Gemmill 44872 Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 There's a separate quote where he calls Newcastle suggesting that Ashworth sit on gardening leave for 1.5 years "completely stupid". He seems VERY charming. The really good news for him is that there's a way for him to stop it happening. 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howmanheyman 33197 Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 7 minutes ago, Gemmill said: I'm absolutely thrilled to report that Sir Jim Ratcliffe is very much adopting a "GUYS! We're Manchester United. Just hand him over." approach. I'm sure this will endear him to our lot. "I won't get dragged into that, but first allow me to get dragged into that." Cunt. If he's a 10/10 sporting director I'm sure they'll have no trouble or qualms about paying a 10/10 compensation fee to get him on board. 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayatollah Hermione 13866 Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 His suggestion that honouring contractual clauses isn’t “how UK law works” bodes very well for his time running a football club. Mind, this is the bloke who has spent most of his time dodging tax and now wants to use public money to build a new stadium so the cunt is clearly in cloud cuckoo land. More great news 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddockLad 17257 Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 5 minutes ago, Gemmill said: It could be worse. I see Bergerac has let himself go a bit 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dougle 3329 Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 1 hour ago, Alex said: I think it was Craig on here who said he thought he might be working for the club. I scoffed at the idea tbh (this was very soon after the takeover) but if he’s not directly employed he’s definitely getting ridiculous amounts of access to the club. It seems to encapsulate a lot of why I give less and less of a fuck about professional football. I.e. an absolute fucking bull’s knacker getting the sort of access most followers of the club could only dream of. He’s easily as embarrassing as that Sunderland weirdo with the wooly hat The sunderland weirdo with the wooly hat is at least one generation older mind, and perhaps the club have rightly or wrongly perceived that Pearson has an attractive marketing appeal to a certain demographic (youth and strange old blokes ) and therefore given him the ridiculous access he seems to have. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 35079 Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 43 minutes ago, Dougle said: The sunderland weirdo with the wooly hat is at least one generation older mind, and perhaps the club have rightly or wrongly perceived that Pearson has an attractive marketing appeal to a certain demographic (youth and strange old blokes ) and therefore given him the ridiculous access he seems to have. Aye, I think it’s purely from the social media perspective they are coming at this. 11 year old lads who hang out at the training ground and Gemmill is the phrase you were looking for btw 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 35079 Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 1 hour ago, Howmanheyman said: If he's a 10/10 sporting director I'm sure they'll have no trouble or qualms about paying a 10/10 compensation fee to get him on board. Aye. Comparing him to players surplus to requirements at the best team in the world then arguing he should just be allowed to walk away as well. As has already been mentioned it might’ve been different if they hadn’t already tried to completely rip us off previously And on a player who isn’t exactly 10/10 and had about 5 months left on his contract. Fuck them and fuck Ashworth too 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobElliott 1493 Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 11 hours ago, LongTimeAdmirer said: Do we have any South Korean posters? My condolences. Hows the Kimchi did ya say? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 20139 Posted February 21 Author Share Posted February 21 Some of the shite Pearson posts on his channel and x shoes that the club don't take much note. He's an uber mong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howay 12496 Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 1 hour ago, Gemmill said: There's a separate quote where he calls Newcastle suggesting that Ashworth sit on gardening leave for 1.5 years "completely stupid". He seems VERY charming. The really good news for him is that there's a way for him to stop it happening. It’s actually staggering, it was an uphill battle before given how they’ve conducted themselves but surely this makes it even fucking harder. I honestly think he will spend the whole time on leave now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holden McGroin 6583 Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 (edited) What a mess of statement. Pep doesn’t let his players go for free. Edited February 21 by Holden McGroin 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddockLad 17257 Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 1 hour ago, Gemmill said: There's a separate quote where he calls Newcastle suggesting that Ashworth sit on gardening leave for 1.5 years "completely stupid". He seems VERY charming. The really good news for him is that there's a way for him to stop it happening. Tbh if his idea of recruiting executive level staff is using the media to make their current position untenable and only at that point considering an approach to the current employers then he’s as fuckin useless as the Glazers, just in a different way. Outcome the same though, a waste of a huge amount of money which could’ve been easily avoided 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aimaad22 4156 Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 Aye if this is the level of his understanding of football it bodes really well for ManU. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 7027 Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 (edited) 1 hour ago, Gemmill said: I'm absolutely thrilled to report that Sir Jim Ratcliffe is very much adopting a "GUYS! We're Manchester United. Just hand him over." approach. I'm sure this will endear him to our lot. "I won't get dragged into that, but first allow me to get dragged into that." Cunt. Didn't Pep call Phillips fat and bench him for 2 years? Also, we aren't "done"'with Ashworth. He's done with us. There's a difference Edited February 21 by Kid Dynamite 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aimaad22 4156 Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 (edited) Just read some of his other comments too. He hardly sounds impressive, let alone having a bit of class in any way. Sounds like a bored old man who got tired of being rich and now wants to have a bit of spotlight. Here's hoping him and ManUtd drag each other down. Gives you a new appreciation of the manner our lot has conducted themselves in every way. Edited February 21 by aimaad22 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 44872 Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 Sounds like he's up for giving Mason Greenwood another chance too. He just seems like an all around great bloke. