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2 hours ago, Talldarkandransome said:

Normally the day before, very last minute 

I regularly checked over past couple of days and managed three seats together yesterday afternoon. Upper Witton Lane

Anyone know when the unsold terrace/lower grounds tickets are released? 

6 minutes ago, will87 said:

Palmer must be getting close to the record for pens scored in a season

Chelsea are heading for a record penalty haul. On 11 with 7 to play - 14 is what they're aiming at... 

3 minutes ago, LondonLax said:

Are you sure about that? I thought they were on lower wages but longer contracts?

The contract length was about amortising the fee over a longer period. Given age profile of players, they'd be stupid to accept a lower salary in exchange for contract length. Losing opportunity to negotiate a contract in their prime

6 minutes ago, villa4europe said:

£160m on Palmer, mudryk and Jackson? 

It's still terrible even with Palmers output 

Sterling as back up too

That's not thinking about the wages. They're all on c £200k p/w

Just now, Genie said:

I think it was for the foul on Palmer. They played on (advantage) then called it back for the first foul.

That one wasn't either

Not a pen there. They were fighting over who took it, i was waiting for the VAR?! 

7 hours ago, Lichfield Dean said:

Just wondering what the reaction would be if say Man Utd became part-owned by a company that was seemingly closely linked to Sky.

Bskyb attempted to buy Utd a couple of decades ago. Was blocked by govt

https://www.theguardian.com/football/1999/apr/09/newsstory.sport8

2 hours ago, DakotaVilla said:

He was in a similar situation last season I think and managed the disciplinary tightrope very well. Just needs to avoid anything silly. 

He was in one earlier this season, stayed on four yellows for eight games earlier this season then Saka dived and the ref pulled a yellow. 

15 minutes ago, dubliner said:

especially if we get to Athens

Only the conference league ... 

But yes, recovery has been far more difficult than expected. I'm not ready to throw accusations about, but do we need to look at our medical set up over the summer? 

1 minute ago, VillaChris said:

Not sure what he did wrong, Doku was the one making ridiculous decisions every time he got around the box.

Man. City are even more boring to watch than usual this season. 

It was completely unnecessary, and confirms the man is an utter cock. There's no way a leader should be doing that in public on pitch in front of fans and cameras. Absolutely inappropriate, if my manager did that in a team meeting, I'd be off. 

Anthony Gordon is a cheating little shit

1 minute ago, PaulC said:

It's not the same at all. Ederson went for the ball but was late 

He stood no chance of getting there. Timing was at least as off on terms of making the ball. 

Ederson just done one of these. Yellow

4 minutes ago, Rightdm00 said:

He doesn't make that tackle if we aren't in that inept back 5 setup

We weren't. Switched it ten mins prior. 

Zaniolo and Moreno gave up after losing the ball there. Unforgivable 

32 minutes ago, Kingman said:

Needs to go back to being a No2

Been demonstrating that for a good while... The most recent job another n number 2.

Shame he turned down Wolves 

46 minutes ago, duke313 said:

Same as Chelsea looking the same amount for Broja.  Because of FFP, the days of clubs buying these teams overpriced cast-offs are hopefully over.  

Whilst Eddie has a pulse it'll keep going... 

55 minutes ago, est1874 said:

And at no point has anyone at the club said **** you we're doing this anyway.

All they've done here is upset you and others with poor and less-polished PR than Purslow had. He was at his heart a great PR figurehead for the owners. They've chosen to go a totally different route by bringing in a guy who clearly is not here to be Mr. Nice or front a well-oiled PR machine.

Everyone hates the crest and branding that he has yet to even release.

Everyone hates the temporary decision to not proceed with a new North Stand despite not knowing what the alternative plan might be.

In the meantime, he's delivered a huge shirt deal with a great, global manufacturer.

Nobody's seen anything official and meaningful about the rest yet. His mistake was telling you all just enough to piss you off, without showing you what's in the other hand. As I said, bad PR choices.

Managing the decisions and how they land is an important part of the job of the CEO or president of business operations, what you're identifying is that one holder of the post was better than the other, how far that goes throughout the performance of the role is up for grabs.

Imagine he'll be at Ajax tomorrow to watch Hendo... 

Luke Moore vs Boro. Thought the kid had arrived

3 hours ago, Tomaszk said:

He wants to sign players and make football decisions when he has no credentials at all.

I don't think that was the case by and large... I think feasibly there are only one or two that might be levelled at him (Ings?) even then we don't know that... But I doubt he personally chose Wesley, Nakamba, Luiz, Kamara etc. 

7 hours ago, Kiwivillan said:

I'd have Carew instead of Gabby

Juan Pablo, Dublin, Weimann, Allback, Vassell, joachim, saunders, Johnson... 

9 hours ago, Zatman said:

I think he scored one at Anfield from outside the box

Yes. More than once. Think the scoop vs Chelsea too, maybe one or two more too

5 minutes ago, Lichfield Dean said:

Castore didn't fulfill their end of the contract and provide a fit-for-purpose product so absolutely we shouldn't have had to pay them.

Unless the contract was very poorly written at our end.

Contracts work in both directions. Or at least they should. Otherwise what's to stop them providing a load of tat they bought on offer from TK Maxx?

Wondering if we did something wrong in the process of breaking, i.e breaking exclusivity prior to cancelling contract due to material breach. Thus creating an issue...