Football: Season 2004/5 Discussion Thread.

KevG · Post by **KevG** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 12:33 pm 0

Ah, that's a s hame about Sir Bob. Real gentleman of football, that guy. It all seemed to be going pear-shaped for him though. Dunno, but he seemed to be in conflict with almost everyone over the last few weeks

Ged Houllier for the Toon??

Where does that leave the Rooney deal now? I guess he's almost certainly going to the Mancs.

PaulEMoz · Post by **PaulEMoz** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 5:54 pm 0

Well, that's a real shame about Sir Bobby, although it's not entirely unexpected. He's been getting a bit more erratic lately, and seemed to be losing the players, bunch of bastards that they are!

No idea who we'll get now. I had kind of hoped we'd be able to get Martin O' Neill at the end of the season, but we'll never get him at this point. Shearer as manager scares me, but not as much as John Carver as manager! They have to make a good choice or we might struggle this season, although with the squad we've got that's ridiculous.

Dio · Post by **Dio** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 9:09 pm 0

Europe next year feels unlikely to me at this point.

cyric100 · Post by **cyric100** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 9:24 pm 0

Oh dear, I really don't like this new fad of getting rid of managers early into a season. Last year that left us with David Pleat as caretaker and we struggled for much of the time

Hopefully the Newcastle board have more of a plan...

Shame for BR though.

Mat T · Post by **Mat T** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 4:48 am 0

Aye a big shame because he is such a nice bloke but looking at the results, he has been struggling for a while and has spent an absolute fortune on players. I think it is time for Newcastle to step up and challenge Chelsea, Arse, and Man U, and maybe Sheppard didn't think he could do it. After all he has had plenty of time to do it. Still, sacking someone so quickly after the start of the season begs belief.

I think that there might have been some player revolt - Shearer left on the bench, Dyer really pissed off etc. Last time Shearer was left on the bench, Gullit was sacked almost immediately afterwards. Now it happens with Bobby. Hmmm...

Still, would rather be in Newcastle's shoes than my team Leeds. Another utterly pathetic performance on the weekend. Oh dear.

GeeZa · Post by **GeeZa** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 10:37 am 0

Word is that Rooney is in Manchester this morning for a medical.

Jon · Post by **Jon** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 11:21 am 0

Yep, looks like there'll be an announcement very soon...

KevG · Post by **KevG** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 11:47 am 0

GeeZa wrote:Word is that Rooney is in Manchester this morning for a medical.

Yep. Not a bad piece of business if the rumours are correct. The alleged 25% of the sell-on fee is a particular sweetener for them.

aureole · Post by **aureole** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 1:24 pm 0

Uncle Bobby's finest 70 quotes

PaulEMoz · Post by **PaulEMoz** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 4:51 pm 0

Well, everybody must be laughing at us by now. We half-heartedly go to sign Rooney, hand him to Man Utd on a plate, sack our manager and end up not signing anybody when we need at least one, if not two defenders. Yes, we truly do look like a club of buffoons.

Dio · Post by **Dio** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 5:16 pm 0

You forgot to prepend "Sell our best (if repeatedly crocked) defender to fund a big spend" to the front of that.

If we don't buy a good defender before the transfer window closes I will be furious with the sale of Woodgate. What on earth was the point in selling him 'to improve the team' and then doing bugger all with the cash?

I'm just plain baffled. What a mess.

Zoot · Post by **Zoot** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 7:48 pm 0

cyric100 · Post by **cyric100** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 7:59 pm 0

So, it is done. Not sure about the price, but he's a good signing I'm sure.

Zoot · Post by **Zoot** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 8:23 pm 0

PaulEMoz wrote:Well, everybody must be laughing at us by now. We half-heartedly go to sign Rooney, hand him to Man Utd on a plate, sack our manager and end up not signing anybody when we need at least one, if not two defenders. Yes, we truly do look like a club of buffoons.

On the contrary - Newcastle didn't hand Rooney to Man Utd on a plate - in fact they forced the latters hand. Rooney was always going to Manchester and, if anything, Newcastle's intervention has probably earned Everton anything up to Â£7m. So, rather than laughing at Newcastle, they should be congratulated for costing United money that they could have spent elsewhere. Also, Butt was a bargain.

Sadly, however, it looks like Shearer is comingh - if not this season then certainly next. And that, IMHO, is NOT a good thing

PaulEMoz · Post by **PaulEMoz** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 9:30 pm 0

Zoot wrote:Sadly, however, it looks like Shearer is comingh - if not this season then certainly next. And that, IMHO, is NOT a good thing

Eh?