because they’ll both be pushing in the same direction perhaps?
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because they’ll both be pushing in the same direction perhaps?
Yes. Everything is the worst possible option. Unless there is a worse one available then we will probably choose that.
Honestly I don’t know why some of you even like football.
I wonder what generation of inbred, lizard featured creeps will be owning us by that point.
I'm picturing the reincarnated clone of Malcolm at the helm, possibly in a tank ala futurama. Cereberus the many headed beastie would be his right hand man, no doubt, with each head a different glazer child.
Something like that anyway.
Bloody hell John. Bit heavy handed that don't you think.
It's quite obvious the multiples will all have ties to Sir Jim and INEOS so safe to assume they all pull in the same direction...many hands make light work.
Yeah that's just how I would hope the expertise would break down across 2.
In effect what we had with Murtough supposedly the "expert" in building a squad with a philosophy and Matt Judge the "expert" in building good relations and getting deals done.
Just shows how structure means shit if you put dopes in the roles.
It’s like never having owned a suit before so you buy two at the same time just in case one doesn’t fit.
Two sporting directors. It’ll be like one of those team challenges on the Apprentice. How much tat can you buy for £200m?
This thread and this 'takeover' is a year wasted out of our lives, its time to switch off from all of this nonsense...
Because Chelsea's football operation is definitely one to be admired and held up as the ideal. And also, Alex Crook is to always be regarded as someone with concrete information (if it suits your narrative).
I really fear for society these days when they think that the media is still an investigative and truth telling enterprise - it's not. The media is drowning and absolutely for hire and will print whatever you want them to.
I really fear for society these days when they think that the media is still an investigative and truth telling enterprise - it's not. The media is drowning and absolutely for hire and will print whatever you want them to.
Two is one, one is none.
There are loads of random titles we could fill:
Director of Football
Sporting Director
Technical Director
Head of Recruitment
Might as well get them all !
Director of Football
Sporting Director
Technical Director
Head of Recruitment
Might as well get them all !
When did you get unbanned?DOF are like buses. You wait years for one to come along and then…….
Something significant happened and there were multiple reliable sources!When did you get unbanned?
When you get a minute. No rush.
They get the deals done, you cant criticise them for that. New owners came in, they got business done. If we end up doing that I'd be delighted.
Yeah, really looking forward to that. Makes no sense at all.
There won't be any financial details for sure. Just some PR platitudes.
There's nothing to admire about their deals or their strategy. Unless of course, you run a US sports franchise where you fill your squad with first round draft picks to maybe be successful in 5 years or get a ROI.
The story is garbage from Alex Crook anyway, just as all the other reports. Nobody has a scooby what's going on.
Agree. If they want to sell at a given point, then the targets are likely to be not achievable. Otherwise they’d sell now for a good offer.
Julien Laurens' account of Nice since Ratcliffe took over sounds shambolic; hope they've learned from their many mistakes. Add to that, Rob Dawson writing that Ten Hag expects to retain his veto of all incoming and outgoing transfers; he shouldn't be allowed anywhere near transfer decisions.
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No mention of his brother being hired in any capacity. That's a big win & a lesson learnt
It’s like the caf equivalent of the American president pardoning the thanksgiving turkey…. @Solius is the president and I’m the….. wait a minute!When did you get unbanned?
What doesn’t make sense?
It doesnt fit the doom and gloom narrative.
300+ new players!
A muppets wet dream….
Knowing United, they will all be exclusively from Ligue 1.
Fair enough.
Jimmy: "We need a role model club"
"What about Chelsea?"
Jimmy: "I almost bought it, so yeah"
The 'doom and gloom narrative' is the preserve of the pro-Qatari crowd who genuinely thought Qatar's 'victory' was a sure thing.
Now they're angrily sniping because 'the boy Jassim' has neglected them and they're looking for any hold-up with Ratcliffe to project their frustration.
That's just a poorly simplistic, thought-out narrative. Not everything is so binary in the world. It's like criticism of Israel on the war in Gaza and then being called an anti-semite.
A minority ownership of the club is fraught with operational issues.
I can see internal squabbling, and delays in decision-making due to divergent objectives of the various parties.
Its complex enough in a JV. But when a 25% minority party (albeit with the possibility goal of 100% ownership) wants to have control of the footballing operations, or even a Ratcliffe-appointed CEO; whilst the ultimate organisational control lies with the Glazers -- it will be extremely complicated.
Just put yourself in that position of being the head of the footballing operations -- and having weekly, monthly or quarterly board meetings.
Who actually pulls the strings or is the final decision maker?Thats why this negotiation is so difficult and has been dragging on.
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Honestly don't see what all the fuss is about. The buy-in from Jim is essentially to get the Glazers some extra money right? They're not going to give him proper control of anything and there's nothing to suggest he'd be any less useless and money-grabbing than the other Glazers anyway.
So far it seems like he'll bring in some of his own people (which could be better than the current rabble maybe) and the Glazers will make a few hundred million more from the club, and then it's more-or-less business as usual.
So far it seems like he'll bring in some of his own people (which could be better than the current rabble maybe) and the Glazers will make a few hundred million more from the club, and then it's more-or-less business as usual.
Will dividends still be taken out as normal and by whom, or do we not know yet.
feels like you’re making huge assumptions based on your own pessimistic subjective opinions.
No issue with that but don’t try and pass it off as fact.
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