Omar Berrada to the rags | TLDR: They want to be us

[waspish]

Be great if he starts the job then a month later he resigns and says it's a shitshow and they are skint

 

[rowarta]

That makes sense & I’m familiar with that but I was thinking is he allowed to speak with Scruffy Jim?

Imagine he had to provide a presentation as part of the interview on the strategy he would use & they start implementing it ahead of time.

I suppose I’m saying will it be worth the paper it’s written on?

Main reason I’m saying it is because starting in the summer is surely too late to have any impact on the summer transfer window unless he’s privy to everything prior.

we're assuming 6 months garden leave, so mid July before he could effectively start

 

[Rory Bluelow]

But there will be two groups making strategy at united. The Glazers will be responsible for the overall business strategy and Ratcliffe's group for football strategy. He's going to be the one who sits in the middle trying to reconcile various demands. That won't be easy as despite their £600m+ revenue, they're spending more cash than they have coming in. Ratcliffe will want money for refreshing the squad and they also need to spend money on the stadium and Carrington, supposedly without using more debt. That'll soon burn through Ratcliffe's cash injection.

Whose side is he going to be on?

We know Woodward was the Glazer's 'enforcer' and was required to implement their strategy, which saw Ferguson leave. It could end up like at Chelsea under Abramovich in the first Mourinho era, where the football guys, the owner, the CEO and the manager were all effectively doing their own thing. It somehow worked as they had a very good group of players and a manager at the peak of his powers. It might not be so effective when you've got Maguire, Evans, Martial, etc managed by Erik the Clown.

The corporate structure at the rags is a guaranteed recipe for disaster. Even if the on-field performances improve (a big if) they’ll be egos and rival factions in play and conflict will be inevitable.
Get the popcorn

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

That makes sense & I’m familiar with that but I was thinking is he allowed to speak with Scruffy Jim?

Imagine he had to provide a presentation as part of the interview on the strategy he would use & they start implementing it ahead of time.

I suppose I’m saying will it be worth the paper it’s written on?

Main reason I’m saying it is because starting in the summer is surely too late to have any impact on the summer transfer window unless he’s privy to everything prior.

I know what you mean and I guess the answer is nobody knows.

But if he divulges City’s intellectual property breaching a confidentiality clause he’ll find himself at the wrong end of one of the most powerful corporate legal teams in the world, which I’m sure is something nobody wants.

 

[Bantamgaz]

So in a nutshell they have bought in a man to rinse more money out of a bunch of deluded twats ?????
Honestly as an outsider the way the media and the rags went on you would think it was the end of City and the new dawn of United.

Still again it just comes across how fooking sad theyve become they are now celebrating not trophies not City bragging rights they are now celebrating Commercial aspects of the club .............you think they couldnt sink any lower

 

[Bantamgaz]

No idea what assurances he would or could have given them, or what risk Utd would have taken to hire him. Not that I donsee the sense in what younare saying.

But for anyone worries that his 'jumping ship' is in some way sign of guilt to come, I would say that I'd be more worried (not thag I am) if he 'jumped ship' to Barcelona, PSG or somewhere in a league abroad. Then at least, any jumping ship theories wouldn't sound as wild.

Its really simple hes been given more power and more money to rip off a load of Rag fans

 

[mcfcphil]

That makes sense & I’m familiar with that but I was thinking is he allowed to speak with Scruffy Jim?

Imagine he had to provide a presentation as part of the interview on the strategy he would use & they start implementing it ahead of time.

I suppose I’m saying will it be worth the paper it’s written on?

Main reason I’m saying it is because starting in the summer is surely too late to have any impact on the summer transfer window unless he’s privy to everything prior.

The gardening leave is more to stop him from working for city / accessing city infrastructure and data than it is to stop him talking to United.

 

[applejuice]

That makes sense & I’m familiar with that but I was thinking is he allowed to speak with Scruffy Jim?

Imagine he had to provide a presentation as part of the interview on the strategy he would use & they start implementing it ahead of time.

I suppose I’m saying will it be worth the paper it’s written on?

Main reason I’m saying it is because starting in the summer is surely too late to have any impact on the summer transfer window unless he’s privy to everything prior.

From what I heard it seems Jim used some consulting service like executive recruiters to approach Omar. They would keep it in the rule books. It is a common practice to hunting executive level candidates ... Even though you know who u want you will use this kind of service to avoid legal issues. Surely Jim should know how to do it properly.

Regarding transfer strategy I doubt that Omar would be the one scouting players. It is never his area. It is Tikki job. Omar is more on negotiating wages/fees etc. most of these will happen when the summer window opens. By comparison our CEO has a say in transfer but it is not his focus.

 

[the blue panther]

Do i wish good luck to someone I've never fuckin' heard of, and couldn't give a flying-fuck about,just because he was 'one of our own', in what is likely to be a very difficult job, which also I couldn't give a flying-fuck about?
No, not really, as he 's just become scum.

 

[GaudinoMotors]

Can you post a link please?

I wouldn't bother.