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  On 27/01/2025 at 16:22, The Fish said:

 

That kind of switch, shifting Owen back a bit, or when Robson told Shearer to stop showing defenders his back and run at them instead, I think that's more the man management side of things. And Keegan was an absolute genius at that. 

 

Howe was absolutely done by Iraola, but that was as much down to the squad having a poor game as it was Iraola's wits and Howe's short comings (which he undoubtedly has).

 

I am surprised Keegan hasn't been involved much since the takeover. I would have expected some kind of dog and pony show.

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I just think he's quite happy to stay out of the limelight and wrongly thinks he ultimately failed up here. Sky's never ending 'love it'  video and the wrong interpretation of it through the years since has a lot to answer for and has clouded his reputation by people who were in nappies at the time or not even born and haven't got a fucking clue. To me and and the NUFC fans who watched it at the time with me it was a rallying call and if he'd demanded it we'd have marched on Old Trafford there and then! :lol:

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  On 27/01/2025 at 16:22, The Fish said:

 

That kind of switch, shifting Owen back a bit, or when Robson told Shearer to stop showing defenders his back and run at them instead, I think that's more the man management side of things. And Keegan was an absolute genius at that. 

 

Howe was absolutely done by Iraola, but that was as much down to the squad having a poor game as it was Iraola's wits and Howe's short comings (which he undoubtedly has).

 

I am surprised Keegan hasn't been involved much since the takeover. I would have expected some kind of dog and pony show.

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Lots of water under the bridge and KK and Ashley were never going to see eye to eye. But the tactical astuteness of KK is quite underrated imo. Especially by the time his second spell at the club came around. People also forget in terms of his ‘naivety’ that NUFC was his first job in management. I know we get it on here but a lot of people just go off cliches. Re: his second spell here, in that first part season the Owen thing was more than just man-management. The media had made a big deal of Owen’s criticism of KK in the former’s autobiography* and KK making Owen captain was a great hit of psychology. But getting Owen to play deeper, in a sort of old fashioned inside right position, with Viduka as the target man and Martins terrifying defenders with his pace wide left was really effective. And no fucker was playing a proper 4-3-3 in the premier league then. Don’t give me Mourinho with his 4-5-1. 
 

*Tbf Owen wouldn’t even have read it, let  alone written it. The little cunt 

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  On 28/01/2025 at 10:43, Alex said:

Lots of water under the bridge and KK and Ashley were never going to see eye to eye. But the tactical astuteness of KK is quite underrated imo. Especially by the time his second spell at the club came around. People also forget in terms of his ‘naivety’ that NUFC was his first job in management. I know we get it on here but a lot of people just go off cliches. Re: his second spell here, in that first part season the Owen thing was more than just man-management. The media had made a big deal of Owen’s criticism of KK in the former’s autobiography* and KK making Owen captain was a great hit of psychology. But getting Owen to play deeper, in a sort of old fashioned inside right position, with Viduka as the target man and Martins terrifying defenders with his pace wide left was really effective. And no fucker was playing a proper 4-3-3 in the premier league then. Don’t give me Mourinho with his 4-5-1. 
 

*Tbf Owen wouldn’t even have read it, let  alone written it. The little cunt 

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Can't agree Alex, the papers and sky said he wasn't very good and lost the mind games in the one season he was in charge of us when his shitness got found out by the greatest manager to have lived at the greatest club in the world (and definitely the biggest), who beat him with his very own kids. They hunted him down and everybody lived happily ever after and the next generation of pundits for twenty years plus were formed. Amen. #SkyChildren

 

 

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Rumours that Leeds re interested in Targett, Everton are interested in Longstaff and Juve are interested in Kelly.

 

Wilson, Lascelles, Ruddy, Gillespie and Lewis all out of contract in the Summer.

 

Could be a decent squad rebuild needed in the Summer.

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  On 28/01/2025 at 19:57, Toonpack said:

If we sell Longstaff (don’t think we will) won’t we struggle for home grown numbers if we get into Europe.

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Sell him in January and re-sign him in July for half the money after the Everton fans hound him out.

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  On 28/01/2025 at 19:50, Kid Dynamite said:

Rumours that Leeds re interested in Targett, Everton are interested in Longstaff and Juve are interested in Kelly.

 

Wilson, Lascelles, Ruddy, Gillespie and Lewis all out of contract in the Summer.

 

Could be a decent squad rebuild needed in the Summer.

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It wouldn't surprise me if we extended Lascelles contract.  I wouldn't.  I would let them all go.  

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  On 28/01/2025 at 20:20, Optimistic Nut said:

 

Just sign Freddie Woodman & Tim Krul as numbers 2 & 3 and there's 2 of the 4 used up who'll hardly ever play anyway.

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Aye, because we need ANOTHER two goalkeepers. Fucking idiot.

 

Re-signing Paul Dummet and Peter Ramage are the only logical choices.

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  On 28/01/2025 at 21:52, ewerk said:


Aye, because we need ANOTHER two goalkeepers. Fucking idiot.

 

Re-signing Paul Dummet and Peter Ramage are the only logical choices.

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Well I'm assuming we'd get rid of Vlach, Gillespie & Ruddy in this scenario like. :lol:

 

But there's 4  GK academy products in the Championship or above at the minute, would tick a big box bringing one back in the "Carson role" and getting shot of a few of the others. 

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On top of a maximum 25 players for List A, clubs had to designate a minimum 8 players that were trained by clubs from the same national league, with 4 of them being from the club's own youth system.

 

UEFA defines locally-trained or 'homegrown' players as those who, regardless of their nationality, have been trained by their club or by another club in the same national association for at least three years between the ages of 15 and 21.

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We'll be fine.

 

 

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  On 29/01/2025 at 09:42, ewerk said:

Is Longstaff the only over 21 player we have on the books who qualifies as club trained?

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Nathan Carlyon.

 

No, I have no idea either. 

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