Polarboy

Yeah give Rafa the heave ho and get in fucking Warnock. Fuck me these twats don't exactly betray the idea that most sportspeople are as thick as two planks.

They likely thought his crawling on his knees to them begging, with brownsauce all over his face, was too unseemly to release.

Was just thinking there that the ideal initial scenario could be that Rangnick comes in initially as as head coach for the rest of the season, and then moves into the directors role at the end of the season. He's coached RB Leipzig twice on a short term basis, has extensive on hand coaching experience himself, and what better way would there be for him to find out exactly what the club needs in terms of players, staff, infrastructure etc. than if he did the job on a temporary basis, as well as to keep us up in the league and ticking over.

Give Mehrdad Hendrick's place on the bench for Spurs 😄

Touch sanctimonious in places, but there's no denying he's a good writer.

Are they going to let the numpty take training? Seems a bit fucking weird. I thought it would be a polite fuck off Brucie, and Jones would be installed as interim.

I'm not in favour of giving it to Gerrard either, but realistically any manager that we have come in will likely be a stepping stone for us as well. Someone who can develop the club in the right direction to the point where we can seriously think about appointing the Guardiola tier managers.

Meanwhile we've had Cabbage, I don't do tactics, head. To have the ability to go out and hire the top brains in football to build the club is fucking surreal.

Given they are bringing in a director of football like Rangnick, or McPartland etc, as Kid highlights in the Telegraph story, it's very unlikely they'll give full control over the transfers to any manager. But it seems to be system that works for a lot of, if not nearly all of, the most successful teams. The key I would imagine is how much trust and communication can be fostered between whoever the DOF and manager turn out to be.

In fairness we're very likely second choice. Not that I'd give two fucks if it turned out we were further down the list of clubs she wanted to buy, than Bruce was on Fatley's potential toadie list.

I'd take Rafa in a heartbeat to lay the foundations as well, but despite what monkey hands etc think of him, he's shown himself to be pretty loyal in term of when he signs a contract. I just can't see him breaking a contact and moving from a job basically in his backyard, and especially not when the season is already seven games in.

Steven Gerrard I can understand given he's basically a fledgling manager working in a league with two teams, but Rogers is an entirely different beast. He's done a very decent job of trying to get into that top four, albeit failing at the last hurdle, given the resources available to those top 4 stalwarts. And look he's not even my fifth choice if we could literally get any manager we wanted from the off, but unfortunately regardless of the money we now have, it's very unlikely that we have carte blanche in that respect, given the current state of the club.

I think given the position we currently find ourselves in, being this far into a season, the state of the squad etc we have to be fairly realistic as to who we can get. I mean if rumours are to be believed Conte has turned us down out of hand because he doesn't want such a big project. My punt would be Rogers, and even for him to leave Leicester at this stage of this season to join us would take some bravery from him, regardless of the amount of money he'd have behind him. Rogers I think for a few years could get us into some sort of shape so as to be able to move onto the next level. Whether it would the end of his time would depend of course on how well he'd done and whether there was scope for further improvement under him. Rogers knows the league top to bottom and seems like a bit of a good time Charlie, so the riches of the Saudi's could well tempt him.

Is that Postman Pat and Susan Boyle's lovechild to the right of Shearer?

Apart from what this means for the club, I can't wait until Ant and Dec do a It's a knockabout revival live from Riyadh.

The anger from the biggest hypocrites in football i.e. the so called top six who wanted the super league, is making this even sweeter.

I gave up pork recently, so I'd like to think I've done my part.

The question is do they go with an interim manager to get us over the line for this season, or do they go straight for their number one target. High level managers might think they're on a hiding to nothing given our current position, how long it is until the next window, and our current squad. Ridiculous wages could of course iron over any creases.

Literally as the news was coming in last night I felt the left side of my face go numb. Apparently it's bells palsy likely caused by an infection. Been given a load of antibiotics and steroids which 9 times out of 10 clears it up. What I'm taking from it is it was Gods way of giving me a little punishment, so I never have to destroy myself with cognitive dissonance over the moral complication of who our owners are 😄

Sinclair's overhead for QPR is enough to make him a minor legend in my book. Mills can fuck off of course.

I suppose is just depends when/if it goes through. Obviously if it's going to go through in the near future he'll be gone, but if it doesn't go through until January who knows what Ashley will do.

Now we just need Cabbage head to keep us in the league in the mean time 😀😟 Fuck knows what's going to happen, but bein being allowed to broadcast in Saudi seems very significant for a number of reasons. I mean it seems like it could never be the case that Saudi, sorry PIF 😉 , could buy a club and literally only be able to watch said team through illegal means in their country. Of course it is very likely that the piracy issue was equal in terms of importance to the PL eyes to the objections of the "big 6". Having said that I think the collapse of the super league does give us some leverage over those teams, given that they should be very quiet for a long time after getting away basically scot-free.

If the fans were still out of the stadiums I would agree, but even Ashley can't ignore the bad publicity, pressure from playing staff, media sympathetic to the fans etc indefinitely. Even Bruce's mates in the media will likely either keep very quiet, or very suddenly get some perspective on what kind of job he's doing regardless of Ashley being owner. If we get 2 points or less from the next four then even Bruce's position under Ashley should become untenable.

The question is how many points does Bruce need to get from the next four, before the November international break, to save his job. Or is Ashley really that brain dead and tight that he'd let him keep going if we don't take at least four points off Palace, Brighton, Spurs and Chelsea. Chelsea and Spurs will be seen as right offs of course.

Or do a Kinnear as it's more commonly known.