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Now, now. That's just paper talk as part of the media campaign to destroy Jose's image...

It's not a translation "fam" It's the literal pronunciation of the word in Arabic. It's written and pronounced in Arabic with an 'n' at the end. It's also where the actual English word "assassin" comes from. Just thought you might like to know..

Hashasheen*. It's Arabic literally for stoners/those who smoke weed. It's based on a radical Islamic sect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassins

Or he's become a Jedi to try to use the force to save our season

HOW THE FUCK does something like this get printed?! I know it's the mail, but still.....it's baking contest, what the actual FUCK!!!

That death stare! :wub:

I NEED that in a save-able video format!

Well you can criticize the manager, not wish physical harm on a human! That seems too obvious to even write, doesn't it?

Jeez, people. Have we really reached the stage of wishing prolonged injuries on our own players?! Sometimes we really do reach RAWK-standards around here...

He wasn't going to start the next couple of our games regardless. This might a blessing in disguise since the media won't be writing about all the 'issues' in the dressing room when he doesn't start.

Pedro is a 'player of the system'. When the system is working well expect him to consistently effective, but when the system is broken you won't see him making a difference.

There's a reason why he's a free agent, you know...but I guess it is better than playing Blackman if Asmir was to get injured or suspended till Thibaut returns from injury.

Google it, you lazy bastard! It was on WAGNH from some Serbian paper that interviewed him with the NT.

Apparently he's indicated to Serbian media that he is forbidden by the club to give his opinion about how Jose subbed him off and what he said about him afterwards.

He hasn't been played as second choice, though, has he? He's been consistently given considerable more minutes than Remy, which is a shame because even on poor form Remy can still offer A LOT more than Falcao. As for third strikers, we've had a couple of really good ones over the past few seasons that really offered something different to the team when they came on. Like Ba and Didier last season. Heck, I imagine Didier would still have been a much better option than Falcao this season. We could have played him when we need a target man instead of playing Zouma as striker.

Those evil Russians bombing that hospital!

Worse, it's not just in retrospective. The vast majority could see that this is exactly how this transfer would turn out because it was very obvious to anyone who saw him at united. But still some people made excuses to justify this transfer because of his name and marketability solely. The argument used back then was that "there was nothing to lose as this is only a loan". Financially maybe, but we've clearly lost the chance to have a proper backup striker!

It really isn't an excuse. That is genuinely how he thinks. In fact he's made similar justifications of selection for other players in the past. I even pointed out that that is why he didn't start Luis and Azpi together last season but people didn't take it seriously....maybe because it sounds incredibly silly for a top manager to think and do..

Completely irrational as well. We don't have anything even close to 'player power' in the team. In case anyone hasn't noticed, Jose has basically been running the squad like a dictatorship. Just ask Eva & Fearn or Lukaku or KDB about it. That's what he does. He's the military commander and he leads the troops to war. The obvious difference between now and under AVB is that (some of) the players back then consciously and purposefully didn't want to give 100% for the team because they wanted the manager gone for their own sake at the expense of the best interest of the club. That is very obviously not the case now. No one is intentionally not giving 100%. We don't have power cliques in the team. We don't even have players with that type of personality. Practically everyone in the squad is a Mourinho man. Continuing about that article, yes a player should be held accountable for his failures. But when an entire team is under-performing so badly and with no obvious ulterior motives, you have to look at exterior factors. You have to look at the management. Yes, Jose is the most successful and decorated manager in the past decade, but that is irrelevant here. The question that should be asked is where does the best interest of the club lie? Will the sacking of Jose Mourinho improve the team and get us better results? Can another manager do better than he is doing?

Someone give this guy a medal!

LOL I wasn't suggesting you do Assignments like these is where you get to learn about a new interesting issue and probably form your opinion about it. So my advice would be to do about something you know very little about and see on which side of the fence you end up.

Education? Definitely go with standardized testing. I remember in high school I had the same essay about Euthanasia that I would use every single year as an argumentative essay!

Absolutely no idea how you got from that I'm putting all on the manager. Confidence and mental readiness are incredibly complex things. We can all have theories why they seem to be low with the team right now but watching us play I don't think anyone can argue that those two factors are not obviously lacking. When Matic on several occasions can't make simple 10 yard passes, or when Hazard hesitates every time he gets into the final third to give just two examples those are not down to lack of individual quality but mental solidness. Jose is a great motivator, you can argue even the best, but his 'Us vs The world" technique has never been tested long term and we could well be seeing the down side of it. In terms of confidence, none of those players have ever experienced a run like this, it's only normal that their confidence is so obviously down. The mood around the club also plays a huge role. The issues with Eva, Costa...etc. are certainly not having a positive impact. You've also left our physical readiness, which Jose himself admitted that he knew would be way behind everyone else's because of the late and terrible preseason we had. But we still went ahead with it anyway. So yes, there are obviously a lot of people responsible for the various factors that are causing this shambles. It's incredible simplistic to attribute to the lack of one or two signings.

Yeah, we'd probably be all the way up in 11th had we gotten them! I'm sorry, but I despise this nonsensical mentality. Individual quality is obviously a factor but our problems run A LOT deeper. If it were solely on individual quality then how in the world are we in 16th when we have better individual quality than every team in the EPL apart from 2 or 3?! This is basically the same XI that walked the league last season!! Oversimplifying the issues to one or two buys is running away from the real problems in my eyes. We have to realize that confidence, motivation, mentality, tactics, physical readiness...etc. have all been equally important if not more so than one or two signings.

We can't just assume that all of the failings in the transfer market were all the board's fault and have nothing to do with Jose. For example, he made it VERY clear that the Falcao signing was his idea and desire. He also never even hinted that he was looking for a top fullback who can come into the starting XI. He said from the start that Baba would fill the Luis role, i.e. a rotation option for cups and ULC group matches. On any account, regardless of the transfer business, the current squad with all the quality we have should never be in the position that we are in regardless of form.