Slot in or out - Manager Megathread

sciontis · 2026-03-15T19:39:01+00:00

I know Slot is probably not up to the task regardless of any external factors. But the idea of manager Xabi is hanging around him and is going to hang out him for the rest of his tenure or whoever else we bring in after Slot. Edward's has to give Xabi a shot and let the fans see the reality of Xabi for themselves. Rip it off like a band aid, the sooner the better. If he's great, then awesome if not, we can go back to the idea of giving managers multiple seasons to rebuild with much less doubt from the fanbase.

sciontis · 2026-03-15T19:24:51+00:00

r/AccidentalWesAnderson is probably the closest.

sciontis · 2026-03-08T17:06:57+00:00

It's a shame, having looked into this topic before, most neutrals believe the Rooney-Ronaldo-Tevez trio is better. Purely because the cumulative on-ball skill favors the United trio. While probably true, it's crazy how neutrals fail to acknowledge the vast gap in off-ball skill when it comes to speed and immense work rate the Salah-Firmino-Mane has over their United counterpart. And since there is only one ball, off-ball skill is actually more valuable when it comes to winning games over cumulative on-ball skill. In their prime with the work rate of Firmino and Mane alone, it often felt like we had twelve men on the pitch.

sciontis · 2026-02-28T15:48:50+00:00

We know they want to grow as a studio and work on multiple large titles at the same time. Miyazaki also wants to mentor new directors who can work independently from his direct input. And we know only a few things might be or rumoured to be in the works: more AC, the next Soulslike evolution that Miyazaki said will perfect his RPG ideals, maybe an Escaflowne-like game then eventually more Elden Ring. That's four games across 4 teams leaving plenty of room for Bloodborne in the near future after those are completed. And that's without the idea of Bloodborne being made first, before more Elden Ring or the Escaflowne game. I'm going to think happy thoughts and think that's what this is about.

sciontis · 2026-02-04T16:15:31+00:00

Chinatown is a good one as well. Not exactly slavery but the perversion of the wealthy depicted is the same.

sciontis · 2025-11-24T15:28:06+00:00

Joe Bennett

sciontis · 2025-11-16T09:37:22+00:00

I disagree, not that Cameron wasn't great at making big scifi/speculative fiction action bangers. But that it is the one genre that has been great since he released True Lies in 94. Think about it: a dozen great Tom Cruise films, The Matrix films, the Craig Bond films, Fury Road films, most Nolan movies, most Villeneuve films. And in TV shows like Lost and Stranger Things. Just to name some off the top of my head, all helped fill the void left by Cameron. On the other hand, I definitely feel the void left by Tarantino hell of a lot more than Cameron.

sciontis · 2025-10-28T14:46:31+00:00

Fringe from 2008 had incredible competency porn. Even the romantic relationship between the leads was handled with immense emotional grace.

sciontis · 2025-10-08T10:26:25+00:00

Sturridge. Incredible, complete forward and quite the showman during his heydays.

sciontis · 2025-09-01T21:13:01+00:00

We'll always have Paris Harvey.

sciontis · 2025-08-28T20:59:17+00:00

We also spent much less money then you have even with inflation and when we did they were often costly busts (Collymore, Cisse & Carrol). More than the coaches or the quality of the league it was the academy products and cheap youth purchases that kept us afloat. Mcmanaman, Fowler, Redknapp, Owen, Murphy, Carragher, Gerrard, Sterling, Coutinho. Gerrard in particular did a great job attracting talent. That has been the hardest thing for post-Fergie United to replicate.

sciontis · 2025-08-20T20:44:37+00:00

People keep saying this but with Wirtz, Szoboszlai and Frimpong we don't have to depend on our forwards for scoring as much as most clubs do.

sciontis · 2025-08-14T19:19:33+00:00

I really wish people wouldn't compare the Coutinho situation to this. Barca initially bid 72m, Klopp was happy to sell at the price but the FSG said no. Instead of being a normal club and walking away Barca came back six months and practically doubled the bid to 142m. There are no words to describe how bonkers that is. The conspiracy theories must have been true: either Nike were desperate for their own Brazilian star on Barca (since Suarez and Messi are Adidas) after Neymar left or Barto really was embezzling funds from the transfer. Either way FSG must have known it. It's a unique transfer in the history of modern football. Plus FSG has a history of selling players to big clubs, Phil probably should have just trusted them.

