I don’t disagree with your view on the wider, long game the club are playing, but they failed to sufficiently control the narrative in the press after the CAS judgment and are at risk of repeating this again if the decision goes our way; and I don’t agree that the press cannot ignore what Khaldoon says afterwards unless it’s sufficiently incendiary. If he throws a big, fuck off Molotov cocktail into the middle then I agree that will take hold, but if he simply talks in riddles and euphemisms (as he has done previously) then I fear it will simply blend into the background.
At the end of the day, the club will do what’s best to meet its long term strategic goals, which will most likely not elide with the wishes of us supporters.
i am by no means an expert on the behaviour of arabic people,
but during my time in marok i have learned things about them,
they have kindly explained their reasoning,
and incendiary doesn't seem to be their game.
there is no desire for short-term gain.
that approach is, they say, the fool's way.
let the losers shout their claims from the highest mountain.
at first it will resonate,
but there is no point in responding to an echo,
it will fade away soon enough.
the real winners play the long game.
they knowingly smile at (and with) their enemies.
a strategy that unnerves the enemy.
i think it was sven who said something along the lines of,
and i paraphrase here...
out-nice the fuckers!
it is impossible to, as you say, sufficiently control the narrative.
as my grandfather always said...
never argue with a fool.
he will bring you down to his level and beat you with experience.
