James

Unless the takeover it is going to happen it will be hard for me to accept someone competent and likeable. To be honest people laugh at Holloway but my reasons for not wanting him would be that he is too good a person for us

The huge irony now is that whoever the new guy is will probably get McClaren level money to spend, something Rafa never got. Of course it will have to be U26 players from France, Belgium or Holland that are recommended by the database the club subscribes to.

Suspected as such no one had the inkling that today was the day.

Any new owners would be off to a bad start if the new manager wasn’t Rafa. Obviously if it was someone phenomenal, fine but they’d seriously underestimate us if they thought that Mourinho is the dream ticket.

Thing is until we appoint a new manager or Rafa takes a new job or we play our first game of the season I can’t bring myself to face the truth that there isn’t a way back. He’s still relatively young I hope we can find a way back for him some day

Personally I’m hopeful that Rafa will stay but we may not know for sure until 4th July. But if the players show up on 4th to find no senior coaching team they need to show some solidarity with the fans and strike

Hughton wasn’t unpaid he was just the most senior coach whose contract was still ongoing. Which in this case is probably Redfearn

Steve Harper sacked

Takeover confirmed new owner is Yildiz - Turkish billionaire https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/business/2014/nov/03/united-biscuits-jaffa-cakes-mcvities-yildiz-two-billion-deal

Should just go down the Football Manager route of rolling weekly contracts, do a few weeks of pre season and then reassess

This is all getting a bit Lee Stewart. Can we class ourselves up a bit and move on to afflictions such as sinusitis, varicose veins or ingrown toenails

Get it in your head, the takeover’s happening, you thin runt

Hope you’ve had your breakfast

4th July either Rafa and his staff will take on pre season training or they won’t be there that at the very latest would be enough for us to see where this is headed.

No, they just have no idea what's happening. They’ve been like that since the dawn of time and it never stopped them posting shit before. Agreed. They must’ve had hundreds of requests for comment today and not one of them has made mention of anything. Just seems odd tis all. Not beyond the realms of possibility that they’ve agreed to embargo themselves in exchange for access to a big story. If all is silent tomorrow too we know something is up

I’m imagining a future we’re Rafa gives Midhat a 400 page dossier on his five year plan and Midhat replies with a thumbs up

Today’s MEN implying that Nicky Butt is under consideration if Rafa goes

Any chance we can put the inverted commas in inverted commas?

When I left my last job I received a letter reminding me that I signed up to maintain confidentiality even after departure. There will only be so much he’ll be allowed to legally say

But I look like a Will. My wife says I even walk like him

Is that Rafa sucking on a polo mint? Just reacting to the local rags This post reminds me of the glory days in about 2010/2011 where random people would walk up to me and shout briefcase wanker at me which might have been bad for me but actually ended up in me shagging a few lovely young ladies well above my level who went up to me at night clubs and called me that. Unfortunately I haven’t aged so well so by the time I became aware of the Inbetweeners and my untapped potential as a lookalike fanny magnet the opportunity had passed.

This post is about a team that spent £150m on fullbacks. Not sure I’d want Walker in goal either

Nothing significant will move forward today or for a few days now, 17 people have died in a bus crash on a street named after Sheikh Khaled’s grandfather so they won’t be able to complete now until the mourning phase is over.

Sheikh Khaled : I am Iron Man

Personally think we would have lined up stronger and more competitive but for the proximity of the Champions League Final. Southgate just didn’t have time to work with his best players.