Things are never as bad as they're seen on the outside.
Having a one off bad year doesn't permanently means things are always going to be bad, everyone knows things change quickly in football apart from fans who tend to live in the here and now.
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Things are never as bad as they're seen on the outside.
Having a one off bad year doesn't permanently means things are always going to be bad, everyone knows things change quickly in football apart from fans who tend to live in the here and now.
Last year wasn’t a blip or a bad year.
The blip was when Conte got 4th, prior to that it was a 7th and 6th.
The pungent rot is from the top and hasn’t manifested fully into the first team yet - will get worse before it improves with these incompetent wankers at the helm
My guess is that Newcastle will figure out a way subvert FFP. Looks like they are aiming to add “loaned” players from Saudi clubs, and already have hit a fake shirt sponsorship. I don’t think they will struggle, they will just break the rules without repercussions. Man City 2.0.
They have a lot of headroom to spend as they were almost as frugal under Ashley as we are under Levy. Almost
Look at trends, not isolated seasons...we've qualified top four 5 times out of our last 8 seasons, we haven't finished as low as 8th under ENIC for 14 years prior to that, not sure about you but that kinda suggests that last season was a blip.
Because with us he will walk straight into the team and be a star player for years to come. At Newcastle, he's a rotation option.
Plus, we're "on the up". We've got a new manager with a reputation for fast, attacking football and, with a season out of Europe, we can do a lot more in the league and the domestic cups.
Rules are changing though. You can't transfer past underspending into the future model.I agree that multi-club ownership, dodgy sales back and forth to Saudi, increased onfield success and third party deals will see them on their way, but they can't just start running a 400 million payroll overnight.
He knew all along people, he just couldn’t say as he wanted to protect his source!
Ok. Which four of you got banned there today?
Now pay the man
Because footballers don't think like a negative fanbase?
The rules are just guidelines any way if you happen to break them then you just pay a fine , it’s one of the many reasons a lot of people are failing out of love with the beautiful game!
The word is, he wants to come to London for his girlfriend. Whatever his reason is, the choice doesn't sit well with me. He's won the league and the FA cup, maybe he's not fussed with winning anything else and is just happy to collect a paycheck for the next 4 years.
Am I the only one who doesn’t really rate Maddison?
Trend is downwards. I'm optimistic that Mourinho and Conte's systems have held us back but there is a good chance our future looks like Leicester's if Postecoglou flops.
In other words Newcastle have competition for places and we don't.
Maddison didn't win the league with Leicester. When they won the league in 2016, he was playing in League 1 for Coventry City.
Ange is not a miracle worker he needs the personnel to have a shot at being successful, if he gets players like Rodon, Gedson, Doherty, Danjuma, Lenglet, then no system will save him.
28 goals and 21 assists in the last 2 seasons for a dreadful Leicester side with no decent striker seems pretty decent to me. Only concern would be the injuries last season but we've needed someone like this since Eriksen left.