TheBrownBottle

England really has had a conveyor belt of that type of winger for a couple of decades

Hall was targeted by Liverpool too and made mistakes resulting in goals conceded. Teams target our LB on a regular basis. He's a young lad with lots of scope to improve, but right now he's a long way short of 'top four'

I'd sell any of them for the right money, though it would hurt losing Isak the most. If we don't sell, we're not going anywhere

Probably need to let Howe know that - I get the distinct impression that Howe wants final say on all transfers.

Yep, it is a gloriously camp film. The 1980s BBC TV series was much better quality-wise - but the entire premise remains joyously daft

The club, yes - the employees, no

“I want to be, by the toaster …” Absolute classic

Jesus. This isn't a Man Utd thing, but a socio-economic thing. That is completely fucked.

Ashworth will never watch it again. It would be like a shipwreck survivor watching Titanic

He's a 'moneyball' wanker. It is all about stats pish instead of a real understanding of the game. Johann Cruyff once said he could shut his eyes and know if a player was great by the sound of the player's boot striking the ball. I remember reading Beckenbauer talking about not ever wanting to select a player who has to look down in order to visualise controlling the ball. Ashworth will no doubt have spreadsheets coming out of his arse. Ultimately, it is all meaningless if you don't know what you're looking at.

He just came across as an obvious chancer to me from day one. We looked gullible for taking in his 'spokes in the wheel' pish. I'm not all that upset that those who appointed him are not appointing his successors ...

Don't listen to him. He's making mulch of a mulchness

I'm hoping that The Day of the Triffids has some basis in fact tbf

100%. Just makes it all the funnier

Beautiful haha

I'll try a genuine haiku: Dan Ashworth eternal gardener Tried to appoint Southgate to ManU job Now his spokes are broken

Reminder - for all the schadenfreude, this says fuck all about those at our club who appointed the gobshite in the first place. Radcliffe is a buffoon, but we need to ensure we aren't taken in by this type of wank again.

That reads like a haiku or something. There's something poetic about it.

I remember getting a wee bit of criticism on here when I suggested the same when he was here. Personally I always felt he was a snake oil salesman. This has made my day.

Tbf TCD I'm not absolute on these things - it was more a general point. I actually think that 6th-8th/9th is more like par, but this is 'angels dancing on the head of a pin' stuff. Results aren't in that space, and performances are well below it.

Honestly mate, I think both positions are likely to be true - Radcliffe is a basket case, and Ashworth is simply a competent (and over-glorified) administrator

How did I miss this? Sorry, but my cock is in danger of being laughed off. Fuck the amateur gardening cunt. 'Spokes in the wheel' my arse - an absolute chancer who managed to snake oil his way into various positions.

I think this is the key to whether or not Howe deserves criticism. Expecting CL qualification etc is unreasonable levels of expectations - that should be more hope than expectation. Par based upon our squad (both talent and cost) should be around 7th. 8th-9th would be underperformance (in the same way anything above 7th is overperformance). Form has us comfortably below par - performances as well as results. That doesn't necessarily mean Howe should be sacked, nor that he can't turn it around. But he isn't being criticised unreasonably at the moment, in the same way that the effusive praise in 22/23 was well-deserved. We're still in both cups, and I want him to have the chance to break our duck, even if he isn't the long-term manager. I really like him as a gadgie, and it would be great if he was the man to do it. He'd forever be a legend here. But if we're out of both cups by the time the 4th round of the FA Cup concludes in late January and our league form hasn't improved drastically then for me he probably needs to go.

Yep. It is their ownership's miserly running of the club which appears to keep them within reach. They're miles ahead of us - I honestly don't really see how we get near them, never mind catch them. If I was a Spurs fan I'd be spitting blood about the way the club is managed.