Still certainly seems to know how to “play the game” I’m not sure he’d stick around for long if he does come here. It’ll be more Maresca than McKenna if he got us promoted.
If Still came in and started making demands like that he should have been shown the door immediately.
Football is a dog eat dog world mate, they all play the game. You’d be an idiot not to put your own interests first.
How do you think negotiations work? Do you think managers crawl in like lap dogs and just accept anything because we’re the biggest club in the world and anyone would be so lucky to work for us? That’s probably how it went with Beale and look how that turned out.
The club is being run on a DoF/Head Coach system. The point of that is that the whole set up of the club doesn't have to be changed every time we appoint a new head coach. If Still, or anyone else, comes in and demands that everything is changed to suit him, he isn't the man for the job.
The bloke from X Factor? It's a left field appointment, but it he can bring Harry Hill with him at least we'd get a laugh.
Nobody said he demanded everything is changed to suit him. I said he came to the table and asked for X,Y and Z like any self respecting manager who thought anything of himself would do. You don’t want to walk into an operation that’s set up to fail. Many other clubs much bigger than ours run with a DoF and also allow a head coach to bring in his own people..
Michael Beale coming back. He's been summoned from his family holiday to come back for one last prance
If it's not Still then it simply has to be Maric. That's the only thing that would provide a satisfactorily dramatic ending to the story of this thread. The seemingly defeated and homeless @Blond Bombshell rides in on a white horse during the final scene, quick look to the camera...'telt yas' and then off in to the distance to spend his winnings.
If this is the case then Still has played us good and proper. Agreeing with him in principle and then moves the goalposts. Cheeky scrot. That is assuming it’s correct of course.
His stock is high, ours isn't. He's perfectly entitled to make demands. It's when you're employing people desperate for any job that the problems inevitably occur. As we've seen.
