Omar Berrada to the rags

[freshie]

 

[vincent]

What are the odds as soon as he’s stepped through the door at that shit hole they’ll be telling him to bad mouth us about the charges

Well he is massively

He's certainly very senior and has worked with Soriano & Begiristain for many years, both here and at Barcelona.

When City Matters started he was the lead from the City side so I know him. A very nice guy, quite quiet but thoughtful. He moved to be COO of Global Football Operations during lockdown and Roel De Vries came from Nissan to take over the Global COO role. I'm not sure I'd see him as a natural replacement for Soriano though.

I doubt very much whether he'd be considered as tainted if we were to be found guilty of all the PL charges though. He'll have played little part in high-level finance or legal decisions. i like him and I just hope he knows what he's doing.

Anyway, I'm told we're getting Ed Woodward in to take over his role so that's a step up for us.

Fair enough, but I can’t see how the CFO would not be seen as tainted or complicit if we are found guilty.

 

[bluwes]

Why is he not put on gardening leave

He is until the summer MEN just tweeted

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Well he is massively


Fair enough, but I can’t see how the CFO would not be seen as tainted or complicit if we are found guilty.

He wasn't CFO.

 

[red 2 hats]

My phones not stopped pinging, giddy rags thinking they've signed our very top man, had it all, he's jumping ship coz he knows we're doomed, going to the biggest club in the world, they've turned another corner.
What they've done is poached a small cog from a successful winning machine, he's shown himself to have no morals or integrity, any club but the rats or the murderers, just hope he doesn't come sniffing around other cogs.
Fuck him.

 

[yerwot?]

The idea that he would turn down a step up, out of "loyalty" to a football club, even one as successful as CFG, is a stretch, except to fans. Career comes before what others might think, it wont have been a knee jerk reaction,imo, just if he feels he could do better as the band-leader rather than part of the orchestra, so be it.

 

[vincent]

He wasn't CFO.

Ok commercial director.

 

[urban genie]

 

[GX Blue]

It’ll be nothing to do with money - City will have matched any offer.

It’s a great opportunity though to run ‘his’ team.

He works in business. Of course money is a factor. If you think not then more fool you.

 

[I'm Blue]

Best run club in world football vs a shit show.
Think we’ll be alright.

 

[Feed the Elk]

Taking a step back, it’s lovely to see how the former mighty continue to fall. And now to the extent that they are desperate to emulate us both on, and now off the pitch.

Their culture is so different to ours I can’t imagine he’ll make as much a difference as people think. He also won’t have any of his buddies there either, he will be on his own

 

[CC1]

We don't "need" anybody. Doesn't mean we clearly valued him very highly and will be a loss to us. More than that though, we wouldn't have employed him and promoted him numerous times and wouldn't have reportedly saw him as the natural in-house successor should any of his superiors leave their roles if he wasn't a very capable person. He's not going to allow united to continue to be the laughing stock they currently are. That's over when he takes charge.

Well have a top class replacement in line before he can even start work with them

 

[BlueAnorak]

Now here was me thinking gardening leave would be compulsory for at least 4 months in these circumstances.

 

[Centurions]

My phones not stopped pinging, giddy rags thinking they've signed our very top man, had it all, he's jumping ship coz he knows we're doomed, going to the biggest club in the world, they've turned another corner.
What they've done is poached a small cog from a successful winning machine, he's shown himself to have no morals or integrity, any club but the rats or the murderers, just hope he doesn't come sniffing around other cogs.
Fuck him.

" no morals or integrity" He's a businessman who's moved for a higher, presumably better paid job? Morals & integrity don't come into it.

 

[Worsleyweb]

Never heard of him till an hour ago! Think we will cope.

 

[manimanc]

Fuckin piggybacking what I said ages before he did. :)

So that's how social media works is it? Ah right.

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

" no morals or integrity" He's a businessman who's moved for a higher, presumably better paid job? Morals & integrity don't come into it.

Fitting as it's the rags he's going to.

 

[paulchapo]

My phones not stopped pinging, giddy rags thinking they've signed our very top man, had it all, he's jumping ship coz he knows we're doomed, going to the biggest club in the world, they've turned another corner.
What they've done is poached a small cog from a successful winning machine, he's shown himself to have no morals or integrity, any club but the rats or the murderers, just hope he doesn't come sniffing around other cogs.e
Fuck him.

Resigning mid season is a cunts trick, a bit like old Lego head Arteta.

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

We are doomed!

 

[Dribble]

UnFuckinBelievable! WTAF! ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠⊙⁠_⁠ʖ⁠⊙⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

My hope is this is some kind of double agent bluff. INEOS has ambitions to copy our multi-club structure, but who's to say he may not be our man on the inside at Old Toilet?