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Watched quite a few of these world Cup games. The standard of play is pretty poor, the occasional great bit of skill but bearing in mind these are meant to be the world's best players, exeter city, in division 1 would play any of these teams off the park.

Hearing usa female team demanding same wage as their male counterparts is laughable. They generated 2.5 million and expect 6 million in pay because that's what the mens team got in their world Cup.

It's a different grade of sport.

England have managed to get through, good on them, I have an interest in all England teams or sports people but the lack of criticism of the standard of play or terrible play from the commentators when players are horrendous is mystifying.

If someone's playing appallingly or not doing what they should in the men's game, it gets said. Seems people are scared to criticise anything in the woman version of football.

14 minutes ago, jacketspuds said:

But they could be taking the piss so much more. Chelsea have spent more than £750m in a year and don’t look like stopping any time soon.

They are both owned by the same people.

Chelsea is more trendy and glamorous and flashy so gets publicly lavished with money however the PR side is Newcastle so it will be less obviously done.

while not looking like its taking the piss compared to Chelsea, increasing sponsorship revenue just on the shirt by close to 30 million per season by sponsoring themselves. 

And that's most likely the tip of a cheating iceberg

It will be sponsor stadium next for crazy money, again by themselves, and training ground again by themselves.

Premier league won't care as no doubt they will get whistle or headphone sponsorship for the officials for 10 million per season as a good will gesture by chelsea/ newcastles owner

9 hours ago, jacketspuds said:

I’m surprised at how Newcastle appear to given a shit about FFP to be fair.

Howe is doing a very good  job and I’ve not seen anything so far that suggests they’re taking the piss like Chelsea.

I’m sure it will happen at some point but this current Newcastle team is very good and would seem to be more or less following the financial guidelines.

Haven't they just been sponsored by themselves for 4 times their last sponsorship ? 

Just down to numbers, I think by Monday an agreement will be made

Over at Hürriyet, they state the Turkish champions have rejected Aston Villa’s €30m package This has seen Unai Emery’s side make an improved proposal that includes a €5m loan fee with a option to buy set at €27m.

It’s stated Galatasaray are ‘evaluating the new offer’ made by Aston Villa but are not keen since it doesn’t include a mandatory purchase option.

Meanwhile, Calciomercato.it state the player ‘immediately said yes’ to the English club and the two parties are working to sort out the personal terms. It’s down to Aston Villa to agree a deal with Galatasaray for the transfer to take shape.

Any first team targets we have, we may possibly need to go down the loan to buy route to comply with FFP.

I think we are all in agreement that a starting right back is required

A starting winger / inside forward is required

That doesn't include a striker 

Unless we can ship out 2 or 3 of our squad for decent money such as donk, Chambers, bailey, big phil then the reported zaniolo transfer arrangement may have to be used for anyone incoming.

10 hours ago, MotoMkali said:

Yeah I wonder why that was. Almost like every time he received the ball they swarmed him with 3 players because they were shitting themselves about him getting in a 1 on 1 situation with burn. 

They really weren't.

I think it was the first 25 minutes in where I thought about posting he needs to come off. I didnt because i was trying to be optimistic but by then he had managed to break up attacking moves for us, didn't offer any protection for cash so they just kept playing down our right, fell over multiple times giving the ball away and made us look weak.

He should not have started and that's on emery.

As for the argument we conceded 3 in the second without him ? 

You mean after all the players had been informed mings was now going to hospital because the injury is worse than emi b s? 

Everyone was effected clearly by that, hence the huge drop off in performance by the entire team.

bailey didnt drop off, that would imply he, at some stage of the game, was good. He wasnt, hence a large amount of people wanting him off at half time.

Bailey has for some time become a FFS player, the ball goes to him, he messes up and you auto have in your head 'FFS bailey' . He does nothing positive for at least 75% of the time it goes to him and just as the passing stats for yesterday show you, he can't even pass it to his own team mates let alone beat his man, basic traits of his position.

Hes like a worse trez. At least trez put in the effort of closing players down or pressuring the opposition defence.

Good showing against a tough defence. Nice volley finish and some genuine skill and pace out wide.

He's probably not happy tonight like the rest of us 

Another who had a shocker

Didn't help that 1st half Bailey was in front of him doing little to nothing so was hung out to dry and by half time he was on a yellow card or if not was 1 mild foul away from 1.

Then he panics, tries to get forward but cuts back every time, can't get back as trying to push forwards and can't tackle because he's on a yellow.

At fault for 1st and 4th ?  goals due to poor awareness and positioning.

He can look really good, normally when mcginn is in front of him, he looks really bad when left to mark 2 players. Something young would normally sort out but we let him go and didn't replace.

Today emery got it badly wrong.

Can't help injuries but he's seen enough of the players to know who can be relied on and who can't.

He will not be so trusting with certain players again I feel.

It was not a performance to be proud of.

He looks unfit, lightweight, slow and lacking basic skills for a winger.

He's a luxury player, if we are 2 or 3 up then he gets some minutes but is just so so terribly bad at most things.

