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No inquiry says PM , as all concerned try to to break speeding limits peddling away from it. 🙂 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65694017 From what I heard on the radio, she's come out with obvious fib she should have said at the start. Trying to avoid mentioning wh she'd spoken to entirely just dug her deeper and deeper into it.

Brawlers

Not even in jest. Just reading that exchange. Not changed a bit.

Looking at the video and just picturing him at our press conference explaining why the process failed to get us a striker. Or telling us what a good chance we have of hitting the playoffs, only for it to become out of reach. Brrrr. Let's hope that we've learned about recruitment, and he never has to explain why we're not going up.

I was wondering if you were okay SOG, having not posted on this while it was breaking. Glad things are as they should be. Clearly, when she said "same values as us" the us referred to duplicitous, self serving, egotistical swivel eyed politicians, who have to have the truth dragged out of them. So, looking at it in those terms, she's right in not being able to recognise normal folk wanting a better future for their families, and with skills to offer us. I was going to say that there would presumably be a fast track for crooked politicians looking to move here, to fit people she would recognise. But despite banging on about it year after year, they have shown zero control over anyone getting in.

Yard

I was thinking that, as a free agent, he'd get better offers from somewher than what we should be paying him in the Championship. Perhaps he will be more willing because of club connections, but he could just as easily leave this basket case for somewhere abroad.

That post was enough to unsettle me 🙂

If Jesse Marsch was seen going in for talks now, would you prefer him or Martin?

Of course, a gazmilltrillion isn't what it used to be. It takes more than that to keep up these days. Just ask those guys over there, cooking the Man City books to avoid profitability and sustainability rules by at least that much. 🙂

Yeah, and not knocking your opinion on it at all. Just letting my inner voice get typed. 🙂

The club will have made their decision before season's end, tell Selles goodbye, and then announce his replacement. Possibly on full time on the last day, but no reason why it can't be before, if say it leaked. It's not likely to unsettle the team into a defeat, when they are so capable of doing that anyway.

Plucky underdog team reaches glory on a shoestring, giving something for their most special of fans to cheer, because it means more to them than other clubs. What's not to love...oh wait, I had it on for 10mins and turned off when Murphy came on. 🙂

Rain

If rumours of dressing room standards are true, Theo could do nothing to impose the standards we should have had as basics, let alone those he would have experienced elsewhere. He was a high earner, that we were trying to move on. It would have to be a heck of a lot less for us to be picking him up for the Championship. There may even be some residual desire to get shot of him now, since they couldn't before. Despite looking like one of our brighter players recently, it's an incredibly low bar. It would be tough to say his time with us has been a success for any party. No idea if he's interested in coaching badges, but we could do without coaching passengers when doing our staff clear out. Sure he's a lovely bloke, and still has skill, but it would have to be a cracking deal for us in terms of wages, to sign him again.

Easy to think, the way he seamlessly carried on our dreadful form, that he'd been here for a lot longer. 🙂

Webber: I don't mind being a human shield. So brave Webber: I've been to the city centre three times, twice to feed homeless people. So selfless Webber on racist abuse: I'm in a privileged position So woke On the club's finish: Up until the last but one game we were right in the race for the top six. So delusional. They were so tepid and off the pace, that you're think Webber was just off being at our club for a run in. In an interview where, as a club employee he's a bit too honest in a part of it and says he's not keen on visiting the centre of. He says they don't have to sell, while highlighting the players he wants to sell: He slates the tactics that got them relegated last time, although made no attempt to have a word while it was going on. This guy's so off in his own world, he might as well change his name to Rasmus. 🙂

Depends if he meets the new manager's tactics. AA is going to need lots of creative support, and therapy to replace shattered confidence.🙂 He's a willing enough runner, but he'd be expected to finish if it's one up front. He'd have to be able to deliver if playing deeper. Finishing and creativity haven't really stood out for him. He could still have a role, if it's Big Paul who goes as not a fit, or if we get a good offer for Adams. We're going to need some depth.

Film

If he came in to find his car parking space gone to a mysterious Mr Martin, then a few days later his office, then his training bibs while no one told him what for, that might be pretty poor. The club must have succession plans in place. That's going to mean talks. The club may sound out others, but stick with him. He got the job, not because no-one else would touch us, but because the deal we offered wasn't considered to be good enough. That combined with paying off other managers and upper level splits got him in. I don't think he's an idiot. I'm sure he has some strengths. But his tactic of choice was doomed from the start, as it was when he was advising Ralph. Regardless of how close the underlying data told him we were, common sense and a reality check would have told him it wasn't going to work. To not change, even with the very limited attacking options we had, is where he was wrong, and, if the articles are right, failure to set higher standards buried him, as surely as it did Jones. Someone who looks like the poster child for selecting the manager profile in FM, along with lots of data analysis and Premier League experience at a self inflicted basket case club, will surely get him a manager's job somewhere. Somewhere, where his tactic will work and suits the players he gets. But I'm not sorry he's moving on. I'm not thrilled with the way we had coaches from earlier regimes at odds with the incoming manager. So, he shouldn't be staying as a coach, which he's said he's not doing anyway. It's just turned out to be divisive, and we've been divided enough. EDIT: I agree about SR. 🙂

Not that I've seen loads, but I can't think of any dressing room team talks that haven't had a bit of cringe. Essentially a group of players who have to sit there and take whatever is coming out of their manager's mouth. Whether it's anger and swearing, buzz words and X numbers or inspirational quips taken straight off of posters in the gym. Quiet players with barely any interaction, generally looking like they are counting the seconds until their boss shuts up, while hoping they aren't singled out in front of the cameras. I did prefer to see Martin's smaller area, which at least have some impression of togetherness. Not do keen on a manager having to give a team talk in something as big as a conference room, where he has to raise his voice just to cover the distance to the furthest away players. It's nice to see a constructive talk. With whatever squad we're left with, and SR finally managing not to screw up a window, we should be looking to go straight back up. That's going to take a different team talk to the one we're seeing here (which is not to say he can't do those too.) He will have to set standards of promotion and Premier League expectations. Since he was part of a team that capitulated on a regular basis, I'd be interested to find out if he learned how to stop it, considering he'll be managing us.

Flying

I've never thought of him as front footed or aggressive enough as a manager. Until then, he'll have to settle for being towards the top of the Premier League and Champions League football. 🙂

I'll thank you to be respectful to the next wave of Man City super stars we're going to be signing for next season. 🙂

If they keep it down to six and can get us a couple of attacks I'd hope the club are in touch with Mr Martin to tell him that the vacancy has been filled. 🙂