Howay

Aye, agree with all of Andrew and KCG’s points too. If fair play was the actual intention of these rules it wouldn’t be fucking tied to individual club P&L over the prior few years and things like that, those metrics literally entrench inequalities which creates a system where clubs then have to either bend rules, or outperform for a number of years to overcome. It’s very purely meant to lock in the clubs that were up there at the time the rules were put into place, those clubs of course got there by having the most money and spending the most money in the years leading up to that ruling. It’s why I find all the incredulous and sensationalist headlines about Man City to be fucking tedious. They’re portrayed as bad guys but then you have Liverpool and Manchester United both with American owners being sponsored for every fucking item of the businesses down to official match day bus tyre sponsor and shite like that, often from American company’s, and we’re all told it’s all above board give over man.

Hopefully they’re both okay and get located soon.

Imagine how gutted the mackems will be about all this once they catch on that it’d a positive for us. They’ll suddenly hate FFP and hope Man City dodge all charges.

Agreed, this one is off the back of Man City beating the prior charges in CAS isn’t it? I think it’s been ongoing for 4-5 years and had the knowledge from the case to build off, I’d imagine this is a pretty strong and damning case they’ve built. What I’m interested in is how a lot of these charges relate to periods post Man City establishing themselves, so it’s interesting to see how they had such egregious rule breaks but similar spending Manchester United and Chelsea as yet have nothing.

I’m gutted that Frank Bruno is a lads fan ☹️. Is there fucking anyone that isn’t ffs? It really makes it hard to enjoy all the exciting things going on at NUFC when our neighbors have such star power fans like Frank Bruno, and maybe even the likes of Les Dennis, all while watching a team littered with players that might sell for £10m.

If we get CL it was always going to be close, also agree with KCG that it would just be a massive bonus really. It would speed up our whole project by years if we got into the CL but we’re still massively improved if not and would likely still have European games.

Why are they even bothered? What a fucking weird thing to focus on, as HMHM says players are “worth” whatever teams that sell/buy them pay, it’s no bearing on anything .

But doesn’t he know it’s actually soulless and there’s a far better atmosphere and footballing side nearby? Add Coufal to the mackems hate list.

The problem is clear and simple. We’ve not won a league game this season that Bruno hasn’t played in, in the four he’s missed we’ve had 3 draws and a loss. I’m singling out ASM because it’s glaring how uninterested he is in helping the team, as I say there’s others that played poorly but they were trying. Last I will say on it, it’s simply time he went. Oh aye and that post by long time admirer is probably the worst one I’ve seen, Gordon was head and shoulders above ASM when he come on it’s not even debatable.

Arsenal lost because of racism apparently that’s a new one fucking hell.

What a monumental prick he is.

The lengths many in our fan base go to defend him is what’s extreme tbh. He’s not a luxury like, he’s not good enough to be a luxury. He would be a luxury if he was a consistent threat but then showed his disinterest defensively, but what we get from him is largely disinterest on both sides of play except the odd occasion where he decides he wants to play a bit. He’s a talented dribbler of the ball but he doesn’t lift his head or have a good enough footballing brain to pick out a key pass, or capitalize on the advantage his dribbling ability creates. We’ve seen enough of him now to know the glaring weaknesses to his game that he has, and they’re ones he’s never improved which is why he won’t fit in at a side like we are now. He’s a player you look at and think if only he could do xyz he’d be brilliant, but he simply won’t ever do those things. I don’t see any of my criticism of him as extreme, it’s fact imo. I don’t think he was the only issue today of course, but I do think he’s a wasted selection - Murphy would have done more than him to help us win today iyam. The issue I take with him is his disinterest and laziness, I can accept Murphy being below the level we need as he works extremely hard and gives us a chance in games due to that commitment and work rate - if ASM showed even half that effort I wouldn’t be this angry with him. Sorry like but he’s a player that come on in a semi final we were leading and he proceeded to walk around looking uninterested, given a chance to start today after we signed a £45m player in his role was a similar response. I’ve made my stance on him clear often on here but he’s taken the fucking piss the last two outings for me.

