United Thread - 2022/23

[Falcao]

Bloody l that’s impressive. How long did it take you to come with that? Wow!!!!!

 

[Shirley]

Knel he’s back

 

[RadcliffeRick]

Knel he’s back

He's been 6 months composing that post :-)

 

[Akira]

See a couple of them now crawling out the woodwork saying they are glad they got Ten Hag over Conte, like Ten Hag just won them quad or something.

 

[mcfc64]

See a couple of them now crawling out the woodwork saying they are glad they got Ten Hag over Conte, like Ten Hag just won them quad or something.

Yes , went a quick walk with the dog about 3pm saw 2 scum shirts in 20 mins . They are getting excited again !

 

[Platt Lane 59]

HOW CLUBS SIGN PLAYERS..

OTHER CLUBS
1. Show interest in player
2. Negotiate
3. Sign player

scum

1. Look at player
2. Admire player
3. Forget about player
4. Think about player again
5. Show interest in player
6. Ask player for his autograph
7. Go to watch player at his club's games.
8. Visit players' home town.
9. Interact with his family and community
10. Sporting director goes for dinner at his parents' house.
11. Hierarchy suddenly loses interest in player.
12. Sporting director goes on vacation
13. Sporting director remembers about player while on vacation.
14. Interest reignited in player after 5 months
15. Approaches his current club to negotiate
16. Negotiate 50M but rejected
17. Negotiate 60M but rejected
18. Negotiate 80M but rejected
19. Negotiate 120M but rejected
20. Sporting director gives up
21. Sporting director goes to movie theatre for fun
21. Sporting director watches documentary of Messi winning international trophies after retiring.
21. Sporting director gets motivated to try again.
22. Two years later, negotiate 150M but rejected
23. Five years later, negotiate 180M and club finally accepts
24. Player looks at personal terms
25. Finally after 10 years of negotiation the deal is almost happening.
26. Player taken to club for visit
27. Player finds Lord Maguire is the club captain
28. Player finds kitchen uses firewood
29. Player finds rust on the gym equipment
30. Player then hears that the club has gone 5 years without a trophy
31. Player runs away and deal collapses.
32. Player signs with rival two days later.

A very comprehensive analysis of their process to sign their next "world-beater".
The problem is if you look at any media outlet's "transfer talk" section/article, they are about sign every fecker.
They must have a transfer department of thousands of the critters...

 

[JRockBlues]

HOW CLUBS SIGN PLAYERS..

OTHER CLUBS
1. Show interest in player
2. Negotiate
3. Sign player

scum

1. Look at player
2. Admire player
3. Forget about player
4. Think about player again
5. Show interest in player
6. Ask player for his autograph
7. Go to watch player at his club's games.
8. Visit players' home town.
9. Interact with his family and community
10. Sporting director goes for dinner at his parents' house.
11. Hierarchy suddenly loses interest in player.
12. Sporting director goes on vacation
13. Sporting director remembers about player while on vacation.
14. Interest reignited in player after 5 months
15. Approaches his current club to negotiate
16. Negotiate 50M but rejected
17. Negotiate 60M but rejected
18. Negotiate 80M but rejected
19. Negotiate 120M but rejected
20. Sporting director gives up
21. Sporting director goes to movie theatre for fun
21. Sporting director watches documentary of Messi winning international trophies after retiring.
21. Sporting director gets motivated to try again.
22. Two years later, negotiate 150M but rejected
23. Five years later, negotiate 180M and club finally accepts
24. Player looks at personal terms
25. Finally after 10 years of negotiation the deal is almost happening.
26. Player taken to club for visit
27. Player finds Lord Maguire is the club captain
28. Player finds kitchen uses firewood
29. Player finds rust on the gym equipment
30. Player then hears that the club has gone 5 years without a trophy
31. Player runs away and deal collapses.
32. Player signs with rival two days later.

You missed the last step...

33. Club issues statement saying "We didn't want him anyway."

 

[Blue Mist]

Still nothing from the media about Sancho. Had that been us .......

 

[chaddblue]

Thought it was very considerate of the PL to give the Rags a nice easy Christmas schedule to ease them back in after the world cup

Forest, Wolves and Bournemouth with 2 of them at home… warms the cockles

 

[Hayley Croppers chopper]

£177M A YEAR!! That's £3.4M a week

Nice work if you can get it

He does work weekend and the occasional Thursday night.