Howmanheyman 32826 Posted December 3, 2021 Share Posted December 3, 2021 Schar is an absolute liability as well, has been since he's been here. Looks great at times then bang, he puts the opposition away with a great opportunity from nowhere. The best defender I've seen us have but with an uncanny ability to chuck it away with a mega-brainfart was Bramble. Could be amazing all game then become Terry Fuckwit in a heartbeat. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammynb 3353 Posted December 3, 2021 Share Posted December 3, 2021 41 minutes ago, Howmanheyman said: Schar is an absolute liability as well, has been since he's been here. Looks great at times then bang, he puts the opposition away with a great opportunity from nowhere. The best defender I've seen us have but with an uncanny ability to chuck it away with a mega-brainfart was Bramble. Could be amazing all game then become Terry Fuckwit in a heartbeat. Didn't Parky use to claim that was because Bramble's cock was so big that if he got half a semi his brain ran out of blood? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonatine 11329 Posted December 3, 2021 Share Posted December 3, 2021 Read somewhere that the last time we spent big (by our standards) money on a defender was when we bought Coloccini, 13 years ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OTF 7280 Posted December 3, 2021 Share Posted December 3, 2021 4 hours ago, Sonatine said: Read somewhere that the last time we spent big (by our standards) money on a defender was when we bought Coloccini, 13 years ago I'd have another Colo here in a heartbeat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 7009 Posted December 4, 2021 Share Posted December 4, 2021 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 19980 Posted December 4, 2021 Share Posted December 4, 2021 😢 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 44495 Posted December 4, 2021 Share Posted December 4, 2021 Get Rafa when Everton bin him. Which incidentally is the next step in their road to relegation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayatollah Hermione 13837 Posted December 4, 2021 Share Posted December 4, 2021 We’ve definitely pied that Emenalo off. Law reported it in the first place and now he’s reporting this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohhh_yeah 2947 Posted December 4, 2021 Share Posted December 4, 2021 Give it to Victor Orta. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isegrim 9737 Posted December 4, 2021 Share Posted December 4, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, Kid Dynamite said: Ffs. Recruiting staff isn’t really working so far. Edited December 4, 2021 by Isegrim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dougle 3322 Posted December 4, 2021 Share Posted December 4, 2021 If there is truth in this, then either he has insanely bizarre expectations/ambitions, or we are quite simply nowhere near looking to become this dominant new force in football that we gleefully (unrealistically) hoped for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 34912 Posted December 4, 2021 Share Posted December 4, 2021 Or he asked for an absolutely ridiculous wage 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 44495 Posted December 4, 2021 Share Posted December 4, 2021 Aye. Or wanted to splash £200m in the January and took the huff when we told him to cool it. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 42129 Posted December 4, 2021 Share Posted December 4, 2021 I’d piss myself i we nicked Rangnick for DoF from the Rapists at the end of the season 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddockLad 17124 Posted December 5, 2021 Share Posted December 5, 2021 This Matt character is clearly Emenalo's pet scribe, sounds like the ex Chelsea dude is pissed off that he's been touting his name around himself and was told to basically fuck off last week Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polarboy 2311 Posted December 5, 2021 Author Share Posted December 5, 2021 So this fella is trying to imply that Staveley is too fond of the limelight to hire a DOF? That sounds like absolute nonsense. It doesn't even make any logical sense. Amanda could have a spread in Hello magazine every week if she wanted, and park the DOF in the basement to get on with his actual job is if she wanted. So aye, I agree with Paddock, Emenalo has likely got a pet lip because he didn't get the job, and this journalist is facilitating his tantrum. If that is the case maybe we're better off without him, despite his very impressive CV. Emenalo himself of course seems pretty fond of publicity with his features in the Guardian about him being a social justice activist. Which of course on the face of it can be a very worthy pursuit, but the well has been poisoned somewhat by Twitter activists, celebrities etc, many of which clearly see it as a way to enhance their own profile and power above anything else. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayvin 5186 Posted December 5, 2021 Share Posted December 5, 2021 Maybe he wanted heavy spending in January to keep us up and the owners are resigned to relegation if it comes. I could see a year in the championship putting him off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 44495 Posted December 5, 2021 Share Posted December 5, 2021 Everton have proven only too well that you can spend £500m and get absolutely nowhere. If he's turned up with some plans for a big bang turnaround, and been told that we want to be a bit more measured, I don't particularly mind that. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howay 12496 Posted December 5, 2021 Share Posted December 5, 2021 Aye I can see the owners maybe wanting a slower turnaround than he might want, then it would make sense imo. It also makes sense those saying he might have lost the chance at the job and this Journo is his pal since Law is a fairly Chelsea focused journalist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayvin 5186 Posted December 5, 2021 Share Posted December 5, 2021 I don't think we should entirely dismiss the idea that we may not be intending to become the superclub that we have all assumed we're aiming to be though. No one has outright said we're aiming for total dominance in the style of City or PSG. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 44495 Posted December 5, 2021 Share Posted December 5, 2021 "Challenging for the league in 5 years" requires you to be at least competitive with City. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayvin 5186 Posted December 5, 2021 Share Posted December 5, 2021 Challenging for the title means being in the conversation - I think that puts you top 3. I mean fair enough, but challenging isn't winning, is all I'm saying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 19980 Posted December 5, 2021 Share Posted December 5, 2021 So City and Liverpool don't challenge? They just get it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayvin 5186 Posted December 5, 2021 Share Posted December 5, 2021 3 minutes ago, wykikitoon said: So City and Liverpool don't challenge? They just get it Liverpool and City challenge each year, and sometimes they win it. It would be quite possible for them to challenge each year without winning it though - see us in the 90s as a reference. All I'm saying is that there is a clearly defined semantic difference between saying we're challenging for honours and that we intend to win them. Maybe that difference is too much for this guy. I would imagine West Ham see their goal as challenging for the title btw. Doesn't mean they're ever going to win it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howay 12496 Posted December 5, 2021 Share Posted December 5, 2021 56 minutes ago, Rayvin said: I don't think we should entirely dismiss the idea that we may not be intending to become the superclub that we have all assumed we're aiming to be though. No one has outright said we're aiming for total dominance in the style of City or PSG. I don’t really see Saudi Arabia investing in a club that competes in the same league as a club owned by the UAE and be content with it being a shit mid table side while the UAE owned side dominates. Same goes with owning one on the same continent as a Qatari club. It just wouldn’t make any sense to me, what would be in it for them to turn us into a steady mid table side? It’s basically cost them £1.3B to buy us if you factor in the payment to settle the BeOut issue, so they’re never making a profit (especially if we are just destined to be a mid table side). I know the media are licking their chops at any sign/mention of a lack of ambition from the owners, and constantly spinning any player linked/any imagined link that ‘turns Newcastle down’ as evidence the owners have some weird ambition of buying a football club to watch it stagnate in mid table. As Gemmill says the only things the owners have said about the matter are discussions about competing at that level/challenging for titles, they can’t exactly come out and say we are going to spend £5b on players and be the best side in the footballing world as the reaction from the other clubs would be even larger as they try anything to stop it, better to play their cards closer to their chests. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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