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iamoyindamola:
This Romero is too reckless and useless
He will surely cause spuds whatever they are hoping to achieve
I hate the guy

A very senseless defender.

Romero is an idiot.

Leyqute:
Jim Ratcliffe comes in, sacks John Murtough, and Mason Greenwood returns to the starting 11.

Yes or no?

Cc: christob.am, eph1.2, afrod.oc2, patric.kmuf, larri.de

Don't see it happening...

hatakekakashi:
Was he sold or loaned?

He was sold.

afrodoc2:
Not good. He has been injured for 2 out of the opening 3 months of the season. Currently out injured again.

Thank you Doc.

Is anyone here keeping tabs on Zidane Iqbal? How is he performing?

YourBestWriter:
After reading trash here, I go to another forum to read sense from UK based Manchester united fans. I can categorically tell you that Nigeria manutd fans should concentrate more on the Nigeria premier league. Una no know anything about manutd.

So, why are you here?

If them want count posters for here wey dey contribute meaningfully, you no go make top 20...

ChristoBam:
Ten Hag out people go rest small.

Like you are very satisfied with the performance...

Sometimes I dey wonder whether some of una really want the progress of this club.

The only positive is that we are ahead of Shekpe on the log...

No matter what, we must remain ahead of them.

metodman:
I CONCEDE.... ETH MUST GO NOW!

Lol...You never see anything...🤣🤣🤣

This man should ring the changes na.

Sleep-inducing match...

I rather have Rashford on the RW than that clown.

McTom x Eriksen...Eriksen go suffer for that midfield today.

E be like the man dey vex for Varane...Your job is on the line but you still the form wetin I no know.

Ego of Pep, coaching skills of Allardayce.

Theflint1:
Tinubu should dare announce a reduction in PMS or gas pump price and we'd see 50 litre industrial gallons and cylinders all over the thread...and we all know who's the reigning Gallon d'or winner.

You're a mad man...😂😂😂

I remember saying here that De Gea is the least of the problem we had. We had other areas we needed to strengthen. A CF, Winger, CM and DM and a CB but ETH went for a keeper instead when a CB was more of a pressing concern. Bar Martinez and Varane the rest are not good enough to consistently start games...

We are not even seeing the benefit of a ball playing goalie because they're still gapping holes in the team. In two seasons, ETH has failed to fix the RW problem and midfield problem. The jury is still out on the CF ish...We are in trouble...

CrystalTiger:
Just imagine the two teams ffs..Na DOF make this Newcastle team come beat us like thieves for OT?

ETH's 5 signings started for him and Eddie had 4 of his signings..How exactly did we not trouble that backline at all?

It is why I am not buying the excuse of injuries. Look at the both teams and tell me who should have dominated and won the match.

Newcastle are without Isak, Tonali, Barnes, Murphy, Andersen, Botman etc but we are not hearing excuses. Because of Shaw and Martinez we should excuse whatever poor performance we are being served.

Na wa for some people o!

AdisaOwala:
Bros, I would only fault the board for one reason : they have been hiring the wrong managers....

The only manager I expected so much from, was actually LVG due to his experience and his current form (as at the time he was hired)...

For whatever reasons, it didn't work out..

As for our manager, he is looking more and more like a bald Andres Villas Boas - no be all managers fit replicate small club successes at bigger clubs.

I agree 100% we always go for a manager renowned for a particular pattern of player to a manager with different footballing ideology meaning the new manager has to start the rebuild process again.

I really had high hopes on ETH, I thought he will come in and set an established pattern of play but nothing of sort is on the offing. This is where I support the idea of a DoF, someone who will come in and decide how the club should play and only hire managers that fits in with such pattern. That way, even the players we go after will be defined by the established pattern.

At the moment, I can not draw up excuses for ETH because he has been backed 100%. At least play good football and win games.

afrodoc2:
Stylistically we are playing worse football than any team in the Top 12.

It’s a penkelemes.

If you who has been on the board's case long before others realised what was happening can blame the manager for our poor performances, then I really don't know what is wrong with some of us here.

One thing we can not argue against is the fact that we have a squad of players at the moment who should be playing much much better than we are currently doing. If this is agreed, who should we blame for the drab football we are playing if not the coach?

It is as simple as ABC but then, it appears ABC is not so simple.

