Gejon

Lets loan him in 4-5 years then

23 years old and still very much a fringe player kind of tells me he isn't anything that special. I know he has had a lot of quality in front of him but he hasn't done it at a lot of clubs! I would be suprised if Arsenal wouldn't let him go permanently with Henry, RVP, Walcott, Baptista, Adebayor all likely to be ahead of him, i know some of them can play in midfield but with the midfielders they already have I doubt he will ever see much game time.

If we are to get a centre back I would rather not loan a youngster to give him experience, we have enough of those here already. A left back I would certainly take though. Not sure on Aliadiere either, as said he has looked pretty bad at previous clubs he has been at!

Can't gamble with that idea again can we!?

The less chairman know about football the better surely? Not when it comes to appointing a new manager.

Just me or are they wanking a little too furiously over Henrys goal!? Was a good goal like but will get nowhere near goal of the season given some of the recent crackers! The comment "it takes something special to beat Friedel from there" was stupid aswell, he was in the 18 yard box wasnt he!? If you were just listening to it you would think he was 40 yards out!!

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Shouldnt be drinking at 14 years old anyway!

Sorry where did I say chairmen should have more knowledge than fans or are you making things up again? I may be wrong but it seems to me you are suggesting it doesnt really matter if the chairman has little knowledge of football because they have the money to be where they are. Quite worrying!

But he's young ( ) and English which means he's worth twice what he would be if he came from France or somewhere like that. I know but £8m! thats mental Poor Milner must be the only bloody young and english player whose value isn't doubled!

£8m! Whenever I have seen him he hasn't looked that special tbh!

"nah I can't hit ya, its wrong to hit a bloke"

Believe it or not - they all have "plans". Dalglish had a plan, Gullit had a plan, Robson had a plan, even Souness had a plan. Every manager at every club has a "plan". Its just that only 2 of them have plans that result in trophies. So what is your criteria for appointing a manager who has a "plan" that will guarantee one of those 2 trophies ? Or get into europe ? Wait a moment, we have had managers who had this "plan". Dalglish, Gullit, Robson all had good results [and trophies] at other clubs, beating big teams, as a result of a "plan". In fact, so did Souness. Jesus wept tbh!

getting too americanised tbh, all that OC you have been watching no doubt!

I would appoint a manager who knows who to plan, build a team and get results against big teams. Someone like Big Sam would be on my list. There is no-one who would definitely get us a trophy (although I never said there was but as usual you are claiming someone said something they clearly didn't) but there are managers who we really should avoid (like Souness).

Whenever I criticise or make a little joke about Crouch he fekin scores! Make sure you get in a few digs about Martins and Sibierski before tomorrow

We did ........ It really makes me laugh the amount of people who think that NUFC for some reason have a divine right to always play in europe.....take a look 12 miles down the road and there you will see what a shit board of directors really is, because they could quite easily be where we are and vice versa The amount of money we have spent suggests we should be doing better than we are tbh! and your foolproof method of selecting one of the 2 managers who will win the FA Cup or the title is what exactly ? EDIT. While you are at it, you can tell us why we didn't spend big money prior to 1992, and sold our best players instead ? Didn't say we should win either tbh but I WOULDN'T have appointed Souness and I doubt many would! Well, Rangers, Liverpool, Southampton, Blackburn and a couple of foreign shit clubs have done. Likewise plenty of other clubs have appointed shit managers, because there are plenty around. 88 or so to be precise, as this is the number of clubs who have not matched the amount of times we have qualified for europe in the last decade, under different managers. Because Souness clearly looked the man to take over and no-one thought it was destined to be a stupid appointment? aye nobody is defending the appointment of Souness, however what about the other 8.5 years ???? Anyway, you still don't tell us your foolproof method of making sure you get one of those 2 managers who win a cup ? And plenty of people backed Souness to build his team, and some of his signings big style, notably Luque and Boumsong, and his sales ie Bellamy and Robert. People got behind the signing because he was here now and there was not much else you could do. He was still a shocking appointment that set us back massively! People (including fans of other clubs) were amazed we appointed him and the board have to take the blame for a fuck up of huge proportions that has left us where we are today! and the other 8 and a half years ? And your criteria for appointing managers is ? Plenty of people didn't back him "just because he was here". I didn't for one. However, we were told that he WOULD get it right, not that it was HOPED he would get it right. Plenty of people also told us how great Boumsong and Luque were. And how much better off we would be without Bellamy. The amazing thing is people backed a shitbag who didn't give a toss about anyone but himself and his ego, never mind his job, yet they slag off the board who despite their faults have been very good for this football club during the time they have been in charge. I have said this before, their time may be up, they may have gone as far as they can, but they have done a good job, and there is absolutely no guarantee any replacments would be better, in fact as there are only 4 clubs that have done better than us its a pretty tall order to go higher and the odds would be very much the other way. Don't appoint a manager currently taking his club down and is strongly rumoured to be getting the boot.

