bluebruce

I just remembered how JDT used to attend almost all the U21 games to keep an eye on them all. Anybody know if Val attends any games?

Although his managerial stints suggest he doesn't have overall football intelligence! He certainly had it on the pitch though pretty much from the off. I remember they did a documentary episode about it on tv, and when they analysed what he could do and how fast his brain could process it, he was operating at a genius level in this regard. Then he'd open his mouth and it was like listening to a barely sentient scouse potato. One player who impresses me more and more in this regard as I keep seeing clips is Messi. Must be one of the most intelligent, fast-thinking footballers of all time easily. Always seems to know what a defender is going to do so he can jink away from them, usually without any fancy tricks just perfectly timed change of speed and direction (his insane agility etc helps of course). But his reading of the overall game...yesterday I saw a clip of him playing for Miami, and I don't care what level the league is - a pass was played into him with his back to goal, and without looking he flicked it on, needle-like pass through two defenders, perfectly onto the run of Suarez, whose direction of travel had changed, to slot in past the keeper. I've no idea how he processed where Suarez was going to be with the information he had, it was pure genius.

I can't even express how much I hate this, and how unnecessary it is. Total load of old bollocks.

I did answer the question, and simply enough for the vast majority of people to understand. And I've explained why at length. Even though the question was pointless in the first place. I'm sorry you didn't grasp it, but we're clearly done here.

If you can't read between the lines or interpret something beyond a mundane yes or no, then I can't help you. It was a clear yes. In fact it was a question that didn't even need asking. Obviously I want the person in charge of player recruitment at the club I love to recruit some good players. It would be weird if anyone didn't, and I'd suggest your paranoid implied assertion that some people do says more about you than other posters. I also do think you were trying to be smart despite your claim you weren't. 'Are you a politician' is obvious snark, and claiming you weren't being funny in saying that is actually, ironically, the kind of tactic a politician would employ in trying to weasel out of a misstep.

I told you I always want the best for the club. I answered you. It shouldn't need outwardly stating but if that means Gestede doing a good job with recruitment then hopefully he does a good job. If he does, he'll get no criticism from me for it. Theoretically I'd like every employee of the club to succeed. My only caveat would be sometimes it can be papering over the cracks and dragging out our purgatory with Venkys, but it's hard to know what if anything could get rid of them anyway. Gestede's appointment gained rightful criticism because he was completely unqualified for the job, especially at a club of this calibre. He also dropped us like a bad habit when he was a player, so that won't have helped, despite the club's bizarre attempts to paint him as some club legend. It's up to him to make all of that irrelevant by doing great work. The jury is still very much out on that for now, especially since the contract situation has deteriorated again since the Broughton days were swapped for the Gestede era.

If they can offer 'life changing' money to Travis, they can offer us a fair price for our captain. Or they can fuck off.

No. Are you a windup?

But also one result within that changes the extrapolation. If we had held our lead against Birmingham as we should have been able to, it's about 55 points. Football is a game of too small margins and that's too small a sample. Need to pop some points on the board soon though.

I always want whatever is best for the club.

Haven't we technically sold less players than we've bought?

For quite some time it has been: Waggott out, Pasha out, Gestede out, Venkys out. It isn't a case of just wanting one gone, or posters blowing with the wind. It would matter who replaced Gestede, but whilst Venkys are in charge it will invariably be someone corrupt, incompetent, or both.

He made a terrible point for the reasons I outlined on the page before this. Official club communication from a publicly known figure is extremely different to releasing titbits through an anonymous account. The second comes across very shifty, partly as the club can deny anything from that account if it backfires.

I've always understood it that he works for an agency. In what capacity and what agency, I've never been clear.

There's a big big difference between official communication from the club chairman (we don't even have one of those btw) and unofficial communication from an anonymous employee of dubious intent. I would have thought that obvious tbh.

Yeh it's relevant for small clubs whose products go on to sell for multimillions after moving to a higher league. But 75k or whatever, even to us, is barely worth mentioning, and even less so to Liverpool.

First I've heard of it not going to former clubs. Certainly in FM20 it was hardwired into the game as a payment to former clubs. They're not generally wrong with that sort of thing, so unless the rules changed since the 19/20 season... (and if they did that's a hunk of crap IMO, players get enough compo as it is, clubs are the ones bleeding money, partly because of shit regulations that let big clubs poach their youngsters).

Solidarity payments always happen, it's not the same as compensation. We will see a similar benefit from moves Adam Wharton makes. And it's separate to sell on clauses, so we will get the bulk of the 5% if he moves fairly soon. It's also not down to moving within the same country like compensation is, so any future moves Dolan makes for money, ourselves and Preston will see a small slice. I'm not sure how long these rules have been in place but it's at least a few years.

The severity of a foul is not supposed to affect the advantage rule, unless there's a head injury.

He committed enough of a foul, the ref gestured play on. Which means he thought it was a foul but was playing advantage.

Wash your mouth out with soap.

Tbf having another look at the replay, I think there was contact from behind on his legs. But no more than we failed to get given when it happened to Ohashi or even Cantwell in the previous two games.

Tavares didn't give the pen. It was Miller (though really it was just the ref).

Fucking unbelievable.

That had a whiff of handball too.