Ronaldo

Mick, Mick McCarthy. Perfect.

Mick Lowes is currently asking him every meaningless question possible.

In his Sky interview he said something about just needing 'to be sure' after the meeting with Charnley.

He's OK. Lots to learn. Like Elliot he's certainly not a PL no.1 but he's obviously got a hell of a lot more potential.

Yeah, barring a ridiculous offer from Ashley he's off.

Don't be daft.

You're a funny man.

Old Trafford being evacuated for some reason. A bomb?

There's a real inferiority complex going on within our support judging by posts like this. Expectations have been smashed to bits over the last ten years. Says a lot that posts like this are being made, yet also concern over whether he'll take the bloody Everton job. I like the guy a lot but he is not some cast iron degree of success. No manager is in football. Why has this hypothetical poll got me going so much You'd be hard pressed to find another manager more likely to be successful with any given club than Rafa Benitez though, even with the whole fanbase against him, he delivered for Chelsea when asked to do so. A true pro and I agree that we'll never have a better manager, at least in my lifetime. Klopp maybe but that'd be 10 years down the road if at all. If Ashley sits in the back and gives Rafa the autonomy he gave the previous regimes then we get what we want - a club that tries, that is run well and there would be a chance for success. Ashley goes, and in walks in Massimo Cellino v2. It's a massive gamble, and a silent owner with Rafa Benitez running everything would be the best possible circumstance we could hope for. Voting A is just voting for revenge, which I understand, but take a step back from the 10 years of lies, s**** and comatose existence and realise what B would actually mean. Voting A is just voting for revenge? Do you think Ashley's changed or something? Rafa will be gone in two or three years at the most, and then it'll be business as usual. Elaborate. Because this will never happen. He's show time and time again that it won't. Such as ? Have you been in a coma the last nine years? The only managers he's hired who haven't just been stooges have been treated like shit, lied to, and forced out of the club.

Taylor, man. Fuck off.

Sean Bean ripped them off.

He deserves it far more than James Milner, that's for sure.

I don't mind Warnock these days. Like Kinnear he'd bring an entertainment factor. I'd still be pretty much done with the club, mind.

Equalised at Stoke late in the relegation season, think he'd scored against West Ham as well. Yep, at City too under Kinnear when the Given thing was kicking off.

Carroll had scored goals in the PL too, by the way. If there's one player I totally misjudged it was him. Thought he looked absolutely awful in the first half of the Championship season and wrote him off. He's mostly been brilliant (when fit) ever since.

Brewce looks dashing in a suit.

Putting it mildly.

They waited far too long to sack the bloke they shouldn't have appointed but that is another problem they have and they did the same with Pardew. Rafa could look at that as a positive, it will show him that he will be given time that other clubs might not give him. A bloke as confident and successful as Benitez isn't going to be influenced by the club's reluctance to part company with yes men like Pardew and McClaren, man.

I think we'll get this one right and he'll remain, the stakes are too high for the club if they mess it up and I'm sue they know that. They know absolutely nothing about football though. Their concept of what needs to be done could be absolutely anything. Aye. It'll be Brewce in charge come August.

The Yanks don't get any of the references, though. We can't patronise the place just for their benefit.

The problem with him getting total control is it would surely necessitate regular contact with the owner - which we all know won't happen.

One improved us, one didn't. It's pointless, though. Shearer's not a manager. Never will be.

No.

Is that why that short wannabe journo who used to post on here is a Mackem now?