S.A.F.C. - the future

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If they bring in people that know what they’re doing, the salary cap really shouldn’t be a problem.

Get a manager in that players want to play for. A brand of football that players want to be part of, with healthy automatic wage increases upon promotion.

Attract the best this division has or the best players who are willing to play at this salary level and take a punt at being part of something special.
 
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Any thoughts of who the Scandinavian sporting director candidate might be?

My narrow minded perspective can only come up with Frank Arnesen and Stefan Schwartz.

Arnesen would obviously be one hell of a coup and would really show they mean business.
 
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Micklar said:
No one is worth 7trillion.. jeff bezos is the richest in the world with a worth of only 145billion.. no one has reached anywhere near to being worth even 1 trillion so don't know where you have got this from
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The company his father in law is chairman or vice chairman of is Blackridge who manage funds and assets worth over 7 trillion.
 
Red n white Tractor said:
I agree to a certain degree about not going back to the past.
I don’t know if you’ve listened to Gus Poyets What The Falk podcast interview but he talks about what he wanted to do here and why things went wrong. No manager can say they’ve never made mistakes or that they are perfect but Poyet had a plan and had clear ideas of how to improve this club. We need some of that right now, whether that’s with him or someone else
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Of the three I wrote off there he'd be the one I'd be happiest with. At least he's still managing or has been up until recently and his ideas would suit us better now than they did before.

He was one of the early adopters of playing it out from the back wasn't he and while it was bloody awful seeing O'Shea and Brown grapple with the idea I think it'd work now. Certainly beats whatever Parky thinks he's doing.
 
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This is just my opinion but I think it'll be difficult enough, after Brexit, to bring in players from Europe.
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I think there will be some sort of freedom of movement like there was before Major brought in the Maastricht Treaty in 1992 followed by Blair’s Social Chapter in 1997. We might see less second rate European players in though, having said that second rate European players would improve our current team.
 
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Smug in Boots said:
And I've seen people posting about how underwhelmed they are ...

... I don't think it's dawned on us how big this can be, especially if the Americans remain.
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I'm going to have an extra slice of bacon in my bacon sarnie's this morning as that prospect has me licking my lips.
 
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Alex83 said:
Uruguayan River Plate has nothing to do with the one in Argentina that is the famous one. This is the one in Uruguay (https://cariverplate.uy/). It is a much bigger club that Torque Montevideo City, the one Manchester City group bought in our country. River Plate it’s a very nice club in our country, red & white and caracterized to have good youth players. Gus Poyet started his carrer in River Plate for example
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River Plate separates Argentina and Uruguay, hence more than one team having the monica .
 
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Alebeac said:
I think there will be some sort of freedom of movement like there was before Major brought in the Maastricht Treaty in 1992 followed by Blair’s Social Chapter in 1997. We might see less second rate European players in though, having said that second rate European players would improve our current team.
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Taking a call from a DOF, employed by Dreyfus, will attract better players than one from Rodwell, that's for sure.

Agents won't get an easy ride from people like these though.
 
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Taking a call from a DOF, employed by Dreyfus, will attract better players than one from Rodwell, that's for sure.

Agents won't get an easy ride from people like these though.
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Furthermore playing for Parkinson wouldn’t be attractive to decent players, particularly with the salary cap, the sooner he has buggered off to the National League where he belongs the better.
 
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If one thing has been made blatantly apparent by yesterdays result its that this 'limbo' state, Schrodingers takeover needs to be concluded immediately.
We can't go another league game with this amount of uncertainty around the club. It's pointless having good people come in if we've already fell off the pace. I saw a few tweets etc suggesting you couldn't sack Parkinson because we were still in the hunt, but in reality we're hanging on and will fall aways soon. Drastic imminent action is what we need. I hope those involved can see the urgency of the situation and act accordingly.
 
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