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isegrim 9775 Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 They were due a Mike Ashley with no clue how football works. Maybe he wants to sign Denis Wise as an interim director of football unless Ferdy comes up with some money to buy out Ashworth. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 20139 Posted February 21 Author Share Posted February 21 Just now, Gemmill said: Sounds like he's up for giving Mason Greenwood another chance too. He just seems like an all around great bloke. That would be superb. It shows his true colours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aimaad22 4156 Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 There's definitely some real car crash potential here, and Im up for it. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 30610 Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 46 minutes ago, Isegrim said: They were due a Mike Ashley with no clue how football works. Maybe he wants to sign Denis Wise as an interim director of football unless Ferdy comes up with some money to buy out Ashworth. Thats it. I think he’s similar to Ashley in that he’s been very successful outside of football and is determined to come into the club and do it ‘his way’. Hopefully with similarly disastrous results. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew 4748 Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 They really are in their own little "we're man united" ego fuelled bubble aren't they? Ratcliffes statement made no fucking sense, that comparison to pep was actual nonsense like anyone in football just lets their players wander off for free when they don't want to be at the club anymore. His very own Man United wouldn't even sack Mason Greenwood because they thought they could get a fee for him somewhere down the line the cunts. "We had a very grown-up conversation with Manchester City about Omar" Why didn't you do that with us then you dickhead? Instead you contacted Ashworth and fluttered your eyelashes at him through your media mates and now want to act all precious when we turn around and tell you that thats actually not acceptable and we'll either have our fee or you can wait. Their fans keep going on about this being "small time" which makes no sense either, surely the small time thing would be for us to bend over "oh yes mr man united please, please take the technical director we hired less than two years ago, would you like anything else sir" Its either that or "This is exactly what they did to brighton". No, we approached Brighton first, who gave us permission to talk to Ashworth then placed him on gardening leave until a deal was made. Which is how this should have been done. I'd started hating Man U less over the last few years, they were more of a laughing stock than anything else, but the sheer ENTITLEMENT of everyone on their side over this, pure brexit-style british exceptionalism has reminded me how much I despise that club. 18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ackas 311 Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 22 minutes ago, Andrew said: They really are in their own little "we're man united" ego fuelled bubble aren't they? Ratcliffes statement made no fucking sense, that comparison to pep was actual nonsense like anyone in football just lets their players wander off for free when they don't want to be at the club anymore. His very own Man United wouldn't even sack Mason Greenwood because they thought they could get a fee for him somewhere down the line the cunts. "We had a very grown-up conversation with Manchester City about Omar" Why didn't you do that with us then you dickhead? Instead you contacted Ashworth and fluttered your eyelashes at him through your media mates and now want to act all precious when we turn around and tell you that thats actually not acceptable and we'll either have our fee or you can wait. Their fans keep going on about this being "small time" which makes no sense either, surely the small time thing would be for us to bend over "oh yes mr man united please, please take the technical director we hired less than two years ago, would you like anything else sir" Its either that or "This is exactly what they did to brighton". No, we approached Brighton first, who gave us permission to talk to Ashworth then placed him on gardening leave until a deal was made. Which is how this should have been done. I'd started hating Man U less over the last few years, they were more of a laughing stock than anything else, but the sheer ENTITLEMENT of everyone on their side over this, pure brexit-style british exceptionalism has reminded me how much I despise that club. I think our best move would be to just leave him on gardening leave until 2026. Fuck Ratcliffe, Fuck Ashworth and Fuck their fucking awful fans 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazzler 9749 Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 "that's not how the law works" Aye it is mate, contractual law in fact. Although it was a pleasant surprise to hear Man City give away the players they don't want and haven't made half a billion quid doing so since Pep came in. It always fucking staggers me how inexplicably stupid some billionaires are. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aimaad22 4156 Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 48 minutes ago, ackas said: I think our best move would be to just leave him on gardening leave until 2026. Fuck Ratcliffe, Fuck Ashworth and Fuck their fucking awful fans Nah make them pay $20M and spend an additional 100M on players in the summer. Increase chances of beating them to a CL finish next season. I've not read anywhere that the compensation shouldn't count for FFP. It should be in the P&L as other income or something. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 21922 Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 4 hours ago, Gemmill said: I'm absolutely thrilled to report that Sir Jim Ratcliffe is very much adopting a "GUYS! We're Manchester United. Just hand him over." approach. I'm sure this will endear him to our lot. "I won't get dragged into that, but first allow me to get dragged into that." Cunt. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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