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Worrying seeing the likes of Southgate linked but they need to make a decision on next season. I don’t think ETH is the right manager and if they feel the same we need a quick resolution there are plenty of clubs looking for managers this summer.
 
Worrying seeing the likes of Southgate linked but they need to make a decision on next season. I don’t think ETH is the right manager and if they feel the same we need a quick resolution there are plenty of clubs looking for managers this summer.

Yeah worrying there are no concrete links to anyone outside of Southgate/Potter isn't it
 

They've found a cheaper alternative

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The guy who signed Gakpo, Nunes and Fabio Carvalho, but also signed Luis Diaz and Alexis McAllister.....

Mixed bag in his short time in charge of recruitment at Liverpool.

But atleast he got those deals done while we signed Antony for 75m instead.
 
The guy who signed Gakpo, Nunes and Fabio Carvalho, but also signed Luis Diaz and Alexis McAllister.....

Mixed bag in his short time in charge of recruitment at Liverpool.

But atleast he got those deals done while we signed Antony for 75m instead.
The positive in this list is the fees they paid rather than the players themselves who are a bit of a mixed bag. Pool don't get fleeced anywhere ear the level we do. If he's had a part in that great, if he's the one picking players I would have big doubts.
 
You’d think if Murtough was exiting with immediate effect that Wilcox and maybe even Ashworth are very imminent.

A Head of Recruitment to hire and then we have made serious movements in terms of modernising the club in an impressively short space of time.

Murtough gives off that feeling that he’s good for certain things but not as DoF. I get the feeling Glazer laziness and passiveness came into play and they just picked him because he was the closest thing at the club to one of those and had experience at other clubs too. They probably give him a bit more money on top of what he was doing, called it a day and chilled out at the pool in Tampa.
 
Some interesting bits from Wheeler's report today

John Murtough's departure as Manchester United's football director will do little to quell the sense of uncertainty around the club as Ineos continue to ring the changes.

Staff are waiting to see how plans to install Dan Ashworth as director of football and Jason Wilcox as technical director will have on the rest of the set-up at Carrington with plenty of questions being asked around the training ground.

As Murtough prepared to make his exit, Hargreaves and head of recruitment operations Steve Brown were United's representatives at the TransferRoom summit in Rome.

The two-day event brought together 640 key figures in football from 90 leagues and 58 countries to network and discuss potential deals for the summer.

It includes 15-minute 'speed dating' sessions which allow clubs to cut through the formalities and get straight down to transfer talks
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Prof feeds Carrington rumours

More change could be on the way at Carrington after news reached Confidential that nutrition expert Professor James Morton was a recent visitor to the training ground.
The former Liverpool performance nutritionist previously worked with Ineos sporting director Sir Dave Brailsford at Team Sky where he led the nutrition strategy as the team won the Tour de France four years in a row.

Brailsford is renowned for his marginal gains approach, and he has been busy fact-finding at Carrington for months looking at how United can improve in every department.

Manager Erik ten Hag has also been known to tap into the world of cycling for advice and information having spoken to members of Team Jumbo-Visma in the past.
 
Other than the news about what INEOS is doing to the men's team, can we also talk a little about what is being done to the women's team? We are bound to keep that incompetent Marc Skinner and that is basically reeking a lack of ambition that is also needed if you want the women's team to grow. Skinner is a big reason why we suck in big matches and why we lost/will lose a number of key players.

The reactions from opposition fans is all you need to know about this.

 
City will be licking their lips when they get off with a slap on the wrists for their 115 charges and are then able to spend the majority of their “£700m+” annual revenues on players. All legitimate of course.
 
City will be licking their lips when they get off with a slap on the wrists for their 115 charges and are then able to spend the majority of their “£700m+” annual revenues on players. All legitimate of course.
They'll shortly come out and tell us their revenue was 1bn last FY.
 
A lot of PR without much concrete action for my liking. We have hired a full executive team but none of them likely to join before the summer. Hope we get the manager appointment right (no Southgate please) and don’t mess up the transfer window.
 
A lot of PR without much concrete action for my liking. We have hired a full executive team but none of them likely to join before the summer. Hope we get the manager appointment right (no Southgate please) and don’t mess up the transfer window.
We are in protracted negotiations with a sugar daddy club who now consider themselves our rivals for their Sporting Director, who they went through a lot of trouble to get him over the line only to lose him 8 months later. Of course it was always going to be tough to pull off and Newcastle don't have any incentive to make it easier for us because a successful window for us makes their climb up the table harder.

We, rightly, don't want to be rinsed and pay an outrageous amount for an Administrator. So it's good that we aren't panicking and getting our pants pulled down for once.
 
City will be licking their lips when they get off with a slap on the wrists for their 115 charges and are then able to spend the majority of their “£700m+” annual revenues on players. All legitimate of course.

Not sure they'll need to spend that much when they're in league 2 the season after next.
 
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