Dr Venkman

I know he won’t walk away, he’s said he won’t leave. But if he wants to come and we buy out his contract…

Go and offer Everton his buy out now IMO

Think he just needs a bit more time to seattle.

mediocrity attracts mediocrity doesn’t it. Easy to see why a lot in the football industry would be intimidated/wary of Rafa due to how dedicated/analytical he is, particularly lazy journalists/pundits.

All local markets get all NFL games. There are some blackouts on gamepass due to sky games but I use a VPN to get around those.

They would need to because that’s the process they’re following? It’s a weird argument to make I think, that no-one on the board really wants him because they’re interviewing other people? That’s not how recruitment works if you’ve agreed as a group to follow the process. Anyway, I’m glad they’re taking their time too, hopefully we don’t have to wait TOO long though so we can all argue about something else.

Shame this isn’t on TV, it would be really great if it was, and if someone advised me on where to watch it.

apart from interviewing other managers. He can be really wanted by the UK based consortium but they’re following a recruitment process and PIF are signing off.

He’s already said he’s staying at Everton man what are you all going on about?

gonna do this in every thread now…that info from CH is nothing new, we always knew they were interviewing more names and being thorough.

That’s nothing new. Said all of that on the TF podcast earlier in the week. This is what I mean about no new info from UK journalists.

There were also the articles that were very specific about his wage, which struck me as an odd thing to release.

Reading between the lines it seems the UK journo’s are acting on info a few days old when things were more open ended, and mainland Europe journo’s are more up to date, arguably because they’re getting info from the PF camp rather than the club.

They’re just being thorough. If PF has had 3 interviews they clearly like him. Still think it’ll be him.

Meanwhile, in the real world, the club needs to make money to compete at the top. I don’t want SJP renamed but if we’ve got to do it to compete, it’s a necessary evil. Everyone is a hypocrite, by the way, it’s no basis on which to make any kind of decision (particularly a business decision). It’s as plentiful as opinions.

That’s meeting number 3. He’s getting it.

Have a feeling, maybe wishful thinking, that PIF are going to trust AS more with this than they did SB sacking. She told them what needed to be done, they didn’t act on her advice, and then they saw it for themselves at SJP.

Wouldn’t be massively surprised if it’s confirmed tomorrow TBH.

Interesting (and positive) stuff from Hope on the TF podcast. Talked about Fonseca’s interview. Early interest on Howe died off as they thought he would have been a likely MA appointment. Little interest in Gerrard/Lampard who are making it known they want it. Favre, Garcia, Martinez all in the running as well as PF.

The reports about how much he'll be getting paid strike me as a little odd, not entirely sure who would be interested in leaking that. Hopefully nothing in it.

I don’t know, should he only be given a head coaching job at a team in precisely the same circumstances as his previous job? What sort of reasoning is that? If he’s got enough about him he’ll set the team up for success based on what he’s got to work with. We’ll find that out soon enough if he’s appointed. The club are interviewing multiple candidates, these things will be discussed I’m sure.

One of the things that upset me the most about Pardew’s time here was how easy a ride the fans gave him for so long despite his ineptitude and shithousery. I’m happy that the fans seem to have figured Bruce out quickly and acted upon it. You need that sense of pride and standards to keep club progressing no matter who the owners are.

Could it be the statement from the football club owned by Saudi’s asking people not to dress up as Saudi’s?

Maybe PF will be pragmatic enough to tweak tactics based on the players available? Good coaches can do that.

If he sounds like Borat I really, really want him to manage us.