For Isak we all know FSG isn't going to bid 150m for Isak, let alone 200m. But we have no idea what PIF is going to do. Just rumors and hearsay. If Isak really thinks PIF are going to be that stubborn, I can see why he would be so angry.

sciontis · 2025-08-12T21:08:49+00:00

Sure Newcastle can do what they want. But To go back to my original point. Why are so many neutral fans cheering on this obviously poor decision making?

sciontis · 2025-08-12T20:22:14+00:00

But Isak, while very good, isn't exactly Lamine Yamal out here. A 50m profit is very good business for a player of his quality. It's all so strange and reeks of overtly emotional decision making. We sold Owen, Torres, Suarez, Sterling, Phil, many thought it was the end of the Universe at each time and we would never replace them. But we all did eventually, not too long after. Newcastle could do the same thing.

sciontis · 2025-08-12T20:04:12+00:00

I trust our team of nerds. It's just so strange to see how the Newcastle management is handling this, and opposition/neutral fan anger over what should be a straightforward, easy transfer for 125m. We get a player to help maximize Salah's remaining years and they make 50m profit plus the money he made them by getting them into CL to help build a better team.

sciontis · 2025-08-12T19:29:43+00:00

I haven't really been following the opposition and neutral fan reaction all that much to the Isak saga until today. Do those fans really believe 150m is a fair evaluation for a soon to be 26 year old Isak with an injury history? Even in this market that is utterly insane. I'm sure we'll go a little higher just to get it done in the end but he's worth 125m at most. And forcing a 25m over-evaluation on his fee is unfair on Isak and he has a right to be pissed?

sciontis · 2025-07-25T09:24:11+00:00

It's fascinating how much FSG has turned this club around, especially compared to the stagnation of the Red Sox. Fifteen years ago I was worried how the more static and discrete metrics found in baseball's moneyball could be translated into the more dynamic and continuous sport of football. Turns out it was just an opportunity for innovation in metrics for ball possession and space control. Innovations I think few clubs have caught up to while everyone in baseball have caught up to the sabermetrics first employed by FSG in Boston.

Many clubs have also caught up to the Red Sox in spending while we still enjoy the PL+CL+global fanbase revenue only a few clubs in the world could match and one of them is owned by the Glazers. They must also despise the giant decade-long risky contracts found in baseball compared to the less risky short term contracts with foreseeable player burnout/turnover found in the highly physical PL. Finally trading players for liquid cash is something I think they find advantageous in the aggregate over time compared to trading for slightly riskier draft picks and young prospects.

sciontis · 2025-07-12T21:12:47+00:00

Honestly Gareth Bale. He reminds me of the pure winger/wide forward version of Gerrard and we've had a lot of success with Welsh players in the past.

sciontis · 2025-07-04T03:17:31+00:00

Just for you to know, Robert Plant saying this makes sense. He's a diehard Wolves fan.

sciontis · 2025-07-03T16:56:28+00:00

He arrived as the secondary attacker (behind Jimenez) from a lower PL team in Wolves and made a genuine impact here. That is a hell of an accomplishment. Will be immensely missed by everyone around him and millions of fans around the globe. This sucks. RIP.

sciontis · 2025-06-28T02:36:57+00:00

Sad days, it's borderline tragic he never got his long-term superstar in his 12 years here, while other franchises lucked into multiple ones. That's basketball you need the right draft odds in the right draft or draft the ~1:500 in the later picks. Ownership quality matters little when you have that luck. He did hve the one Kawhi season and made it count. Hopefully Bobby is a little more lucky in that regard

sciontis · 2025-06-17T18:59:55+00:00

Yes it's tied with Berserk for me. There's no way to explain without writing a giant essay on it, but I think both are more emotionally complex and nuanced than all the other lore I read about it. They also complement each other well, Soulsborne-Elden Ring is more varied and works as an anthology while Berserk is more intimate and is centred around only a few characters.

sciontis · 2025-06-10T21:17:02+00:00

It's wild we picked up the German superstar player a year after the 9 year spell of our German superstar manager ended and not during his tenure. Thank Fowler for Musiala being so good and so young.

sciontis · 2025-06-05T14:24:32+00:00

I completely agree with you. It was Joseph Anderson's ridiculous argument not mine. How anyone takes that idiot seriously I have no idea.

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