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Ben

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1 minute ago, Mike said:

He sounds like he's exactly what that club deserves.

 

It looks like he's chosen a cracking manager, however he won't stick around if he's not allowed to bring his own players in 

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I don’t think the recommendation of Howe and Potter are that bad, if Man Utd wants a quick fix. Amorim needs a lot of time to implement his tactical ideas and seems the fans are not prepared for this as well.

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10 hours ago, TheBrownBottle said:

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your entire idea was funnier than I gave it credit for due to the fact I had little sleep.

I did find a place to stream it legally for free. Didn't realize it was from 1962. 

 

edit: I suppose there are plenty here who have no idea what the movie was. I saw it twice. Very campy.

 

 

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15 minutes ago, McDog said:

 

 

Your entire idea was funnier than I gave it credit for due to the fact I had little sleep.

I did find a place to stream it legally for free. Didn't realize it was from 1962. 

 

edit: I suppose there are plenty here who have no idea what the movie was. I saw it twice. Very campy.

 

 

 

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

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Apparently a massive disconnect between him and the rest of the board.

 

He wanted an English Manager like Potter, Howe or Southgate and they over-ruled and listened to Omar Berrada.

 

He didn't want De Ligt or Zirkzee and instead Ashworth wanted to sign Jarrad Branthwaite from Everton.

 

You'd think they'd have discussed philosophy and direction of travel during the recruitment process :lol:

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Sibierski

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That article really does make Brexit Jim seem even worse. Guy just can’t understand modern day rules and importantly, how football works.

 

Literally appointed a manager based on charisma and nothing else. Yea, that’s going to end in tears and will be glorious.

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Really seems as if the Triiffids are desperately spinning it that Ashcroft had to be fired because he was in favour of doing lots of things that the fans were against -- keeping Ten Hag, then replacing him with Southgate, Potter or Howe, signing Zirkzee, sacking half the club's employees etc -- when in fact the megalomaniac Ratcliffe just needed someone to lash out at after they lost at home to Forest. Comedy gold.

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1 hour ago, Sibierski said:

That article really does make Brexit Jim seem even worse. Guy just can’t understand modern day rules and importantly, how football works.

 

Literally appointed a manager based on charisma and nothing else. Yea, that’s going to end in tears and will be glorious.

Agreed.  He also hired Ashworth not understanding what role he actually does. 

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2 hours ago, BlazeT44 said:

Apparently a massive disconnect between him and the rest of the board.

 

He wanted an English Manager like Potter, Howe or Southgate and they over-ruled and listened to Omar Berrada.

 

He didn't want De Ligt or Zirkzee and instead Ashworth wanted to sign Jarrad Branthwaite from Everton.

 

You'd think they'd have discussed philosophy and direction of travel during the recruitment process :lol:


Yeah it’s a total fuck up 

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A don't really get the rat comments TBF, he probably got a big pay rise and was joing a bigger and more successful club, something we would all do in our personal jobs I imagine?

 

And I wonder if there was fall out on our board he could see and thought time was right?

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1 hour ago, Sibierski said:

That article really does make Brexit Jim seem even worse. Guy just can’t understand modern day rules and importantly, how football works.

 

Literally appointed a manager based on charisma and nothing else. Yea, that’s going to end in tears and will be glorious.

 

Agreed, absolutely no reason why he couldn't have been sacked this morning, seems like Brexit Jim was making a statement.

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9 hours ago, Sima said:

We should be looking at our legal options if it’s an open secret that he was working during gardening leave.

 

Unless we’ve signed that away with the settlement.

 

Just because that scruffy old cunt thinks garden leave is daft doesn’t allow him to ride roughshod all over the concept of it.

 

I wonder if we don't want to be opening that can of worms. Wouldn't be the least bit surprised if he immediately dropped us in it by saying he was in similar contact with us during his Brighton gardening leave too. 

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3 minutes ago, wormy said:

 

I wonder if we don't want to be opening that can of worms. Wouldn't be the least bit surprised if he immediately dropped us in it by saying he was in similar contact with us during his Brighton gardening leave too. 

We’ve got our compo, let’s just let them all marinade in their juicy, juicy fuck up soup.

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1 hour ago, NUFC91 said:

A don't really get the rat comments TBF, he probably got a big pay rise and was joing a bigger and more successful club, something we would all do in our personal jobs I imagine?

 

And I wonder if there was fall out on our board he could see and thought time was right?

It’s the way it was done he was leaking stuff about his contract etc to Man Utd 

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6 minutes ago, Shays Given Tim Flowers said:


Except the same people who found him out appointed him. Man U can fail upwards. ££££

There's only so long you can hold your tongue when you work for a total c*nt. Radcliffe wants all the power without being challenged - hire the best people and that won't happen. He wants to be surrounded by yes men.

Ashworth is clearly very good at what he does but he also needs the right working conditions and structure to thrive. He didn't find it here and evidently he didn't find it at ManUre either.

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Sibierski

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2 hours ago, toon25 said:

Anyone recommending Southgate for job in management deserved to be sacked. Immediately.


But he didn’t.

 

Love an Ashworth bash, but don’t think he’s done anything wrong here. Club wanted Amorim, he had doubts and wanted to run some analytics on him further before a decision is made, instead of going “He chats well and a charmer, let’s hire”.

 

Basically wanted some processes in place to back decision. Brexit Jim wanted the old fashioned, make your decision like it’s a 1980s board room. Modern day football is nothing like that, and why Nice are a mess under Jim and looks like Man Utd will be going same way.

 

 

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The reason Ratcliffe accepted the ludicrous position of taking responsibility for the football side with only a 27% stake was because he was a fan and wanted to play at being a football manager. There seems real confusion at Man U about how major football decisions are being made. 

 

I've had doubts about Amorim from the start. I think they need someone with more experience, preferably in the Premiership.

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