It's Quiet Thread 15 - Txiki Blinders

[simon23]

one can hope, Jesus seemed to jump right in though I guess he had international caps under his belt by that point?

would he even get a work permit for us at this point?

 

[Manchester_lalala]

Let Messi go twice, pursue an unavailable player all summer on the word of a player so dumb he signed a long term contract with spurs in his prime. Get utterly played by Ronaldo, and ultimately sign nobody and say it was the plan all along

I was sort of ok about missing out on Kane, but these past few days have been a shit show.

 

[Kippax.]

Ronaldo was always planned to go to Utd. All this merry go round nonsense was all planned to make City look fools. Complete dick waving contest and we went along with it.

Our aim to replace Kun has been an absolute car crash.

Im sure well be fine however this is a bitter pill to swallow.

 

[Brad mcfc]

there's still 4 days of the window left, plenty of time to sell benardo and laporte for 15m each

Lol

 

[Cityisland]

That us done for this window then?

 

[Cityinmud]

That us done for this window then?

Yes

 

[Benarbia’s Backheel]

I walked away from the board shortly after the press were briefed we'd pulled out ...and within about 30 seconds, I'd traced my footsteps back to me being dragged into that thread yesterday, about an hour before the Mendy news dropped.

See this all the time in PR Crisis / news management. Saw Trump do it more than anyone else, ever. So I'm very familiar with the method. 1. Distract the public. Change the topic. 2. Displace the news reports with something else.

Seriously, that's my bet. The whole thing was like walking into your wife talking to your daughter (who has serious reason to believe you've been having an affair), and revealing... you'd bought a puppy home! OMG! WOW! PUPPY? NO WAY! I thought you hated them and said we could never have one! IS SO CUUUUTE!

All evening the whole family is enraptured by it's presence. It falls asleep with your daughter, in her lap. You carefully lift it from her, and carry her to bed. The puppy is returned to it's original owner the next day for a full refund. You tell your family something along the lines of the damned thing bit the baby when they were all asleep.

Hopefully we come up with a better, more healthy response to the situation sometime in the future - because it implies cynicism, cowardice, inadequacy.

I spent all day yesterday thinking we were lucky to have some good news to outweigh the bad. Your version makes much more sense.

 

[TropicalBlue]

Rolando Bianchi is only 38, still got a good 2 weeks left in him. Anyone?

 

[Del_Bosque]

according to sources close to us, we were offered him and we said no so it all depends on the sources that you believe but those sources come from mainstream media close to the club........but the twatteraty were going on that it was a done deal, they were mentioning salary figures, they were mentioning two year deals, that personal terms were agreed etc etc etc......it looks like we didnt even get that far.....

99% of stuff on twitter is KFA's but if you want to keep reading it you go ahead......ill just carry on ignoring it for what it is....shit!

what sources close to us are saying that

all the main locals were saying we were pushing to sign him

so were the reliable broadsheet journalists, and the Athletic

 

[Summerbuzz]

As far as it goes, I'm glad Utd got him. He doesn't offer much more than Cavani, and I doubt he will dovetail particularly with Sancho or the others. I didn't want him at PSG. Them scrabbling about to get a Mbappe replacement should be as painful and expensive as possible, and possibly shake out other opportunities for us.