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Jason Wilcox? The left winger who used to play for Blackburn?
Yep. Went into youth coaching at City after retirement, eventually rising to academy director before being taken on as DOF at Southampton at the start of last year.

More PL winners medals than Steven Gerrard as well. :wenger:
 

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Once again, MEN don't put an author in the article, so their sources are definitely tied to the outlet as a whole.
 

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Once again, MEN don't put an author in the article, so their sources are definitely tied to the outlet as a whole.
I don’t understand refusing to pay. Getting a top sports director would easily save around £10m on deals anyway
 

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I don’t understand refusing to pay. Getting a top sports director would easily save around £10m on deals anyway
So, Brailsford/Murtough/Wilcox someone else run it for a year giving Ashworth a few calls now and then. Setting up the organization in accordance. Man Utd will wait for a year. Probably less.
 

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I don’t understand refusing to pay. Getting a top sports director would easily save around £10m on deals anyway
I'd imagine it's just us establishing a bargaining position.

There was probably an approach yesterday - Newcastle responded with a ridiculous number and we have briefed this to show that we're not going to be taken for mugs.

Establishing that we're not going to jump and pay the first stupid amount demanded is exactly why we're making these changes in the first place. Then we find a compromise in a few weeks or even a month when Newcastle realise it's in their own best interest not to draw it out playing silly buggers.
 

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I'd imagine it's just us establishing a bargaining position.

There was probably an approach yesterday - Newcastle responded with a ridiculous number and we have briefed this to show that we're not going to be taken for mugs.

Establishing that we're not going to jump and pay the first stupid amount demanded is exactly why we're making these changes in the first place. Then we find a compromise in a few weeks or even a month when Newcastle realise it's in their own best interest not to draw it out playing silly buggers.
Yeah, we need to stop attitudes like 'the United tax', and INEOS coming in and paying whatever compensation teams ask is only going to send out the same kind of message we've done for the last ten years.

We need to show we mean business, and that we're not going to be pushovers anymore. And while getting the talented staff in place as quickly as possible would help with the first part, paying whatever teams demand in compensation would send out all the wrong messages for the second part.

We're targeting the right people, and it looks like, hopefully, we're also going to be tougher in negotiations. And hopefully that'll also help set a precedent for when we're discussing transfers fees - ins and outs - and wages.
 

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Bremer would be an amazing signing and be a beast next to Martinez. Quick, string, great in the air, anticipation and positional sense is too draw. If it’s 60mil then that’s a bargain. Lads a monster defender.
 
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Lengthy post, but Ben Jacobs (Tier 2) reports that PSG are interested in Marcus Rashford as part of their post-Mbappé rebuild:
 

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That's a name I havent heard in 20 years - him and Ripley were very good wingers, supplying Shearer with crosses when Blackburn won the league
It might mean we'll have to bring in a second person for the role, with Wilcox occupying the left hand side only.

Apologies upfront for this terrible excuse for a joke.
 

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It might mean we'll have to bring in a second person for the role, with Wilcox occupying the left hand side only.

Apologies upfront for this terrible excuse for a joke.
Anyone knows what Stuart Ripley is up to these days ? :)
 

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I like that we are willing to wait for Ashworth gardening leave to end instead of throwing cash at the problem.

The United tax doesn't feck off until we feck it off.
 

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I like that we are willing to wait for Ashworth gardening leave to end instead of throwing cash at the problem.

The United tax doesn't feck off until we feck it off.
This isnt united tax though..
Any club would do the same for any senior official going to another club they feel they are competing with.
 

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I like that we are willing to wait for Ashworth gardening leave to end instead of throwing cash at the problem.

The United tax doesn't feck off until we feck it off.
I do quite like the idea of us paying it and Ashworth's first agenda point being "You know how you got me here? Stop doing that."
 

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This isnt united tax though..
Any club would do the same for any senior official going to another club they feel they are competing with.
Senior official can leave his contract and go on automatic gardening leave or whatever non compete is drawn up.

The clubs negotiate on ending gardening leave early. There is also the Court of Arbitration for Sport who can deem gardening leave time period as unfair. There are courts in a variety of countries trying to do away with non compete clauses as it's effectively anti-capitalist. This could get messy if Newcastle try to be arseholes.

If Ashworth was going back to the FA, Newcastle would wave any fee. Because he's joining what they now see as a direct rival they will ask for ridiculous compensation. Worse still, as United have overpaid for every player over the past decade. The United tax is real because we keep paying it. Woodward himself took his cock out and waved it at everyone when he said we can do thing sin the transfer market other clubs can only dream off. Well they sure got him back for that one.

Newcastle have reportedly asked for £10 million in compensation. That's the largest figure for any non playing/coaching staff ever.
 
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Senior official can leave his contract and go on automatic gardening leave or whatever non compete is drawn up.

The clubs negotiate on ending gardening leave early. There is also the Court of Arbitration for Sport who can deem gardening leave time period as unfair. There are courts in a variety of countries trying to do away with non compete clauses as it's effectively anti-capitalist. This could get messy if Newcastle try to be arseholes.

If Ashworth was going back to the FA, Newcastle would wave any fee. Because he's joining what they now see as a direct rival they will ask for ridiculous compensation. Worse still, as United have overpaid for every player over the past decade. The United tax is real because we keep paying it. Woodward himself took his cock out and waved it at everyone when he said we can do thing sin the transfer market other clubs can only dream off. Well they sure got him back for that one.

Newcastle have reportedly asked for £10 million in compensation. That's the largest figure for any non playing/coaching staff ever.
No one’s going to CAS over this.

Everyone has to agree to go for a start