He's addressing the hand wringing bed wetting culture of the modern football fan. Get a ****ing grip.
Interesting stuff. If they are trying to change the media perception they will need to start signing players this week. I would assume this is part of their plan? Also if we are taking about people getting hit by a bus, I wonder who that could be arranged for? It needn't be fatal
So you've been blithely unconcerned all summer then? Never bothered you that it looked like your club was getting bent over a barrel? Yeah, right.
It's that "s**t happens" attitude isn't it. Everything is all just a bunch of atoms reacting with each other and s**t, and each atom's path was pre-destined from the big bang and you can't alter it, so things are just going to happen and there's no point thinking about any of it and I'm just going to step in front of a train now.
The prediction was that it will have been put up for sale by next summer. That is still the prediction.
You lot do, sure. Some of us have tried to remain more level headed. This compulsion to use anything and everything as a stick to beat the board with is bizarre. Discontented players? Board's fault. Cortese was a megalomaniac? Board's fault. Elvis died? Board's fault. Manager a filthy stinking judas? Board's fault. One of the most popular is the whole "selling the club" lark. You all say "action speak louder than words", but you don't apply it with regards to this mythical club sale. You've just decided to use it as yet another sad, pathetic stick to beat them with until some arbitrary time when you've decided they've "acted". The whining about transfers is similarly dumb. So we should do what Spurs did and get the replacements in first? Great idea. Have disruptive twats tooling about in preseason destroying sqaud morale as they throw their toys all over the training ground. I'm sure that's a much better idea then getting them gone asap while rebuilding the squad. Once again, it's basically a no win situation, and just like the players, you're throwing your toys all over the place. Fran's right, we didn't and don't know what's actually going on. It's funny that the people that actually do aren't pissing their pants and moaning all the ****ing time. (None of this is a dig at you, fran, the "conspiracy and disaster" line was a convenient hook for my mini rant.)
I saw a tweet saying that the Club won't be issuing Squad numbers until all the new signings are completed, what was the response? A tweet saying the Club wouldn't be giving numbers to Players that weren't staying! We are the kings of negativity! Did the trick, they posted the Squad numbers today!
What a strange and frankly hilarious rant. How silly of me to be annoyed that we've sold most of our key players. I can't believe anyone is "throwing their toys out of the pram" when they have paid £700 for a season ticket only to watch their club being dismantled. Everyone has the right to be annoyed until the board prove they can actually do anything.
I think it's more the way you come off. It's not our club, never has been. The club isn't being dismantled, some players wanted to leave. It happens, unfortunately.
I'm with Pie here, Osvaldoramo. There has been a lot of moaning and groaning and blaming the club for some of the stuff that has gone on without many people accepting that there wasn't really a lot they could have done about it. My bet is that if or when we are into the season and signings are completed, these same people will have forgotten all their moaning. Some people really appear to be thinking that real football is just like a football computer game. Just go out and sign a player. It is so clear that the key players who have left the club, were going to no matter what the board reasonably did. NC didn't have to go, but chose to. He basically huffed and went because he didn't get his own way. MP followed him and in a pretty disgraceful manner as it does appear that he made up his mind long ago and was deceiving the club and talking to players behind the boards' backs. Lallana, Lambert, Shaw had all decided to leave and it looks like Lovren had made up his mind months ago too. The only player going I still have a question mark over is Chambers and even then the board got a fantastic financial return on him. So it may seem like the club is being torn apart with no one doing anything, but if you choose to look carefully, you'll see that they are doing something, it just takes time. For the record, I also spent a lot of money on three season tickets which is over twice your 700 quid, but I am prepared to give the club the available time to see what they do, rather than stamp my feed and demand I get my Christmas presents a month before Christmas.
So do you not accept Ralph's explanation yesterday that keeping disruptive players would have been, in his words, "insane"? Nobody is saying that it is an ideal state of affairs, just that getting massive prices for them was the best of a bad job. Now he's drawn a line in the sand ("acted") and said that Morgan and Jay Rod are not for sale. New players are coming in, and we just have to be patient until they actually arrive, which is, I agree, very frustrating, but what is the alternative? Either we pay over the odds to get players on high wages, or we negotiate, and that takes time. Personally, after the fees we gained for the 5 players who have left, I trust the boards negotiating skills. At the end of August we can all judge whether the board have done well or not, but until then, I see absolutely nothing to be gained by condemning them out of hand for a job they haven't finished doing yet.
Just seen this on one of my 'local' pages. Could she be talking about us or Liverpool? http://www.iol.co.za/tonight/rihanna-eyes-uk-soccer-club-1.1731354#.U-ILarl0wdU
