https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p09zbts0 For those that can stomach it. Played well. On another day. Not getting the luck "at the minute". We'll continue to work hard. Why does he keep saying "at the minute"? Is it something like what '24 hours' means to Assem? Please just **** off.
I absolutely don't expect Allams to make a decision that they feel isn't in their own increasingly narrow financial interest. But though implied, no one occasionally ITK and occasionally been fed a party line on here has yet stuck their neck out to confirm due diligence is actually taking place, which in turn, implies a deal in principle is agreed and the deposit has been paid. I suspect a hitherto 'convenient' shortfall in the scouting budget (eh Ehab?) has led to the sudden need for an additional analyst then? City need a shift in direction before the next transfer window. We could be out of touch by then. That could really jeopardise a sale. If we can't change players, then we need to change what we can because the momentum is all pointing the wrong way right now. And the blasé attitude towards the need for experience at the level they're aspiring to compete at by those responsible for hanging our lads out to dry is at Darno and Mccanns door. **** em off. Times up!
Just seen their winner back. Bernard storming out of defence again and leaving a gap. People seem to love him but he's never in his bloody position, his go-to move for every scenario is to run out and engage. Never seen a defender so often found away from the defence. And the first goal, a short corner again! We conceded that exact goal from an unmarked short corner three times in the last championship season, and Swindon did it to us last season too. Regardless of formations or who plays where, that simply doesn't happen in a Bruce/Adkins/Pearson team. McCann just can't get them to stop making the same mistakes.
Well I only know what I'm told, I have no way of verifying it but as the person who tells me stuff works at the club, I don't know why they'd feed me wrong information. I was told by somebody else that a senior analyst had left to go work at another club, hence the space. The sale won't be jeopardised by the league position, unlike the Allams these guys actually understand football and have a passion for it, they know we've just come up from the league below and see us as a project. If it were the Allams buying us from somebody else, it would be worse as they'd probably jack it in. The deposit has been paid AFAIK, but I'm not privvy to how much that is. I'll repeat what was said before because it hasn't changed, the lads looking to buy are very, very keen. The Allams are very, very keen to sell to them. Assuming nothing goes awry during DD (which is annoying because this is the radio silence bit), it should be done around mid November. Of course, things can change on a dime, understand that, but there's no indication that anybody is going to do what Assem should have done and pull out and spaff elsewhere.
Sacking McCann could bring about a Bruce/Newcastle scenario. Bruce signed on as manager in 2019 knowing the club was for sale, and any buyer would more than likely want to bring in his own man. A clause in the three year rolling contract allowed for the three year rolling contract to restart from zero every summer. Probably the reason he wasn't sacked by Ashley. Let the new owners pick that tab up. Any new manager at City would not necessarily be the choice of the buyers (if they are still keen with the **** show as things are), and may be little more than a caretaker until the deal is done. Including the replacement backroom staff. Who would accept those terms? Papa has a big call. Lose money one way or the other. Pay off McCann, or, see a continuing decline in gate receipts as we knock on the trapdoor to league 1, before falling through it. And consequently reduce the asking price from that of a Championship club to a League 1 club.
They do. They just don't have the experience at this level. I have some empathy for McCann. But a young inexperienced squad (which notably McCann accepted on't radio tonight) needs a bit of experience to guide them. Whilst he did say much of the same old (has he gone through yet another bbc interviewer?) there was a more contrite and less abrasive tone tonight. Maybe he knows the games up?
He also works for the BBC and since Burnsy got the chop they appear to be giving McCann an easy ride in fear they are banned altogether.
Yeah. Another example of the current mentality at the club. From the very top down. Maybe instead of getting uppity, they might have paid more understanding to the idea that Burns, White, Dean, Lloyd, Hogarth et.al. are simply offering right of reply to the fans questions, not their own. From that interview McCann know its a matter of time. Maybe the BBC knew it too and gave him an easy ride tonight?
Those who can't understand why the Boro result was a fluke. KLP shoots and hits the post. Keeper hasn't moved and is well off his line. Ball comes back at mad angle and hits the keeper several yards off his line on the back of his head and goes in. Boro score a worldy from a free kick and ref disallows the goal because OUR WALL was encroaching. Retaken efforts goes way over. Boro desperately looking for a leveller throw everything forward and we break and score. If that's not a fluke then I've never seen one.By God we could have done with some of that tonight. Magennis must have seen some bloke who owed him money at the end of Row W for that penalty. WTF?
I just hope they have some charisma, an understanding of the clubs heritage, and enough nous and cash to succeed.
