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He was a bit of a headless chicken and his deliveries often frustrated, but the timing has surprised me. Maybe its a case of one in one out. We may have a free agent striker lined up?

 

Good decision. Too difficult to make a decent song for him, with a name like that….

 

And there were people saying we don't need a Director of Football let Sparks do it all yeah no thanks keep Sparks because he can make deals with his friends to sponsor new tunnels and new seats but he's no idea what he's doing with regard the football side and it's not a surprise either

But then Adams seems to be installing himself as a DoF so maybe it's academic lol

 

I don't think that was ever a realistic option with an owner like Rupp, Darragh MacAnthony is prepared to financially back Barry Fry and they have done well in the past, unfortunately Rupp is not the type of owner to do that.

 

You are both spot on and wrong, of course you do but it’s not football manager or fifa. Youngsters won’t just improve to the required level because they play games, they have to have the ability to get there as well. That’s where a manager has to make decisions, has this player got what it takes, if it was your job on the line would you play players not ready to improve them for someone else down the line? If Trueman had have stayed in charge then I’d have said fair enough, but it got him sacked so obviously the owner/CEO isn’t prepared to give a manager the time needed to bleed youngsters into the first team. The fault lies with the club not the manager, they have to dictate the philosophy and hire the correct people to see it through. Same with Jose you can’t blame him for everything that went wrong in his time with Untied, he wasn’t the right fit and shouldn’t have been selected in the first place or if you do select him back him 100% and let him get his own players in.

 

Spitting facts.

what united did is get rid. It seems we are moulding the club to his needs; letting him get his own players in (in this case rid of) and the scouting/recruitment changes. Personally I believe moulding the club to him is the correct decision but I understand the other side of the coin.

 

I certainly don't want to be owned by someone who owes £223 million in taxes. recipe for disaster that. Imagine if they bought us then got wound up by HMRC for not paying their VAT or worse still ended up doing a stretch at HMP.

Rupp isnt a good owner but he's on the level. Too many Mel Morris's in football for us to risk being owned by one.

 

Not sure that has anything to do with my post, but your replies usually don't.

 

I really not bothered what league Geoffrey was in we almost lost our football club because of his incompetence.

 

Normally you would be right but these VAT payments were deferred due to the pandemic- not just for them, for lots of businesses too. I believe they have come to an agreement about a repayment schedule.

 

2 assists and 3 goals in 7 games but let's sell the guy that got one of those 2 assists.

Yep, that makes sense.

All about the money...

 

Thats one of a tough one? Richmond brought us something I never thought we would ever see at VP. He has that in his favour despite his ethics!

 

I actually think Crankshaw was worth persisting with, at least till January. He’s offered more than Gillead this season and while 2 assists doesn’t seem a great deal it’s more than the rest of our midfield. We can’t comment on his attitude or his work rate as we have no idea but I suppose we have to trust the managers decision on this one.
He hasn’t managed to break his way into the staring XI which I guess is telling but even looking at his stats during preseason albeit against some fairly weak opposition he could create chances.

 

I’m still not convinced we’ve seen the last of Rhodes at City.