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Cortese was popular among the footballing staff, not so much the other staff, tradespeople and creditors though.

Ronaldo is getting trolled by Euro 2016. Fantastic.

I don't think he's been entirely ruled out. Good manager though, shame what happened to him at Roma.

Strong, wiry hair to be fair. Pellegrini, not Rudi.

Yes... but he did so with absolute swathes of cash. Oh, and Pellegrini took over the club in the relegation places in 2010/11. Next season, , they spent sh1tloads. Done well for the 6th place finish though

Not really. You seem a bit bothered about it than me though, for some reason. Oh, the temerity of him to post! Oh!

Thanks for caring about my best interests, I'm touched. Shouldn't you be on the Watford forum though?

Tbf, as you know, my feelings on meltdown 2014 were hugely wide of the mark so I wouldn't worry! That said, what I posted was from the best of my knowledge.

I wouldn't say what he's said has been wholly correct, no. Plus there's a lot of filler and fleshing out of widely available information that isn't ITK. Guan and kbilly are the ones who truly have an inside scoop as they've proven many times so I'd just watch out for their posts. Failing that, you could always see what becomes of anything I say in the next day or so for the week coming

Yeah totally. Not disputing that at all, just wanted to get across another viewpoint, a quite legitimate one. One which I share too. :-)

Nothing what I said previous was fabricated or meshed together from forums, tweets etc. It was, however, a genuine perspective, though heavily slanted. I'll give myself a pat on the back for at least sharing it with people.

Of course he's gone for the money and he won't be there longer than two seasons, I guarantee that.

What Koeman said was correct, despite the 'leaks' about his character, what he demanded. He was happy to see out his final year and talk after that. We wanted him to sign a bumper deal or sod off... Then there was a stand off, then Everton began pursuing again... It was a deadlock, so RK did decide to sod off. As for players being bullied, not liking him... For someone who we are told wasn't very popular, he's given us 2 record points hauls and qualified for Europe twice, all with having to deal with major player departures... So that should tell you something. The only two confirmed comments about Koeman leaving has come from Long and Davis, who are disappointed he's gone. I can't comment for all of the players but there is not a groundswell of relief that he's gone, more a curiousness of who is to come in next; that could determine the futures of a couple of them.

What an absolute load of waffle. Defo not ITK

He will not repeat his success here but he'll do ok. Not so much worried about losing him, it's who we replace him with...

That's just been lifted from here in the main, pieced together and composed as an ITK story and wherever there's a gap, filled in with the most commonly held view. That's not ITK, that's pure supposition.

They'll be trouble in Marseille tonight

I'm assuming Harry Kane won a raffle to take the set pieces ?

Vardy is made for this. Those two thirty something centre halves will get roasted. We've been superb.

I think Vitor P's firebrand personality will rule him out. Marco Silva and Roger Schmidt on the other hand...

They have a point. Just look at the shadow still cast by the Old Westminsters, Heanor Town and New Brighton Tower. We're huge were huge were huge were huge yes we are yes we are yes we are. To plagiarise and amend a famous CB Fry quote.

One more to consider reading, less tactics, more story http://www.thetacticsroom.com/articles/2015/5/26/roger-schmidts-footballing-philosophy-and-his-breathtakingly-brilliant-bayer-leverkusen-side

A bit more on Schmidt here http://theinsidechannel.com/guide-roger-schmidts-tactics-bayer-leverkusen/

And Schmidt knows Mane too....

Silva, Howe, AVB... Aren't they still in their 30's? . Just read up on Roger Schmidt though, he's an interesting proposition.