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Match Newcastle United v TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR - Sunday 4th April 2021 KO: 14:05

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theromanianjackass said:
Yeah Mourinho needs a squad full of Maldinis, Sneijders and Zanettis to compete with Newcastle.
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Not just mourinho, even the one before or after him needs something better than donkeys like Sanchez or Dier or finished Toby, or kids like Tanganga or Rodon. These are some of the worst CBs for a club our size. Theres no Prime Vertonghen or Prime Toby in the squad anymore which poch relied on. Without those, we will set the next manager to fail as well.
 
VonnegutBusy said:
I wouldn't be against this in principal as we've completely had it with this core group of players.

The issue is I don't think we have a good enough scouting system to spend the money wisely.

Buying high profile youngsters like Ndombele or Gio is not difficult to do but they are expensive so you can't buy 7 of them.

We need smart cheaper deals that the likes of Liverpool and Leicester tend to find. Sadly we don't have the infrastructure.
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Agreed. Obviously that's a big issue - as we've discussed before our scouting has gone to complete shit and we always buy the donkies in our price range whilst Liverpool and Leicester pick the princes.

It's a difficult proposition, but I don't see us successfully picking a handful of players to turn around a squad that's specializing in disappointment...so we might as well start anew.
 
adasai said:
Not just mourinho, even the one before or after him needs something better than donkeys like Sanchez or Dier or finished Toby, or kids like Tanganga or Rodon. These are some of the worst CBs for a club our size. Theres no Prime Vertonghen or Prime Toby in the squad anymore which poch relied on. Without those, we will set the next manager to fail as well.
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Nailed it but it’s all down to Jose
 
VonnegutBusy said:
I wouldn't be against this in principal as we've completely had it with this core group of players.

The issue is I don't think we have a good enough scouting system to spend the money wisely.

Buying high profile youngsters like Ndombele or Gio is not difficult to do but they are expensive so you can't buy 7 of them.

We need smart cheaper deals that the likes of Liverpool and Leicester tend to find. Sadly we don't have the infrastructure.
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If we bring in a guy like Rangnick I would be much more comfortable with this approach but under Levy/Hitchens/Jose I am terrified at what the results would be if we sold those two and bought the players they liked.
 
Forget bout mourinho for a second. Can the players not say right we need to go and get a 3rd goal to kill this. Or weve lost points from this position so many time lets work harder to not let it happen again. No Leadership, pride anything shown again apart from harry. How can the players keep letting it happen let alone the manager
 
ChrissyWaddleShares said:
Agree - just we clearly needed something to protect Reggie as he has to be lightweightest defender ever seen based on today?
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Or we just accept that Reggie isn't the best at the back and exploit the gaps Newcastle are leaving by playing our own football?

No way a team with Kane Son Lo Celso Ndombele Hojberg in it should have been giving the ball away as much

They can't hurt us if we have the ball and it's in there half

If Mourinhos was a progressive coach we would have made them stop commiting so many men forward for fear of us attacking.

But because we sat off to deep second half we just let them come at us again and again and again and we have shown so many times we will crack eventually

Mourinho just doesn't seem to learn or can't
 
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