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L'equipe are reporting that Kyrils mam has told him to cut his teeth at Sunderland before asking an investment in Marseille. Seems odd as he already gets involved there
I’ve never heard the phrase ‘cut his teeth’ before. What does it mean?
 
I’ve never heard the phrase ‘cut his teeth’ before. What does it mean?

It's 'a nibble prior to a chomp' ...

... that's the official technical phrase.

In all honesty we need to ignore that as it's a poor translation from the French.

L'Equipe aren't actually saying that.

It's an assumption that, one day, he'll take over at Marseille but may never happen.

Besides, to do that, he'd have to make a big success of SAFC.

Win, win.
 
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Tin hat on...and maybe over thinking this or talking crap lol...not just blaming the last 2 manager’s but i’ve thought this for quiet a while now that some of these player’s are to ‘comfy’ at Sunderland with the facilities available to them compared to other league 1 club’s and have no interest at been promoted out of this league because they are not good enough to play at a higher level so are happy plodding along in league 1.

Which is why we need young ambitious players on the up, instead of a bunch of has been's or never been's.
 
Which is why we need young ambitious players on the up, instead of a bunch of has been's or never been's.

Exactly mate, exactly.

Contracts are the death of our club because we give them to the wrong people.

What motivation is there for Graham to even play, never mind train or make an effort.

The answer is zero.

But give that contract to a young lad, with dreams of greatness, and he'll do everything to get another bigger & better contract with us or elsewhere.

Players like Graham, Maguire, McGeady, etc, are good enough to earn a contract but too lazy to earn a new one.

We have to stop this and the only way is to have a strict policy and stick to it.
 
The players we have are League One plodders, this is probably the biggest club they will play for. If we get promoted, they will be ditched, with very few exceptions

Spot on mate with a lot of the players we've got. I'm sure though, that the likes of 09,Hume, Gooch, Wright, Willis, Embleton, Patterson, Diamond, Younger and Neil would love to rise to the challenge with this club.

We need similar types to join this 10 and make a decent hungry squad.
 
Exactly mate, exactly.

Contracts are the death of our club because we give them to the wrong people.

What motivation is there for Graham to even play, never mind train or make an effort.

The answer is zero.

But give that contract to a young lad, with dreams of greatness, and he'll do everything to get another bigger & better contract with us or elsewhere.

Players like Graham, Maguire, McGeady, etc, are good enough to earn a contract but too lazy to earn a new one.

We have to stop this and the only way is to have a strict policy and stick to it.


This is absolutely correct. It is blindingly obvious, and the singing of Graham was a perfect illustration of how we do our business. We needed a forward, so instead of having a proper look down the leagues, or the one we are in, and find a hungry player with potential, maybe a couple, we go and sign bloke on the threshold of middle age, who looks as if he hasn't ran a mile in the last ten years.

Pathetic and predictable, as was the signing of a useless, not bothered, time serving manager. Until this stops, we won't start.
 
L'equipe are reporting that Kyrils mam has told him to cut his teeth at Sunderland before asking an investment in Marseille. Seems odd as he already gets involved there

Odd thing to report when his Mam only owns 5% of Marseille. He wouldn't even have a say at Marseille even if he did 'cut his teeth' at Sunderland. She sold the club in 2016.
 
I'm not allowing the current results, etc to spoil my optimism over the takeover news. Nor am I letting lazy journalism like the Times article bother me.

It's heartening to see the French media talking about Dreyfus, and his plans, even if our own seems to be slow on the uptake.

As with FPP, the Dreyfus camp, seem to be looking for top level guidance and want to employ someone to oversee the club. That's particularly interesting to me as I've still heard nothing about FPP pulling out. They spend a fair bit of time, effort and money on feasibility studies and finding people who could provide a solid foundation for the club. It wouldn't be impossible that all this information and resource is being shared.

Le Figaro and L'equipe appear to be the place to look for answers.

I truly hope so mate. Icing and hundreds and thousands on the cake.
 
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Odd thing to report when his Mam only owns 5% of Marseille. He wouldn't even have a say at Marseille even if he did 'cut his teeth' at Sunderland. She sold the club in 2016.

Exactly mate, it's just like one of these daft myths like Quinn coming back for 'unfinished business'.

His Mam left a bit of an unpleasant legacy so I doubt he'll be running back there, although he is a 'supporter'.

The Marseille supporters are nuts and there's a Mafia element to everything that goes on there.

The SW Corner is a much safer option <laugh>
 
I don't think it's the 'good' River Plate, but the Uruguayan River Plate. Also, with work permit rules, we'll unlikely see any of the players over here.

I'm sure with the connections these new owners have, we'll see plenty of people qualifying by having a long lost Italian or Spanish Granny. :emoticon-0105-wink:
 
And, isn't that perception part of the problem, this is what FPP wanted to change.

That river is a massive resource that's totally under used and appreciated.

It could, and should imo, be a big part of the club.

Let's have a park & ride licensed ferry and an escalator <party>

Sounds good to me. Take an escalator from the Quayside to St Peter's Metro Station, and another one to the Monorail terminal.
 
Sounds good to me. Take an escalator from the Quayside to St Peter's Metro Station, and another one to the Monorail terminal.

The Metro station was deemed 'unfit for purpose' in the feasibility studies, as well as the various approaches to the ground.

I love it all because it's like it's all stuck in the 70's, happy days for me, but it looks shyte for new people, families or visitors.
 
Odd thing to report when his Mam only owns 5% of Marseille. He wouldn't even have a say at Marseille even if he did 'cut his teeth' at Sunderland. She sold the club in 2016.

Maybe it's being taken a bit literally. Perhaps, as a very rich fan, he'd like to own Marseille eventually. His mam, realising she wasn't popular, tells him that rather than starting there, he should run another club like us. If he does well, the fans there would be a lot more likely to accept him, if he still wants to do it. She can't guarantee he'd get the chance to run them, but with the money they've got I'm sure he could purchase them at some point
 
The Metro station was deemed 'unfit for purpose' in the feasibility studies, as well as the various approaches to the ground.

I love it all because it's like it's all stuck in the 70's, happy days for me, but it looks shyte for new people, families or visitors.

No doubt about it, the new plans unveiled by the council have ambition and are forward thinking. Would love for the club to get involved with this. Particularly the public transport infrastructure to/from SoL.
 
Exactly mate, exactly.

Contracts are the death of our club because we give them to the wrong people.

What motivation is there for Graham to even play, never mind train or make an effort.

The answer is zero.

But give that contract to a young lad, with dreams of greatness, and he'll do everything to get another bigger & better contract with us or elsewhere.

Players like Graham, Maguire, McGeady, etc, are good enough to earn a contract but too lazy to earn a new one.

We have to stop this and the only way is to have a strict policy and stick to it.
Spot on Smug, our bunch of journeymen, with a couple of exceptions, are at the apex of their career and their only direction is downwards. We need to sign or develop players on the up who have ambition in the game.
 
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