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McParland is meant to have a role but it sounds like that hasn’t been formalised. Fair enough really, as it’s not clear what he’s be doing once we have a DoF and wider structure in place. It probably does mean they’re going it alone though. And that’s fine. Emery is/was a good choice. Based on that alone they can identify good people. However they’ve dropped a colossal bollock by leaking anything to the media when talks were at such an embryonic stage.

If you’re a journalist you don’t put your credibility on the line and report the stuff about Emery for bantz. They were briefed.

It’s the height of stupidity really, because if Balague is right (and I’m 99% sure he knows what he’s talking about - he’s went from very positive to very negative quite quickly, he’s been told something) all they’ve done is instantly undermine whoever now comes in and piss off the fans. We need someone who can come in and galvanise things, and they’re having the legs cut off from under them before they even get started. It’s all very shoddy stuff. You can argue about the timescales placed on the search, whether they should have sacked Bruce sooner but this is amateur hour.

I’d like to add my name to the “what the fuck are the owners doing” crowd now like. To leak all of this and get pied off by Emery is massively amateurish. Really, really embarrassing stuff that’s going to leave a sour taste and have a negative impact because the fallback option is going to enthuse very few.

Dubravka can play out from the back. It’s one of the reasons Rafa signed him. Darlow on the other hand… We don’t have any real pace at the back and I don’t think any of our defenders could adapt to a pressing game. We’ll have to spend in Jan.

It’s going to be interesting watching him try and impose that style on our current squad. And by interesting I mean equal parts comical and infuriating.

Magiban would’ve been much better.

Points 1 through 4 could be absolutely any Lib Dem.

His record in the transfer market at Arsenal wasn’t anything outstanding but he was caught up in the post-Wenger politicking. I know that Pepe, for example, was someone bought above his head because he initially wanted Zaha and then Perisic. That said I remember reading something suggesting he wants to be a coach first and foremost. He prefers working with a DOF he trusts so he can get on with stuff.

It’s very reminiscent of the narrative around Rafa when he stayed on in the Championship and it’s no less unhinged.

Didn’t he have a DOF he worked with at Seville that Arsenal fucked off to appoint Edu?

Nor man, they had no idea what they were doing. HystericalGeordie82 on here said so.

Easy. Pundits are fuckwits.

Of all the names that have been repeatedly floated Emery is the standout.

That’s just an example of their famous wit marra

Are you saying a bloke who could walk into any job in world football right now wouldn’t want to piss about at the foot of the Premier League coaching Emil Krafth?

Emery - Seems the best of the lot. Got Premier League experience, won a load across Europe. Rafa - He knows the squad. Reckon he could come in and get a tune out of them in relatively short order. I think it would end in tears though eventually. Ten Haag - The same rules applies to managers as it does players when it comes to the Eredivise. There has to be a massive asterisk beside their name. Fonseca - I don’t think he’s done enough to warrant the fascination posters seem to have with him.

I’m absolutely convinced Martinez would be a disaster considering where we are and what we need to do over the next few months. That fluke FA Cup win really does mask a painfully average record. In Premier League he has finished 16th, 16th, 15th and 18th with Wigan (for context, Bruce finished 11th the year before RM joined) then 5th, 11th and 12th with Everton. In his first season he inherited an incredibly disciplined back line - one of the best in the league - and only conceded 39 goals. The year after they conceded 48, the year he was sacked 55. I don’t think a fashionable continental coach is a guarantee of success but his record absolutely pales in comparison to someone like Favre.

He was never coming here and if you believed he was your dealer is doing a bang up job.

They still bang on about the 9-1, so I’m not particularly surprised.

I’ve always loved you Guv. PM?

Do not get the Fonseca love, which does seem to be based on the fact he spoke well in a YouTube video and half the posters on here fancy him Saying that I think Martinez would be a fucking disaster.

Reminds me of the annual shitfest when the EDL mongs assume Brighton Pavilion is a mosque because it looks a bit ethnic.

I don’t understand how they can expend so much energy obsessing over us. I’m a supporter and I don’t care as much as some of them do. They need to log off, or get a hobby or something.

I’ve read it and I didn’t think it was that bad. Hurst talks his usual shite but by his standards it’s not that objectionable. I’d still rather this pity party fucked off like.