having no left back is the reason we'll not qualify for the Champions League. Nowt to do with being a newly promoted side still with a championship squad, oh and it was never our goal in the first place. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
henke Posted September 1, 2017 Share Posted September 1, 2017 H'way Rafa, put us out of our fucking misery. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted September 1, 2017 Share Posted September 1, 2017 It's hard to take that article serious when it says: no longer believes it will be possible to fulfil his ambitions of leading the team back into the Champions League under Ashley’s administration, without a fit specialist left back. Aye having no left back is the reason we'll not qualify for the Champions League. Nowt to do with being a newly promoted side still with a championship squad, oh and it was never our goal in the first place. That's just poor writing tbf. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueStar Posted September 1, 2017 Share Posted September 1, 2017 Slow motion car crash, innit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ketsbaia Posted September 1, 2017 Share Posted September 1, 2017 West Ham's next games: Huddersfield (H) West Brom (A) Spurs (H) Swansea (H) Burnley (A) Brighton (H) Crystal Palace (A) Phew! Although Rafa's advisers could say certain things, then Bilic gets sacked after a win.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foluwashola Posted September 1, 2017 Share Posted September 1, 2017 If West Ham had any sense they'd sort it out during this break. Thankfully they're mad cunts. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happinesstan Posted September 1, 2017 Share Posted September 1, 2017 It's hard to take that article serious when it says: no longer believes it will be possible to fulfil his ambitions of leading the team back into the Champions League under Ashley’s administration, without a fit specialist left back. Aye having no left back is the reason we'll not qualify for the Champions League. Nowt to do with being a newly promoted side still with a championship squad, oh and it was never our goal in the first place. I totally agree with you, but it got me thinking about just how realistic would our chances have been. I'm sure Rafa was (still is) intent on being the best we can be. IF we had got a quality LB in that would have been every position covered with no stand-out weaknesses. We'd obviously expect some injuries throughout the season, but with Rafa's squad management/rotation, and all-round general organisation, we could cover quite competently, and probably make a decent season of it. A few strokes of luck and who knows, a couple of bad runs for the top clubs and we could be there or there abouts. Fuck sake Pards went into the last 2 games with a chance of Champions league. Obviously bad runs for top teams happen less often than Halley's comet, these days, whilst an eclipse is pretty much guaranteed every other year. But if you're wearing your shades when Halley goes by, you'll miss the opportunity of a lifetime. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sho Time Posted September 1, 2017 Share Posted September 1, 2017 It's hard to take that article serious when it says: no longer believes it will be possible to fulfil his ambitions of leading the team back into the Champions League under Ashley’s administration, without a fit specialist left back. Aye having no left back is the reason we'll not qualify for the Champions League. Nowt to do with being a newly promoted side still with a championship squad, oh and it was never our goal in the first place. A few strokes of luck and who knows, a couple of bad runs for the top clubs and we could be there or there abouts. Fuck sake Pards went into the last 2 games with a chance of Champions league. Teams have pushed on since then, we have declined since then. The aim was never CL, in fact there was no aim. Rafa said we would take things one game at a time and see what happens. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiresias Posted September 1, 2017 Share Posted September 1, 2017 He's as good as gone, no chance he'll want to spend any more time than he has to being humiliated and lied to scrabbling for survival at the bottom of a league Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiseman Posted September 1, 2017 Share Posted September 1, 2017 I don't think its all doom and gloom with the lack of late window signings, but I can't help but think that if we are struggling at the bottom end of the table come January that Mike will then open the purse strings up and do a heap of signings to try and turn the season around and avoid the drop again when it should've been at the start ofthe season to set us up for a good year. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paully Posted September 1, 2017 Share Posted September 1, 2017 The one journo I 100% believe about Rafa..... http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/newcastle-united-rafa-benitez-future-transfer-news-deadline-day-a7924326.html?amp Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stottie Posted September 1, 2017 Share Posted September 1, 2017 Benitez has been consistently undermined to the point where it would understandable for him to actively look elsewhere. If this is now the case, what I don't understand is why he would break the exclusive to Louise Taylor. I need to hear it from someone else first. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted September 1, 2017 Share Posted September 1, 2017 It is for another time whether the club has learned anything since but it does believe there is currently a major discrepancy in the figures that have emerged since the window closed. They insist more than £40 million has been spent on the six players Newcastle have signed this summer and that the initial incoming figures for their two major sales, Florian Thauvin to Marseille (£10 million) and Lewis Gibson to Everton (£6 million) will be a fraction of the actual total. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Altamullan Posted September 1, 2017 Share Posted September 1, 2017 The one journo I 100% believe about Rafa..... http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/newcastle-united-rafa-benitez-future-transfer-news-deadline-day-a7924326.html?amp Reassuring. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paully Posted September 1, 2017 Share Posted September 1, 2017 It is for another time whether the club has learned anything since but it does believe there is currently a major discrepancy in the figures that have emerged since the window closed. They insist more than £40 million has been spent on the six players Newcastle have signed this summer and that the initial incoming figures for their two major sales, Florian Thauvin to Marseille (£10 million) and Lewis Gibson to Everton (£6 million) will be a fraction of the actual total. Yep - it's their continued idiotic policy to pay for all outgoing transfers up-front so they have no right to use it as an excuse! Stupid bastards! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
U2 Posted September 1, 2017 Share Posted September 1, 2017 It is for another time whether the club has learned anything since but it does believe there is currently a major discrepancy in the figures that have emerged since the window closed. They insist more than £40 million has been spent on the six players Newcastle have signed this summer and that the initial incoming figures for their two major sales, Florian Thauvin to Marseille (£10 million) and Lewis Gibson to Everton (£6 million) will be a fraction of the actual total. They just ignoring the profits from last summer? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fenham Mag Posted September 1, 2017 Share Posted September 1, 2017 Speaking after the meeting, Mike Ashley said: “I’ve confirmed to Rafa and Lee that they can have every last penny that the club generates through promotion, player sales and other means in order to build for next season.” Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted September 1, 2017 Share Posted September 1, 2017 It's so much easier if you just approach the whole thing with the presumption that absolutely everything, no matter how big or small, is a lie. They know they can get away with it because they hold the power, even after Keegan won his case, it didn't change anything about the way that they operate. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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