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how many chairmen do get other jobs in football? most club owners will want to run things their own way not buy a club to let nicola run. Im kind of amazed NC isnt loved by many, like dark munster said above if it wasnt for him convincing marcus to buy us we could have really been up the creek without a paddle, the way he ran the club was fantastic taking us to back to back promotions, he had the right ammount of ruthlessness and took no crap, made the right managerial choices at the right times-look how sacking adkins for poch worked out. all in all fantastic chairman if you ask me and you could feel the ambition drain away once he was gone

sounds likes hughes is a fan of him here http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11701/11133697/xherdan-shaqiri-was-a-steal-says-stoke-boss-mark-hughes if the 12m clause is true could well be on our radar.

who would everyone prefer if we had the choice out of sisto,promes or shaquiri? think im just about leaning sisto. looks to have quite good use of the ball imo although promes does look more direct and score more goals

would rather get rid of the total b**l****ter krueger. still on the fence with reed has done some good things as well. plus maybe some of the sales were forced on him by kat etc

Really can't stand this guy, don't see any ambition in him since he's been here, seems his only reason for being here is to try deflect questions and feed us utter BS. Compare him with cortese is like night and day

That's what the likes of Krueger want you to believe that we can't keep unhappy players and vvd is the main cause of our bad season. We have gone from having a ton of players the top 6 sides would like to hardly anyone left that they would like now, the tap has run dry. I think this is more the reason for our dip in form rather then the unhappy players excuse. We had a good run of replacing the players we sold but you can always expect to unearth vvd and name types, sometimes they are not gonna work out that well and you get the likes of redmonds carillo's abd hoedts which is pretty much where we are at now.

Would still take him all day long over Redmond, redmond has to be one of the most frustrating players ever in my opinion. Hardly ever makes the right decisions

im a big fan of gabbiadini and think he is basically suffering from lack of game time more then him being not good enough.. think there is a super player in there..my italian friend who is a napoli fan said he is best playing on the right and in his appearence yesterday looked very good when getting down that side. hes got all the right attributes makes inteligent runs is a instinctive finisher and you also tell he has a cracking long range shot on him.. i can understand hughes going with the likes of austin and long over him as players he can trust whilst we are in the relegation battle, but next season would love to see gabbiadini becoming a regular starter.

I can see us finishing on 36 points and having to hope other results go our way

mccarthy cedric yoshida hoedt bertrand hojbjerg lemina ward prouse tadic redmond gabbiadini

Don't think this is the time to be getting on players backs. The likes of boufal lemina and gabbi seem to be getting major stick when tbh they have been no worse then the rest of the squad on their day they are definitely capable. Could be that boefal was getting a strop about being in and out of the side all season can also see why gabbiadini could be frustrated. Left on the bench most of the time then given 20 mins max to make an impact! When he has started he's always made good movenment and has good finishing when getting the right service

why? wouldnt it just devalue the premier league?, best players would all want to play in the super league and we would still get our players poached

i thought this formation might suit pre game, problem is we need to get the wingbacks forward to provide the width then should be plenty of options

Never thought I'd be saying this but long is probably our most important player since Hughes has been in charge, once he went off we had zero pace up top. Not sure why hughes brought on Davies instead of a more pacy option like Sims or Redmond earlier either. If the pan was to bring Austin on you need some pace around him

I would be totally for cortese coming back. i think him going was the start of the wheels coming off, but the momentum built from his time in charge coupled with koeman doing amazing in the transfer market replacing the outgoings kept us ticking over nicely. i really find it hard to believe that nicola would have bent over everytime and allowed us to become a liverpool feeder club

Can't blame the boys for effort thought tadic was excellent and also long and hojbjerg put in real commitment and effort.hopefully we can keep up the performances of the last games and start to get some results

Tadic having a super game so far looks very good in possession

Lemina for me.. he has made a couple of shaky mistake of late but on his day looks a real class midfielder

McCarthy Cedric. Stephens yoshida Bertrand Romeau lemina Boufal tadic sims Gabbi Even though tempting to go with the legs of long on the break I still think gabbi is our best striker provided he gets the right service

Don't think tadic has been one of our worse culprits of late, at least he looks capable of holding onto the ball in tight spots sometimes turning his man three or four times, but it's more comfortable on the ball then most of our team look who just either run into trouble or take the sideways pass. He did also combine well with long to put him in a dangerous position for one of our rare highlights of the game..

completely cant stand krueger. all he seems to do is talk zero content nonsense

his goal against newcastle was pretty far from put on a plate for him, the guy also has a hammer of a left foot .. if this formation is 3421 he could of also been used as the right sighded attacker allowing him to cut onto his left foot. probably wont be any worse then tadic ?

great ward prouse, redmond and tadic starting over the likes of boufal lemina and gabbiadini.. what is mp doing ?

thought jeremy pied looked good today. his crossing is better then cedrics and he looks an able deputy. its kind of a shame that gabbiadini is getting frozen out of the team think he is one of our best players, dont really want him to be disgruntled and move away. austin has taking his chance well probably suits the way we are playing better and dserves to keep his place, but couldnt gabbi fit in somewhere? he used to play on the right of attack at napoli and could maybe even play the ten role better then tadic.. we know he has a good long shot on him

i think we would be better off moving to a 352. get rid of the non creating tadic and redmond and gives us more in the middle forster yoshida hoedt van dijk cedric lemina romeau bertrand boufal gabbiadini . austin/long