It's Quiet Thread 15 - Txiki Blinders

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FromPollockToSilva said:
Roses, War of the Roses, Lancashire vs Yorkshire. A battle across the Pennines.

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A pedant writes - The Wars of the Roses were not between Lancashire and Yorkshire but between the royal houses of Lancaster and York.

Most of Yorkshire was Lancastrian, at least up to the Battle of Towton (1461), when many of them were wiped out.
 
better dead than red said:
To be fair most Jews I know, and I know a fair few because of reasons, are not automatically anti-Muslim. They just wish to be left alone to do their thing.
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As a Jew wishing to be left alone to do my thing I completely agree. Oh yeah and my best friend is an ex-Lebanese international footballer and a Muslim. (Also played for Wimbledon the year after they beat the dippers in the FA cup)
 
Shads said:
As a Jew wishing to be left alone to do my thing I completely agree. Oh yeah and my best friend is an ex-Lebanese international footballer and a Muslim. (Also played for Wimbledon the year after they beat the dippers in the FA cup)
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My wife, daughters and my wife's family, aunts uncles, cousins, etc would also agree.
 
BrianW said:
A pedant writes - The Wars of the Roses were not between Lancashire and Yorkshire but between the royal houses of Lancaster and York.

Most of Yorkshire was Lancastrian, at least up to the Battle of Towton (1461), when many of them were wiped out.
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chesterbells said:
Fair comment that mate, and I do like Twitter too!

Maybe it’s just me, but on here, I generally won’t bother reading an extended post. I do read longer pieces, but just not particularly about football, as I find there is rarely that much new and insightful to say on the subject (unless it’s something historical perhaps, but that isn’t for me).

There’s a place for it, agreed. A thread or sub-forum for extended writing, for those who want to exhibit or hone their skills in this area, or want to read in-depth, would be my preference.
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Not being arsey mate but it makes far more sense for you or whoever else to scroll past the post rather than creating a separate forum for ones over a certain word limit.

As long as there are paragraphs and full stops then I'm all for it. The deepest depths of hell are reserved for those who post one huge wall of entirely unpunctuated nonsense.
 
Tugay One Cup said:
Not being arsey mate but it makes far more sense for you or whoever else to scroll past the post rather than creating a separate forum for ones over a certain word limit.

As long as there are paragraphs and full stops then I'm all for it. The deepest depths of hell are reserved for those who post one huge wall of entirely unpunctuated nonsense.
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Not taken as arsey, mate, no problem with your reply.
Yeah, tbh, that’s what I do generally, just scroll past. It’s no biggie, was just ruminating on it last night, that’s all.
 
chesterbells said:
Fair comment that mate, and I do like Twitter too!

Maybe it’s just me, but on here, I generally won’t bother reading an extended post. I do read longer pieces, but just not particularly about football, as I find there is rarely that much new and insightful to say on the subject (unless it’s something historical perhaps, but that isn’t for me).

There’s a place for it, agreed. A thread or sub-forum for extended writing, for those who want to exhibit or hone their skills in this area, or want to read in-depth, would be my preference.
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Are you Stewart Lee?
 
domalino said:
I think the past 18 months has made the entire forum much more negative and angry. Im sure I see a lot more spats and personal arguments.

The mood around the forum feels incredibly aggravated and it seems like the negative of losing has overtaken the joy of winning by quite some distance, let alone the joy of watching football regardless of result.

We are supposed to despise almost evey other club in the league, and UEFA, and The FA, and The Premier League and The referees and Sky/BT and the media.

Not to mention the club itself is to be hated - or at least the supporter services, Vicky Kloss and the PR team, the transfer group, the social media team and an increasing list of players.

Not displaying an appropriate amount of vitriol for the above is grounds to be told how much of a **** you are, and probably get called a rag. Its bloody exhausting and I think its effecting a lot more than just me.

As soon as the transfer business is concluded I plan on taking a long break from here and seeing if it resets something.

Hopefully people will lighten up as the pandemic eases.
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Bravo sir.
 
