Parky

Next week hopefully.

Turks robbed. Thought they played really well seeing they had 4/5 of their best players out. Kazzzzeeeeeem needs buying.

I reckon he's history.

Easy now. YOu'd make a lovely pub landlord.

Wild rumours circulating Spurs have whacked in a mind boggling €30m bid for Villa. No chance imo.

Benitez knows what he's doing apparently.

His old manager is at Schalke and there is an agreement in place.

He's going to Schalke.

We inquired about him last winter iirc.

It seems your identikit Ince profile is about 10 years out of date.

He has had managerial experience though. My point is that previously in this thread it was said that he would fail because he only had lower division experience, Southgate and Keane had zero managerial experience and not much was made of that when they were appointed. Agreed. Blackburn must have had a lot of good feedback about him and they have taken their time, so wasn't hurried either.

I'd have all 11 players left at the end having to take a penalty. More of a lottery then and sides (Italy) less inclined to play for them.

It's getting to the point I'll have to start supporting Spain to avoid a totally negative final.

Fair enough, but they finished seventh last year in arguably the strongest league in the world, certainly the highest profile league. And they could only attract a promising manager from three leagues below. That's pretty poor if you ask me. Didn't they have a shortlist inc Ten Cats and others?

Why is he such a massive risk may I ask? I grant you he is fairly inexperienced but other than that they must have really liked what they saw.

This would be part of the picture for sure. He speaks his mind and seems to go about things with a lot of belief which is very important especially for a new manager standing in front of highly paid pro's.

I don't think they just stuck a pin in the first name they recognised.

Hats off to Blackburn imo. Taking a calculated gamble on a young English manager. They would have taken advice on this, so the feedback must have been very good as many who have issues with Ince (understandably in some cases) will want him to fail.

Look forward to the next set of pr on Monday. Although not sure if things will be any clearer.

Would he get enough time in the PL? Getting on a bit and has had a couple of bad inj iirc.

No.

However you look at it the new regime will be primarily judged on the 2/3 players we need to go straight into the first team. All the other stuff is fine and dandy but won't make us competitive next season.

Kaka and TT in WUM meltdown!!

Probably better to keep this stuff off the board till the Yanks money is in our bank.