Yeah, if football management was like every other job. It isn't. Otherwise Steve Bruce wouldn't keep getting jobs.
As a more realistic assessment: Rafa wanted to have a degree of control over the club that Ashley wasn't willing to provide. If allowed that control, Rafa would have stayed at a club he liked, on a very good salary and close to his family. When it became apparent that he and Ashley weren't going to agree, he considered his options: a. he wasn't going to get a better job in England; b. he would therefore be a plane ride from his family c. he could wait for a job in Europe. He would certainly get one but it would probably be at a lower level than his previous appointments. That is always embarrassing. d. he had a ready made offer in China, being offered a lot of money and probably a lot of control. None of this matters. Rafa is, sadly, history. We have cabbage face and some interesting players. We can be angry or excited. I am going to try for the second.
C'mon toons, why so negative? I read it in the end pouch and that's 50 seconds of my life I feel you actually owe me! Was expecting some real wumming and all we got was 'man leaves **** job for more money' I don't blame him. If I'd been promised the world in a job, stuck it out for three years, and ended up only getting the surface area of Hull, I'd **** off for more money. All this 'chose to wait so he didn't pay 6 mil' stuff is clearly the wind up effort but this is too ludicrous a reasoning to be taken seriously, even for you. Dust yourself down and come back stronger mate, you're capable of much better.
Not sure how it come back to bite me? He chose to leave and no intention of staying so retaining him wasn't an option. I have already stated that despite him getting my support, I am concerned about the competence of Steve Bruce. I'd have preferred we replaced Rafa with someone who could get the best out of a squad which has more than enough to stay in this division.
What does that tell you? outside of the Newcastle Rafa Garglers he is not wanted by the top clubs. He came to Newcastle because his reputation was in tatters after the Real Madrid debacle. He managed to bore the pants off people despite having one of the worlds best squads at his disposal. He'd been off far quicker but for Mike having a 6m noose round his neck.
Freddd is the only one who has offered a countering argument. Even then he doesn't address the issues raised. I think that tells you all you need to know in terms of the Rafa Garglers being unable to actually offer an explanation. So the response is "you're wumming" or "nice novel". I think deep down its the embarrassment of being duped by the bloke.
What didn't I address ? You postulate that Rafa decided to leave for the increased salary and that everything else said and done was a smoke screen. I provide my (unproven; I don't have any better access to inside information than you do) belief that the reason Rafa left was the one that he and Ashley: they were unable to come to agreement on some fundamental terms. I do take your point that the business done in the transfer window indicates that the fundamental problem wasn't this summer's signings.
It is but I can't see with everything that has transpired since that Rafa was ever staying. Clearly the money was there, it would seem likely the money for the training ground was there, the money was there for the U23s. It really only does leave what had already gone on and the fact we wouldn't allow him to sign old players. If that is the case I think it is fair to suggest he was never staying. I was interested to read Rafa's scathing attack on Mike Ashley's interview. Rather than refute anything he just used the public image of Ashley to defend himself with "a leopard never changes its spots". Surely if there was more to it than Mike Ashley has given he would have put it straight? I'm sure I'll be told its because he is a professional, or he just won't want to enter into a slanging match via the media. Or some other bollocks which has no substance.
I think you've addressed it now. That the U23, transfers clearly weren't an issue. I would venture it was far more likely the training ground money was there. Which only really leaves signing older players? We'd have to see if he was asking for an uplift in salary to the proportions Ashley is claiming if at all. That may have been another sticking point. There may have been other things that Ashley is not mentioning too. We'll never know though because Rafa has chosen not to disclose anything despite being in possession of all the facts.
What other response would you like when your making stuff up? Training ground promises made 3 years ago were not kept, promises to spend every penny generated were not kept, going back to the model of scouts picking players bought didn't favour rafa. All that you're left with is MA's 'promise' things will change.... Again. I'd deffo **** off for a big payday in China as opposed to taking MA at his word. The money definitely helps. I know you miss Rafa because there is little else to bleat on about, especially with your defence of Bruce not being as controversial as you'd hoped, but he's gone. Time to move on. We have lots of exciting, attacking, hoofball to talk about under Bruce.
I think it is generally accepted that Rafa likes to be in control of his teams, including having control of transfers within a budget. It is also generally accepted that Ashley likes to maintain close control over NUFC. Two people can't have overall control. I don't think any more elaborate explanation is needed.
Why you bringing old **** into it like the promises made 3 years ago? Surely any negotiation is about what's ahead? That would suggest you also agree that Rafa had no intention of signing on and was playing the fans.
That will be because we appointed Steve Bruce, not because Rafa ****ed off to China for money. To be honest I think Bruce will do well to relegate that squad looking at the competition. You'd need Steve McClaren levels of incompetence to achieve that. I think Bruce might do ok and probably no worse than Rafa.
Your wife promised three years ago that she'd be faithful to you. Yet you insist that her abject failure to keep that promise has no bearing on your current negotiation to get her to stop blowing ACS. At least your logic is consistent, I suppose.
