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OK fine, Wykiki Toon it is.

ManU's approach to this situation reveals a subconscious insecurity about themselves. If they figured they were still this massive club above us and everyone else like they suggested with the rhetoric then they would have had no trouble coming to the club and striking a deal for Ashworth. The fact that they have gone to the media to big note themselves and try to represent our completely normal and reasonable request for compensation for someone under contract as somehow unrealistic speaks to the level of concern they have about our progress and the lack of self-awareness they have for their own situation. I can't see how this doesn't blow up in their faces. I'm not an expert by any means but I would've thought that publicly insulting the other party is probably viewed as a rather ineffectual opening negotiating tactic by at least some experts. Unfortunately for ManU I believe that things like contractual law deals with pesky items like reality and facts and not the death rattles of an old dinosaur's delusions of grandeur. I'd be happy with 10m from this situation. And I'm sure the club would be too. But ManU's approach could result in them having to pay 20m in order to save face. They simply can't walk away from this deal now. And they equally can't go two years without a DoF. If I were Ashworth, I'd have reservations already about going over there based purely on the way they've managed the situation of his attempted hiring. You might argue that he is being sought to take up a position that would make this sort of carry on a thing of the past. But something tells me that there is a distinct lack of self-awareness permeating ManU and Dan Ashworth is seen as an ornamentation to their vanity without an appreciation for what he actually does.

They really are in their own little "we're man united" ego fuelled bubble aren't they? Ratcliffes statement made no fucking sense, that comparison to pep was actual nonsense like anyone in football just lets their players wander off for free when they don't want to be at the club anymore. His very own Man United wouldn't even sack Mason Greenwood because they thought they could get a fee for him somewhere down the line the cunts. "We had a very grown-up conversation with Manchester City about Omar" Why didn't you do that with us then you dickhead? Instead you contacted Ashworth and fluttered your eyelashes at him through your media mates and now want to act all precious when we turn around and tell you that thats actually not acceptable and we'll either have our fee or you can wait. Their fans keep going on about this being "small time" which makes no sense either, surely the small time thing would be for us to bend over "oh yes mr man united please, please take the technical director we hired less than two years ago, would you like anything else sir" Its either that or "This is exactly what they did to brighton". No, we approached Brighton first, who gave us permission to talk to Ashworth then placed him on gardening leave until a deal was made. Which is how this should have been done. I'd started hating Man U less over the last few years, they were more of a laughing stock than anything else, but the sheer ENTITLEMENT of everyone on their side over this, pure brexit-style british exceptionalism has reminded me how much I despise that club.

Aye I agree that Ashworth has jumped with both feet here, no doubt he got a lot of bluster from Ratcliffe about how much they value him and they’ll pay whatever so don’t worry. Then when they finally decided to actually approach NUFC they’ve met with a hard line, no doubt still annoyed at everything Man U have done to us since takeover (Lingard debacle, pushing for new rules specifically targeting us, etc). He’s a spoiled brat tbh, used to getting exactly what he wants and has been told no so he’s went and threw his toys out the pram. The positive for us here is we’ve got rid of someone that clearly wasn’t very committed, which is why Howe was visibly annoyed in that presser imo.

You should have said "NO WAY have you been a woman all your life! Seriously though, is that right cos I am about to lose a pretty large bet."

PSR allows losses of £105m over a three year period so you really couldn’t be much more wrong.

Posh git.

Craig Hope will be hovering over his keyboard, just waiting for the optimism to reach it's zenith before "Schar's hand to be amputated, will miss Arsenal. Isak and Willock suffer setbacks and will play not part in the rest of the season. Pope and Anderson involved in a murder/suicide incident."

OK Peter

Get a fucking room already. That's essentially the first chapter of a Mills and Boon novel.

When he says law school, what he means was his day in court for flashing in the park at a couple of old women

and the less said about our so-called journalist, the better

From the little I remember from law school the period of gardening leave must be proportionate based on things such as the level of the role, industry and risk that they could carry commercially sensitive information. Given that Ashworth knows all the ins and out of the club and our plan for at least the next two years I think there's every chance that he could be forced out of the game for 18 months.