The through ball Gordon played was a sign of things to come, while Wilson isn’t slow I think if that was Isak Aguerd was never getting back to make the tackle.

I’d accept if he just couldn’t fit in the system, but it’s more than that. Those players you mentioned all showed for the ball, took responsibility, made great passes and helped our attack - ASM very rarely does any of that. I think when people compare him to a player like Ben Arfa it’s a very favorable comparison, Ben Arfa had a lot of issues and struggled to fit systems but he knew what to do with the ball in terms of passing and awareness of teammates. ASM has zero interest passing to his team mates, while yes I agree it’s probably always been this way for him since he has talent in the dribble he’s also at fault for having no interest in adapting his game. As Alex said he wasn’t even showing for the ball, he was glued to the line and when a pass come his way he’d watch his marker move to the ball and he’d just throw his hands up. He played for us in a terrible time for the club and since his dribbles were exciting he won a lot of good will with many of our fans, I’m simply not one of them. Fwiw not meant to come across as having a go at you Holden, I think you’re being reasonable it’s more I’m exhausted with how much lateral our fan base give a bloke that I think simply doesn’t give a fuck.

I think he got it wrong, we should have started Murphy if we weren’t going to play AG. I get what Howe was probably doing though as we have had so many games and he was probably hoping ASM would actually put in some effort given we just signed a £45m player to play his position, he’s probably also had ASM chirping at him about how good he can be. Backfired on Howe and likely was a lesson learned, I personally feel that’s the last start we see from ASM.

Spot on. I don’t understand people defending him man. Gordon had more touches in his cameo than he had in the entire game, the bloke is glued to the line and wants the ball to his feet so he can dribble it about and not do anything with it. He’s been like this since day one for us, his laziness and lack of team play was forgiven as we had fucking nobody and no tactics but now we have a team all pulling in one direction and he’s simply not doing it. Sorry like Holden but I don’t understand saying he doesn’t know how to press and pass as if that’s an excuse, that’s embarrassing as a football player those are fucking basic things. He’s an arrogant player who just thinks about himself, he just wants to be a highlight reel and imo it’s clear his team mates don’t think loads of him. He comes out with stuff about wanting to play with players like Isak, it’s all arrogance to me this beleif he is of that level when he’s never ever shown it. As I said he got away with it in a poor side as he has talent on the ball but compare him to a Mahrez who pairs that talent with work rate. He doesn’t deserve the constant excuses our fan base gives him, he’s a lazy arrogant player who couldn’t give a flying fuck about the team, look at how he constantly threw his arms up all game like Ronaldo does. It’s time for him to go, maybe a side like Lorient will offer him a way out.

Poor performance but Wilson missed some really key chances. Has to be putting those away imo, hopefully Isak is back for next match as it’s time for him to be starting. I’m hoping that’s ASMs last start for us and he’s gone in summer. Total fucking embarrassment for him today, no effort or fucks given the same as when he come on for the SF.

Brilliant ball by Gordon that

Probably touched the ball more already than ASM aye.

ASM Get him off man fucking hell.

Yup, doesn’t ever lift his head and when he does he still very rarely passes he just seeks to keep dribbling

He’s crap man, our fan base needs to stop defending the bloke he’s not a good enough 11 a side football player. He constantly stands in the wrong positions, doesn’t protect the ball when he gets passed to, he’s just wank and has horrible work rate. There’s a reason no fucker has ever bid for him even in Ashley era. We can say he doesn’t get touches but when Isak comes on he gets loads of touches - a lot of his lack of touches is down to him being in wank positions.

He knew his man was coming to challenge, rather than come to the ball or block his man off he just stuck out a leg then threw his arms up. He’s a waste of fucking space.

ASM with yet another stinking performance. I expect we will hear how amazing and creative he is though.

I love them making up a nickname purely to gatekeep it. They need to get a grip like “daint enjoy the final youse are going to cos weeeyah went to the Callum Smith LDV vans rental centah community cup theeyah before yaz” fuckin plums, just enjoy your imaginary Barca tiki taka football.