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That Brexit Ineos bellend is clearly seething at the zillions he's lost and the chance he blew in the summer. Love hearing about pyschos who don't get their own way. Doesn't matter how much dough he's got, he'll always be a miserable twat. Him and Murdoch. They can't smile at anything other than fucking up someone else's day.
 
INEOS will not be losing any sleep over the prospect of the fans dusting off their yellow and green scarfs.
 
A lot of the difficulty in football is managing the massive disparity between the players and the rank and file staff. Small gestures count for a lot. This is a massive own goal by United.
Sure, it'll persuade a few more people to leave (and save on a future redundancy round) but the impact on morale for those who remain will be huge.
 
I went that Klopp farewell thing at the arena by the dock in May and he said the first thing that he noticed when he joined was the playing staff didn't know the names of the kitchen staff, so he took everyone, players, staff, families, away to tenerife for a few days for a piss up and to tell everyone they were all equally involved. Makes sense doesn't it.
 
Brizzle said:
I know they always let us down when it matters - but I have serious misplaced hope that Everton with two games rest vs. Arsenal will really put it amongst them this weekend. Arsenal have to play a tough Monaco fixture tomorrow too.

You just know this won't remotely happen but it would kill the blues to know they might help us.
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I think by now it’s clear a manager can’t be in charge of his own signings as the sole voice. Look at peak Kloppo signing Darwin as an example..

Or Brodgers wanting Tom Ince over Coutiniho 😆
 
My mate got a job to go and knock down some walls in Blackpool to prepare for the building of one of Dave Whelan's new gyms. Dave Whelan who at the time owned premier league side Wigan, and JD Sports, and was worth hundreds of millions. Anyways the dude who gave my mate the job said just charge the 40p a mile from Liverpool and I'll sort it etc. Mate puts his invoices in, gets a phonecall. 'Hello it's Dave Whelan here, I'm just going through the expenses on my desk and your mileage looks a bit heavy, can you explain it please?' Took an explanation and a stern bollocking of the site manager to sort it out.

Turns out DW used to drive himself to Home and Bargain to buy the bog roll for the whole stadium cos he couldn't bare the thought of paying the extra few quid to have it delivered. Also cut his son out of his will for smoking a spliff.

tl:dr - Tight control freaks gonna tight control freak.
 
Woland said:
I went that Klopp farewell thing at the arena by the dock in May and he said the first thing that he noticed when he joined was the playing staff didn't know the names of the kitchen staff, so he took everyone, players, staff, families, away to tenerife for a few days for a piss up and to tell everyone they were all equally involved. Makes sense doesn't it.
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The day Mane signed, he came into the offices at Chapel Street and said "Hello everyone" and nobody replied because we just weren't used to the players even acknowledging our existence. I remember thinking that he must have thought we were all rude and that he'd have that knocked out of him after a few months at Melwood, but it turned out Klopp thought that kind of behaviour was the minimum expected, and the staff noticed it when the players stopped being up their own arses (a few of them were always decent, TBF).
The only time I met Klopp, the tea lady came in to offer to make a round of drinks and there was an obvious warmth between him and her, it's just how he rolls. People are the most important thing.
 
King Binny said:
The City manager was asked about the comparison earlier this week, with the reporter suggesting that Mourinho's 'three for me' remark in 2018 marked the beginning of the end for him at United. "I hope not in my case," Guardiola, whose side won their first game in eight on Wednesday, replied. "He won three, I won six.. but we are the same like that.

"We are together in the those situations. To make our fans know that we are much, much better than the people that sing that [Liverpool fans singing sacked in the morning].

"It [the gesture] was just to make our fans feel that what we have done is extraordinary. I want to prove that we are an incredible football club. Sooner or later it's going to be the end but I will try to extend as much as possible for the best of my club."

Mourinho has responded fashion in typically brutal fashion. Now in charge of Turkish giants Fenerbahce, the ex-Chelsea, United and Tottenham boss said: "Guardiola said something to me. He won three titles and I won three, but I won fairly and cleanly. If I lost, I want to congratulate my opponent because he was better than me. I don't want to win by dealing with 115 lawsuits."
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You can bet it all stems from a personal hatred of Guardiola… but obvious hypocrisy doesn’t devalue his point.
 
Beamrider said:
The day Mane signed, he came into the offices at Chapel Street and said "Hello everyone" and nobody replied because we just weren't used to the players even acknowledging our existence. I remember thinking that he must have thought we were all rude and that he'd have that knocked out of him after a few months at Melwood, but it turned out Klopp thought that kind of behaviour was the minimum expected, and the staff noticed it when the players stopped being up their own arses (a few of them were always decent, TBF).
The only time I met Klopp, the tea lady came in to offer to make a round of drinks and there was an obvious warmth between him and her, it's just how he rolls. People are the most important thing.
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How was your interaction with him?
 
localny said:
How was your interaction with him?
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Was out at Melwood for a meeting with Mike Gordon from FSG (Mike tended to base himself there when he was over). We'd played the night before and the players had gone off on international duty, so there was hardly anyone there. Jurgen was bored so he joined our meeting, even though it was on finance stuff. Mike had promised him he'd never do anything behind his back and he was always welcome to join any meeting.
So he sat there for an hour or so, offered his opinion on stuff (which was helpful, although understandably not at the level of detail we were working to) and he (gently) took the piss out of the people he knew in order to amuse the ones he didn't know (including me). And like I said above, he was very warm and respectful to the Melwood staff.
He was everything you see on the telly. That's not a show for the cameras, that's who he is.
 
Beamrider said:
Was out at Melwood for a meeting with Mike Gordon from FSG (Mike tended to base himself there when he was over). We'd played the night before and the players had gone off on international duty, so there was hardly anyone there. Jurgen was bored so he joined our meeting, even though it was on finance stuff. Mike had promised him he'd never do anything behind his back and he was always welcome to join any meeting.
So he sat there for an hour or so, offered his opinion on stuff (which was helpful, although understandably not at the level of detail we were working to) and he (gently) took the piss out of the people he knew in order to amuse the ones he didn't know (including me). And like I said above, he was very warm and respectful to the Melwood staff.
He was everything you see on the telly. That's not a show for the cameras, that's who he is.
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Thanks for sharing. Those kind of leaders, who are also smart, high performing, decent, emotionally intelligent, etc are very very rare in all walks of life. glad we had him for almost a decade!
 
Beamrider said:
Was out at Melwood for a meeting with Mike Gordon from FSG (Mike tended to base himself there when he was over). We'd played the night before and the players had gone off on international duty, so there was hardly anyone there. Jurgen was bored so he joined our meeting, even though it was on finance stuff. Mike had promised him he'd never do anything behind his back and he was always welcome to join any meeting.
So he sat there for an hour or so, offered his opinion on stuff (which was helpful, although understandably not at the level of detail we were working to) and he (gently) took the piss out of the people he knew in order to amuse the ones he didn't know (including me). And like I said above, he was very warm and respectful to the Melwood staff.
He was everything you see on the telly. That's not a show for the cameras, that's who he is.
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I imagine having Jurgen join an occasional meeting unrelated to his area of expertise also did wonders for the morale of the staff.
 
I was under the impression this was originally the case. I didn't quiet believe the line that these kick offs were opposed as a club, it felt like at times it worked for us due to the Asian market anyway.
 
Sunday 12 or sunday 1900. Bot hshite, but one is infinitely worse for fans. Standard united behaviour
 
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