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What! Why has nobody told me this before? 20+ years of contributing to this place and it was all for nowt 😥

We've "lost" the opportunity to sign him permanently would be a better way of putting it.

Clearly that was just guff that was intended to placate the fans who were unhappy at the way the club was being run at the time. It's the equivalent of an abusive partner saying "Please give me one more chance babe. I promise I've changed and things will be different this time" before fucking off back to the pub with his mates and boasting about how gullible she is. No more chances now Dragan. The winning run under Tonda papered over the cracks and took the heat off you for a bit. But it was all just a convenient veneer to disguise how fucking abysmal your ownership of this club has been.

Oxford will still be in the EFL next season, just not in the Championship. So I expect it's more likely that these were just the only ones there was compelling evidence for and it's just coincidence that neither of them will be in the same league next season.

This is the sad reality of it I think. Shafted by our own naivety.

If anyone genuinely believes these were the only three instances, and not just the only ones for which there was evidence that we couldn't refute, then I've got some magic beans to sell them.

They have savvy owners and good lawyers who know exactly how to get away with these things. Whereas we're run by the fucking chuckle brothers.

The very fact he had a change of clothes ready strongly suggests that he knew damn well he wasn't supposed to be there.

Get Will Salt in there with his iPhone to live stream it.

It is, but football manager contracts are nothing like 'normal' employment contracts. And even if they were, there would still be a clearly defined disciplinary process to follow if we want to avoid having to pay him off somehow.

Absolutely this.

Where has this been posted please?

Yes, we do. There were WhatsApp messages presented as evidence to the tribunal.

Given everything that has come out, that was never going to happen. It's because of his actions that we got the sanction we did. Surely you understand that?

Honestly, some of the mental gymnastics going on here 🤦 There is no reasonable scenario where Tonda is still our manager next season. None. It's utterly ridiculous to suggest otherwise. Whatever talent he might have, he has orchestrated a chain of events that has led to us suffering what is possibly the biggest ever humiliation in English football. And if the reports that came out yesterday about him bullying young interns to break the rules are true, that just makes it ten times worse. He CANNOT stay. It's that simple.