Polarboy

🙄 Moved on to a non sequitur I see. The Cabbage is Stephen Hawking in football terms compared to you mate.

That's a pretty solid team given what we have to choose from in the squad. Murphy and Almiron will graft when we're out of possession, and have the pace to trouble teams in attack. Of course both their ends products are patchy, but if they can even just get it to either ASM or Wilson consistently in the oppositions half, we'll be doing a hell of a lot better than we are at present.

Reading an article about Emery taking through Willock into the first 11 when he was at Arsenal. If Emery can get Willock back to playing like he did last season it would obviously be a big bonus. https://www.shieldsgazette.com/sport/football/newcastle-united/this-is-why-the-arrival-of-unai-emery-at-newcastle-united-could-be-excellent-news-for-joe-willock-3441742

Nah it's the pitch they play on 😉

Skirmish? Get a life man. Wilson easily outdoes Maupay in goal contributions when on the pitch over both their histories in the league, it's as simple as that. Just to explain that for you one last time, Wilson has a better record having played less games over a season, over multiple seasons. Do you even have a notion of what xG is?

🤨 Ah yeah. The point is that Maupay has never got close to the 14 goals and 10 assists in 30 games Wilson got two seasons back. Maupay scored 8 goals and made 3 assists last season, and scored 10 goals and three assists the season before that. So yes, if a striker is making more goals contributions when on the pitch that is significant. Wilson is clearly a better player.

I don't have to do anything I don't want to 😉🤣

It's brave of Emery to go straight into the dugout for Saturday's game if some of the reports are to be believed. Given how little time he'll have with the players, a lot of managers would have watched from the stands and took over the reigns on the Monday. Obviously it would be a dream scenario for him to come in and get three points before the international break. It could set us up nicely with the teams around us having some tough games.

Maupay is decent, but he's a 1 in 3 striker. Wilson has proven himself to be 1 in 2 when fit, and has 4 in 6 this season. Maupay has never got past 10 in the league, and doesn't offer the same assist ability as Wilson. So yeah Maupay has a better injury record, but that's all he has over Wilson.

Of the people we could conceivably get at present, I'd have perhaps edged Potter over Emery. I know it sounds a bit daft when you consider Emery has won 4 Europa leagues, but Potter does really seem to be the next up and coming manager. Potter obviously knows the league, is a very competent coach, improves average players, and gets his teams playing some great stuff. I mean if you look at Brighton's squad it's far more balanced, but apart from Lamptey and that new lad in midfield they don't have people on the level of ASM, Wilson, and Willock when he isn't carrying an injury, yet he's getting a great tune out of his squad. The argument may be that Emery could attract a higher calibre of player, but Potter does have a growing reputation, and money talks at the end of the day. Having said all this I'm more than willing to give Emery a go given his CV.

I wouldn't say a lot comparatively, but they are injuries to crucial players like Calvert-Lewin, Doucoure, Andre Gomes, and to a lesser extent than them, Mina. The amount of money they've spent on their squad they should be able to absorb those loses more easily, but they've spunked literally hundreds of millions almost entirely up a wall.

By the sounds of how little of a fuck the Everton players seem to have, it seems Rafa really could be looking for a job pretty soon. Although I'd imagine the Everton owners will be a bit more patient than Levy, by which time we will hopefully have a manager. Mind you if Everton get a hammered tonight, and again on Saturday against Spurs, then there's a pretty real, albeit small, prospect that he'll be let go.

Burnley, Watford and Leeds aren't much cop this season either. Even Villa have been pretty shocking compared to last season. Villa will likely pull clear, but Leeds seem to be experiencing second season syndrome.

Hopefully this really shitty version of managerial music chairs will be over by the end of next weekend/Monday at the latest.

What they want and what is achievable, given the mess Ashley left the club in, are two entirely different things. Top managers are like some top surgeon's, they don't want to take too much risk and end up with a dead body on their table and record. The equivalent for a manager of course is a relegation. It's unfortunate, but as a manager you're pretty much as good as your last job.

Obviously it's highly unlikely to happen given the present form of each team, and also a patently obvious thing to say given our position, but fuck could we do with three points against Brighton. With Watford away to Arsenal, Burnley away to Chelsea. Norwich away to Brentford, and Southampton and Villa playing each other, it would be the perfect time to make up some ground. Of course it's far more likely we'll get a similar tonking to the last one we got off Brighton.

😂 We've got another old new favourite.

Yeah there's been more favourites than a box of Quality Street laced with literal crack.

https://twitter.com/berger_pj/status/1455130366340173827?s=20

According to Romano Conte worked with Spurs' Italian DOF at Juventus some years back, so that likely explains the speed at which that appointment seems to be happening, and why Conte is seemingly so willing to accept. He might get a rude awakening when he has to deal with Levy.

😄 Yeah, might be alright. I'd completely forgotten he was still at Villarreal when I was listing out the names. He might be easy enough to get out of his contract though.

This season is literally just about survival at this point. If we can get in an experienced, competent manager it doesn't matter what their style is. Football purity will do us no good if we get relegated and it puts back the rebuild project years. As for Mourinho if I didn't know better I'd presume he'd gone senile the way he's acted the last five years or so. Edit. It should also be said that the next manager we get will likely only be here for about a season and a half, maybe a bit more, before we bring in an elite manager with the club stabilised, a few players added, and we're a much more enticing prospect.

If Luke Edwards is right, which seems unlikely in fairness, the club are looking for someone who's out of work and who has experience of working in the league. That Leaves you with Emery, Martinez, Lampard, Howe, Terry, and now Nuno, at least of the people who've been seriously mentioned so far. I suppose there's an outside chance of Rafa if they get a spanking off a managerless Spurs at the weekend. Terry seems unlikely given he literally has zero experience as a number 1. I'd take either Emery or Nuno, but obviously the ideal scenario is for Everton to get tonked 7-0 at Goodison, and for the Everton board to get an itchy trigger finger with the Everton fans at the ready with pigs blood and a horse head to create an effigy of some sort.

If we're struggling to get our top targets I'd be more than happy for Nuno to get it. I mean if it were a choice between him and Martinez it's no contest. Nuno was unfortunate in the mess he inherited with the Kane situation, and Spurs didn't really do any big business, for a club of their size, in the transfer market this past summer. And obviously Nuno knows what it's like to be in the bottom half of the table. Although I don't place as much importance on the aforementioned as some. Some pundits would have you believe that it would be better to get Fat Sam over a highly experienced and highly rated European coach, just because he has a record of managing shit teams.