A team battling relegation and a manager came in and moved them to 13th, who in his right senses will sack such manager?

I don't see the extraordinary things the guys at Newcastle have done, they just do the basics, get the coach the players he wants and the coach does his job from there. Talking about discipline, the board has backed ETH 100% and that's why Sancho has since been dropped.

Klopp finished 8th in his first season, but it was glaring what was coming except that he didn't have the right personnel and that alone is enough encouragement.

Last season, everyone knew what happened to Liverpool on the injury front and it was evident towards the end of the season when their players returned that they would have finished top 4 comfortably (Their strong push for a top 4 finish is a pointer).

When Pep joined City, I could see from the get-go that team as coached by Pep. One of his very first game in charge if not the first was a friendly match against Arsenal, go and search for it on YouTube and you'll easily see that from his first game he went about implementing his ideas. That's a coach that deserves time and should be backed.

There's nothing wrong with our medical department, Newcatle have more first team players out injured at the moment, should we also blame their owners?

Chelsea too have a lot of players out injured as do Barcelona, it has little to do with the medics at the club in most cases. Injuries do happen.

Ronaldo saying nothing changed at the club is an exaggeration, I remember that the club had to make changes to the training facilities when Van Persie joined to ensure he stayed fit and it worked.

Casemiro was not signed as an alternative to FDJ, the alternative was Eriksen who was also the choice of ETH. Who is even to blame for the FDJ saga? The coach kept on insisting he is the player he wants and we agreed a fee with Barca only for the players to opt against the move, how is that the fault of the board again?

We went toe-to-toe with Madrid for Camavinga but Madrid won the race thanks to Zidane so, it is only rational that we move one to other targets. Amrabat had a fantastic world cup, everyone here wanted him and now he is here but all of a sudden, he doesn't look the player we saw before now. I put it down to poor coaching. We have 2 of the top 10 DMs in the league yet ETH has not been able to fashion out a system that will prevent us from conceding loads of goals and you want to blame the owners? OMG!

Last season, it was obvious Eriksen was the most important player in our midfield and his absence was always felt yet in a bid to bring in a younger player to take up that role, ETH went for Mount of all the midfielders in the world but somehow you want to blame the board.

Yes, Mourinho wanted Maguire but the board did override his decision which at the time was the right thing to do. Mourinho had gotten Bailly and Lindelof a season before and wanted to bin them almost immediately for Maguire. No owner will be happy with that. Is not like Lindelof and Bailly were cheap purchases either. Pep can't just wake up and say he doesn't want Gvardiol and Grealish after the club forked out so much to bring them in.

You deride the board for not signing Maguire and and other players Mourinho wanted as well as letting go the ones he wanted out but now the board is doing what the manager wants, you still want to crucify them. It doesn't work that way, pick a struggle...

Leyqute and co.

ugaby:
Riff.-raffs are those idiots who think that they are making sense but ended up exposing their ignorance

You are a good example of one. You definitely know yourself...

ChristoBam:
Lmao if I call you a clown, you'll ramble on and on about not insulting anyone. It's happened before with you. Just respect yourself and stick to the main point of discussion.

You're jumping from one thing to another and somehow still dragging the discussion back to the starting point. Which is the fact that we need a sporting director to help with recruitment and total direction of the club.

Btw, why did we get Casemiro only after the FDJ deal was totally bust? We didn't go after him till almost the end of the window. There are pages after pages of arguments about his best position here and how Dejong isn't a CDM. Don't start abeg. We went after Eriksen cuz he was a free transfer. We negotiated all summer for him.

When Ten Hag went for Dejong. There were some attributes of the player he was interested in. Just like how he wanted a left footed winger when he went for Antony. At what point did Murtough go for replacements when the deals became unfeasible or illogical?

Check the post I quoted so you have a clue why I wasn't civil in my reply.

A DoF doesn't go after replacements for the sake of it, the manager has a say. Pep have asked City to pull out of deals before when he saw the price was not right. It has always been his call and not the other way around.

Murtough is there to get the players the manger wants just so he has no reason to complain and he has done just that. ETH insisted on FDJ for almost the entirety of the window and only went for Eriksen when it seemed highly unlikely.

