Richard Arnold secretly filmed whilst speaking to supporters

NotoriousISSY said:
My inner cynic says he knows this is going to be shared one way or another, especially because the fanbase is already growing frustrated watching the two best teams in the country get better.
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Okay the more clips I see, and the way these idiots are celebrating on Twitter I don't think Arnold knows, and is possibly a bit naive to the real world realities.

Comes across well, but some of this absolutely should not go out into the public forum.

I like transparency, but they have definitely made every deal we pursue harder and more expensive now.
 
Any quotes that weren't recorded shouldn't be given much attention. Just taking some random guy's word for it.
 
UncleBob said:
How on earth is it the same thing re-telling what he said, with your own words, and filming him and putting it online

Jesus

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Because the content of the words is exactly the same. It really isn’t a big deal.
 
Brophs said:
It won’t help. That’s for sure.

For all he seems to come across as an okay guy, this video worries me. A serious CEO wouldn’t be trading commercially sensitive information in an environment like this. It makes me worry he’s got the same personality flaw that Woodward had, the need to grandstand even when it has the potential to harm you.
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It is a bit weird. He says the money's there if the manager wants a player but that's just not true. As we've seen every window there is a limit to the budget and we won't be held over a barrel. I wonder if he went on to say something like that after the video cuts. It was quite ill-advised to say what he said.
 
JPRouve said:
He didn't actually say anything that the moaning gang wants to hear.
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Actually he said word by word what we used to say while the top reds were busy singing ole at the wheel
 
PedroMendez said:
protest in the stadium or around the training ground all day long. Going to his house is unacceptable. These people should be booted forever. Filming him is the cherry on top.
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I agree
 
I don't think any club was thinking that United could afford their asking prices.

Cassidy said:
Disagree
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The people sharing the videos are moaning about the content.
 
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Mickeza said:
I think people need to be careful believing all these quotes on Twitter. You could make up that he said anything. Outside of the video coverage I’d take the rest with a pinch of salt.
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Agreed. They'll only tell us about the parts they want us to hear and it could well be heavily spun in whichever direction suits them.
 
Don't think that this affects the De Jong deal at all. I don't suppose it makes any difference whether we have 150m or 250m - this isn't why we're driving the price down. Barca want to sell and need to sell and it would seem there are no other bidders for the player as far as we can tell.
 
Mickeza said:
I’m sure some of them do. It’s like this place where you had posters delighted we’d lost a 200m training kit deal and then were moaning about no January signings 6 months later. Anyway, this is the account from one of them arranging the protest outside his house.

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I'm calling it; this cnut (the supporter) doesn't give a shit about the club as much as he does about feeling like he's in charge. Billy Big Bollocks marching down to someone's house because that someone is just a "Glazer man", feeling validated to protest outside said house, judging the guy when he comes to you because you and your friends "see through" his lies and PR "bullshit" because your job as apprentice shithead at TradeTwats is just a cover for your real job as an FBI behavioural analyst. All the while being a snidey and smug cnut in the videos you secretly record because in your head you have the right to be a bellend in any situation just as long as you're aggressive enough.
 
Nero said:
Any quotes that weren't recorded shouldn't be given much attention. Just taking some random guy's word for it.
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Yep. There's a reason the more significant claims just so happen to be the ones that haven't been shown in any recording. Some of them are almost certainly either deliberate bullshit or the guy putting his own preconceived spin onto what Arnold actually said.
 
JPRouve said:
I don't think any club was thinking that United could afford their asking prices.


The people sharing the videos are moaning about the content.
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They have an agenda clearly
 
I feel like the leak will do the CEO more good than harm in the eyes of some supporters

Maybe I’m getting played but he does seem to care and genuinely want the club to do well and is obviously good to take the time to speak to concerned supporters
 
Cassidy said:
Yes and talked about on going active negotiations and budget for the summer with numbers. Thats a sackable offence at any major multi national firm
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Not that I've heard, he didn't.

He was just going through the damage the so-called supporters were doing with their targeting of sponsors and saying that, without them (and others) things couldn't be improved and players bought.
 
Cassidy said:
They have an agenda clearly
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Which is why none of what said will change a thing. If we are honest, what he said is what any sensible person would think, you don't need Arnold to come to the same conclusions.
 
Mickeza said:
I’m sure some of them do. It’s like this place where you had posters delighted we’d lost a 200m training kit deal and then were moaning about no January signings 6 months later. Anyway, this is the account from one of them arranging the protest outside his house.

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I mean I guess that's the type of guy you want if you want to pull a revolution or disruption or whatever but he come of as so mean from those tweets, what the feck was Arnold supposed to do, he came sat down and actually tried to give off some candid answers, he didn't have to do that at all and this is what he gets in return.
 
LawCharltonBest said:
I feel like the leak will do the CEO more good than harm in the eyes of some supporters

Maybe I’m getting played but he does seem to care and genuinely want the club to do well and is obviously good to take the time to speak to concerned supporters
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Yeah this is the best bit of PR he’s ever had. He’s certainly gone up in my estimation
 
There's a lot being quoted from the fans I've noticed, that is not on the video clips.

So I'd take a lot of that with a pinch of salt tbh.
 
Came across ok really. He didn't confirm or deny the transfer budget, basically said that the money the manager and DOF want is there and available the 200m figure seemed to come from one of the fans.
 
JPRouve said:
Which is why none of what said will change a thing. If we are honest, what he said is what any sensible person would think, you don't need Arnold to come to the same conclusions.
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Agree
 
Cassidy said:
So he has exposed Uniteds budget for the summer, something Im sure the club wants to keep a secret from agents and other clubs during the window
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I doubt he did. Probably just whoever was the source misunderstood what he was saying. If he was coming across as a politician to some of the fans I doubt he'd give an actual number.
 
Longshanks said:
Came across ok really. He didn't confirm or deny the transfer budget, basically said that the money the manager and DOF want is there and available the 200m figure seemed to come from one of the fans.
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Fair dos then he comes out of that well. Prats attempting to to post what he didnt say online. Idiots
 
roseguy64 said:
I doubt he did. Probably just whoever was the source misunderstood what he was saying. If he was coming across as a politician to some of the fans I doubt he'd give an actual number.
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Good
 
Cassidy said:
Yes and talked about on going active negotiations and budget for the summer with numbers. Thats a sackable offence at any major multi national firm
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Yeah, that's why I am worried this won't go down well at the hierarchy.
 
Let's say that this was never filmed and some guy on twitter claimed he was there and paraphrased or quoted Arnold's comments and it didn't get much exposure (retweets etc) then none of us would probably know about this incident or even if we did then we would be questioning how true the quotes were.

If Arnold's gone to a pub to stop a few scrotes turning up at his house and said things to them he wanted only them to hear then he is very naive to not believe he may have been recorded.

It's interesting because I'm not sure how this will work out for him.
 
After careful observation of this entire situation my final conclusion is:

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
 
Rightnr said:
You are definitely one of those Priti Patel fans and probably especially love her great anti-protesting law.
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There's protesting against criminal govts and there's hanging around outside some guys house because he's not bought your team a player.
Get a grip man.
 
Fecking arseholes lad shows a bit of decency and engages in conversation with fans and they fecking upload it for clout.
Scum.
Hopefully he doesn't suffer any consequences because of this.
 
rimaldo said:
it will only put him off engaging with fans in future. he was really rude to me when he found me riffling through his bins and stealing his wife’s knickers off their clothesline and i can only imagine that’s in response to these so call ‘fans’
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:lol:
 
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