Wykiki finally justified in getting rage at someone.

by which time we'll have picked up another 3-4 injuries

Brailsford reminds me a bit of the whole Clive Woodward thing. Where after England won the rugby World Cup he thought he could do the same in any sport. I think it subsequently emerged that England team ran itself anyway, with the senior players like Dallaglio, Johnson and Dawson really being in charge. Woodward then took over the Lions unsuccessfully before a spell in a nebulous DoF role at Southampton FC. He’s mates with covid-cunt Rupert Lowe apparently. Where he did nothing of note because he knows sweet fanny adams about football. He’s had the odd ‘executive’ role since, but that’s it. I bet they both do an amazing PowerPoint presentation though

The other thing in all this is that, as per fucking usual, Man Utd, its fans, media arselickers etc. are totally oblivious to how much everyone else hates them.

I think our best move would be to just leave him on gardening leave until 2026. Fuck Ratcliffe, Fuck Ashworth and Fuck their fucking awful fans

If he's a 10/10 sporting director I'm sure they'll have no trouble or qualms about paying a 10/10 compensation fee to get him on board.

Alabaster with a network of thick blue veins. Like blue cheese.

I may be an accountant but I never once claimed to be a good one

Manchester has a stadium built with public money so why don’t they ground share with Man City?

Mum?

Boss calls me up asking to know why I went to a colleague for advice on a bit of code and not her. Then she says "It's because I'm a woman isn't it, I've had this all my life you know?!". She sounded tense AF so I was honest and said it was because I know she's busier than he is and that he and I had worked on something related quite recently. Jesus Christ man, it's not misogyny. I was being fucking considerate. Wimmin!

Let him take the club to court after that 12 months and see how that plays out

PIF lawyers be like,

I'm no fan of Lindsay Hoyle, who is, but he should tell the SNP and tories to "get tae fuck". It's Mordaunt who pulled the plug on the conservative ammendment and who people should be looking at. Got to say, the SNP, obviously laying a bear trap for Labour, trying to sow division no matter what the personal consequences to MPs, They know Labour is an existential threat to them both directly, and indirectly if they wipe out the tories who are essential for Scotland's disenfranchment and therefore the SNP's own existence. Well, they got in bed with the tories last night, great optics there. They can get tae fuck too.

Because it generates better content to let thick cunts like Ratcliffe prattle on. They give him just enough rope to hang himself. Challenging him would have given him a chance to backtrack. It's much funnier the way it played out.

Nice morale-pounding defeat away to Porto for Arsenal ahead of our march on Saturday

Didn't Pep call Phillips fat and bench him for 2 years? Also, we aren't "done"'with Ashworth. He's done with us. There's a difference

Aye. Comparing him to players surplus to requirements at the best team in the world then arguing he should just be allowed to walk away as well. As has already been mentioned it might’ve been different if they hadn’t already tried to completely rip us off previously And on a player who isn’t exactly 10/10 and had about 5 months left on his contract. Fuck them and fuck Ashworth too

Aye, I think it’s purely from the social media perspective they are coming at this. 11 year old lads who hang out at the training ground and Gemmill is the phrase you were looking for btw

Knowing our luck with injuries this season it’ll hit Bruno

I dont care if she blew a £30bn hole in the economy, I’d motorboat the fuck out of them.

Keep your sex life out of the cooking thread please

Listen I wasn't going to say anything, but seeing as you've begged me to notice you, YOU'VE MADE A MISTAKE. What Dave was saying that it looks like our combined loss for the last two financial years is £160m+, because the graphic shows us making a loss in each of the last two financial years of £80m+. Not a combined loss of £85m, which I believe is how you've interpreted his post. Consider yourself scolded by a genuine, bona fide, ICAEW Member. I'm gonna include this in my CPD declaration.

I asked a colleague when her birthday was. She said March 1st. So I walked around the room and asked again.

I'd have to untuck them from her belt.

i didn't realise we had a so-called lawyer to go with our so-called accountant

Good news all round.

Brailsford is a fucking bully. An absolute cunt of a man who surrounded himself with like minded cunts at BC. So no wonder he gets on well with Ratcliffe.

"that's not how the law works" Aye it is mate, contractual law in fact. Although it was a pleasant surprise to hear Man City give away the players they don't want and haven't made half a billion quid doing so since Pep came in. It always fucking staggers me how inexplicably stupid some billionaires are.

There's definitely some real car crash potential here, and Im up for it.

Aye if this is the level of his understanding of football it bodes really well for ManU.

His suggestion that honouring contractual clauses isn’t “how UK law works” bodes very well for his time running a football club. Mind, this is the bloke who has spent most of his time dodging tax and now wants to use public money to build a new stadium so the cunt is clearly in cloud cuckoo land. More great news