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Anorthernsoul and his mates there. Saturday itinerary, moan at Greggs, hate immigrants then have a few pints and whinge about the best manager we have had since Bobby

That’s it. Who’s better than Rafa that’s ready to step in. We finished tenth last season, it was a fucking miracle.

The focus of every fans ire should be the owner. Rafa is the best asset the club has by a fucking mile and he’s being chased purely because he’s not a yes man who can be easily bullied and actually has integrity.

Putting Rondon & Atsu on together around 50 mins wouldn't have been a bad idea. There again I haven't won the European Cup Did Rafa really want this stay in the cup?... probably not. Probably doesn't want a relegation on his CV. But at the end of the day that, indisputably all of this utter fuckin train wreck, is down to Ashley.

It wasn't a case of selling either Mitro or Joselu though. I'm sure if he could he'd have flogged them both and signed replacements he would of. In fact people should be fucking fuming that Mitro was sold and no replacement was signed. It was on the cards for two or three windows that it wasn't working out. Not out of the blue.

Pretty much. In the transfer market he works without any idea what his budget actually is (just let that sink in for a manager of any caliber, let alone one who has won things), works with a MD who struggles to sign players with release clauses by trying to pay in instalments (Lejeune) and apparently fee's over a certain amount have to be approved by Ashley or some bloke who may or may not be employed by the club to oversee takeovers. It's a shit show. There's roadblock after roadblock after roadblock put in his way. That's not to say he can't drop a bollock himself, but it's way down on the list of problems the club has.

I'd never heard of this lad, for obvious reasons since hes a 20 year old league 1 striker until a couple of weeks ago when he appeard in an article the Sports Prospects of 2019 for the football section there he was alongside Frenkie De Jong and Jadon Sancho. Oh, louise taylor wrote it btw.

FYP

Which is basically nothing in premier league terms. Despite some wearside tramps that like to highlight those fees as astronomical

Yup, we haven't had the benefit of last year's version of Kenedy. They bought Murphy because he likely was the cheapest Englishman available to fill the quota. At least that's what I want to believe because he's not a Premiership level player.

PARKLIFE.

Pretty sure he's also not allowed to sign players over the age of 28 too, if you can get your head around that

Did you see what happened as soon as we started attacking Man Utd after conceding? We got picked straight off and conceded another. Of course if he was playing 2 up front all the time and we were getting hit for 4 or 5 as a consequence that would be his fault too. No system will make that shower outperform better players, and if there is one Benitez would probably already know about it.

It’s hard to get decent strikers when they’re about your 8th choice and you’ve got £6m to spend. Joselu is shit but the manager is working absolute wonders with the shite at his disposal.

Just delete the former option.

It’s a disgrace that Rafa persists with one up top given the embarrassment of riches he has to work with.

At the end of the day Rafa has to start taking some of the blame for results aswell, for the most part this season his system is clearly not working in home games yet he persists with 1 up front regardless, it does not work for the team but he's too stubborn to budge. We're playing a Championship side at home and he's playing Joselu up front by himself. It's fucking ridiculous lads.

I use a couple of Apps on my phone now for games, haven't watched a stream in a couple of seasons now.

3 goals for The Hoss in a comfortable 4 v 0 win

Listening to Garth Crooks talk about football is like listening to Katie Price talk about astrophysics, absolutely fucking pointless.

I watched it in the 90s when it was an FMV game

Caulkin Interview with Mogga.. almost drew a tear... https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/tony-mowbray-i-worry-about-the-next-generation-of-players-on-their-playstations-0jcnwdrgg?shareToken=5111464ca51e54fba50fbf5614a0ed69

It’s hard to tell if it’s filmed as a comedy or they are both just totally stupid but it made me laugh either way