Guest poor Posted July 23, 2019 Share Posted July 23, 2019 we dont even play with a left back Rafa left bro, we have Steve Bruce now. the same rafa who 'only ever plays 4231' funnily enough ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmojorisin75 Posted July 23, 2019 Share Posted July 23, 2019 if bruce has an ounce of sense he watches vids from last season and tries to copy it, changing the 3 CB's would be fucking insanity I like 5-3-2 it has potential. Would Almiron play just off Joelinton in that or advanced in a three? Hayden or similar plus Longstaff and they might stay up. would imagine we'll get the saint-maxim guy now as well with the agent link and lowball fee etc. would possibly be a very good front 3 tbh, if they upgraded LWB we'd have a canny first team potentially Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 23, 2019 Share Posted July 23, 2019 It was weird last season. He didn’t meddle with 3 at the back in pre-season or the first 3rd of the season, then pretty much overnight we went 3 at the back. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted July 23, 2019 Share Posted July 23, 2019 Ain’t a fucking chance any manager has the ability to block deals post Rafa. He may have a say but no way does he have final. Him doing so would directly impact the buy potential sell for higher mantra. If it's Bruce I don't really care tbh. He knew fine well what he was signing up for, now he should show his mettle and get on with coaching whoever the scouting team throw at him. As long as they are of sufficient quality, he should do fine. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest poor Posted July 23, 2019 Share Posted July 23, 2019 think it was brilliant really. especially when so many insisted he could only manage and play one way happy(ish) times Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmojorisin75 Posted July 23, 2019 Share Posted July 23, 2019 It was weird last season. He didn’t meddle with 3 at the back in pre-season or the first 3rd of the season, then pretty much overnight we went 3 at the back. did he not play it to match someone else's system at the start of the season then stick with it? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
themanupstairs Posted July 23, 2019 Share Posted July 23, 2019 Would be good to get Acquah fresh from his release from his old club Afiriye transfer you say? Typical Ashley signing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest poor Posted July 23, 2019 Share Posted July 23, 2019 It was weird last season. He didn’t meddle with 3 at the back in pre-season or the first 3rd of the season, then pretty much overnight we went 3 at the back. did he not play it to match someone else's system at the start of the season then stick with it? he had used 5 at the back in some of his most defensive games against the likes of man citeh and others. was it not just adapted from that ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest poor Posted July 23, 2019 Share Posted July 23, 2019 we are on page 352 by the way. spooky stuff Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmojorisin75 Posted July 23, 2019 Share Posted July 23, 2019 It was weird last season. He didn’t meddle with 3 at the back in pre-season or the first 3rd of the season, then pretty much overnight we went 3 at the back. did he not play it to match someone else's system at the start of the season then stick with it? he had used 5 at the back in some of his most defensive games against the likes of man citeh and others. was it not just adapted from that ? was the chelsea game i think, so not to match them but to negate them aye Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanj Posted July 23, 2019 Share Posted July 23, 2019 Jamaal said after the West Ham friendly that we switched to a 3 at the back which suited the team and players much better. I have to assume the players told Bruce this or Bruce was informed of such if he wasn't paying attention to our better performances. But instead of that 5-2-3 / 3-4-3 whatever it was they played a more 5-3-2 with 2 out and out strikers in the friendl Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
toontownman Posted July 23, 2019 Share Posted July 23, 2019 Linked to Marrony, 20 year old Brazilian playing for Vasco da Gama, 31m release clause, listed market value 2m on transfermarkt! 1.75m bid? https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2019/07/23/do-report-newcastle-could-bid-for-vasco-da-gama-striker-marrony/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdckelly Posted July 23, 2019 Share Posted July 23, 2019 Still seems to go with wing-backs though. Thought he was a old fashioned back 4 guy. definitely used 352 at Hull Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
toon25 Posted July 23, 2019 Share Posted July 23, 2019 Fancy spunking all this cash for a team to be managed by Steve fucking Bruce, man :lol: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdm Posted July 23, 2019 Share Posted July 23, 2019 Linked to Marrony, 20 year old Brazilian playing for Vasco da Gama, 31m release clause, listed market value 2m on transfermarkt! 1.75m bid? https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2019/07/23/do-report-newcastle-could-bid-for-vasco-da-gama-striker-marrony/ Have you seen the chronicle live blog. Story about this with his picture and the caption is something like ‘Marrony struggles for the ball’ Sounds class well done chronicle Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chopey Posted July 23, 2019 Share Posted July 23, 2019 I think we'll sign a few more but have a feeling at least one will be sold to pay for it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdm Posted July 23, 2019 Share Posted July 23, 2019 I think we'll sign a few more but have a feeling at least one will be sold to pay for it. The other signings will be cheap, free or loans. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe_F Posted July 23, 2019 Share Posted July 23, 2019 Linked to Marrony, 20 year old Brazilian playing for Vasco da Gama, 31m release clause, listed market value 2m on transfermarkt! 1.75m bid? https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2019/07/23/do-report-newcastle-could-bid-for-vasco-da-gama-striker-marrony/ Bloke on Sky's Transfer Show just said one of the intermediary's in the Joelinton sale told him we're in talks with this lad. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted July 23, 2019 Share Posted July 23, 2019 Must have a snide EU passport. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Howaythetoon Posted July 23, 2019 Share Posted July 23, 2019 Must have a snide EU passport. Still took the club since Jan to knock the cunt up for him, Ashley wouldn’t pay the black market going rate. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
toontownman Posted July 23, 2019 Share Posted July 23, 2019 Linked to Marrony, 20 year old Brazilian playing for Vasco da Gama, 31m release clause, listed market value 2m on transfermarkt! 1.75m bid? https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2019/07/23/do-report-newcastle-could-bid-for-vasco-da-gama-striker-marrony/ Bloke on Sky's Transfer Show just said one of the intermediary's in the Joelinton sale told him we're in talks with this lad. 10 first team games and 1 assist. We will be blasting them in. Surprised they don't want 50m for him to be honest. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chopey Posted July 23, 2019 Share Posted July 23, 2019 <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Look who’s liking <a href=" NUFC[/member]</a> posts...<br><br>Allan Saint-Maximin ? <a href="https://t.co/PuVKzfLNb3">pic.twitter.com/PuVKzfLNb3</a></p>— DannyBrown1988 (@Brown1988Danny) <a href="https://twitter.com/Brown1988Danny/status/1153747940445478915?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 23, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collage Posted July 23, 2019 Share Posted July 23, 2019 I’ve done some Dennis Wise scouting. Saint-Maximin seems to be a more athletic Ben Arfa without the end product. Pretty exciting to watch. Him and Almiron alongside Joelinton would be fun to watch, potentially. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.Spaceman Posted July 23, 2019 Share Posted July 23, 2019 His end product looks turgid. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collage Posted July 23, 2019 Share Posted July 23, 2019 His end product looks turgid. Judging from one YouTube video; Yep, pretty much. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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