Howay

Mackems and Southampton agree a fee of £8m for Stewart . Top quality striker indeed.

I’ve given up watching that.

Surely one of the most fucking deluded fan bases going? To go along with those loans he’s been able to sign Martinez and Casemiro (both about £70m), Anthony (£100m), Eriksen (free but large signing bonus and wages), Hojland, Mount, Onana (all in excess of £50m each). All in it’s about a £350m net spend over 3 transfer windows . We’re on about a £270m net spend over the same period, or about £400m since takeover (all according to transfermarkt). It’s also worth noting that Ten Hags starting point had players like Ronaldo, Sancho, Varane whereas ours had Jeff Hendricks in midfield.

Fuck sake man, absolutely typical that

Beeewwwww

Anthem is set, just in time for the draw

Was mostly just a throwaway comment really, I was just continuing on from the Hayden discussion since Gloom brought him up. I personally think a lot of his signings were shite but understand I’m probably one of the harsher posters when it comes to that type of judgement, I understand the constraints he was under but he did saddle us with a lot of players that were poor for a long time and while I agree it’s not entirely his fault he does take some ownership of that. Ashley ultimately is to blame for everything, but Rafa signed a number of players with a very short term mindset of just getting out the Championship (with a number of his signings not even being very good in that division). He is a good manager and did well with what he had, including a lot of the poor playing staff he had at his disposal - I just mean he did also sign a lot of that playing staff.

How are they still going?

That would have been a fun one

Aye, there’s no doubting Klopp is one of the best managers around but howay man he threw 5 different forwards at us and eventually one stuck. We had probably 4 glaring chances to kill the game and that’s not counting the fact we had a goal fucking robbed from us with Van Dijk kicking Isak over.

To a degree, he spent a fair bit mind. Ritchie, Gayle, Muto, Murphy, and Sels all had fairly sizable fees, he also cast aside Mitrovic who was far better than what we had and chucked Ivan Toney and Adam Armstrong away against the wishes of many of the other coaching staff. He had his positives as a manager but sorry I disagree that player identification wasn’t a weakness of his.

Nah it’s not bollocks at all. From that list I’d say Hayden, Clark, Yedlin, Ki, Manquillo, Joselu, Hanley, Gamez, Sels, Lazaar, and Muto were all shite. We can say the budget constraints were tough, which is true, but he spunked £13m on Muto despite all the scouting reports telling him the player was hopeless, he just liked what he saw from him in a friendly game so was adamant we sign him, Sels was also about £7m and was one of the worst keepers the clubs had. It was the same at Liverpool too, he signed some good players but he also had a lot of expensive misses like Reira, Acquilani, Dossenna, and Morientes.

No he wasn’t but it applied similarly for a lot he signed at Liverpool too. Very good manager just one that probably should leave the signings to a DoF

Rafa signed a ton of absolute shite mind, good manager but he’s fucking hopeless in the transfer market.

I don’t think saying he’s not quite as shite as Jack Colback is the argument winner you think it is lads.

Aye, it’s one of the reasons the goals have dried up for him a bit imo. Since he’s so one footed full backs know he wants to go inside every time.

After the Man U fans slated the signing of Tony G pundits are now suggesting their 100m winger who is older should take notes off him.

Happened to a lot of our players since takeover, this idea Howe could somehow turn them into brilliant players despite them clearly being Championship players. Jamal Lewis was another one that a lot claimed could do a job despite him being absolutely shite. The reality is Hayden is a championship player who ran about and put a shift in for a dog shit side. He signed a nice big contract before the takeover happened and is happy to sit on it, which I won’t slate him for but I also won’t wish the cunt well as he’s a complete waste of the clubs resources. Look forward to the day he’s off our books along with Manquillo, Hendricks, etc. It’s another reason the whole “great servant” shite does my head in, they’re crap players on contracts they should never have been given and it’s been proven by the fact the club literally cannot give them away, I’ve no praise for them.

Delaney gutted he can’t write a long article accusing NUFC of cheating.

Liverpool is surely at 25, since every player they are linked to grew up a Liverpool fan according to their fan base.

American private equity firm being cunts shocker. Everyone is focused on the middle eastern owners (to a degree rightly so) but the American ones are going to be the ones that are more detrimental to the fans and the league iyam.

Shock that Hope is all over this btw, loves any negative story about the club or fanbase the little cunt. “Zombie zone” btw even fucking Ryder would come up with better than that.

Willock won’t be back, Howe said recently that he might be back in training for the international break.