But, he's World Class.
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But, he's World Class.
Remember reading about Edwards' cosy relationship with FSG. Someone else will probably bear the brunt.
I actually think this is not Edwards fault. We as a club have been doing shit like this for years. Leaking stories to the press etc. I wouldn't be surprised if it's so common practice within the club that when he took over the reigns on transfers from are he was briefed about all these little things to do to drive a better position for the club
Depends. If this fiasco was his fault and if Klopp - whom they wanted long before Edwards showed up - is sufficiently angry about it, they may decide this was a SNAFU too far.
All clubs leak - some just do it better than others. It's true that our transfer operations have been iffy for some time, but this mess sets a new low for sheer incompetence.
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Nah we're the Sherminator from American Pie. Blagging on to anybody who will listen about all the hotties we have lined up, left pissing our pants when called out on it.
I could almost forgive a leak. At least a leak suggests some (albeit grossly misguided) intentional act. But I think this was more a case of alarming naivety, with someone calling a contact at the club and the person was so pleased about the deal he chatted away believing no details would actually go into print until after the deal was formally done. And that suggests a degree of stupidity that is scary.
What happened that Ian Cotton guy? Wasn't he our press officer during the Houllier/Rafa era?
Yes, he went after the Suarez affair. He's now at an oil company, I think.
That doesn't seem to be quite the way it went down because didn't three supposed ITKs all release statements within 2 mins of each other ? Seems to have been more co-ordinated.
You were briefed?
Maccas the Leak boys!!
I feel a bit cheated if we're going to tap someone up it's this cunt. Low bar or what?
Yeh I can see that shit happening. Slim but possible. Southampton save face by showing their fans that they won't allow other clubs to take the piss and tap their players up to stop a bidding war, they slap the price up to 60mill instead of the much lower figure we probably bid and we just pay up anyway. It's a lot less likely that the big spenders come in to blow that kinda money on a player who's just declared that he wants to go to play for Klopp at Liverpool.
I know we've publicly ended all interest etc, but if we pick up the blower and offer £70 mill for him, we'll all be best of friends again. Money talks.
We are so not gonna sign anyone of worth.
Prepare yourselves for your Koncheskys, Poulsens and Voronins.
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Its from Duncan Castles though
After we expose their tapping up activities, they're bound to want to do business with us.
This time last week you were rubbishing someone elses story
If you believe Duncan Castles, then that's your problem.
I know this Macca, I wasn't saying we look like chumps for doing it, I meant we look like chumps for being shit at it.
Heinze, Ziege, Kewell, Solanke, this Stoke kid, how many times? So we've done this stuff for years, just like everyone else, yes, but we seem incredibly shit at it. Either way, it matters little, the club looks stupid for either employing someone so naive, or not being discreet enough. This on the back of years of Ayre travelling around the continent, only to see transfer after transfer fall through in the 11th hour, for reasons as stupid as tapping up evidence, to low balling clubs.
It all amounts to more of the same amateurish behaviour, that scapegoats like Parry and Ayre have taken the blame for previously. Maybe the club itself should sort it's shit out, because it's damaging in terms of this transfer and future transfers. Clubs will think they have the upper hand when dealing with us, because they know we'll fear being sanctioned.
Parry and Ayre weren't scapegoats, mark. These things happened on their respective watches and they were ultimately responsible. But I do think you have a point about the general working practices within the club, which clearly aren't up to snuff yet. Parry and Ayre failed to improve things but they weren't the only ones.
Well that was more or less my point, we're a laughing stock, again. We should be going into this Summer, back in the CL and with a great manager at the helm, attracting top class players and acting like a top class club, but instead we've got clowns running the show. This is exactly how we end up with 3rd or 4th choice players and failing to capitalise on a position of strength.
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