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I’m not sure a minority stake, with no path to overall control (as Textor states) is a very attractive proposition. You’re basically saying to someone, invest now, you will also have to invest more to improve the stadium, and then maybe you can sell for a small profit but are almost entirely...

I presume that you mean Bo Svensson (Danish). He was an outside shot two years ago. Just been named the new Union Berlin manager. He did a sensational job at Mainz taking them from near certain relegation to two top 10 finishes. He unfortunately was sacked after a bad run at the start of the...

I really like that all of the United fans thought that they'd finally got rid of the Glazers way of doing things on the football side and everything is about to change, only for the first act of Ratcliffe's reign to be to do EXACTLY what the Glazers did to Van Gaal in 2016. Funny.

I'm not sure a nothing to play for game at home is quite the same as an FA Cup Final at Wembley vs your biggest rivals...

Absolutely fascinating manager but... his incredible success at Lyon is very short term. Can we say that he would be able to replicate that at Brighton? Ligue 1 is putting forward some incredible short term performances by managers but there isn't huge amounts of evidence that it is sustainable...

Absolutely. I just want the club to take a step forward - it doesn't have to be revolutionary, but it does have to be forwards. We have moved well past Potter and his style.

Well my point is that it wasn't a mystery to Roberto who identified and solved the issue very quickly. And that it was suddenly an issue at Chelsea under Potter, implies that maybe the reasons for not being clinical were down to the coach... Chelsea underperformed their xG by 7.4 during Graham...

He wouldn't go into specifics on the night (he was superb and open as always, especially in the circumstance of the weekend he'd had) but he implied that away fans would still take up part of the south stand, but be moved round to cover one of the corners (like Arsenal/Spurs).

We went from scoring 51 goals in 43 games under Potter, to 91 in 46 under De Zerbi and you think it was just because of Mac Allister and Caicedo being great, alongside Mitoma being allowed on the pitch? It was almost exactly the same squad. The only similarity between the two managers was a...

hahaha. My emotional take? This would be just about ambitious enough to make a parting with RDZ seem sensible. He's class and it would be a good fit - also, I've tasted a bit of continental flair with RDZ, and you know what, I BLOODY LOVE IT. Don't make me go back to jacket potato. We had one...

He was "allegedly" on our list in 2022... What he's achieved since then has been impressive. He is very good, the stuff he's done at Lens is nothing short of remarkable. Taking them from a pretty unattractive Ligue 2 side to within a point of pipping PSG to the title is sensational. Finished...

PB OBE was fairly confident that they'd be able to sell the tickets at Seagulls Over London. It surprised me that it's the Olympic Stadium as that's a lot of tickets. Being run through a very large events company so it will have huge marketing in Japan and SE Asia. We're apparently one of the...

Way more depressing. We were really crap back then.

Is he trying to say that he isn't actually Mr Lion?

It's been copied by Arteta and Pep to become quite a key part of their style. I don't think it's dead at all. We just lost the three players who were best at it (Colwill, Caicedo and Mac Allister).