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Benitez Future In Doubt Over Failure to Secure Key Signings

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What A Waster said:
I agree that a lot of fans are living in cloud cuckoo land. It's probably more like ridiculous optimism and unrealistic ambition based on a few good years in the 90s and early 2000s.
Instead of seeing those periods as over achieving in the context of our club a lot of people take is 'our rightful place' and see midtable as poor. Creates unrealistic expectations and pressures at the club. A taste of the good stuff in those periods has made everything else seem sour.
I think wanting the best for your club and having the ambition and dreams is a good thing, though it's sometimes detrimental in the way those hopes and desires are expressed. They manifest themselves more as demands and expectations. No fan surely thinks I'd be happy being steady midtable forever. People call Arsenal fans, but if being top 4 is your standard, you want to improve and mount a title challenge.
Continuous improvement and always striving to be the best you can is a healthy state of mind.
So when Newcastle fans talk about doing well, and wanting to do well, not just survive and make up the numbers that's fine.
The Chronicle is part of the problem though. Driven by desire for web traffic to generate advertising revenue, they really play to the social media sharers. The ones who get excited when Steven Taylor says something slating Sunderland. Its transparent but creates revenue. The Chronicle, Ryder in particular, does nothing but feed the stereotype of the deluded Newcastle fan. He's an absolute joke.
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Not much I can diagree with there marra ya bassa :lol:
 
Reiver said:
The Mags would tell you that he had to spend that money on a team to get promoted, now he needs another one to keep them up ...... which is an interesting theory.

Presumably he'll need another one to get them into the top half the season after.

It's 100% certain that the new signings will be what Benitez wanted, if they work out.

It's 101% certain that they will be what Ashley forced on him, if they don't.
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It's the hold Benitez has over the press which amazes me. Paid 5m for Murphy, sold him for 2m, half of which is apparently dependent on Forest getting promoted. So potentially a 4m loss in 12 months yet the press paint him as some sort of transfer genius.

Yet when we sell Kone, you just know that it'll be reported as how much less we got for him than we were offered for him last summer rather than the fact it'll still be a profitable deal for us based on what we paid for him.
 
DrNo! said:
This is the stereotypical toon fan to me. Fat , bald, wearing a replica shirt. Wait a minute......he's also the local nufc correspondant for the local rag. :)
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It's the mean and moody James Dean pose that gets me

Squinting to hide the bong of course

Is he actually trying to look like Beckham :lol:

If it's Shearer he's trying to copy he forgot the hat
 
The Fish said:
I don't understand, constructive dismissal isn't something you fall for, it's something you're found guilty of.

You don't fall for indecent exposure, you're found guilty of it. Believe you me.
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It sounds like you may have more experience than I on the indecent exposure front.

As for the other matter, you know very well what I was inferring and are clearly spoiling for another dust up.

Nothing to see here, move along folks!
 
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