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Dean Smith >>>> Gerrard

Lucky goal hahahha

Bielsa has had an equally bad 10 games, and he is sitting safe

Arteta/OGS turned it around. Smith can and will too.

I don't know the use of him. All buys are in the £25m-£35m region. Were are the bargains? Even Bruce got McGinn for £2.5m.... Maybe Bruce should come back.

He's a very good left back, just not a left wing. Nothing to criticize here.

Without Grealish, this was a Bruce/Ole type of performance. So, Smith is dependent on individual brilliance like everybody else.

In his last two full seasons Bruce managed positions 13 and 12. Smith managed positions 17 and 11. Position wise Bruce did better than Smith. I know a certain poster wants to argue, yet facts don't lie. buhahahaha

Pass the ball, make himself available. He was just too slow

Wesley would have contributed better than Ings. Wesley is the strong forward this game needed.

At fault for the first goal.

Grealish >>>>>>>> Buendia

Brought stability to the midfield.

Worst one today.

All of them were awful today. The whole team. El Ghazi, Buendia, Ings.... Actually Ings was the worst one

Villa is just an ordinary team without Grealish

That was pointwise the worst 1/3rd of last season too....

This is opinions you attributed to me, which I never wrote anywhere and you got them out of your head. I never said Bruce was a better manager than Benitez in general: Here you admit to "paraphrasing", which means attributing opinions to me that I have never stated. I never said they employ equal tactics. I said they both play defensive football. I never said anything about tactical football. But, I'll give you the last point because Bruce got one point less than Benitez. I still am adamant that Newcastle with Benitez had better offensive players (Ayoze Perez and Rondon) than Newcastle with Bruce last season (Joelinton). So, if I feel that Bruce has done a very good job points wise, than that is what the hard facts of the table says.

There are more than me.

He has. And you really need to stop attributing me opinions I have never said, which you admitted to doing.

I never said anything about their careers. I just stated that Bruce has done a better job with Newcastle than Benitez. My opinion. If you disagree, fine by me. But you guys need to stop with the lying just to win a debate of opinions. This isn't BLM. This is just football. Yet respect is something you clearly lack.

So, isn't this in line with what I said? You made me google. So who's making stuff up? It's you. Now, go to bed.

And Bruce got the same point tally as Benitez the year before with that dud. That's the point.

Benitez got away with dull and boring football, because he had won some stuff with good players before. Benitez himself was hated by fans at Chelsea and Inter Milan because of his defensive playing style. Bruce is not a popular manager here, and that's fine. But when discussing, don't think your snides make your inaccurate points any truer. Btw, at which club did Benitez have full control, and which players did Benitez himself choose at Newcastle, Valencia, Chelsea, Inter? Didn't Liverpool have a transfer committee? So he just decided that his reason for leaving Newcastle, was because he wanted more control than he ever had in any club in his entire managerial career? Sure...

Benitez wanted to wait before signing the contract. When he saw what kind of team he was getting, he ran all the way to china. It is 100% certain that your boy didn't want Joelinton. But you're just want to make a point about Bruce being a shit manager, that you don't want to accept that he did better with a team than Benitez thought he himself would do. Or standing still, or whatever. It's like you think Benitez would magically make this exact team play like Barcelona 2012, while the truth is they probably would be standing still regardless of which of the two manages them.