Disco Stu

Stuck between a rock and a hard place here. If we sell, our whole 'finding a backbone' display would look frankly pathetic. Not only that but the fans will rightly feel deceived (again) and the deteriorating trust between the board (espeically Les Reed) and the fans will be left in shatters. Alternatively, we keep hold of him and hope for a similar scenario to what happened with Morgan. Obviously, there is every chance we could have a Berahino situation on our hands. If we do swallow our pride and sell him, the club must make certain he is sold on our terms. We are in the strongest position. We have him tied down for another 5 years so we should not accept a penny less than the £70m initially touted. Personally, I think our bridges with Liverpool should be well and truly burned after their total lack of respect for not only the rules but our club. I can already imagine the gloating 12 year old scousers (and no doubt older as well ) all over twitter and the like if they get him. Considering how much empthasis the club has put on branding and the clubs image globally these last couple of seasons, I genuinely believe they want to stand firm and lose this stigma of being a selling club (especially to Liverpool). Unfortunately, despite holding all the cards, this kinda feels like a lose/lose.

Yes, I'm suggesting people shouldn't get a knighthood for simply working in the entertainment industry. For the record, I actually quite like Ferguson but I can't see that he's done anything exceptional for this country in any meaningful way.

Alex Ferguson does not deserve his knighthood. Nor does Defoe deserve to get one. In fact, the majority of knighthoods given out these days are completely undeserved. It's just a thing you get for being a big celebrity for a few years...

Firstly, I'd go to the boardroom tab to switch the transfer/salary budget balance so that it goes up to £50m. Then I'd invest it all in some unknown Brazilians with 5 star potential ratings that my 80 year old scout from Sweden found...

I know nothing about the guy. Feels like another Gardos situation. Got a feeling he won't take on much of a role for this coming season.

http://outsideoftheboot.com/2015/08/05/tactical-philosophy-markus-weinzierl/ This article suggests Weinzierl's another defensive manager (he does use wingbacks though which suits us). You would have thought Reed would be fully aware of the reasons the fans were dissatisfied with an otherwise acceptable season.

I must admit, I'd be disappointed with Pelligrino or FDB but I accept they're looking the most likely. Shame as we were the most attractive we've been in decades this time last year...

I would say the manager still has some say based on this article from the Koeman era. Perhaps not as much as other teams, but signings in the past such as Osvaldo, Martina, Pelle and Pied have very clearly been managers picks. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/11366206/Gary-Neville-The-era-of-the-gaffer-is-over.html

Love it. The kit. The animation.

Do us all a favour and get a job will you? There's a nice chap.

Too good to be true = Not true. I've learnt that the hard way.

There was more traction on the Pellegrini appointment and nothing came of that. I won't allow myself to get excited.

The distance between the UA logo and Crest on the home kit is different to the away kit. Surely if they were legitimate, this would be consistant?

He doesn't play well in Puels system. If we keep Puel, we might as well sell him.

The text would almost certainly be arced.

http://imgtl.com/aZHPD.png Did that work?

This would annoy me greatly.

I would have thought this review would have happened by now so I can only assume he stays.

Nice!

Perhaps we have a third kit?

I remember this from last years kit thread. Not sure if it's been posted already but has a lot of simularities (apart from the lack of collar) with what's being described here so good to visualise. Interesting enough, I can't find a football single shirt where Under Armour have placed a badge centrally but I did find this which could suggest where the Under Armour logo could go which looks perfectly fine to me (same place as the addidas logo on the mock up)...

Did it look like this?

No doubt he's a good enough manager to scrape top half. Unfortunately, his teams are significantly less entertaining compared to what we've had these last 7 years. If people don't mind that then that's their business. I can't justify paying £600 for inferior football I'm afraid. Same price, worse team.

I'd take bloody James Beattie at this point!

What happned to minimum of FOUR minutes?