Sandro Tonali

[Harry 209]

Any ideas what this means?

[GEFAFWISP]

Coded message to say he's a number 8 not a "6" and football hipsters are wank pheasants I think.

[buzza]

Message to an ex teamate in milan apparently

[Infinitely Content]

1 minute ago, Harry 209 said:

Any ideas what this means?

For his friend playing in Italy, I don't think he said who.

[The College Dropout]

On 16/01/2025 at 23:15, huss9 said:

howe has an eye for a player.

werent exactly competing with anyone for his or Isak's signings. 

Everyone said we overpaid for both.  

[The College Dropout]

He always reminded me of those Italian workhorses that inevitably win the CL, World Cup or something big spending all their career in Italy and you kind of don’t know how good they really are. Ambrosini, Conte, to lesser degree De Rossi and Gattusso. 
 

Lads must’ve been brilliant. 

[wormy]

9 minutes ago, GEFAFWISP said:

Coded message to say he's a number 8 not a "6" and football hipsters are wank pheasants I think.

 

EXCLUSIVE: Sandro Tonali sends cryptic message to Bruno Guimaraes that the 8 on the Tyne is all his, all his. 

[Disco]

15 minutes ago, GEFAFWISP said:

Coded message to say he's a number 8 not a "6" and football hipsters are wank pheasants I think.

Not much a counter if so

 

[Stottie]

Maybe JL7 threatened him for not scoring from the 20 shots he had before that one. fwiw, Isak has 11 more goals than Gordon, from only 14 more shots.

 

Really chuffed for him. He won it back in midfield to start that break and just kept going. What a dynamo.

 

[Ikon]

6 hours ago, Harry 209 said:

Any ideas what this means?

8 

[Ben]

8/1 to score anytime ? 

[Groundhog63]

Wonderful play for the goal. Started by him winning a challenge as well. Almost a 1,2,3 😂😂

[SteV]

Love the Southampton number 26 on the goal. Completely lets him run off him then points for someone to do something about it when he’s about 10 yards clear 😂

[GEFAFWISP]

7 hours ago, Disco said:

Not much a counter if so

 

Cheeky scamp hiding the thumb.

 

He's clearly pleading with the board to sign a #7 and replace Murphy.

[Hanshithispantz]

It's obviously the number for a horse.

[TBG]

Reminds me a lot of myself.

[Heron]

On 16/01/2025 at 23:15, huss9 said:

howe has an eye for a player.

werent exactly competing with anyone for his or Isak's signings. 

And yet folk in the Mitchell thread would have you think otherwise just cause we lost versus Brighton (or whoever)...

[PauloGeordio]

Morning all 🇮🇹 😎

[Menace]

8 hours ago, The College Dropout said:

Everyone said we overpaid for both.  

 

Including you. Pretty sure you were reminding us daily how poor the Hall and Tonali signings were

[nufcjmc]

3 minutes ago, Heron said:

And yet folk in the Mitchell thread would have you think otherwise just cause we lost versus Brighton (or whoever)...

Howe certainly has a good eye for a player obviously not knowing how much input others into identifying them. 

 

Main issue with Howe stems from player loyalty wanting Ritchie and dummet kept, giving new contracts out to Mark Gillespie and extensions to Wilson etc (again no inside info how much that's the board wanting to protect their investment keeping these players), How many chances will willock/longstaff/miggy get/got. 

 

Also thanks to PSR we hoping Mitchell can shop in the cheap gems category while every transfer is a risk Howes best players have come from those around the 40m plus bracket which you would hope is less of a risk not taking anything away from the manager at all. 

[Heron]

9 minutes ago, nufcjmc said:

Howe certainly has a good eye for a player obviously not knowing how much input others into identifying them. 

 

Main issue with Howe stems from player loyalty wanting Ritchie and dummet kept, giving new contracts out to Mark Gillespie and extensions to Wilson etc (again no inside info how much that's the board wanting to protect their investment keeping these players), How many chances will willock/longstaff/miggy get/got. 

 

Also thanks to PSR we hoping Mitchell can shop in the cheap gems category while every transfer is a risk Howes best players have come from those around the 40m plus bracket which you would hope is less of a risk not taking anything away from the manager at all. 

This middle bit is all relative though too. If you cannot get better players in to replace these folk without spending money gambling on improving squad depth from the bottom end not the top then they may have seen that as risks not worth taking.

 

Each and every one of those folk mentioned would have been model pro's and important to have around the club and at training and that's what is irreplaceable. To some degree they'd help other, better players settle in.

 

I honestly think folk just go all in on every element of everything as soon as someone is doing good/bad and it goes from 0 to 100 in terms of opinion (not saying you here btw). Around 15 games ago folk on here and in public would have you believing Howe was a mid-table manager and had ran his course ans that none of the signings were his and all that nonsense. Honestly makes me laugh.

 

Now Isak is comfortably better than Shearer as another example. All just a bit knee-jerk which is inevitable with such passion involved but howay

 

 

Edited Sunday at 08:45 by Heron

[Gallowgate Toon]

Would be interesting to see his distance covered a game. For me, he seems everywhere, but not because he's got an amazing engine (he does) - it's his positioning, reading of situations, and acceleration.

[Erikse]

9 hours ago, Harry 209 said:

Any ideas what this means?

 

A smile?? Only smiles when he thinks about his mate at Milan. Worrying.

 

 

Edited Sunday at 09:07 by Erikse

[PauloGeordio]

14 minutes ago, Erikse said:

 

A smile?? Only smiles when he thinks about his mate at Milan. Worrying.

 

 

 

[nufcjmc]

1 hour ago, Heron said:

This middle bit is all relative though too. If you cannot get better players in to replace these folk without spending money gambling on improving squad depth from the bottom end not the top then they may have seen that as risks not worth taking.

 

Each and every one of those folk mentioned would have been model pro's and important to have around the club and at training and that's what is irreplaceable. To some degree they'd help other, better players settle in.

 

I honestly think folk just go all in on every element of everything as soon as someone is doing good/bad and it goes from 0 to 100 in terms of opinion (not saying you here btw). Around 15 games ago folk on here and in public would have you believing Howe was a mid-table manager and had ran his course ans that none of the signings were his and all that nonsense. Honestly makes me laugh.

 

Now Isak is comfortably better than Shearer as another example. All just a bit knee-jerk which is inevitable with such passion involved but howay

 

 

 

We will have to agree to disagree at this point dummett has joined Carlisle ffs model pro course he was but he took up a squad place and was offering nothing on the pitch likewise at the stage Ritchie was let go reluctantly neither was he. Howe goes on about small group and squad if you instantly have 5 or 6 players who will never realistically play it's not sustainable if you want to be a side fighting on multiple fronts. 

 

The Gillespie lad i will never agree on 10k a week to basically never play be a cone on the practice pitch and be in media stuff is simply not good enough surely a youth keeper would be better placed for that slot. 

 

We have a side with a mix of elite and full internationals on the books not sure what the group of canny lads can offer them especially at this stage of the build ( was essential at the take over as we needed to lean on our experienced players to help unify the team).  While older players can bring leadership we all at least agree we need to be better at moving players on I for one would like the players who don't play and aren't up to it shipped first.