The best thing I've read in a long time

cozer
if thats the best thing you read in ages maybe you should stop your beano suscription

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Keep up the good work mate

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I will.

Eric """I see you as a sort of shorter and more rotund Antonio Carluccio, but acting the role of Don Corleone in a thinly veiled broad Yorkshire accent...!"""

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well you cheeky so and so - I do have a little twinge of a yorkshire accent, funny how my brother has a thin southern accent too, so when we are speaking English to each other we sound really different, but in Italian, we sound the same - I have two other brothers living in Italy, who can speak English but struggle to understand the guy on "your on sky sports" (can't remember his name, the really southern one)

Cozer, just had a read back of my comments yesterday they read far worse than I intended, so my sincere apologies...

as for the T-shirts, well I haven't got them yet, but I'm sure they won't be 'tacky', I do however like Erics idea better though

Tusc...

Common sense always wins...!

Of course the manager is in charge of signings... that is a given. The chairman doesn't turn around and say "get this player, this player and this player". What the chairman does do is given the manager his budget and what he's prepared to spend on any given player. I am saying that the chairman limits what the manager can spend on a player and if he thinks a player is too much money, regardless of how off the mark his idea of "too much" is or how vital a given player is to improving the squad, the chairman will veto it. The board are also responsible for contract negotiations. Grayson says "do everything you can to get this player to sign a contract" - the boards idea of what we can afford to do is, again, miles off the mark, so they go ahead and do everything they can, which to them is offering a **** poor contract to an unproven player - unproven in that we don't know if it will work out or not. To them that reduces the players value.

And yes, the manager decides if we sell a player or not, but it's too easy to pressure the manager into making a decision. Again, the manager says "this player is key to our plans, do everything you can to keep him". What the board interprets "everything we can" to mean is down to the board. If they want to muck about with the contracts because "it's bad business to sort contracts out during the transfer window" and then sell the player because the player wanted to leave because he was never offered a contract and felt unwanted, that again isn't the managers fault. In the boards definition of "everything we can", offering a contract during the transfer window when it'll cost "way over the odds" is not part of everything we can. Of course, the contract should have been sorted before the end of the season, but if they'd sorted it before the end of the season (or in January/February when the issue first came up), they wouldn't have the excuse that the player wouldn't sign a contract to allow them to cash in.

The manager decides what players he wants. The board decide whether or not they will allow him to have those players. If he's not allowed his first choices he's forced into second and third choices, which end up being poor.

Tusc..

I'm going to produce another tee shirt in the style of a JA606 Championsip Leeds United thread entitled

'I'm only in this hospital because I am terminally dreary...!'

There will be a big thumbs up sign on the front

There'll be a list of names on the back

I am open to offers for names, but as a list it will need to be aesthetically pleasing. There will be space at the bettom for any series of numbers in brackets!

to be fair Eric, I much prefer the Tee-shirt that has KB on the front scrathcing his beard, and the slogun 'there all morons"....

we'll make a fashion designer of yet signore

A reversible one wth 'Positive' on one side and 'Negative' on the other would be a good seller

and a glass from the LUFC shot that says:

half full on one side........ and half empty on the other