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'Taken ill' "Roy, can we have a word with you in the office?" Roy:

I'm not having that. Tonali's gambling habit would have been kept firmly under wraps. I don't think that can be pinned on anyone at NUFC. Having said that, if he goes, I hope Man United's first big signature signing turns out to be the fucking Acca King of Italy and the bloke that dresses up as Foxy for Foxy Bingo.

Aye, after Mrs. Wyki making him do this for two hours. No wonder the fucker needs surgery.

I can’t help but feel there’s a lot of misunderstanding of Ashworths role. Obviously Winters wanks off about Man U so he’s leaning into the hype about Ashworth, and no doubt the bloke is good at what he does but he has heads of recruitment and scouts. The role is meant to be a long term one and he’s so far done about 2 year at Brighton and a year at us, again he probably does do a good job but I think it’s hard to point to what he’s really done as his impacts should be mid to longer term. He no doubt sets the tone of what type of profile player the club should focus on etc but the way Winters talks about him is what a head of recruitment (Nickson) would do. I also seeing Ornstein saying Man U are planning to sign a director of football from Southampton, it seems to be very overengineered imo. So they’re going to have a head of recruitment that reports into a director of football who reports into a sporting director (Ashworth?) so who is getting the credit? Hopefully we milk them for a wedge and can just move on, the bloke hasn’t been here long enough to have done much so I don’t see it as some massive loss.

His detailed spreadsheet is missing a column for "Gambling Habit Y/N"

Agree with all that but, in particular, for a bloke all about the medium to long term, he’s quick to fuck off before anyone is able to judge that.

So he plays FM so what

Who even is he? It's like they've got the team leader from Accounts Payable in to give his views. Is he an ex-agent or something?

Needs to add a 'Bet365 UserID' column to that spreadsheet of his.

The Tonali signing suggests he's not quite as meticulous as people like to think

🎵....and it's Sunnndaaaalun! Sunnalun AFC! We're by faaarr The most likely club To inspire an yank actor to buy a football club other than ours. 🎶

Yah, yah, ze model.

"It's ok, it's just part of the process."

£50m compo, a year of gardening leave and Ashworth has to have a bomb strapped to his chest that's triggered to go off the next time Ten Slag buys a piece of shit from the Dutch league (so about two weeks into the job).

beyond a joke now. I'd make him wear a bra when he gets back into the team.

Henry Winter reckons it’s a huge coup. All that suggests to me is that, as with most walks of life, what actually separates Ashworth from people with similar knowledge is his ability to sell himself. Because you can guarantee any conversations he’s had with people like Winter will be him bigging himself up. Rather than revealing much on the way of what he actually does know

He's another whopper. Honestly, I'm almost gutted for the Knight that these get to go on national TV and are no better than him really? (Maybe less disheveled). (And a little less stinking of last night's beer). (A bit less aggressive as well).

Aye, slow motion footage set to soppy music of them beating Wycombe in a half empty Wembley. Stirring stuff

I love how we're all now saying how shit he is and not required

Aye. I'm sure he's very good, but he's not irreplaceable. The fact that we're currently the biggest club he's worked at tells you that all the clubs bigger than us have someone they're perfectly happy with in his role. That patter about his laptop makes him sound like a pervert anyway.

Steal his laptop and chop off the finger he uses for biometrics.

"They were 'looking for someone to take us to the next level' they said. 'it's not you, it's us' they said. Well, careful what you wish for as I sagely said at the time. Discarding twenty years of loyal and dedicated service filling in for the admin jobs we'd got rid of all for a glorified monorail salesman who'd leave at the first opportunity of a better paying job unlike me who'd never contemplate the idea of being offered a better paying job. Mike would never have let this happen, profit be upon him."

Have you not noticed how Wrexham have a red home shirt and white away kit? It's no coincidence, marra.

10th 😂

Fuck off you cunt then and I don't care if it's sour grapes. Fuck all is gonna change with that Brexit cunt joining them shit holes so go enjoy. Wanker.

She needs to be careful- he’s got a reputation with pigs.

Aye I've got no problem with him leaving to go there, but I hope he fully shits the bed. I don't see how he doesn't have a period of gardening leave that extends at least to the end of the summer window either, otherwise Man United will be signing half of the targets he's identified for us.

They're upset by this lady nailing it.

Either an unfortunately timed photo or this is a photo of him talking to a couple of lasses outside the pig and whistle as the cowies kick in.

BTW’d YP.

Not just that but a Labour Party IN FUCKING OPPOSITION being held to entirely different standards to a government that’s completely fucked just about everything they’ve touched

It's fucking mental how the press have gone for Starmer over the Rochdale candidate thing over the past couple of days. Compare that to the non-reporting of some of the absolute fiddlers that the Tories have had as MPs who have triggered most of these by elections anyway. Labour are held to an entirely different standard by a lot of the press and the Tories just allowed to skate on loads of stuff.

Bryan Swanson, reporting the bleeding obvious, Sky Sports News

This daft cunt on sky, by the way....

I don't profess to know much about what Ashworth does as DoF but safe to say that if Winter thinks keeping a detailed spreadsheet is some sort of world shattering level of organisation then he doesn't know either.

I genuinely hope this move falls through and he stays, but if he goes we'll replace him in short order and we'll still be run like a proper football club. The whole point in having a setup like we're going for, and like the one we brought Ashworth in to run, is that you can replace people without the whole thing falling over. See Brighton for evidence.

He is just playing Football Manager the whole day tbh.

Reddit has some interesting takes STID was the reason Mac convinced Deadpool to buy.....Wrexham

If Ashworth hasn't already identified his own replacement then he hasn't been doing his job.

Watching the second half of Lazio v Bayern Munich and I'm watching the ref first give a penalty then pull a red card out and Ian Darke of TNT still hadn't realised.

Real Madrid have turned his head

A game of twa halves, nae twa doots.

Isn't it clearly the case that our best signings since the takeover have been from prior to Ashworth coming in? Weren't Bruno, Tripps, Botman, Pope and Isak all prior to Ashworth? Ashworth has overseen the signing of a gambling addict and a LB who is third-string. Credit for Tino and Barnes. But they weren't exactly unearthed gems. I hope ManU continue to fail with him or anyone else. I don't think this effects us much if he goes. ManU are signing a reputation. We've seen this coming so there'll be contingency in place to deal with it. By the way, ManU must be expecting some nice marginal gains now that Sir Brailsford has his foot in the door. That cunt is a massive cheat. Looking forward to him failing miserably in a sport where PED use is light years ahead of little ol' le Tour.

I appreciate it early days in the project and there’s probably some sour grapes here too but I’ve found him a bit ‘meh’ so far. I don’t think any of the first teamers brought in required much rocket science and the hopefuls haven’t done much on their loan spells. Brighton haven’t exactly fallen apart in his absence either. All of which may change subject to what happens

Wow, he can get fucked then. Hope he’s a massive failure for them