Vester said:
Might be a little too negative right now, but what the hell has Txiki & Omar been doing the last 6 months since it was clear Agüero was leaving? 2 games in to the new season and still no replacement. Grealish had a release clause but we still waited until hours before our first game to sign him instead of doing it weeks/months ago. Apparently several first teamers wants to move and with 2 weeks left of the window they are all still here.
Have our whole recruitment team been on vacation all year or whats their excuse to why they cant manage to sort at least most of this out before the season starts when they had half a year to do so? Acting slow may have already cost us a trophy in CS (even if its not a ”real” one) and a league game. Even if we get Kane before the deadline ends, it may take a few weeks before he learns how to play in our system. The difference between having it done early and late could be finishing 1st or 4th.
On top of all this we are letting half of our squad return so late from holiday they are not even match fit when the season starts.

Does our management think we will win the league with 10-20 points every year so we can afford to throw away some games in the beginning? I've always thought the club have been acting like the benchmark of how professional a club should be run, but this summer I get more of the feeling we are acting like amateurs.
We could still end up winning everything, but why are we giving our rivals a head start?
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How can you write the following and still believe the nonsense above?

I am very familiar with buying/selling businesses and/or assets in my work, with numbers in the same ballpark as these.
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Get Dzeko in for a season just in case. He could either rotate with Gabby if we dont land Kane or he could be back-up and I'm sure he'd be happy with both

Edit: the fact that he is actually confirmed to Inter has completely escaped me

What is Bony up to these days?
 
ScottSinclair said:
Get Dzeko in for a season just in case. He could either rotate with Gabby if we dont land Kane or he could be back-up and I'm sure he'd be happy with both

Edit: the fact that he is actually confirmed to Inter has completely escaped me

What is Bony up to these days?
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forget that, can scotty sinclair play striker? he does make all the boys sing after all
 
mccity said:
Maybe you know. Does fit the description. Guess we'll find out tonight.
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Well...
AC Milan and Manchester City apparently working on a deal that would see Bernardo Silva move to the Italians on a 2yr paid loan (12-15M range + buy option set around 30M. The Milanese club would thus benefit on the growth decree for his high salary.
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Could be complete nonsense, grabbed off Twitter. I think 45m would be a deal we would go for, make our money back on him and he gets to go.

Pep won't keep him against his will. Not sure if Milan fits the "iberian weather" he was looking for but footballers are fickle.
 
In a market where Ben White goes for £50m and Abraham for £40m its truly terrible deal but Txiki will think its amazing deal for one of our best players.

Obligation would also mean we cant even use that sale for this seasons books or even next one!

The only winner in this deal would be in all aspects: AC Milan

It really pisses me off, these same fucking clubs constantly bend rules in their favour and then we proceed to give them players on the cheap.

EDIT- How come City never get such favours in the transfer market?
 
decmancity said:
Well...

Could be complete nonsense, grabbed off Twitter. I think 45m would be a deal we would go for, make our money back on him and he gets to go.

Pep won't keep him against his will. Not sure if Milan fits the "iberian weather" he was looking for but footballers are fickle.
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Cheap italians with their ”options to buy”
 
MeatHunterrr said:
In a market where Ben White goes for £50m and Abraham for £40m its truly terrible deal but Txiki will think its amazing deal for one of our best players.

Obligation would also mean we cant even use that sale for this seasons books or even next one!

The only winner in this deal would be in all aspects: AC Milan

It really pisses me off, these same fucking clubs constantly bend rules in their favour and then we proceed to give them players on the cheap.
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Txiki doesn't have carte blanche on transfers. We have little to no power in this move. He is on big wages, the spanish clubs are drowning in debt and Bernardo has made it very clear he wants to leave, add to that we have just spent 100m on his replacement.

Transfers have no set parameters or we wouldn't have signed Aguero, would have got Andy Carroll instead.

Bernardo has given us 4 great years of service. We book a profit on him and everyone can move forward.
 
decmancity said:
Txiki doesn't have carte blanche on transfers. We have little to no power in this move. He is on big wages, the spanish clubs are drowning in debt and Bernardo has made it very clear he wants to leave, add to that we have just spent 100m on his replacement.

Transfers have no set parameters or we wouldn't have signed Aguero, would have got Andy Carroll instead.

Bernardo has given us 4 great years of service. We book a profit on him and everyone can move forward.
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We dont have little power at all. He literally has 4 years left on his deal.

Just like Spurs hold all the cards with Kane.

I don't know why you are so keen to sell our fine players on the cheap? You'd try to justify £40m for Foden would be good because "he wants out" if that scenario ever happened.
 
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