BlueStar

Exactly. Canny bloke as well, not an utter cunt like Arry.

i'm guessing any new manager would recieve financial backing not available to the others Even worse if that's the case, really need to nip this in the bud in my opinion.

We tried these kinds of rallying calls with other underwhelming managers and it kicked us in the arse.

Much rather have him than Redknapp to be honest.

SSN texts, Pompey fans crying they don't want him to go, toon fans screaming they don't want him to come

His wife loves the lifestyle apparently. Not surprised, I can imagine she's like Boyce's lass from Only Fools and Horses, the tacky faux-posh cockney socialite lifestyle in that grubby shithole probably fits her to a tea.

SSN "Already the fans on the internet are dissapointed - from Steve" Who was that then?

I'd be deeply concerned if he's Ashley's first choice and he turns us down. As much as I think this is a sideways step from Allardyce I'm fearful of who we may turn to if he decides he doesn't want the job. Well exactly. I said earlier in one of these mammoth threads, it seems we pull out all the stops to get the wrong man here. Paying off his current club, arguing with the FA over badges, defending dodgy dealings, long contracts, big pay offs, private jets, massive transfer kitties... All to secure Souness, Roeder, Sam and Redknapp And if he's our first choice god knows who we'll end up with otherwise.

AO: "This is the job harry has been dreaming of. His wife wont like the rain and wont want to come. I've spoke to Chris Mort, he is new to this. He's playing it by the book."

Anal on SSN now. Says he's just spoken to Redknapp and 'Arry says he's not spoken to us. But deep down AO gets the feeling it's a done deal.

The mixed emotions of relief and shame if he says we've offered him a fortune in wages and a huge transfer kitty to join us and he's turned us down...

Pointless, pointless, pointless. Might as well have continued stringing Sam along until we could get someone decent. Reckon there's going to be boos at the next home game when he's mentioned on the tannoy.

Utter cunt at the bottom of the inside back page of the metro today, all the usual cliches about unrealistic expectation, we've never won fuck all, QPR and Sunderland have won stuff more recently than us, we're all deluded, we don't want to win ugly because that's not good enough for us, haha silly northerners.

Aye, fucking terrifies me the prospect of that!

Sadly giving too much money to the wrong man could be even worse than being stingy with the right man...

Someone go spray that on the side of St James, to the left of Shearer's bar where the Sky vans park.

If what the papers are saying is true and this deal includes a huge buy out of his current club, a mega transfer kitty, obscene wages and a relocation package so attractive it includes use of a private jet surely we'd be able to tempt someone better than Harry fucking Redknapp with it? We hate cockneys and we hate cockneys...

Dead man walking already.

Greet him in your dressing gown and flash your goldfish shirt at him when he lands, i doubt we'll see him again.

Fuck it, people already think our expectations are too high, we're not willing to give people a chance etc so we've nowt to lose anyway. If it is him, Harry Out chants and banners at the first match, brick his plane when it lands and hoss rotten fruit at the unveiling. Saves us doing it 6 months and however many million it will be down the line. If we go all out we can have him scuttling back down south within a week so it's not like starting again from square one.

Does that mean that after a few months it'll turn out he's not our manager after all?

Don't worry, Mong Squad are on the case.

Guess the logic would be that he asked for a big transfer kitty and one wasn't forthcoming for obvious reasons.

I'd bite his fucking hand off at the moment with some of the other possibilities being touted.

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