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  1. wakeybreakyheart

    wakeybreakyheart Well-Known Member

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    Do you believe in Aliens? Do we know the truth.. Is Elvis still alive.. Bielsa, was weird and slightly Autistic snd yes i have experience with that. After so msny defeats and a load of thrashings we were a joke. Even alan shearer could see it and he's krap. He was not treated badly but sacked becsuse he had become a joke.
     
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  2. milkyboy

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    WJ… don’t know about magic beans fella but that reads like you’ve been on the magic mushrooms.

    Managers are generally sacked after very bad runs, strange as it may seem.

    There are 2 separate points here:
    1. Did they plan for a new manager in the summer. Very likely - they were at least contingency planning but then bielsa was only committing himself year by year AND we were having a poor season…so they’d be fools and rightly criticised if they didn’t. Marsch getting sacked provided an opportunity for them to court one of their targets .

    2. Second point. Was the timing of the sacking to make marsh look good? This is just utter cowpat.

    They ‘brought it forward’ because they thought they had a better chance of staying up with him.

    it’s because we got royally buttfcked by everyone that bielsa lost his job, not because we planned to get humped every week… A consequence not a master plan

    Simply… If they thought bielsa would keep us up they’d have kept him for another two months and then said goodbye… by your logic why bring marsch in at all and risk him being the guy that took us down. The argument is just nonesense.

    The decision, right or wrong, was to try and keep us in the premier league not to make our new manager look good.

    I understand you’re raw on this wj and you feel mb was betrayed and deserved better. I loved the guy, but the board were put in a difficult position because of a precarious league position.
     
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  3. ellandback

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    One of the biggest things I disliked about Bielsa's tactic, was his insistence (80% of the time) that Meslier would have to throw the ball out to Ayling. This season especially the opposition were waiting to pounce on our poor right back and dispossess him, but it happened 5 or 6 times a game, even if he had 3 or 4 men on him!


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    Probably not coincidental, but good planning, you wouldn't bring a new coach in for a run of games that you are going to struggle in, or would you? No we had become the whipping boys and a bit of a joke, let the out going coach take the hit and then bring the new guy in and hope for a bounce.
     
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  5. ellandback

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    The best bit of business we could do when Raph departs is to sign Ward Prowse.
     
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  6. FORZA LEEDS

    FORZA LEEDS Well-Known Member

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    Wrong. The best bit of business would be to keep Raphinha and exchange Roberts and Firpo for Ward-Prowse :biggrin:
     
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    FORZA LEEDS Well-Known Member

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    Well he’s hardly likely to throw it to Firpo is he <doh>
     
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    Is that for one leg <laugh>
     
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  9. Eric Le Merde

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    Or to Phillips, who has been injured for most of the season but really doesn't play as attacking midfield. Then he could have given it to Cooper but, alas, he too has been injured. Alternatively he could have given the ball to Forshaw or Struijk, but they don't appear to be playing. I'm confused
     
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    If only - on both counts.

    Why on earth would Raphinha want to stay? Radrizzani made his ambitions VERY clear last Summer

    A midfield with Phillips and Ward Prowse would be awesome.
     
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  12. Eireleeds1

    Eireleeds1 Well-Known Member

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    You’d be lucky to exchange Roberts and firpo for an electric scooter
     
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  13. ellandback

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    Or an electric blanket...
     
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    Or just a blanket
     
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    Needle and cotton
     
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  16. wakeybreakyheart

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    How about we pay other teams to take them. Even then they would be hard to shift. Roberts the footballing Lewis Hamilton needs to go.
     
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  17. wakeybreakyheart

    wakeybreakyheart Well-Known Member

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    Or a hankie (kids size)
     
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  18. Eireleeds1

    Eireleeds1 Well-Known Member

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    After paying agents fees and subsidising their wages if we get a taker, it will cost money to shift them. Probably main reason they will be kept
     
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  19. milkyboy

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    What about kiko - he played for Real Madrid - he’s worth top euros surely!
     
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  20. Irishshako

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    Elvis works down the chip shop. Ffs I thought everyone knew that.<laugh>
     
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