Rayvin

Very true - pretty sure I can also remember some fairly important sections about not judging people, treating your neighbour well, and just trying to live a good life. All things that those in the US evangelist scene (along with Gavin Peacock apparently) fail to do.

Hmm that sucks MF. All the best mate, hope it's as stress free as it can be.

Beautiful.

I'm going to stress as well that when I was managing operations in my previous job, I had to make commitments to get a certain amount of product out of the door by certain points, usually up to several pallets worth of books that that had to be made within a few days. While i was able to judge the time needed myself at the start, it was on understanding that i wouldnt miss the deadline i gave myself. If I was a day out, I would be crucified. People make the mistake of judging this shit as if government ministers should be held to the same standard as normal people in every day tasks. They should not. They should be held to the standards and beyond, that I was held to. Especially when they're actually weighing people's lives against what they're promising, not just company profits as I was. I fucking hated the pressure of those orders, as I'm sure Hancock came to hate this, but... IT WAS MY FUCKING JOB.

Let us know if he's intellectually honest enough to reply to that.

Except he foolishly said it was a promise, not a target.

Tbf to this guy, I'd never heard of him until the takeover kicked off. He's probably trying to 'Piers Morgan' his way to greater status.

Well there goes the Sun's hot take.

Probably posturing to attempt to exert pressure over the issue and get some kind of agreement to sort the issue out.

I mean, my post was basically semantically the same as yours

I don't even think we should feel bad for Bruce. He dropped Sheff Wed immediately, demonstrating zero loyalty to his projects, came here and played the worst football we've ever seen - and he's still going to be financially sorted as they'll have to pay him off. It's not like he was ever going to win anything here, or even had a project. If anything, the fact that they're buying in now and jettisoning him will mean he'll get another job at a reasonable level since he hasn't stuck around long enough for things to go sour here.

I mean he'd just get banned if he did that. Which would probably be for his own good tbh.

For £300m surely they'd be looking to use GBP cash since the transaction cost will be lower. As a %age of £300m, I'd imagine conversion fees stack up. This is perhaps the saddest conversation we've yet had on this takeover

Aye, we need to do this in a Liverpool build, not a Man Utd one.

Not sure about Poch but honestly, compared to where we were 2 months ago, I'll take it.

I'm going to warily raise some concern about Starmer's overall visibility so far. Appears to be right out of the Corbyn playbook.

I don't know if we can say yet that it's working. Labour have been totally silent so far and that makes me feel like this just isn't the time for informed criticism still. The inquiry will be the thing to go after, and honestly it'll be more damaging further into the electoral cycle anyway. Let's see where we are in 12 months time on this. As a worrying point though, if we're exiting this now then I suspect we will march onward with Brexit.

We're having a positive influence already!

Fucks sake My bad.

^ post from a year ago. I stand by it at present.

I'm just saying how I felt the last time I had any kind of opinion on City. It's not an argument as such. I think the premise was something along the lines of whether or not City's success brought similar feelings to that of United or Liverpool (both of whom were clubs that I at various times, loved to hate - even if I've softened on Liverpool under Klopp). So the consideration was whether or not I really cared about City in the same way - and for whatever reason, I don't. There's no argument you can make to 'fix' that, it's just how it was for me As I say, I'm hopeful our own experience won't be the same but I'm prepared for it to go that way. It's like turning cheats on in Football Manager. Fun for a bit, but is it really earned or rewarding? Totally accept my view may change if we ever win anything. But then again, it may not.

I can recall saying something along the lines of struggling to see Man City's success in the same way I see Man United or Liverpool's, basically because they had a blank cheque to buy worldbeaters rather than a good mix of homegrown and improved players, with a few stars sprinkled in (which I appreciate is a very charitable way of looking at Man Utd of more recent years, but was more true in years gone by). City beating Watford 5-0 in the FA Cup final was a depressing moment IMO, made me wonder what the point in anyone else even trying was. I have similar concerns about us if this goes through - maybe I'll find that it's the same, and I'll look on City differently as a result as well, I don't know. Certainly never struggled with the human rights aspect though, despite being a staunch believer in such things.

You'd be surprised how many of those we have on here tbh.

He's on holiday again?? Has he actually done any work this year?

There is absolutely no chance they put down a non-refundable deposit if there was any chance Ashley could pull out unilaterally.