No f***er is going to tell me we wouldn't have gotten more than 75m for him in a normal two years left open auction. His WC bite let Barca in unopposed for the buy out clause. Great luck for them but moneyballtastic. The clause guaranteed us the 75m and presumably clarified the confusion about £40m + 1p but no clause would have meant us calling the shots. If a buy out clause was a non negotiable from his perspective, just do what they do in the Shangri La of La Liga and set it at £200m.
Utopia is a fryer that will work with beef lard. It solidifies between uses, obviously, but it's peerless. And the two stage approach is key. Part cook, put aside, refry. Oven chips my hoop.
I think we're all agreed that confidence is as much a problem as anything just now. The owners of a football club demonstrating public confidence in their man is probably one of the few functions that most people can understand in their role. And that can't hurt the morale around the club. He doesn't need to make a statement, just turn up and watch the game and spend a few days around the club moneyballing the s*** out of the management of the multi-multi million dollar investment they made. What would it be, the fifth or sixth time he would turn up?
5 more games without a win and the absentee landlords still stay away letting their man drown in his own mess? That's not what I call leadership. f*** the media going with that line but f*** them every day of the week anyway.
They need to come over and attend an actual game, show the manager some support in public. Maybe even meet him face to face, put an arm around his shoulder. Mad stuff for them, but it's needed.
No top 4 and he's gone, I don't think that's scaremongering. He needs to pull something out of his bag of tricks, in a few years we'll hopefully look back at some moment that's going to happen over the next few weeks and say that that was when we knew he'd win us a league.
So Sepp is avoiding the USA for fear of the FBI bringing him in for questioning. And he's replied to Greg Dyke's demand for the report to be published in full by telling him that if the FA and anyone involved in the England bid waive their right to sue, the report can be published. Will be interesting to see the FA's response to that.
Hillsborough inquest hears police gave ‘entirely false’ story about a forced gate http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/nov/19/hillsborough-inquest-police-story-forced-gate-liverpool-supporters?CMP=twt_gu
Long after England became the home of football, Dave Whelan's Granda was being born in Tipperary. Or maybe he thinks the Irish aren't really 'foreign' but anyway, he employs many foreign players and he's a t**.