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IdleRich

IdleRich

IdleRich
“When he actually transferred from Dortmund to Real Madrid, we struck up a conversation. I was really impressed by his maturity and how talented he is, although of course everyone can see that. He's got a great future because of what's in his brain and what he's really focused on.”
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Some thoughts on Bellingham there from "an investor and chairman of the advisory board at Birmingham City" Tom Brady... what is it with all these North Americans stars such as him and Ryan Reynolds getting involved with um less glamorous football clubs such as Wrexham etc
 
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IdleRich said:
Some thoughts on Bellingham there from "an investor and chairman of the advisory board at Birmingham City" Tom Brady... what is it with all these North Americans stars such as him and Ryan Reynolds getting involved with um less glamorous football clubs such as Wrexham etc
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I imagine it's a combination of that level of club being easier for them to get involved in without risking too much, English football being the most lucrative Anglophone market, and the next World Cup being split between the US, Canada and Mexico.
 
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Wrexham could look at Bury and assess where they might be in a decade if the $’s run thin

Vanity projects, they come, they enjoy the hoopla, they leave. They bask in promotion and hide during relegation dogfights when league football status is on the line. Not that Bury ever had a $ investment but McIlhenny would suck off an itinerant if it got him any press coverage

What does a lower league team do if £ comes calling? Really tough call but capitalism and gnosis aren’t made for each other. Look what Bury’s fans had to do to gain access to Gigg Lane etc, fuckin brutal
 
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WashYourHands said:
Wrexham could look at Bury and assess where they might be in a decade if the $’s run thin

Vanity projects, they come, they enjoy the hoopla, they leave. They bask in promotion and hide during relegation dogfights when league football status is on the line. Not that Bury ever had a $ investment but McIlhenny would suck off an itinerant if it got him any press coverage

What does a lower league team do if £ comes calling? Really tough call but capitalism and gnosis aren’t made for each other. Look what Bury’s fans had to do to gain access to Gigg Lane etc, fuckin brutal
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Can't wait to see the ultimate vanity project at Man City shrivel up and die after demotion to the National League.
 
Murphy

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Nah, let Chelsea rot, all their gurning half-Fulham cunts need a reminder of plummeting and landing hard

Pep is surely bored, 2 year transfer extension could be bought out, Liverpool perhaps but doubt it
 
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Messi got five assists and a goal last night and broke the record for most goal contributions in history. He's leading the league in goals and assists too, despite being injured for four games.

 
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Barca are such a mess. They persuaded Xavi to stay when he wanted to leave and now they've fired him and replaced him with Flick. Everyone gets shafted at that club.

Apparently ten Hag's out at United too, regardless of the FA Cup result.
 
IdleRich

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The Xavi thing is such an insane mess. Last week they were celebrating persuading him to stay... and to then fire him? One of the club's greatest ever servants. The whole thing seems wrong. It feels that he went there too early, as too inexperienced a manager. That maybe he should have waited, had a career and grown as a manager, but of course when it was dangled in front of him it was all but impossible to resist. But supposed ge leaves, has a successful career at various clubs, ultimately becomes ready to manage Barca, will they offer if him again? Seems unlikely, it feels the chance has gone forever cos he they rushed it.

I'm also reading that he's entitled to 20m if the contract is broken - originally he said he wouldn't take it cos he was the one leaving. But it's different now, with the way they treated him why shouldn't he take it? And if they can't pay it that's kinda their problem right?
 
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IdleRich said:
The Xavi thing is such an insane mess. Last week they were celebrating persuading him to stay... and to then fire him? One of the club's greatest ever servants. The whole thing seems wrong. It feels that he went there too early, as too inexperienced a manager. That maybe he should have waited, had a career and grown as a manager, but of course when it was dangled in front of him it was all but impossible to resist. But supposed ge leaves, has a successful career at various clubs, ultimately becomes ready to manage Barca, will they offer if him again? Seems unlikely, it feels the chance has gone forever cos he they rushed it.

I'm also reading that he's entitled to 20m if the contract is broken - originally he said he wouldn't take it cos he was the one leaving. But it's different now, with the way they treated him why shouldn't he take it? And if they can't pay it that's kinda their problem right?
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He didn't do too badly, despite the lack of experience. They won their first league in four years under him and he brought through some good young players.
 
IdleRich

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Yeah but it was a very big job for an inexperienced manager. I think it's not unreasonable to believe that - if he has a talent for it - then he will become a better manager as he does it more. I'm not saying that he did badly as such, i just think in an ideal world he would have taken on the Barcelona job at the peak of his powers. But understandably it was irresistible to him when it popped up now even though he must have known it wasn't the ideal time.
 
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IdleRich said:
The Xavi thing is such an insane mess. Last week they were celebrating persuading him to stay... and to then fire him? One of the club's greatest ever servants. The whole thing seems wrong. It feels that he went there too early, as too inexperienced a manager. That maybe he should have waited, had a career and grown as a manager, but of course when it was dangled in front of him it was all but impossible to resist. But supposed ge leaves, has a successful career at various clubs, ultimately becomes ready to manage Barca, will they offer if him again? Seems unlikely, it feels the chance has gone forever cos he they rushed it.

I'm also reading that he's entitled to 20m if the contract is broken - originally he said he wouldn't take it cos he was the one leaving. But it's different now, with the way they treated him why shouldn't he take it? And if they can't pay it that's kinda their problem right?
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Menos que un club
 
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Copa America started tonight. This one's in the US. Any of our resident Americans gonna go to a match?
 
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