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Keep it clean, stop talking about SB in the Rafa thread

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SGE said that Micah Richards was the thickest player he had ever managed. He said that he couldn't even follow the most simple instructions that even a 2 year old could manage. He probably loved Bruce when he was at Villa.

And we're back to the usual bullshit of the Pardew days. Micah Richards; "they're playing good football". Football people just saying things, unquestioned, with no bearing on reality.

Would love to be the guy dealing drugs at the fucking Chronicle. Yeah.

"He needs to be more like Jonjo"?

He's as safe as a football manager can be.

Love how Ryder tweets without ever thinking about how it may sound when read. A journalist who's uncomfortable with words.

It’s very bad as I see it. I feel nothing, win or loss. The opposite of what being a football fan is about.

FT

Just wait, we’ll probably score a fluke in the 89th.

Wish I was still walking in a Rafa wonderland.

Yep, I think this is obvious to just about everybody.

Sad that I’m not able to feel any joy about this.

Leicester, fair play. Imagine the pride the fans must be feeling as opposed to us.

He will want to play regularly ahead of the Euros to retain his place in the Swiss team. Think he might try to move on in January.

This. Fuck off Steve.

Thought he was a Third Way/Tony Blair man?

Yeah.

It’s not the results or performances (even though they’ve been terrible) for me. It’s the big picture, the ambition. SB is a second rate manager. We picked him up from Sheff Wed like we picked up Pardew from League 1. It’s the regression and lack of hope.

Even under Rafa, as long as Mike was here that was the ambition It wasn’t Rafa’s ambition though. He wasn’t tagging along, as opposed to your Bruces and your Pardews. Rafa had a long-term vision of progress, and a plan to get there. Big difference.

Used him quite a lot on the side in a forward 3 as well as one of 2 forwards, and also as an attacking midfielder I think.

I don't think he's shit, I think there's a pretty good player there, but he doesn't work in the role Bruce has given him. And now his confidence is shot.

I've always been a La Gazzetta man.

Doesn't seem to bother him as he's not playing him even when fit.