after that man goes, do you feel sorry for harry, that he has been genuinely trying to keep the man and has been stitched up by the player, the board and the agent?
or do you think he was told in april/may that he will go without CL qualification and the rest was appeasement and posturing under instruction from the higher powers?
if the former is true, then he was in an impossible situation. if the latter is true then he is disingenuous and his whole integrity is questionnable.
i find it hard to believe, with the way transfers go these days, that a manager could ever be unaware (at this level) of the plans of the board regarding specific individuals.
He must surely have gone to the board after we lost to city and said " CL over , Mr Levy, what's the boards position on modric and bale etc, now?" I doubt they would have said that none are for sale and that we would never sell, whatever the offers amounted to !
Ought harry to say nothing rather than give us false hopes about the real methodology of the board.?
Are we , the fans, just even bigger saps than we were years back.?
WHy do we think that football is now more sophisticated, economically-based and better run and thus we will be treated any better than the cash-cows we have always been?
It is all money and we are only there to improve the atmos in the ground.
The gate receipts are probably relatively small as a % of what they bring in from other avenues. Maybe they don't need fans at all.
Just shareholders, corporate boxes and journos from the mail.
what is the point of fandom?
or do you think he was told in april/may that he will go without CL qualification and the rest was appeasement and posturing under instruction from the higher powers?
if the former is true, then he was in an impossible situation. if the latter is true then he is disingenuous and his whole integrity is questionnable.
i find it hard to believe, with the way transfers go these days, that a manager could ever be unaware (at this level) of the plans of the board regarding specific individuals.
He must surely have gone to the board after we lost to city and said " CL over , Mr Levy, what's the boards position on modric and bale etc, now?" I doubt they would have said that none are for sale and that we would never sell, whatever the offers amounted to !
Ought harry to say nothing rather than give us false hopes about the real methodology of the board.?
Are we , the fans, just even bigger saps than we were years back.?
WHy do we think that football is now more sophisticated, economically-based and better run and thus we will be treated any better than the cash-cows we have always been?
It is all money and we are only there to improve the atmos in the ground.
The gate receipts are probably relatively small as a % of what they bring in from other avenues. Maybe they don't need fans at all.
Just shareholders, corporate boxes and journos from the mail.
what is the point of fandom?