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Ahaha, wtf.

They spent nearly a year to get him, spent £3m or so to land him and he's sacked within months, presumably with another hefty payout.

Ratcliffe clearly pissed with the summer recruitment and extention of Haags deal. The circus continues.
 
Judge Jules said:
Assad to replace Ashworth at Old Toilet?
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Maybe that's what they fell out over. Ashworth favours a constitutional democracy above all other forms of governance whereas Ratcliffe demands a single source of ultimate power. From the little I know about him he's not the type to let his directors disagree with anything he says and are there to perform his will rather than add any expertise.

Either way, it's good to see them doing a Chelsea / Syria impression, without the billions or soldiers to see them through.
 
It's quite remarkable that Everton are on track to having their worst season in 4 years and are still 5 points ahead of the bottom three.

In 22/23 they also had 14 points (3 wins) heading into match day 15 but the gap was only 2 points.

Coincidentally in 22/23 (match day 15) Southampton and Wolves were in the relegation zone, just like now.
 
Modo said:
It's quite remarkable that Everton are on track to having their worst season in 4 years and are still 5 points ahead of the bottom three.

In the 22/23 they also had 14 points (3 wins) heading into match day 15 but the gap was only 2 points.

Coincidentally in 22/23 (match day 15) Southampton and Wolves were in the relegation zone, just like now.
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That Wolves result was sickening. Here's hoping the stupid cunts can pick up 3 points tomorrow because Everton's next 3 fixtures are a very merry christmas.
 
binomial said:
That Wolves result was sickening. Here's hoping the stupid cunts can pick up 3 points tomorrow because Everton's next 3 fixtures are a very merry christmas.
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Just had a look at their fixture list, wow.
They can absolutely go on an epic losing run.
Arsenal A
Chelsea H
City A
Forest H
B'mouth A
Villa H
Spurs H
Brighton A
 
the dan ashworth thing is funny. i only half pay attention to united so i didn’t know if ashworth had finally served his newcastle gardening leave or whatever was going on… and he has been and gone with united already!

abe simpson gif!
 
Turns out the Premier League is a bit harder than prancing around Portugal beating the likes of Arouca and Farense. Who knew? Honestly, I’ve no idea what or who Manchester United need at this stage, but hiring a manager so obsessed with the system to deal with a mismatched squad lacking any real identity was peak stupidity. Is Almorim a good manager? Maybe. But at this rate, it’ll take United four years and another £500m plus to find out.

What they needed was someone pragmatic—someone who could work with what they’ve got. Honestly, bringing Mourinho back might have been a better shout. At least he’d have had them parking the bus competently. Watching them fail now is a unique kind of entertainment. It’s like watching the dyspraxic kid in a heptathlon. You know they’re going to be rubbish, but the specific way they’re rubbish surprises you every single time.
 
Shouldn't laugh at that as I spent 40 years working in special ed, but couldn't help it. :smuggrin:

Their squad is a disaster area, until they dynorod it no manager will make a real difference, doing that will take money but INEOS aren't about to loosen the purse strings after the tens of millions that lot have p!$$ed up the wall in recent years. Catch-22 and it couldn't happen to a nicer club.
 
Judge Jules said:
Shouldn't laugh at that as I spent 40 years working in special ed, but couldn't help it. :smuggrin:

Their squad is a disaster area, until they dynorod it no manager will make a real difference, doing that will take money but INEOS aren't about to loosen the purse strings after the tens of millions that lot have p!$$ed up the wall in recent years. Catch-22 and it couldn't happen to a nicer club.
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They're tied by PSR now as well, which makes it all the funnier that they have a rigid coach and very little room to manoeuvre, at least in the short term.
 
Squiggles said:
Turns out the Premier League is a bit harder than prancing around Portugal beating the likes of Arouca and Farense. Who knew? Honestly, I’ve no idea what or who Manchester United need at this stage, but hiring a manager so obsessed with the system to deal with a mismatched squad lacking any real identity was peak stupidity. Is Almorim a good manager? Maybe. But at this rate, it’ll take United four years and another £500m plus to find out.

What they needed was someone pragmatic—someone who could work with what they’ve got. Honestly, bringing Mourinho back might have been a better shout. At least he’d have had them parking the bus competently. Watching them fail now is a unique kind of entertainment. It’s like watching the dyspraxic kid in a heptathlon. You know they’re going to be rubbish, but the specific way they’re rubbish surprises you every single time.
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Based on how slots doing, eredivise must be the strongest league
 
Squiggles said:
Turns out the Premier League is a bit harder than prancing around Portugal beating the likes of Arouca and Farense. Who knew? Honestly, I’ve no idea what or who Manchester United need at this stage, but hiring a manager so obsessed with the system to deal with a mismatched squad lacking any real identity was peak stupidity. Is Almorim a good manager? Maybe. But at this rate, it’ll take United four years and another £500m plus to find out.

What they needed was someone pragmatic—someone who could work with what they’ve got. Honestly, bringing Mourinho back might have been a better shout. At least he’d have had them parking the bus competently. Watching them fail now is a unique kind of entertainment. It’s like watching the dyspraxic kid in a heptathlon. You know they’re going to be rubbish, but the specific way they’re rubbish surprises you every single time.
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You misunderstand Dyspraxia.

My son is Dyspraxic (both kinds) and he smashes everyone at Sports day.

Once they get it... they get it.
 
I know they always let us down when it matters - but I have serious misplaced hope that Everton with two games rest vs. Arsenal will really put it amongst them this weekend. Arsenal have to play a tough Monaco fixture tomorrow too.

You just know this won't remotely happen but it would kill the blues to know they might help us.
 
I wonder if Ashworth has gone because Rimjob wouldn't work with a sporting director, rather than because of any performance issues Ashworth may have had in that job?
If so, it's a massive fuck you to the owners. They gave ETH a contract extension on condition that he accepted a sporting director being put in place. Then they sacked him, replaced him with a new guy who said no to a sporting director. That's basically putting the owners in their place. It's the modern equivalent of Shankly's "the directors are just there to sign the cheques" quote.
 
Squiggles said:
Turns out the Premier League is a bit harder than prancing around Portugal beating the likes of Arouca and Farense. Who knew? Honestly, I’ve no idea what or who Manchester United need at this stage, but hiring a manager so obsessed with the system to deal with a mismatched squad lacking any real identity was peak stupidity. Is Almorim a good manager? Maybe. But at this rate, it’ll take United four years and another £500m plus to find out.

What they needed was someone pragmatic—someone who could work with what they’ve got. Honestly, bringing Mourinho back might have been a better shout. At least he’d have had them parking the bus competently. Watching them fail now is a unique kind of entertainment. It’s like watching the dyspraxic kid in a heptathlon. You know they’re going to be rubbish, but the specific way they’re rubbish surprises you every single time.
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It is absurd how inept the managment is, bringing in someone who, like you say, have a particular system, and not working with the players at hand. You can understand it as they are from a business background rather than football.

First rule of football management, you have to adapt the tactics and style are based on the players you have....
 
Beamrider said:
I wonder if Ashworth has gone because Rimjob wouldn't work with a sporting director, rather than because of any performance issues Ashworth may have had in that job?
If so, it's a massive fuck you to the owners. They gave ETH a contract extension on condition that he accepted a sporting director being put in place. Then they sacked him, replaced him with a new guy who said no to a sporting director. That's basically putting the owners in their place. It's the modern equivalent of Shankly's "the directors are just there to sign the cheques" quote.
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Sounds similar to when we hired Brendan no? Owners went back on their desire for a sporting director structure.
 
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