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I Sorry I Ruined The Party said:
It does make sense.. Because it is total bullshit. The ex-neighbor he hasn't seen in two years suddenly is his best buddy.

It squares with what we've heard because it IS what we've heard. It's just a summary of what everyone is already thinking with some pretend ITK sauce on top.
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Harsh, very harsh. But yeah...probably about right.

Still, that's what we do, us humans. We tell ourselves stories we can be comfortable with. This version of events is neither more nor less valid than any other interpretation.
 
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Saintharry13 said:
I find myself confused at the potential for Pellegrini arriving at Saints.

As mentioned earlier, he seemed tired and uninterested at Man City-understandable considering his demise since the announcement of PG.

People who manage teams of "superstars" never really seem to have their capabilities tested too much and it worries me that he's been kind of treading water at City.

I worry that managers who approach clubs may not be the best appointments but I thought that about the Lying Dutchman too-or maybe I was right after all??!!

I hope that MP has recharged his batteries and brings his pre Man City coaching abilities....
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Please don't call him MP. Got me confused there thinking it was a completely left field appointment...............if you know what I mean.
 
I Sorry I Ruined The Party said:
It does make sense.. Because it is total bullshit. The ex-neighbor he hasn't seen in two years suddenly is his best buddy.

It squares with what we've heard because it IS what we've heard. It's just a summary of what everyone is already thinking with some pretend ITK sauce on top.
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I have to laugh but do you really think when he talks about "his ex neighbour that he hasn't seen for a couple of years" that he is actually talking about an ex neighbour that he hasn't seen for a couple of years? It is clearly just waffle about a not to be named contact.

As for what he says. I believe the basics of it but I do think he likes to put the Hollywood version in his posts complete with embellishments.

I would suspect that most of these ITKs are fed by the club. Same as leaks in politics. Put the info out there to get people on side or test waters etc. I suspect they might even feed some dodgy info through sometimes to distract. i.e. leak something about target player X, everybody is talking about player X while the board go after target Y instead.

This is nothing new. It just seems strange because before it all had to be leaked to newspapers or media whereas these days the internet means you can get the message out there very easily and if someone asks "have you been feeding info to Kbilly Supersound, the club will obviously say "Who?"
 
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Right, obviously a lot of us will take 'whoever uncle Les picks' because the club has shown themselves over the past 7 years to know what they're doing, and generally every decision is well researched and not 'a punt'.

However, if we took each of the main five named candidates at the moment and rate them all on a scale of 1-10 regards our level of excitement (where 1= 'I reckon he'll do such a bad job he'll definitely be sacked inside a year, 5= 'I reckon he'll around about match what Koeman could've', and 10= 'I reckon he'll get us in the champions league within the next three years'), what would we score each candidate?

I'll go first....
Frank de Boer - 6/10
Rudi Garcia - 8.5/10
Manuel Pellegrini - 9/10
Vitor Pereira - 7.5/10
Claude Puel - 5/10

I'm erring against Puel & De Boer, but to be honest I don't reckon any of the five will be a downgrade. Roll on the announcement <cheers>
 
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latviandream said:
Right, obviously a lot of us will take 'whoever uncle Les picks' because the club has shown themselves over the past 7 years to know what they're doing, and generally every decision is well researched and not 'a punt'.

However, if we took each of the main five named candidates at the moment and rate them all on a scale of 1-10 regards our level of excitement (where 1= 'I reckon he'll do such a bad job he'll definitely be sacked inside a year, 5= 'I reckon he'll around about match what Koeman could've', and 10= 'I reckon he'll get us in the champions league within the next three years'), what would we score each candidate?

I'll go first....
Frank de Boer - 6/10
Rudi Garcia - 8.5/10
Manuel Pellegrini - 9/10
Vitor Pereira - 7.5/10
Claude Puel - 5/10

I'm erring against Puel & De Boer, but to be honest I don't reckon any of the five will be a downgrade. Roll on the announcement <cheers>
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I wouldn't argue with any of those numbers. Pellegrini has done it all before, and to a higher level than any of the others mentioned, so he is my favourite.
 
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