@KidiabaPonyTail He's a backup man, an experienced one that Kindly can learn from. No Europe this season so HG is tomorrow's problem. He'll probably be on a short term deal too
The PSR cartel shouts are so misguided. We had to suffer decades of our club doing nonsense like selling Berbatov & replacing with Fraser Campbell. We sold Bale, Modric, Kane, Son & replaced them with fuck all. We are the only prem club in history to go through a summer transfer window with no signings. We earnt this
Scouting for strikers is very easy.
You take active (more than 600mins) centre-forwards from the top 9 leagues.
Rule out anyone that costs more than €80m or is older than 28.
Then you work your way through the tape going "Wow, these guys re all bums"
No one believes me when I say this, but the decline in reading is already having dire consequences for art & culture. The media you loved in your youth—shows, albums, films—was made by artists who were widely read. You will not have that quality of art in a post-literate world.
Get rid of VAR immediately.
No one can give a coherent argument as to why it’s better because 99% of decisions needed to be made aren’t objective, they’re subjective so now you’re just killing the soul of the game just for another set of subjective eyes to see it.
And you end up making refereeing worse because they’re human and naturally they will want to avoid certain calls because of VAR behind them.
Even if VAR wasn’t as much of a shambles, you still get rid of it for the good of the game.
In terms of refereeing, you have a huge rewrite of the rules, and you release statements at the start of each season explaining how the game will be reffed this season.
Eg, I’d be saying “people call for consistency but it’s impossible because the game is so quick and every situation is different. These are what we believe the objective thresholds are now in terms of dangerous play etc, and we leave it down to refs interpretation, but appreciate it’s a human sport, human error, like anyone.”
Now everyone knows where they stand, people stop bitching and we can hold officials accountable for their own standards , like any other job. If they continuously underperform, then they’re not the level and they get let go, or go and improve themselves and work back up again.
Then, we can just focus on bloody football.
If we stay in the division they really need to treat this as the severest warning shot ever and be serious this summer. Under this coach they have a chance. First priority get the chuckle brothers out.