If the board overrides the manager, fans will complain so, at least let's say this method has proven counter productive. Going forward, I hope we will support the board if they override a manager?

metodman:
I'm not absolving ETH in all these, Patrick. However, the current structure of the club doesn't in any way help any manager. I'm not a Prophet of doom but based on the events of the past years, I don't think the next manager will succeed if the structure isn't changed prior to him being appointed. I just think we have been trying same things for years, it's time we do things differently.

Madrid, Chelsea, Bayern and the likes have hired and fired in the past. They did so until they found the right coach.

metodman:
They are bidding their time. They are still gonna spend. Our players are not good enough. Dalot, AWB, Maguire, Lindelof, Mount, Mcsauce, Rashford, Anthony, Martial and many others are either not good enough or very very inconsistent.

The ones that MIGHT be good are not ready yet. Only a team like United will buy a 20year old player to spearhead their attack when their other striker (Martial) is useless.

Who are the prolific strikers at Newcastle? Name them please...

Who are the world class CBs they parade?

Bar Trippier, do they have fullbacks that are better than ours or have a much higher ceiling?

Is Longstaff all of a sudden so good?

Is it the failed CF Joelington who had to be moved to midfield?
Their star signing in midfield, Tonali has been suspended for 10 months yet no excuses.

We are badly coached whether you accept it or not.

ChristoBam:
Madrid go after the best. You don't need a special DOF to decide to go after Bellingham, Mbappe, Tchoameni and the likes. These ones came to snatch Hazard when they thought he had unlocked a new goat level in his game.

As for your second paragraph, you're not even making sense. Who would blame the club for going after other targets when a player emphatically says he doesn't want to join the club?

Btw, we didn't get him and then went for Casemiro. A totally opposite profile of midfielder.

Did Murtough have a replacement that fit the profile lined up? Who are we kidding?

You are a clown. ETH got Eriksen to play the role of FDJ. To show how stupid ETH is, after realizing ETH can go a whole season, guess who he signed to replace him? Mason Mount...

You are a troll at this point.

ChristoBam:
Emery's obviously not a miracle worker. He failed at Arsenal. Imagine Emery never managed at Arsenal, you'd be so convinced he'll succeed here under the same system.

Jokes aside, you can keep listing managers all day. They'll fail here. I can already imagine Psotecoglou looking like a retired grandpa after a while here.

Until someone comes in and does well I guess you will cling on to this excuse.

ugaby:
For your mind you are making sense abi?

I don't entertain riff-raffs.

ChristoBam:
Why would I compare Bruno with Ceballos. Was Ceballos brought in to solve a midfield problem? Man was a Malacia-like signing.

When Madrid want to solve a problem, they go for the best. They needed midfielders and went for the best young midfielders available in Europe. We all could just watch.

They wanted a striker and are trying to get probably the best footballer in the world rn to fill the role.


Also, let's pretend Pep and Klopp work under the same structure as United. Is it the likes of Murtough helping with player recruitments?
Y'all won't get it cuz it's about sacking the manager rn.

Who is the director of football at Madrid?

Your MCM requested for and got his preferred choices for the midfield bar FDJ was refused to join and not because the board opted against his signing yet you still blame Murtough. I am 100% you would've led the crusade against the board of they had opted for other players.

When Man Utd is involved, you start hearing talk of miracle worker.

Is Eddie Howe a miracle worker?

Is Emery a miracle worker?

Is Postecoglou a miracle worker?

That's how you guys will be asking which good player is in the market whilst our rivals will be signing quality players.

metodman:
So who is this miracle worker that can do that

We are in a bad situation and there's no way this team can be overhauled in 3years with Glazers still being around. Very Very Very few managers can perform magic with this team...in fact I don't think they are up to 5. We need to be very strategic this time around. Admittedly, ETH has added more mumu players who will be difficult to move on... not to talk about the ones we have always had.

Bros, you believe say Newcastle go dey do well like them dey do now?

Even with new owners, no be say them done spend money pass us o!

ChristoBam:
And then start all over again with a manager that's not as good as Ten Hag? If you believe the system is faulty and we need a sporting director, you'll look beyond this shitty season. And when you look beyond this shit, you'll realize Ten Hag is better than the other options in terms of what we need.

Believe it or not, we sack Ten Hag and Emery is the best we're getting.

Do you honestly think we have a bad squad at the moment?

Do you honestly believe we have an inferior squad to Spurs, Newcastle, Villa and the likes?