CB Fry

Yesterday's announcement was great news. No one is denying that (maybe one or two mentalists). What some are saying is the days of uncertainty was "brilliant PR" on its own. ...meanwhile others are claiming that the previously publicity averse Leibherr family now decided to play "let's-pretend" games with a jolly tale that they have fallen out with the chief executive, and then they made up, but they were all in on it all along. Not entirely sure why on earth they would bother but thats the theory. And an awfully funny one it is at that. Sorry, not funny. Plausible. Like, really plausible.

It's not in the slightest bit plausible. This isn't the World Wrestling Federation. Forum expert earlier in thread making out only one person on the forum subscribed to the "Leibherrs in on it all along" theory. Maybe just a few more than that....

You do realise there are people on here saying that the Leibherrs were "in on it" the whole time and it was all a PR masterplan? In my Morgan example he wasn't not going to sign. The ten days of uncertainty would have been planned by the club as brilliant PR. Ask Katalanic why it is better to have a mediash it storm rather than a simple agreement/announcement. He knows. He's, like, intelligent.

Of course. You have no explanation apart from "Cortese did it so it was brilliant." A simple announcement about future plans with the Leibherrs is nowhere near as good as three days of media bullshi t. Of course not.

I was going to post something similar. We really co cked up Morgan's contract extension. He should have threatened to quit because the club "don't match his ambitions", got his agent on the radio and SSN to hawk him round the Champions League clubs, got a few players to say how terrible it would be if he left, issued a few "come and get me" pleas in The Sun, let it all drag on for about ten days, made sure the topic completely dominated the build up to a key game, issue an ultimatum, and then signed for us anyway. That would have been much better PR for us. Much better PR. After all, whats the point of doing it all behind closed doors? And great to be on the telly loads too. Its the club they remember, not the content.

What was it then? I'll plump up a cushion while you make some sh it up. Fire away.

Has it? A few days of significant fan uncertainty about the future of the chief exec, the manager, and key players. Brilliant PR. Quite, quite brilliant. Yeah, a week ago it was, what, 70% anti-Cortese. Thank god he threatened to walk, and the manager threatened to walk. Obviously that, and that alone, bumped it to 93%. Brilliant PR. Really, no.

Yes, because the last few days have been an absolute PR masterclass. Jesus.

Except, of course, it wasn't made up. It was Cortese briefing his chums in the press, who duly ramped up the fear in the fanbase.

I think you need to put the likely spend bit in bold, mate. Otherwise it doesn't count.

Well, there is one thing we have learned this week. Turns out that using the media to get your own way, and feeding favoured journalists little snippets for them to work up into strategic sh* t stirring "crisis" stories to entrench your own position is now apparently a brilliant thing to do. Masterful, even. Funny really, because reading this forum for the past three years I could have sworn that this was a simply awful thing to do, the kind of thing that Redknapp and Lying scum hacks did. You know, like, really bad. So its fantastic that as a forum we now seem to appreciate the role journalists play in helping deliver positive outcomes. Here's to celebrating sh* tstirring in all its forms over the summer.

You think "fair aim" was "6th - 9th". You said it. You did. No one else. If you think 6 - 9th is a "fair aim" then you must think it is possible. If not, why say it? Why not say "fair aim" 2nd? Or 10th? Or 3rd? And this post rationalising of "I meant the clubs aim" is garbage. You don't work for the club. That "fair aim" was your opinion. You said it. Why did you express your opinion that the club should "fair aim" for 6th if you had no belief at all they could do it? Are you saying the club are idiots? What is the point of the "fair aim" in that context? You got caught cha tting sh it. Well done.

Why do you keep saying you haven't said something that you actually dig up and quote yourself saying on the same thread? "6th to 9th" includes sixth. "Current squad" means current squad. "Mentalist" means NickG.

We'd probably owe a wedge of cash, and probably not finish top four either. That's the point.

If I was the Leibherrs I'd run a mile. Top 4? That's just turning the club into a money pit for one man's ego.

Beckham.

By "blood from a stone" I guess you mean spending what we had. Still not sure there was a "value for money" argument for spending XX million on players back then, or indeed now. Intangible football success? Maybe. The start of a "we just need two more quality additions" six-monthly money pit addiction? Certainly. Value for money? Really, nope. Personally I would be quite happy if we just spent what we made - the TV pot is huge now.

If we signed Messi etc (or the equivalent levels of mental "investment" ) and won the Champions League, I seriously doubt we'd turn a profit that season. You do seem to be labouring under the assumption that the family place any value on football trophies. I am pretty certain the trust have looked at the TV money for next year and said to Nicola "why on god's earth do you need more money than that? Shut your whinging get on with it." Needless to say Nicola has not stopped his whinging.

Non-story fed to the media by our chairman. You calling it a non-story means you are questioning our chairman's judgement in what he decides to brief to the media. How dare you, you ungrateful sod after all he has done for our club. If it wasn't for him we would still be in league one or not exist or something.

I am Leo and I'm hilarious.

I'm Brian.

Yeah. That is definitely happening.

Who's your agent?

Obviously we would not have "certainly gone down". I'll file this alongside the rest of the consistent horsecra p you post on this forum.

There you go then. I didn't bother checking, just kind of knew it. Just how it goes in the Prem.