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Feyenoord fan per chance ? or PSV

Life's too short to hate bro

Best bit about this all is finding the logic of why he wants to own our club.

As everyone has said newcastle is looking for excuses to delay games now does anyone know how the league actually validate what they saying is true regarding covid cases. Honestly agree with everyone who said injuries is not a reason, the U23 are there use them.

To be honest i am expecting no announcement and the jan depression to begin.

An old article but don't think they've got their 3rd club yet and also Dave Brailsford is now their Sports director for everything not just cycling and they invested in mercedes F1 so it looks like they are making moves. Also when they've talked about EPL clubs before aside from name checking us as well run they talk alot about the cost involved in the purchase price. However getting a EPL club that had a 220m valuation when Goa bought it for 125m for 80% holding is a attractive sale. Insert grasping at straws gif https://www.getfootballnewsfrance.com/2020/exclusive-bob-ratcliffe-reveals-ineos-will-look-to-acquire-a-3rd-club-i-think-we-think-thats-something-european/ Bob Ratcliffe reveals INEOS will look to acquire a 3rd club

we know their goal is coming but i hope we try and score another - stu armstrong on for walcott and redmond swaps back to the left please

I'm going for under 5 mins before Fraser kicks it straight out from a kick off or back pass

Pick 1 from here https://soccerstreams-100.tv/match/605857/eng.1

I think he is the only one as well who is "used" to scoring, he was getting a lot with celtic and gets a decent amount with us

Again being the best of a bad bunch isn't too much of an endorsement for this season - we are currently scoring under 1 goal a game as a team and Tino and Jan have scored more goals than him. Not to get at redmond but our inside forwards goal returns for the games we have played are dreadful - 1 goal (Mo) from 17 games is horrendous for the positions and minutes that they have played.

Bro I just wish in the EPL for once we had and owner with disposable cash (and can invest the 50m net free per year for FFP) and can play a better version of the L1 glory days when good players came in and made us awesome to watch. I really feel we are so close to a tipping point that if we could just improve the squad to the next level of quality we could super fun to watch. Personally I would buy 2 inside forwards, a proven striker and a direct running CM and a goalie as my first summer shopping assignment.

I like this link at lot and he could walk straight into our inside left position as he is direct and apparently can hit the target. Lots like 13mil is the current number being mooted for him - west ham and everton being our supposed competition they already have a lot of players in that position who are good.

I think all of our inside forwards are non goalscoring and I find all of them annoying as they could write a article on taking the wrong decision when in a goal scoring position. The last one who gave me hope he could score was Armstrong but he only plays for Scotland nowadays. So far Redmond, Moi, Tella, Walcott, Moussa have contributed 1 goal this season in the EPL.

Hahaha I love football

only in ecstasy

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If I see an english person write it with a Z then it is confirmation that natural selection has failed us.

Good point, I was hypnotised by the cashola. Ok we need someone who has oil, I used to know a family

I saw this thread trending and assumed some funny jokes were being made. If our little Napoleon sized owner is expecting/hoping to sell I would expect he would be reading from the Mike Ashley playbook and not sanction any transfers unless the club are able to play for it themselves which i don't think we have the budget for. Are there actually any stories about us currently or is this all hopium ? apologies not been looking in this thread.

the hero our club needs

I look at like this (sorry this turned out longer than i intended) I remember the Puel (possession around our halfway line), Pellegrino (keep possession around of back 4) and Hughes (pray for possession) and how with Ralph we can all see his plan since he came in and to be honest this is the way a lot of successful clubs play. Stating the obvious but I think the difference is that these other clubs are able to improve the squad each year and sell the players who dont make it or are a target for the bigger clubs. Until those big sales happen that financial ability is down to the owner and the allocated budget they get each year. As an example if I look at RB Leipzig when Ralph was manager they were able to spend around 60-70m a year whilst generating around 12 mil in sales in total for both seasons. Of that 120-140mil spent over the 2 years I'd say RB Salzburg received around half of that money so the money was kept "in house" and I believe there is a discount on the transfer pricing anyway. RB Salzburg give Leipzig an advantage as A) There is a pathway to Leipzig to sell to players who arent ready for budesliga yet but could be gems. B) RB Salzburg can take the younger, un proven players and mould them into the system to make them ready (think this would be where a moussa/salisu etc would go). I think we are caught in a half way house between trying to follow this model and system to get these young unproven players in and but then having to play them before they are ready cos we are crap (hence i think ralph realised this with Salisu particularly could see the talent and decided he would train only for 6months). We probably have max net 20-25m spend each year in the richest league in the world (not including sales - money to pay transfer money due per annum not transfer fees) hence the accounting footwork with Tino (pay 5mil this summer) Without picking on Redmond he joined in summer 2016 and he is still here 6 seasons later with a total of 20 goals average 3.33 goals a season and is still here playing as a winger/forward (salah, mane role hahahahah), I could pick a few players like this. We have no budget to significantly improve the quality of the squad (Jan Veest record signing joined in 2018 was bought with Virgil money) and until we either have players sought after by other clubs or we get owner investment this will not change. To be honest I really dont think the manager is the problem as I cant think of a manager alive who could get us scoring goals and keeping cleansheets working within the constraints we have (last 2 seasons were we mid table for scoring). I really think we have had bang average players for a while and when we can buy some we have to shop in the bargain basement of championship, lower european leagues or reserve teams as we have no money. We also have c level assistant coaches with no discernible coaching talent who unlike other coaches seem to cling onto their jobs whenever a manager leaves but they are seen as the cheap option so are kept on. Until we get an owner who can invest in the team to a suitable level we will continue to be on struggle street and our only hope is to have a playing system that helps negate the talent difference between our players and the opposition, unfortunately for us this system can be undone with mental lapses due to the lack of quality and execution which we see every week. So in short, its gonna be the same no matter the manager whilst we have this playing group and investment level - we just need to try and beat the teams around us and nick points off the top half where we can to try and stay up.

Am impressed enough that you were bothered enough to look up how to spell his name to start the thread