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  1. ShipOfTheseus

    Roberto De Zerbi *OFFICIAL*

    I was wrong and I am sorry. Not tricky, is it?
  2. ShipOfTheseus

    Roberto De Zerbi *OFFICIAL*

    “I’m sorry if this offended anyone’s feelings. . .” “I have a daughter . . .” Two of the worst things you can do in these circumstances, the non-apology apology with a conditional “if”, and demanding brownie points for having a female relative. Unbelievable that the club can’t afford and...
  3. ShipOfTheseus

    What was the trigger in our downward trend?

    Are bidding wars usually public? There’s definitely more competition now for promising youngsters, no idea how that manifests in the behind-the-scenes behaviour of clubs and agents.
  4. ShipOfTheseus

    What was the trigger in our downward trend?

    Your “golden era” includes 2013, when we spent the Gareth Bale loot on Paulinho, Chadli, Soldado, Capoue, Chiriches, the rabona chappy, and Eriksen. Scattergun, with one very obviously good buy. And however much Hitchen was a downgrade, the most important thing here is that, as you say, in the...
  5. ShipOfTheseus

    What was the trigger in our downward trend?

    This is cherry-picking, though. We’ve always been a bit scattergun, a bit opportunistic, a bit stingy, and sometimes very lucky. You’ve picked the nine standout players from an era when our transfer logic was just as you describe it, but we just happened to be able to field a good and consistent...
  6. ShipOfTheseus

    Bigger Legend? Johnson, Woodgate or Nielsen

    Judges tell juries to ignore the true and bleeding obvious all the time, because their job is to ensure that convictions are only based on admissible evidence. The victim was adamant that he was targeted because of his ethnicity.
  7. ShipOfTheseus

    Roberto De Zerbi *OFFICIAL*

    Goodness yes, the only question is whether he stays a respectable eighteen months or flames out in six.
  8. ShipOfTheseus

    ENIC

    Yes, unless it was backed by Saudi money or something equally revolting, and I’m not sure how Levy would be able to buy out the Lewises unaided. So the only scenario in which this is a realistic prospect is one where the football operation is deeply devalued but the property and events...
  9. ShipOfTheseus

    Roberto De Zerbi *OFFICIAL*

    As far as I can see, RDZ rocked up at the EPL with a clever trick of exploiting opposition pressing which delighted football hipsters, but which other managers soon worked out how to counter, and which turned out to be the only weapon in his armoury. He was stuck when dealing with a low block...
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    Roberto De Zerbi *OFFICIAL*

    What do you think Manchester United’s motives were in commissioning a civil investigation, other than mitigating legal risk and protecting a balance sheet asset? Do you think that an investigation commissioned by a business concern is ever going to step outside of its terms of reference and...
  11. ShipOfTheseus

    Bigger Legend? Johnson, Woodgate or Nielsen

    “He’s a good guy, he paid a very heavy price for what happened”. That definitely references the sexual assault. if we’re going to be crystal clear, we should probably be honest, too.
  12. ShipOfTheseus

    Bigger Legend? Johnson, Woodgate or Nielsen

    The affray for which he was convicted involved a racially aggravated assault. As with the Greenwood case, CPS charging decisions don’t trump the bloody obvious.
  13. ShipOfTheseus

    Bigger Legend? Johnson, Woodgate or Nielsen

    I am not happy about us employing a manager who has minimised sexual assault. But I do think that Spurs hiring of Woodgate, who of course was convicted of his part in a racially-aggravated assault, was a worse betrayal of the club’s supposed moral standards than the De Zerbi appointment. It’s...
  14. ShipOfTheseus

    Interim manager thread 2.0

    Why is Iraola suddenly 1/50 favourite on Oddschecker?
  15. ShipOfTheseus

    Interim manager thread 2.0

    It’s only for seven games, then comes the Poch putsch.
  16. ShipOfTheseus

    Igor the Departed

    Poor Igor didn’t even beat Liz Truss’s 49 days.
  17. ShipOfTheseus

    Interim manager thread 2.0

    Springtime for Hutter it must be, then.
  18. ShipOfTheseus

    Interim manager thread 2.0

    He needs to instil a bunker mentality.
  19. ShipOfTheseus

    Igor the Departed

    I agree about Mason and about the broad approach. Not sure re a month being standard, though, three to five days would be more typical for a parent, although in particularly distressing circumstances any decent employer would extend this to whatever the employee needed, and this would likely be...
  20. ShipOfTheseus

    What was the trigger in our downward trend?

    I wonder whether, after all this, Joe Lewis still thinks that his children are serious people, and whether he has any levers he can pull to save them from themselves and return control to Levy.
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