Geordie Arabia

[polymerpunkah]

It's a match made in heaven--they're paying him in blood.

[Trumo]

12 hours ago, Scott_M said:

Good Ebening…

 

 

Good Ibn-ing.

[Bruce Spanner]

9 hours ago, Captain Turdseye said:

I imagine he’ll be getting paid more than  Guardiola?

 

On the books, or off them?

 

I for one am looking forward to taking my boy, but not my daughter as that's haram and will make her unnattractive in the future and ruin her marrige prospects, to the Uni Emery footballing academy in Riyada.

 

Never built, never opened, never staffed, one director - Uni Emery.

 

Glory be to the new football gods.

[No2]

I'm struggling to think of 3 teams worse than Newcastle. Norwich are gone obviously, Newcastle are right in there to fill the other 2 spots with Burnley (who always do what needs doing), Watford (who look shit but have a 6 point start), Southampton and Leeds (both good sides), Brentford (they look like they will get enough points at home) and maybe Villa. None of those will have the added pressure of a beheading handing over ever loss.

[Creator Supreme]

Good Ebening Pet.

[TD_LFC]

That's a weird managerial shortlist and an even weirder final 2.

[A_S]

I think they're a marked team for the remainder of this season. It's like everyone knows that sending them down now could buy the rest of the league another couple of seasons, aside from the 4 or 5 it will take to make them into a top-4 side. 

[Pete]

10 minutes ago, A_S said:

I think they're a marked team for the remainder of this season. It's like everyone knows that sending them down now could buy the rest of the league another couple of seasons, aside from the 4 or 5 it will take to make them into a top-4 side. 

I do hope so. My NUFC supporting mate is desperate to get to Jan and get some new players in for fear of relegation. 
Not keen on me mentioning the human rights issues they now have for some reason...

[dockers_strike]

43 minutes ago, A_S said:

I think they're a marked team for the remainder of this season. It's like everyone knows that sending them down now could buy the rest of the league another couple of seasons, aside from the 4 or 5 it will take to make them into a top-4 side. 

Yeah, they've turned every one of their games into a relegation 6 point this early in the season.

 

It seems a strange appointment of Emery as manager. He has a good track record in Europe's 2nd tier competition and his perceived English communication with players was somewhat questioned with arsenal.

 

You get the feeling this is a scatter gun appointment. Fonseca was the hot favourite. Suddenly he disappeared and they wanted Ten Hag. He didnt fancy it and now Emery is handed the contract.

 

They play Brighton away next and, if Brighton replicate their form as shown against us, newcastle will be lucky to get nil and likely have 4 or 5 put past them.

 

By the time the January window come round, newcastle could, potentially, be dead in the water and relegation certs like Norwich.

 

If they do go down, the also find the EFL's spending restrictions are tougher than the Premier League's.

[3 Stacks]

Emery is a fantastic appointment, until they start spending money and the expectations go way up. Then they'll get rid and get someone with a bigger personality. But in the meantime, he's as good as they can get. 

[stringvest]

ooh, they are awful

[tokyojoe]

16 minutes ago, stringvest said:

ooh, they are awful

Got me looking for a Dick Emery clip now.

[stringvest]

I reckon Benitez will be back in charge come the start of next season.

[dockers_strike]

7 minutes ago, stringvest said:

I reckon Benitez will be back in charge come the start of next season.

Seriously? I think that ship has sailed.

[stringvest]

2 minutes ago, dockers_strike said:

Seriously? I think that ship has sailed.

Nah.  I think Benitez will get sacked from Everton for underachieving and/or moaning about the lack of cash, and Geordies will get rubbed up the wrong way by Emery.

[Bobby Hundreds]

Newcastle should of went for Potter, I think with resources he could build a side.

[Ne Moe Imya]

How many of the top 20 managers in the world are at a Premier League club now, do you reckon?

 

Klopp, Guardiola, Tuchel, Bielsa, and Conte for sure. There'd be a few more in the conversation for the top 20 list as well (Benitez, Emery, maybe even Potter and Rodgers). Can't remember a time when there was more of a concentration of managerial talent in a single league.

[Jose Jones]

49 minutes ago, Ne Moe Imya said:

How many of the top 20 managers in the world are at a Premier League club now, do you reckon?

 

Klopp, Guardiola, Tuchel, Bielsa, and Conte for sure. There'd be a few more in the conversation for the top 20 list as well (Benitez, Emery, maybe even Potter and Rodgers). Can't remember a time when there was more of a concentration of managerial talent in a single league.

Don't think it matches up with the mid 00s when Ferguson & Wenger were still good, along with prime Mourinho, Benitez and Allardyce.

[DalyanPete]

Emery fucked them off now according to Ballague.

[Marko121]

6 hours ago, Ne Moe Imya said:

How many of the top 20 managers in the world are at a Premier League club now, do you reckon?

 

Klopp, Guardiola, Tuchel, Bielsa, and Conte for sure. There'd be a few more in the conversation for the top 20 list as well (Benitez, Emery, maybe even Potter and Rodgers). Can't remember a time when there was more of a concentration of managerial talent in a single league.

You forgot Ole!!!

[Pete]

4 hours ago, DalyanPete said:

Emery fucked them off now according to Ballague.

By the time they appoint a new manager they'll be relegated at this rate. 

[tokyojoe]

13 minutes ago, Pete said:

By the time they appoint a new manager they'll be relegated at this rate. 

Bye bye Man Utd bye bye........

[tokyojoe]

Oops, wrong thread.

[Babb'sBurstNad]

A part of me wants them to appoint Allardyce and hand him a squillion pounds to spend in January. He'd buy half the Burnley squad and the rest would go on an Augustus Gloop style binge. They'd find him face down in a swimming pool filled with onion gravy.

[Bjornebye]

16 minutes ago, Babb'sBurstNad said:

A part of me wants them to appoint Allardyce and hand him a squillion pounds to spend in January. He'd buy half the Burnley squad and the rest would go on an Augustus Gloop style binge. They'd find him face down in a swimming pool filled with onion gravy.

They already hounded him out once