I don’t know. Something changed quickly and they did move for that Brazilian defender, but weren’t successful.
I think you’re getting a bit salty for no reason. It’s pretty clear that we’ve balanced the books in our transfer spend in the summer. You didn’t mention Dawson sold for £3m for example. We can all do the sums and it probably won’t come to exactly zero, but it will be around that figure give or take. The point I’m making is we’ve invested next to nothing this season when you look at player trades solely on transfer fees in and out. I find it a bit strange that you’re trying to muddy the water over this, when it’s pretty obvious what has happened.
Not much really, just quotes xisco as saying sometimes you play sometimes you don't. Something is happening behind the scenes it seems.
It’s an indicator that everything in the garden is not rosey. I personally believe Xisco will be gone after Leeds. This is fine as long as the next guy is experienced at the top level. We cannot afford to get it wrong or else it’ll be another fiasco like the last EPL season.
Only just watched the highlights. Was expecting to see King a meter or two in front of his man for the offside goal. Actually his run is pretty good and at the moment of the initial shot his feet are behind the defender. It’s only his upper body beyond the line. The other two are more offside - would the goal have stood had King been on and they had been off?
The biggest negative for me so far this season has been the lack of a clean sheet. I’d have hoped and expected for at least a couple from our opening six fixtures. Wolves for example haven’t scored in any of their other matches, Norwich have only scored one other goal and Spurs haven’t scored since we played them. You think back to our last season as a promoted club and although the football was a bit dull at times and we all moaned at those first few 0-0 draws at home, at least we were stopping our opponents scoring. This season we know we probably have to score twice to win. Luckily we’ve managed that twice and almost did yesterday too. We all knew our defence is our weak area, and yes I’ve read people here saying stop referring back to last season but facts are facts. We were generally very solid last season, and with the addition of at least a better left-back too (and a more seemingly defence minded midfield) you’d have hoped for the occasional clean sheet. The chances of us currently sneaking a 1-0 win when playing badly, the sort of thing the likes of Burnley have been doing for ages now, seem unlikely.
Yes, similar to when Giaretta came down from the stands at half time against Huddersfield last season, and then we all know what happened. Once the club are publicly showing concern then it generally only goes one way.
In theory it would’ve stood, but then who knows when you look at some of the decisions in the Brighton Leicester game last week.
Personally I'm excited that we are getting closer to January which means a real possibility of seeing Masina at centre back. Adam Leventhal says he can play there so I'm excited to see what he can do.
Does Cleverley have to miss Leeds if he had a concussion? Etebo didn't look too clever when he came off either. Luckily a midfield with Kucka and Sissoko is probably more suited to Leeds away, plus we get to see Ozzy Tuffers start. Plus my boy Louza will be on the bench.
Could it be that XM is excluding him from match day squads because he doesn't want to integrate a player who's going to be missing for extended periods, with possible isolation following internationals? If he is then we're effectively down to 3 CBs (which will become 2 during AFON).
That was the most enjoyable game I’ve seen in a while. It was scrappy, feisty, chaotic and far from perfect but if that didn’t get your hairs up then football probably isn’t for you. The atmosphere was absolutely electric and there isn’t many things I get a bigger adrenaline rush from than seeing Watford attack the Rookery in the second half, especially when we are chasing the game. That’s why I love going to football. Absolute scenes when King put us 2-1 up*. Haven’t seen a goal celebrated like that in a long time with everyone running down the front in the rookery and lower GT - maybe Birmingham at home in 2015 when Cathcart put us 1-0 up towards the end of the promotion season?
I don't agree to all your points. Yesterday, he should have done much better. Against Norwich, the ball was played over the top, Pukki had loads of space and bags of time. Yes Foster came out, but he was never going to get there first, so he had to make a decision, go back on his line or stay put and force Pukki to shoot. Unfortunately, Pukki is good at a one on one situation. Our central defenders are carthorses, Cathcart is continuously caught out of position and is ball watching. He has his hands up in the air more than the old Arsenal back four or the French surrender monkies. He is hopeless and should be dropped.
Agree with this. Foster could have saved the Pukki chance but only by basically guessing right. Pukki held all the cards.
I think so, I seem to remember Dawson missed a few games when he got a head injury in that woeful game at home to Burnley 2 seasons ago. No idea what Etebo's injury was, but Kucka is inconsistent at best, we need Etebo for Leeds
He was left high and dry, but still, by coming out and then hesitating, he made it easier for Pukki who for all his supposed ability 1 on 1, hadn't scored from open play in the Prem for about 30 games. Maybe I'm being harsh, after all, Foster hasn't played much of late, but I'd have been fairly confident of Bachmann stopping that
All these certificates remind me of this: If I had Photoshop I could do one for “not an idiot” or whatever (I could probably do it on Paint, but the result would be a lot more crude).
It looked like he was a bit slow coming out for that whereas yesterday at the end he put Murphy off hence the weak finish.
It's hard to see from the angle, but King was def. offside for the goal. I really cannot make out any Newcastle player who could of possibly played him onside. Shame, but it's the right decision.
