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Ashley was the type of owner the Top 6 and Premier League love 

His stated aim was that we wouldn’t ever be competitive
 

Determined to scrape by, doing the bare minimum, kowtowing to the Top 6, happy to take the telly cash and the free ads for his shitty stores 

THE CUNT 

6 minutes ago, Boey_Jarton said:

Last point is a catch 22 for an aspiring club. 

 

Revenue can increase to allow higher wages but to increase revenue you need either:

 

(1) better players with higher wages, or

 

(2) Improved commercial deals that cannot pass FMV test because you are not yet a top team with the best players on high wages.

 

Everything about FFP is designed to be a Catch 22 for anyone outside of the Top 6

To compete against the established Top 6 you need to have wealthy owners who can invest, for wealthy owners to be allowed to invest you need to increase your commercial revenue, but to increase your commercial revenue you need to be able to compete against the established Top 6, which you can't do unless your wealthy owners are allowed to invest

Should have had DJ Fucking Otzi doing the turn at the poundshop Super Bowl

If we were genuinely in for him and he’s decided he’d rather stay in West London and earn more money but in an overpaid bloated squad with a mentalist owner and unproven manager then that’s his prerogative, but I reckon he’s not the right sort of player for NUFC 

People need to want to come here for what’s happening on the pitch and being part of the evolution of this club 

On 24/05/2024 at 05:47, 80 said:

It'd be interesting to find out on what basis our recruiters are screening out applications. Whether Giles is one of them or not - again, we can't make too many assumptions at the minute. 

 

I have to say, I'm not entirely comfortable with us (apparently?) outsourcing the search to an external agency again. It made more sense to me the first time around with Ashworth, when we'd just been taken over and had much less internal infrastructure.

 

I realise that the exact way in which we're using them could vary a lot, and therefore affect my opinion. But if we're quite reliant on them cutting out 95% of the field, as portrayed in the media, there's scope for it to hold us back a lot. The worst case scenario is assessments being carried out by miniature versions of that Eghbali guy at Chelsea.

Using a search agency is standard practice for Director level recruitment, regardless of industry

NUFC will have specified their ideal candidate profile. Odgers will then put in the legwork to approach, attract and assess DoF’s 

Odgers should be liaising with NUFC throughout the process about who’s interested and who isn’t, who they rate and who they don’t

Odgers then present the shortlist of the strongest candidates to NUFC and our Board start interviewing

24 minutes ago, Beth said:

He'll go to whoever offers him the most money. He will have zero affinity to prefer us over Chelsea or Man U, no matter what "vision" he is sold by the club. Money talks.

22 hours ago, The Prophet said:

No one is signing and everyone is leaving. Everything will be bad forever.

 

 

 

5 minutes ago, Superior Acuña said:

 

Quiz - what was unique about Portsmouth among those?

Only team located on an island who have won the FA Cup 

1 hour ago, greydos said:

ESL Fix! Manure want to keep us down. Man City are happier competing with Manure who they’ve come to dominate than the Saudi-backed Mags who could properly compete with them. A cup City we’re happy not to win for hegemony.

I’m more outraged about your incorrect use of we’re than I am about missing out on the Conference League 

15 minutes ago, Unbelievable said:

Nonsense. A man with his proven reputation will be back in a job in no time. This whole scorned wife act so many on here are happy to portray is extremely odd to me. People can have their head turned, it happens. It’s how we got Ashworth in the first place. I do understand the man himself has proven to be of questionable character over this, but that doesn’t mean we’re not the party massively losing out. As a Man U fan I’d be laughing my bollocks off if it turns out they’ll just turn their attention somewhere else and leave us losing our DoF plus millions in fees and wages over this entire thing.

Nah, I think you’ve completely misunderstood the situation

His wages are £1m annually, that’s fuck all in football terms. Paully D earns more for doing nothing but train

Man Utd and Ashworth have been exposed as snidey cunts and their new hire is stuck in limbo

We’re demonstrating we won’t be taken the piss out of and are cracking on with recruitment of players and finding a replacement for the snidey cunt

Boehly would pay £100m for Ashworth to play centre mid 

Pope may be a high quality keeper, but he’s had 2 x shoulder dislocations and that makes his future career look much more risky 

And we’ve seen how much damage it does having a fuckwit like MDubz in nets for most of the season 

Pope possibly won’t like the idea of us signing a top quality keeper, but he can’t argue with the logic 

13 minutes ago, timeEd32 said:

Dying for more details on him trying and failing to delete the email.

