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They want to continue with a failed style of football that is being consigned to the scrapheap elsewhere, because everybody knows how to beat it now. Just how stupid are these owners?
The outdated possession game played in your own half is a suicidal tactic nowadays as every manager (except ours) knows how to beat it, even when it's played by top teams like Man City. To continue with it, as we are doing, is completely and utterly pointless. So the longer term this 'project' is, the worse the results will get.
This idea that Martin would be a good manager for us next season is stupid.
Martin's tactics won't work next season. The last time we were in the Championship, most teams thought we had better quality players than them, showed us too much respect, sat back and let us build from the back without any pressure. We still finished 9 points off the automatic promotion places. Next season, every Championship manager will instruct their players to press us and pick off the passes we make in front of our goal, just like every Premier League manager does now.
When he says, "You need to wake up", does he mean the entire fanbase because if he does, he might not like what he hears when we do?
To be honest I just wrote any old drivel to bump this thread again. It's the messageboard equivalent of the old Ted Bates' Statue: guaranteed to raise a smile every time you see it.
I always watch his team's European matches when they're on TV. They are the gutsiest team in Europe - a real joy to watch- and attack the goal fast and directly at every opportunity. With very limited resources he has done an incredible job, which is why so many clubs want him. I've read that Brighton wanted him, and several clubs that have played his side in Champions League or Europa League matches, like Ajax and Celtic, have tried to get him as their next manager.
The rumour that we might get him here sounds too good to be true so it probably isn't. We'll more likely end up with another mediocre British manager, which is what the bottom 3 teams usually end up with, especially the ones with record low points totals.
I just Googled the question, "How many days per week do Premier League players train?" This was the answer:
"Premier League footballers typically train six days a week, with one day off for rest and recovery. The training schedule is designed to help players maintain their fitness level and improve their strength, endurance, and agility." Trent Alexander-Arnold said that at Liverpool, they get 4 rest days per month.
So, this might help explain why other teams last the full 90+ minutes better than ours do. Our players usually give 100% in the first 20 minutes, then fall off until they are overrrun by the fitter opposition in the final 20. This suggests that the fitness training at other clubs is better.
To be fair, the managers of other clubs probably don't need to spend time with their sexy new girlfriend as well as the three young children he left with his wife. Making time for both would require at least 2 full days a week.
I think Ruud van Nistelrooy would have kept us up, and if we'd acted faster than Leicester, we could have got him here.
We have better players in the squad, like Amo-Ameyaw and Taylor, but Martin has hardly ever played them.
We all know we should have bought a goalscorer in the summer and Ayoub El Kaabi would have been a realistic target well within our price range. Sometimes, you just want to grab whoever's in charge of our player and manager recruitment now and ask, "Why can't you see these things?"
It will be interesting to see who Newcastle's new DOF, Paul Mitchell, signs in next year's transfer windows, as he was the best head of recruitment we ever had.
He clearly wants to leave asap, to avoid being tainted too much by our relegation, but he won't resign because he'd miss out on the millions he'll get if he's sacked. So, he's saying things to try to make that happen.
Afterwards, he will, of course, blame the fans and say we were ungrateful for his great achievement (in getting us to finish 4th in the Championship, 9 points off the automatic promotion places).
I still keep hoping we'll stop the stupid passing at the back, win the next game and everything will be all right, but it looks like bridges have been burnt now.
I'm sure that when they were in the top flight, the Portsmouth News reporter's first question when the opposition players emerged after beating Little Pompey, was, "What did you think of the Fratton Park atmosphere?" Because he knew that if he could get them to say something nice, Pompey fans would lap it up.
Most players probably just shrugged their shoulders and brushed him aside, but I expect Thierry Henry was too polite to do that and said something nice. He must have been in a pretty good mood after scoring a couple of goals in a 5-1 FA Cup quarter-final victory away from home.
"Most other PL teams would probably have beaten Villa yesterday, even arguably any of the others at the bottom (except us)!" Top teams only rest their best players when they play us. I'm not sure they even do it against Ipswich.
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