Rich

Tend to agree. It's probably the most Rafa-esque appointment we could make in terms of philosophy, attention to detail, and reputation. However, it's also someone familiar with working under the sort of structure that it seems we'll be implementing, which it's unlikely Rafa would've been too happy with in the long-run. Very exciting and ticks all of the boxes, really. Also bodes very well for trusting the decision-making of the consortium, IMO. Let's hope this isn't a false dawn and he's announced imminently. Howay the fucking lads.

Post more pls. Thank you.

Very interested to see how Emery handles him and how ASM responds to the structure of the team becoming the focal point.

E I E I E I O UP THE PREMIER LEAGUE WE GO WHEN WE GET TO EUROPE, THIS IS WHAT WE'LL SING WE ARE GEORDIES, SUPER GEORDIES, EMERY IS OUR KING

Antero Henrique. He's been linked to the Sporting Director role here, along with everyone else.

Would he need to if we had a proper sporting director / chief exec?

Christ.

Ten Hag Benitez Fonseca Emery

Not having this, mind. KK part two was class for a spell, despite the ownership. Rafa would be coming back under what should be significantly better ownership.

How can you go from being the best manager we’ve had since Bobby to being “finished” in a few years, though? He’s made two highly questionable career choices in a row mind, no doubt about that.

They’re singing Fat Spanish Waiter at him. His own fans.

Sacked in the morning, hired in the afternoon.

Howay.

Bang to rights.

Seems like it’s narrowing down to: Fonseca Favre Martinez Howe Lampard Presuming the media know anything at all, of course.

That was a Spurs with an established leadership structure and much more pulling power than us, like. They had Paratici already committed too, whereas we’ve got nowt on the DoF/Sporting Director front. Is it not just clear at this point that Staveley and Reuben have been doing all the initial legwork before presenting their final shortlist to PIF? That shortlist might contain both managers and DoFs/Sporting Directors, so it’s understandable that it would take longer than normal. I’d have liked an instant hire, but we also didn’t have the benefit of being able to tap people up. It’s clear Spurs would only have sacked Nuno after sounding Conte or whoever out to avoid another farce.

They took over two months to replace Mourinho in the summer, mind.

If they're trading Nuno for Conte then it's hard to argue with that as a decision. I doubt he'd ever seriously consider us at this stage.

Read the OP again.

So bad it’s almost good, that Used to like Overmars, and what a team he played in at Arsenal.

The definition of pap.

That was the other reason for this thread being created tbh.

Nah. It’s a piss take when you’re expecting to see news about a hot topic and instead have to wade through dozens of irrelevant posts.

Been a few cracking discussions about the good and bad old days of NUFC and football in general lately, but unfortunately they’ve been sidetracking other threads. Thought it might be time to make a new thread for all of our reminiscing needs. First topic of interest: was Asprilla to blame for us throwing away the title in 95/96? Some say no, some say yes.