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How on god's earth do you have so much time to spend on here? Every time i come on there's war and peace from you on another topic. You make HTT look like a one word wonder.

thank fuck for that 😂

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If he’s going to Liverpool he wants to take Richard Hughes from Bournemouth with him.

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Everyone signs duds to be fair, not sure on Ibe or why he didn't live up to expectations bit Howe has had way more hits than misses so all good.

Really not sure tbh mate, if he did, that'll explain that one!

Jokes aside though, we can trust Howe imo. trippier, mee, lewis cook all good young signings.

Jordan Ibe, not so much.

Nobody knows how good anyone in this role is mate, imo anyway.

Aye, saw that yesterday. The local links will mean that one rumbles on for a while i'd imagne.

Need to add 'in my experience of running multi million pound projects.....'

Judging by that metric then whoever we get, why didn't we appoint him before Ashworth? Could be a hundred reasons, same for anyone. If they deem Hughes the best replacement possible, then that'll do for me. Equally, if thats Edwards, all good too. We're all different though. 👍🏻

I'm not debating anything btw, just putting my two cents in the same way. They'll get it right, they generally do.

I think it started with you saying Hughes would be a step down, I asked why, and you basically said because he isn't Michael Edwards. I've no idea what a DOF does, or what the yardstick is to be measured by, but it clearly isn't as simple as 'he's at Bournemouth, step down, he was at Liverpool, step up'.

Because with all due respect, you're not the authority on this 😂 Ashworth is widely considered 'elite level' and he hasn't 'wrestled a title' from anyone. Paul Mitchell the same. We've no idea what role they play and/or what role the manager plays. Do Liverpool win the title with Edwards but not Klopp ? Who knows. We've genuinely no idea on any of it and it isn't the same as an opinion of a manager based on playing style or trophies won etc. What we do know is we seem to get appointments right, so all we can do is trust them to do the right thing.

Precisely.

We have no idea what elite level means in this role though, none whatsoever.

Correct. Ashworth is widely reported to be the number one as you say, but he’s never been in a role where the team has won anything. Which is usually what it would take to be judged the best, so clearly this is different. The managerial appointments made while he’s been in jobs are very much a mixed bag (Di Matteo, Hodgson, Allardyce, Southgate, Potter). Dougie Freedman is another who’s supposed to be well thought of but they’ve been shite for years, so I’ve no idea how this role is judged, nobody does really. They’ll get it right. They always do.

They’ll appoint the best person for the job as they have with every other appointment they’ve made, simple as that. If he happens to come from Bournemouth, so be it.

Why would you hope it wouldn't be the case?

This, the over analysis is mental. His big pal wants him at one of the biggest clubs in the world, of course he's going to fancy it. He could have been unbelievably happy here and still fancied it. If he was leaving for Everton for example you'd ask the question, but it's Man Utd. That's all there is to it imo.

This. The recriminations for Man Utd would be huge if they breached it. Transfer embargo etc. Not a chance they’ll be blasé about it, nor will Ashworth. Just as we weren’t (and he wasn’t) when he was on gardening leave at Brighton.

Stick the high performance episode on with him, it's a good listen.