We did ........ It really makes me laugh the amount of people who think that NUFC for some reason have a divine right to always play in europe.....take a look 12 miles down the road and there you will see what a shit board of directors really is, because they could quite easily be where we are and vice versa The amount of money we have spent suggests we should be doing better than we are tbh! and your foolproof method of selecting one of the 2 managers who will win the FA Cup or the title is what exactly ? EDIT. While you are at it, you can tell us why we didn't spend big money prior to 1992, and sold our best players instead ? Didn't say we should win either tbh but I WOULDN'T have appointed Souness and I doubt many would! Well, Rangers, Liverpool, Southampton, Blackburn and a couple of foreign shit clubs have done. Likewise plenty of other clubs have appointed shit managers, because there are plenty around. 88 or so to be precise, as this is the number of clubs who have not matched the amount of times we have qualified for europe in the last decade, under different managers. Because Souness clearly looked the man to take over and no-one thought it was destined to be a stupid appointment? aye nobody is defending the appointment of Souness, however what about the other 8.5 years ???? Anyway, you still don't tell us your foolproof method of making sure you get one of those 2 managers who win a cup ? And plenty of people backed Souness to build his team, and some of his signings big style, notably Luque and Boumsong, and his sales ie Bellamy and Robert. People got behind the signing because he was here now and there was not much else you could do. He was still a shocking appointment that set us back massively! People (including fans of other clubs) were amazed we appointed him and the board have to take the blame for a fuck up of huge proportions that has left us where we are today!

People say Dyer is a midfielder playing in an attacking role but to me he has looked better as an attacker than a midfielder. We do need and attacker and defenders but we currently have no-one at the club (imo) who can do a good job at left back (we have youngsters who can defend but offer little going in the other half). With a good attacking full back on either side we would create more.

she was a twat wasn't she!

We did ........ It really makes me laugh the amount of people who think that NUFC for some reason have a divine right to always play in europe.....take a look 12 miles down the road and there you will see what a shit board of directors really is, because they could quite easily be where we are and vice versa The amount of money we have spent suggests we should be doing better than we are tbh! and your foolproof method of selecting one of the 2 managers who will win the FA Cup or the title is what exactly ? EDIT. While you are at it, you can tell us why we didn't spend big money prior to 1992, and sold our best players instead ? Didn't say we should win either tbh but I WOULDN'T have appointed Souness and I doubt many would! Well, Rangers, Liverpool, Southampton, Blackburn and a couple of foreign shit clubs have done. Likewise plenty of other clubs have appointed shit managers, because there are plenty around. 88 or so to be precise, as this is the number of clubs who have not matched the amount of times we have qualified for europe in the last decade, under different managers. Because Souness clearly looked the man to take over and no-one thought it was destined to be a stupid appointment? aye

We did ........ It really makes me laugh the amount of people who think that NUFC for some reason have a divine right to always play in europe.....take a look 12 miles down the road and there you will see what a shit board of directors really is, because they could quite easily be where we are and vice versa The amount of money we have spent suggests we should be doing better than we are tbh! and your foolproof method of selecting one of the 2 managers who will win the FA Cup or the title is what exactly ? EDIT. While you are at it, you can tell us why we didn't spend big money prior to 1992, and sold our best players instead ? Didn't say we should win either tbh but I WOULDN'T have appointed Souness and I doubt many would!

We did ........ It really makes me laugh the amount of people who think that NUFC for some reason have a divine right to always play in europe.....take a look 12 miles down the road and there you will see what a shit board of directors really is, because they could quite easily be where we are and vice versa The amount of money we have spent suggests we should be doing better than we are tbh!

Probably the note in the paper thread at its peak. meh? Check the Gold section. Don't think it was that though Wow that was alway the way back in April