20 minutes ago, 80 said:

Incidentally... Does anyone want to reconsider their comments that there's no chance Ashworth would do any work for Man United before an agreement is reached and he's far too smart to risk his career discussing anything untoward?

People were saying (well I was anyway) that he’d be daft to try it because we’d be watching him like a hawk, he’d get caught and this would give our lawyers a field day whilst also risking his reputation
 

Which is what’s happening right now to him and Berrada 

Although I’ll admit I thought it’d be more difficult to catch him than just checking the NUFC servers for emails sent to Ineos or MUFC addresses 

NUFC IT Manager when they found the Berrada email BCC’d to Dan’s account 

Odgers are running the recruitment process on behalf of NUFC

Candidates will be assessing if they fancy working for the club as much as we're assessing whether the candidates could deliver the vision for NUFC

It's a two way process, with Odgers in the middle co-ordinating it

This isn't like Fat Mike down the Dog & Duck offering jobs to the boys because he's 7 pints deep and trying to impress a barmaid who keeps glancing at his wide legged denim pantaloons

39 minutes ago, patrone said:

 

This one ?

 

 

 

NTL cunt spoiling the Northern Rock vibe

20 hours ago, 80 said:

Have there ever been any high profile consequences from on pitch conversions being lip read?

When Beckham was leaving Man Utd for Real Madrid he got lipread saying “I’ve had talks” or something similar to G Neville at the end of an end of season match 

1 hour ago, nufcjb said:

The fuck is that on the collar? 

Bodyform 

1 hour ago, Solitude20 said:

And there won’t be any debates about controversial decisions if we don’t have VAR? Wouldn’t those debates be 10 times what is now since we will objectively get more incorrect calls if VAR hadn’t existed? 

Of course there'll always be some debate about controversial decisions, that's been part of football forever

But since VAR was introduced the level of debate about controversial or incorrect decisions has exploded, rather than declining

Every single week of the season there's VAR controversies causing ructions

You can’t buy our strips,

You can’t buy our striiiiiiiiiips,

You fat cockney bastard,

You can’t buy our strips 

10 hours ago, Solitude20 said:

 

It’s not just about offside, what about penalties? In the 20-21 season, 125 penalties were given, and 23% of those penalties were given after referring to VAR. Even if you disagree with some of those decisions, I am sure most of those were rightfully given. In the same season, 22 penalty calls were overturned after referring to VAR as the they were deemed too soft. Those are significant numbers, and even if the minority of those calls were wrong, we would be fuming if the ref made a wrong call against us if VAR didn’t exist. Gordon’s penalty wasn’t given last game even after referring to VAR, well that sucked, but it wouldn’t have been given without VAR either. At least such controversial calls are just the exception now, not the norm. 
 

what about handballs or possible red cards? I mean, the hand of god goal wouldn’t have stood if we had VAR, and the examples are too many. I am actually surprised that some are calling to go back to the earlier days when mistakes were a normal part of the sport. From the tip of my head, a significant number of our penalties were given after going back to VAR. 

Completely disagree with this

Football coped fine without VAR for over a century

Football is meant to be about 22 gadgies battling to put a ball in a net 

But every week since VAR was introduced there’s hours and hours of debate about controversial VAR decisions

It’s slowed the game down. Its ruined the supporter experience, you can’t even celebrate a goal with confidence these days for fucksake 

Watching the cup games this season where VAR wasn’t used was an absolute joy. The post match reviews focused on the football, not the tech 

Get a sherpa to carry VAR up Everest and dump it in the dead zone, so the shitty system freezes to death never to ruin football again 

Is watching football better or worse since VAR ?

Worse

Chain some breezeblocks to VAR, drop it into the ocean above the mariana trench and never let it ruin the game again