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does anybody actually know precisely what happened with MON and the board. why was it such a big secret. MON never spoke about it and details from the board were sketchy and vague at best. they had settled their differences without having to go to tribunal despite the fact they supposedly parted on such bad terms. it didnt look good on MONs part but nobody knows the real reason. i'd have him back in a heartbeat because we know so little about the situation. maybe he wasnt happy with football decisions being made by non-football people. i mean look at the houllier debacle.

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BREAKING: Carlo Ancelotti to take a year out of the game before returning to management.

Obviously you're entitled to favour whichever managerial appointment you like. But with respect, that isn't a very well-informed assessment at all. What would you suggest then? Maybe ask a few fans on a Liverpool board and bring it back here for us to look over? Not a lot of us are fans of his. Edit: that sounds sarcastic and I want to assure you, it is not written with that intent, I am genuinely interested. It might be worth reading the following excerpts from Brian Reade's recent book. These shed a lot of light on the sort of nonsense Rafa had to deal with during his time at Liverpool: http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/opinion/blogs/mirror-football-blog/Brian-Reade-An-Epic-Swindle-44-Months-With-A-Pair-Of-Cowboys-Read-extract-of-how-Liverpool-was-dragged-to-its-knees-during-the-shambolic-reign-of-US-owners-Tom-Hicks-and-George-Gillett-article725227.html http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/opinion/blogs/mirror-football-blog/Brian-Reade-An-Epic-Swindle-44-Months-With-A-Pair-Of-Cowboys-Read-extract-of-how-Liverpool-co-owner-thought-Steven-Gerrard-was-gay-article725313.html http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/opinion/blogs/mirror-football-blog/Brian-Reade-An-Epic-Swindle-44-Months-With-A-Pair-Of-Cowboys-Day-Three-Read-extract-of-how-Liverpool-owners-Hicks-and-Gillett-betrayed-Rafa-Benitez-and-wooed-Jurgen-Klinsmann-article725482.html What was his exuse at Internazionale then? having to live up to the special one

i wouldnt mind rafa. there, i said it.

that rory delap's got a long throw :winkold:

While that can be one of the translations...another can be that rifiutato means deny as well in Italian. Feel free to challenge that if your a fluent speaker of the language. Either way, I do not think Ancelotti has turned us down just yet. I speak fluent Italian and can confirm that says "Ancelotti will be Villa manager and the Midlands club will keep Young, Downing plus be given £100m to spend this summer". good enough for me. and your avatar proves you are a one to be trusted.

prize rabbit from the hat. just like bent.....

moxely reckons hughes will exercise his release clause but it doesnt mean he'll end up at the villa.

his debut goal v pompy. 7 away wins on the trot or something similar.

this. same goes for defoe, zamora et al. not good enough 'footballers'. I think Bent is a cut above the likes of Defoe and Zamora. me too. but what i'm saying is their individual styles are not suited to a man utd, chelsea and the like. that does not mean they are excellent at what they do.

this. same goes for defoe, zamora et al. not good enough 'footballers'.

"I mean, we had the meeting with the club, we expressed our feelings and they said to me they’re going to improve the team and the squad. "So, as far as I know, I’ll still be reporting back for pre-season because I’ve heard nothing''. this is a very telling statement. if we fullfill these promises, there will obviously be a better chance of keeping him.

in to 1/3, from 3/1 earlier, with some bookmakers.

Children, gather round. Are we comfortable? Excellent. Now today, we will be learning how statistics can be used to reach utterly absurd conclusions (in this case, see the above). In the finest traditions of overtly-PC maths books, I shall be using racially diverse children for this exercise: Patel has bought some apples from Dieter. He has bought 25 in total, 2 of them are Granny Smith and 23 of them are Red Delicious. Upon eating them, Patel has found that both the Granny Smith apples are rotten. Taken as a percentage, this is 100%. Upon eating the Red Delicious, Patel found that 9 of them were rotten, but the rest were okay. Rounded and taken as a percentage, this is 39%. Patel goes home to his mixed-race parents, Sadhna and Jonsi. He tells them that he doesn't like Granny Smith apples because they are always bad, and he will only eat Red Delicious because they are good most of the time. His parents (who are both maths lecturers) grounded him for a week for being a moron, enlightening him that you cannot accurately compare the percentages of two sets of data if the amount of data captured for each set is vastly different. Class dismissed. Epilogue: Once Patel had finished his punishment, he went back to Dieter and gave him a revenge wedgie for selling him rotten apples. you've put smile on my face, again. cheers

as in hong kong with avfc for the asia tournament in july. pretty strange that. and he is 100% not going.

Is this from the same person who said GH had already agreed to move upstairs and DM would come work under him? you'll see i'm right. 100%. talk to me then. no hou in hong kong. I'm not saying you're right or wrong. I am just genuinely curious if you got the info from the same person who said Moyes would be coming and GH moving in a DOF role. Cos i personally dont believe that will happen. But you may be right! fair enough. the moyes thing is yet to be proven wrong BUT they want hughes. houllier will definately not be going to asia, i promise you this. Well obviously, if he's not manager, why would he? well as it stands, houllier is avfc manager but will not be heading out east.

Is this from the same person who said GH had already agreed to move upstairs and DM would come work under him? you'll see i'm right. 100%. talk to me then. no hou in hong kong. I'm not saying you're right or wrong. I am just genuinely curious if you got the info from the same person who said Moyes would be coming and GH moving in a DOF role. Cos i personally dont believe that will happen. But you may be right! fair enough. the moyes thing is yet to be proven wrong BUT they want hughes. houllier will definately not be going to asia, i promise you this.

Is this from the same person who said GH had already agreed to move upstairs and DM would come work under him? you'll see i'm right. 100%. talk to me then. no hou in hong kong.

no decision immenent but houllier NOT down to travel to hong kong in JULY. 'you dont know what you're doing'

maybe this will be the kick in the balls the board needs, and hurry the **** up.

with the way things are managerwise, can you blame him? the board have to grow a pair regarding the manager, either way.

it'll be hughes

baggies have signed a kit deal with adidas

Get Carlo in!!!!!!!!!!!!!