It's on emery today, he should never have started and mcginn should have not been moved to accommodate him.

Totally devastated.

Mings did however cause part of the issue himself, yes it was a freak injury, but why tf are you trying to play the player when you have conceded 2 goals early in the game ? Just knock it out for a throw !! 

It's something mings used to do, get suckered into playing the player not the ball and it's rarely worked in his favour.

Fingers cross for him, he's probably bar doug, the most improved player in our squad since promotion and one of the most important players for spirit and organisation. Also one of my favourite players.

Just like 90% of the team, a day to forget.

Got a stupid yellow after 9 minutes, wasn't that bad, far better than a lot of the team today. No yellow and he can be a bit more aggressive. Easy yellow for kicking the ball to stop a thrown in.. should be fined for that, it was just stupid 

Players with any credit

Diaby who ran chased and created and scored

Martinez who saved 2 or 3 certain goals

The bad

Emery set us up completely wrong

Mginn is most effective on the right , was put as a floating midfielder and that means he was lost and did nothing 

Bailey, oh my days, shouldn't have started and proved why.

Watkins ? Seriously ? He put in a Bailey type of effort today, as in pretty much none. Flick on for goal and 1 shot. No running, no closing down, nothing.

Cash with zero help from Bailey managed to get torn apart and then booked, poor decision making multiple times and at fault for 2 ? Of the goals, 1st being 2 yards behind the high line and 2nd fancying around and instead of a simple pass to torres makes a stupid pass to martinez, they then score, from nothing.

Konsa, started well enough but then went to sleep multiple times for at least 2 goals

Digne, gets a stupid yellow after 9 minutes and then is under pressure all game.

Teilmans played deep then further forward then deep by which time the balls zoomed passed him and he's out of the game, multiple times.

Doug, a very bad day, possibly should have had a penalty but really looked off.

Kamara decided we don't need the ball any more and just gave it away repeatedly 

Mings being injured just sums up what a terrible day its been.

Instead of playing the ball, goes back to trying to play the player, something he trys to do and rarely succeeds in doing. 

Ends up probably out 3 to 9 months now, gutted for him.

We possibly now need a right back a winger and a forward as a matter of urgency after injuries and players continuing to fail to impress.

I can only hope man utd get hammered.

Can't watch any more, been a shambles, konsa been pretty wank today, cash pretty wank teilmans in the wrong position should be further forward mginn taken off when he's the only one who will fight, watkins doing an impression of the lazy invisible man.

Too many totally off form today and poor set up from the off and continued throughout the game by emery.

He will need to make some simple decisions such as dont start Bailey, push konsa to right side cash doesn't start.

Kamara doesn't start on today's piss poor show, given the ball away more times than his made a successful pass.

At least it can't get any worse.

Fml cash ? Wtf ? Simple pass to Torres but no put martinez under pressure and they score.

Really been a shambles, watkins has been a waste if a shirt other than 1 shot and 1 flick, zero running or effort.

Cash been average to poor 

Hopefully we keep the score to just 4 !!!

Why is digne taking corners ? Left yes, right doug 

Thank goodness Bailey off teilmans on

Bailey off please

Mginn back on the right against burns, he is completely ineffective where he has been put.

Teilmans on in front of doug and kamara

Diaby on the left

Can't honestly think of one positive from Bailey today, very poor performance, lacking pace, energy, composure , skill and tactical positioning.

Mings injured  

But doing what he used to, charging the player rather than going for the ball.

Bailey looks too weak down the right, would rather mcginn goes there and Bailey stays left while he is on the pitch.

If the woman beater plays again and against us... you just know big Tyrone will get involved in street justice.

Maybe a loan for 12 months for 6 million euros and we cover his wages and then just 22 million straight up next year ? That way they keep 6 million plus most of 20 million rather than giving more to roma ? 

Or 2 year loan for 5 million per season then 16 million in 2 years time.

Helps our ffp spreading it out so much and helps them bank more rather than handing it to roma that way they keep 24 of the 26 million.

Ironically, as we let him leave, emi b gets injured and out for the season, giving a space in a position Ramsey can play.

Do we stop the transfer and explain this is his chance ? And extend ramseys contract if he's willing to take his chance ?

Theres been a few vague links to a young spanish left back and also a few vague links to digne being sold.

There's been a few links to doku and a couple other 'magic moment' players and vague links to big phil leaving.

2 of our highest earners and both 30 ish.

Both have been in good form pre season.

Has that helped us ? Puts them in the shop window to show they still have it, but also shown they can still do a job for us.

From an instant usefulness to the squad prospective they should stay, but from a FFP and sign 2 younger cheaper wages replacements point of view and a 'this is our last chance to get half decent money for both players if the Arabs come a calling' point of view it becomes a tougher call.

Watched the game yesterday, well some of it. Exeter have changed their playing style and are now playing a basic version of how we play. That should help sinisalo. Didn't really have too much to do in the 45 mins or so I watched, played it out on the ground 70% of the time.

Should be looking at mid table and upwards this season, the preseason games were almost like when we changed our way of playing, players trying to get more used to keeping it rather than launching it every time.