Cant believe he is still here. Its fcuking Thursday for christsake. Desperate measures may be called for.!! Satan`s bellend.??? Volunteers anyone???
This is the distillation of everything that is wrong with NUFC and why we are rotten from the top down (MA is the elephant in the room ..but he has put his hand in pocket, and been hands off this season, but no free pass as he ultimately appointed this no mark of a man. We all saw last season with the carver fiasco the true measure of Charnley) Charnley a spineless, weak, cowardly faceless bueruacrat, whose toughest decision has been ...do our guests warrant chocolate biscuits or plain? has again ...faffed and flapped. NO plan B ..EVER!! ...Shockingly poor (I hate to use the term )'management'. NUFC ..a club that...HOPES that everything will be ok, as actually thinking and planning involves ..managing might mean having to make tough calls. The alarms should have started ringing after 12 (ish) games, by Xmas..alarms should have been deafening, by the mini break... the need to get Kryten to change the alarm bulb to a red one should have been approved. What happened? ..a big fat NOWT Confidence shattered and 10 games left to play and we are left with an effectively sacked manager who is still in place? What the hell? Out of all the permutations ..this fiasco is the worst of the worst way of dealing with the issue.. I just cannot see how the board and Charnely see this as a positive way to move forward No matter what everyone thinks of SM..this is a shabby way to treat a person/employee/board director ...and indicates what NUFC plc are like in all thier dealing with people...shabby at best
In times of crisis we need to turn to our most experienced men. Therefore step forward Turkeytoon/Liam-Oh your time is here. Get down on your knees and grasp Satan's warty, puss filled pommel end and open wide.....
My time has passed my friend. It is time to pass the baton (no pun intended) on. Step up brave souls, grasp the shaft and suck it till your eyes water and your mouth fills up (pretend its an orange Callipo lolly). Only then will we be free of the pock faced ginger-tufty-haired arse bandit.!! AMEN..!
Despite previous comments having thought about it I can kinda understand the reasoning, they want to get a successor before firing McBrolly, the current coaching setup is part of Brollies failure so even if he was sacked straight away there is no positives with the current staff in a caretaking role and with only ten games left it is critical to get something in place quickly that would be a boost to our chances. Yes it's a mad way of doing things and not the normal mad football way but if they succeed in getting Rafa then they will have pulled the rabbit from the hat and sawed the lady in half at the same time, the sheer lift in the mood around the club if this happens will be huge and will have been worth the madness, I just hope it is all true.
Totally agree if the can get Rafa then ALL will be forgotten (in short term) and will have pulled off a bit of a coup (until it goes wrong again and the same methodology is applied as it was with Carver and SM..ie a huge big cowardly clusterfuck) The hang on till a replacement is assurred is sensible...but do so so publically??? That is my main issue with the current situation...ignoring the fact that this should have been dealt with ages ago...plans put in place, potential replacements sounded out etc etc...ie normal sensible management of a huge company. (which should have been an ongoing activity for the past couple of months minimum) That it HAD to get to such a crisis point ..before Charnley decides to pull his finger out and actually ..DO ..something, and HOW it is being done ..is what is profoundly worrying ..and Charnley has previous in handling situations this way..its in his DNA, I think
As a matter of interest does anyone know if we have recall clauses for cabella. Or has he permanently gone.
I think he has gone ...He/Marseille fulfilled his minimum games played for an automatic transfer to go through..sometime around christmas/Jan (Pretty damn sure not 100%)
Yes that's what I thought. Shame cause he might have been quite handy in the last few games of the season. Thauvin on the other hand. What a muppet.
I dunno .. I like my tricky winger types ...kinda feel neither were given a fair crack of the whip ..particularly Thauvin. That said, I assume He hated it here/ was shockingly ****e in training/attitude or summat, as he hardly had the chance to acclimatise to the league...unlike Cabella who had a few, if not loads, of opportunities to play and adjust Haven't a clue what went on, but both did seem very lightweight (same complaint was made about perez initially, mind)
The fact that Benitez is being given full control suggests that Graham Carr is going to beout on his ear.
Of course the problem here is that, regardless of what Charnley may or may not 'get over the line' regarding Rafa, or anybody else, its ultimately Ashley that will say yay or nay. All of this, 'its the footballing board that decides these things' bullshit is exactly that. Apparently he is due to talk to that fat little ****ing excuse for an MD on Friday to discuss Mac's exit and whoever is incoming. If Ashley doesn't like what been agreed................ ie. Carr being pushed aside hopefully, Rafa's wages being double Schteeeve's, all of the back room staff pay off's etc etc, then it wont happen. Theres still plenty of scope for this to unravel and we are then looking at a 'the board fully backs Steve....................etc, etc' scenario just before Mondays game.
I'm not sure how much Steve would back the board in that scenario though. Was thinking about it earlier, and the way the club has acted this week probably gives him a chance to walk AND get his pay off. We must be getting very close to the constructive dismissal line.
This will almost certainly be his last managerial job in football, let alone the PL, and not through choice, I might add. I think that he will cling on for dear life, given the chance. Plus, the deluded ****er probably genuinely thinks that he can still turn it around. Anybody with an ounce of integrity would have walked by now. But nope, the multi millionaire clings on for another bumper pay off for failure, with the faint hope that he could still get it together in the last few games and prove us all wrong. I was never excited by the appointment of a man that turned us down to remain at Derby, then was sacked by said Championship club because he wasn't up to the task and then suddenly he landed the "job i've always wanted". The guy should never have been let near the place in any capacity................. unless we are looking for match day car park attendants?
