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Purslow's decreed no-one will be sold until the new man arrives.

I agree. Though there are plenty of people on here saying we should shift him for £30m as the job he does is not that hard to do etc. Seems odd if the job's so easy that last season's European Champions and this seasons European Champions are keen on him and prepared to pay a lot of money for him but there you go...

Personally I think you're rather over-valuing being linked with the England job. Basically the bar for the standard of English manager linked to the job is much lower than it is for foreign managers. The last two Englishmen linked to the job seriously were McClaren and Allardyce. In any case, I thought you wanted Kenny anyway and thought Roy was too low profile(?) You mean Manzano: I think he left Mallorca at the end of the season. No idea if he speaks English but an interesting shout.

You said something that was untrue, I pointed that out. Then you claimed you'd said something you hadn't and I pointed that out. Basically you just can't ever accept being wrong - you'd rather just make stuff up and shout abuse. I'm not surprised you won't engage - once you make stuff up to cover yourself on a forum (when anyone can check to see you've made it up) you've kind of run out of defences. As for a dossier: just another sign of your ludicrously misplaced self importance. I just happen to remember people saying ridiculous and laughable things - hence, unfortunately, I remember many of your posts.

You didn't confess that actually so might be best if you reread your own posts before making stuff up. Again: someone points out you're wrong and you resort to abuse. It really is pathetic. I've always found it hard to take seriously someone who bangs on about their own "analytical abilities" and the fact they're "a full grown man" as much as you do but recently you've reached new levels of stupidity and inanity.

Another incorrect post. You did state something other than "Tomkins was a bit of a tosspot who'd probably topped himself now Rafa's gone" as you stated that ME(/CFS) is not associated with a predisposition to suicide. This isn't factually accurate, as I pointed out. Is this too complicated for you? Once again, you lapse into low level abuse when people point out you're wrong. Pretty pathetic.

Petty response to it being pointed out that your previous post was basically incorrect. Seems to be what you go in for these days though, so not exactly surprising.

I've never said it seriously offended me. I just said it wasn't funny, which it wasn't and that it was in poor taste, which it was. Whether or not CFS/ME elevate suicide risk is actually an open question, but CFS/ME is almost certainly associated with major depression, which certainly elevates suicide risk.

Yes I agree it's over-used and agree it's used in the context of two individuals disagreeing over something that you cite above. I still don't really get what was wrong with the definition you put up and seemed to be implying was wrong. That's why I'm asking what you understand by it.

Yes and the 250m Euros and the thumping loss over two legs to a third division side (who are all amateurs in Spain I think)

Yep, sorry, was worse than I'd recalled.

It was a simple enough question (I recall you like repeating questions until you get an answer). I'm just trying to understand what you mean by revisionism given you seem to be implying something not far off one of the standard definitions of the word is fundamentally wrong.

I quite like Pellegrini as I've said. But him having been "big enough" for Real Madrid is a seriously lame argument - let's talk to Ramos, Camacho, Schuster, Luxemburgo and Queiroz then. That's Newcastle thinking. As for his record at Real (which IIRC you were praising) he got a club record number of points. Which is to be praised though as Barca did too it probably says something about the depth of La Liga too. He still won nothing, lost 4-1 over two legs to a third division team in Copa del Rey and lost to Lyon in the Champions League last eight. That's only ever going to be considered a failure there, not least when the club's spent the best part of 250m Euros in the summer.

What's your definition then? I'd say that's a decent enough definition yet you're implying that's wrong. Not sure what your last clause means, particularly given the one that precedes it.

A few pages ago I posted a link to him talking about tactics/his approach. It's about 4 minutes long and has English translation. It's from his Villareal days. Long and short of it is he likes 4-4-2, except against Barca becuase, he says, they always have the majority of the possession so he switches to 4-2-3-1. He also says he liked to spend 90% of his time preparing his team and 10% on thinking about the opposition (which will go down well here).

Yes and interestingly the quote cited by DH above this morning is also in Rory Smith's report (virtually word for word) for The Telegraph with one rather important difference: it's referring to the Masch to Inter deal rather than the Pellegrini deal. Either the agent said virtually the same thing to describe the two potentially deals or there's some wires crossed somewhere.

Van Gaal arrived in Germany with no German last year. (He just went to a monastery for a month to learn.)

Why it wasn't funny I don't know. It just wasn't. As to why it's in poor taste, I'm amazed you have to ask.

Yes, though he'll also be used to seeing players arrive for fees amounting to 250m Euros...

Not funny, in poor taste.

I don't think he's the best coach in the world (in fact I wouldn't even put him in the top tier of coaches) but he's certainly more inspiring, IMHO, than Hodgson and O'Neill. He's also not European BTW. I think he's better than Ramos. Villareal are a much, much smaller team than Sevilla for a start. He also did quite well in Argentina before coming to Europe.

Should Pellegrini get the job (hardly certain at this stage) then would be good news. He's certainly a more inspiring choice than some of the others we've been linked to and has a fairly good record. His teams tend to play good stuff which would be nice. He may be quite an interesting character. I recall reading a profile of him about five years ago (maybe Guardian but can't find it online) which implied he was quite a laconic character. There's quite a good video of him on tactics at the bottom of this link. Gives a bit of an insight into his views.

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That's a post not befitting a man of your (self-asserted) great analytical prowess. Even if we're to limit their achievements as managers' to what occurred at Liverpool (which is itself only part of the story in assessing them both) then any serious attempt at comparing their achievements would involve looking at the level of squad they inherited, what the level of the club they inherited was, could they both compete equally in the market, were they working in a functioning environment etc etc FWIW, if the realistic options are RH or KD, I tend to think the latter is the better option if only because he may be able to restore some good feeling around the club and may be able to get a season more out of Gerrard and Torres - though that's only a guess. Nevertheless it would basically be an enormous gamble to put in place a man who hardly covered himself in glory at Celtic in selecting Barnes and then taking over himself and whose last league finish at Newcastle was 13th. Incidentally he'd taken over Newcastle in January of the season before with them 4th and got them to finish 2nd. Fairly easy to guess what you'd make of a manager finishing 2nd and then 13th.

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