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  1. Hopefully. All I'm saying is that is how he came into the club initially. He did offer his resignation after the 9-0 but we turned it down.
  2. I said coles not the people I spoke to. Its difficult to remember a load of details from a conversation over a few beers. Take it however you want.
  3. Yep I could sign up to that. If the club think he has development potential then it's worth a small fee. I mean look at Stephens.
  4. Yes. If we had signed up Danso and then a starting cb then u don't think anyone would have had an issue. The impression when we got him was he was going to be a starter which I don't think was ever the case.
  5. It's just a chat with some acquaintances over a few beers. They had some info and I thought it was worth sharing. On reflection though some of them could have been identified with what I had originally written and how I had written it so I'd appreciate if you didn't share.
  6. The academy bloke who left for England and due to start in February has been all over the club recently - was there a lot last week- and apparently is an incredibly positive appointment as he knows the club and will return things to higher standards and remove some of the department heads if not performing on football side. Jaidi apparently is still working for the club and there may be an expectation that he has gone to learn in America and will return in the future. Point was made about the academy that effects both positive and negative take a few years to see the effects. Therefore the poorness of our current academy is down to bad decisions from a few seasons ago. Any positive moves now will take a few seasons to bear fruit. Gao Nothing we don't already know but has no intention of putting money in or taking any out. Only ever wanted the club to raise his profile abroad and as an asset to assist him in his other businesses. Some people are nervous about the sponsor this year and fear it could be something dodgy like money laundering.
  7. they seemed to think it was but I doubt they were told that directly by rohl so it was most likely second hand info. We didn't talk about rohl in much detail. I've had to leave some bits out and not go into too much detail as some of this stuff is obviously sensitive.
  8. The gifs were a particular highlight. Cheers master bates, would be great to see you posting more if you're up to it.
  9. Yes I'd agree with that. As you say his record has been a bit patchy, I reckon he'd want to stay for a bit longer yet to enhance his reputation but its not going to be a big shock if he leaves soonish.
  10. Hi there. Going to post small bits about what I've heard. For reasons I'm sure people understand some information is sensitive: January. Relevant club staff have been told to work until late on transfer deadline day. Suggests that at the very least we will be working to bring someone in. The club. Agreement seems to be that the club structure went to pot after we qualified for Europe. Apparently following this we brought in a load of extra staff in departments. The people I spoke to think we are overstaffed in certain areas to do with the club, with loads of staff doing jobs that are different from their job description. The board itself is apparently decent but the department heads are pretty rubbish and are largely the reason that things have gone backwards. Almost all decisions have to be run past the board for approval which means we have had a high turnover of backroom staff as many want to stay but small things like little pay rises or contract changes can take ages to be approved and staff get fed up and find alternative employment. We had a solid system for recruiting players and under krueger and Wilson things changed. Ross and krueger were largely responsible for the transfer debacle of the last couple of years. The club are aware that Les carried the can for a load of the decisions but apparently he was blamed for a load of stuff that wasn't his fault. Wilson was largely to blame. The carillo transfer in particular, loads of scouts said he wasn't worth the cash but Ross was adament that he would do well. Ralph. Decided to come to the club and use us largely as a stepping stone. Came in and promised to stay and get us up the table but then wants to leave and move on. Unlikely to stay for too long if we have some success. Lost rohl once he knew bayern wanted him. Big loss because he was the link between Ralph and the players. Even now Ralph is slightly isolated. Ralph really doesn't trust many of the hangers on like coles and kelvin. If you notice he rarely interacts with them and doesn't do much conferring on match days other than with the bald guy (can't remember his name.)
  11. Yes but if the reason he came was to raise his profile then it's unlikely he will want to stay for an extended period of time.
  12. I don't really agree with vigilante justice, but if someone had done something to my daughter I'd be enthusiastic about ending their life as quickly as possible so I'm conflicted on this one.
  13. Eh? Boufal stood and addressed the crowd. Looked like a celebration to me.
  14. Just need to double check it to make sure there's nothing to identify anyone and I'll repost.
  15. I doubt he will leave yet but next year wouldn't surprise me. I did wonder how we managed to attract him in the first place, it really was a coup considering how low our stock was at that point. He obviously liked the idea of building us back up and improving his cv.
  16. I was at the game. It was good fun, certainly worth going.
  17. Was it richard chorley who formed sisa and got all militant with everyone?
  18. Johnnyfartpants what happened to him.
  19. Yes I remember. Saints go wilde. Lol.
  20. Art once accidentally linked to hardcore gay porn on here when he meant to copy and paste something else. Hope he's alright as he was very old.
  21. Was it true that dune cut his phone line and glued his lock? Or was that something else?
  22. Nice. So it's the broad brushstrokes technique then.
  23. What was the name of the Liverpool supporter with a gangster avatar who used to sell pop art? Was it the don?
  24. Have you met all 17 million personally then? Impressive.
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