Other Football 2023/24

[Pidge]

A proper Robbo finish from Mitchell.

[Anubis]

Mitchell as excited as the first time he had sex.

[Joey8FrogsLegs]

1 minute ago, Pidge said:

A proper Robbo finish from Mitchell.

Ha ha, I was thinking exactly the same!

[Anubis]

And that’s that.

[No2]

How was that Arsenal goal not offside? Partey is off and he's blocking the closest Palace defender, has to be offside.

[halewood pete]

[TD_LFC]

So are they releasing Greenwood outright or are they loaning him out to recoup money for the next two years. They should be releasing him flat out and sacking him for breach of contract but it doesn't seem clear.

 

 

[Redder Lurtz]

4 minutes ago, TD_LFC said:

So are they releasing Greenwood outright or are they loaning him out to recoup money for the next two years. They should be releasing him flat out and sacking him for breach of contract but it doesn't seem clear.

 

 

 

Keeping him on full pay "whilst trying to find him a new club" according to bbc breakfast. Seems fair. 

[No2]

5 minutes ago, TD_LFC said:

So are they releasing Greenwood outright or are they loaning him out to recoup money for the next two years. They should be releasing him flat out and sacking him for breach of contract but it doesn't seem clear.

 

 

I read it as they are selling him. Heard an interesting take on Axel Tunazebe. Utd don't seem to believe they have the same duty of care to him, he's just been released after being there since he was a nipper. Injuries have killed him but that's not utd's problem. You're on your own Axel. There yet may be some scrap to be salvaged from young Mason.

[Manny]

13 hours ago, dave u said:

 

He's brutal. It's a modern day miracle that he hasn't played for Everton yet. Only a matter of time, surely.

He’s like a pebbledashed version of Maupay.

[El Rojo]

At the highest levels, it's an absolutely rotten sport. 

[TD_LFC]

1 minute ago, El Rojo said:

At the highest levels, it's an absolutely rotten sport. 

 

It's a pretty rotten sport at most levels, this is the same story that played out with Ched Evans and Chesterfield.

[halewood pete]

[Razoray]

1 hour ago, TD_LFC said:

So are they releasing Greenwood outright or are they loaning him out to recoup money for the next two years. They should be releasing him flat out and sacking him for breach of contract but it doesn't seem clear.

 

 

They are still trying to make money from him. They are trying to sell him but if a bid isn’t forthcoming he will be loaned out with a view to his name being rehabilitated somewhere else,  and then make money from a sale next summer. 

 

Basically they have said that they realise that the backlash to playing him would be too great so they'll make their investment pay in other ways. 

[manwiththestick]

2 hours ago, Razoray said:

They are still trying to make money from him. They are trying to sell him but if a bid isn’t forthcoming he will be loaned out with a view to his name being rehabilitated somewhere else,  and then make money from a sale next summer. 

 

Basically they have said that they realise that the backlash to playing him would be too great so they'll make their investment pay in other ways. 

I can't see anyone stumping up cash for him knowing that the mancs aren't going to play him and the potential backlash any club looking at taking him on would get.

 

The mancs statement is a load of shite too, trying to please everyone. Saying they believe the lad did nothing wrong and have evidence to the fact also. If that was the case why not explain this 'evidence' and if you believed there was no wrong doing then why are they getting rid.

 

Load of PR crap.

[TheHowieLama]

Greenwoods Market Value as per trnsfrmrkt

 

 

 

129 top level games - 35 golas 

[Razoray]

1 hour ago, manwiththestick said:

I can't see anyone stumping up cash for him knowing that the mancs aren't going to play him and the potential backlash any club looking at taking him on would get.

 

The mancs statement is a load of shite too, trying to please everyone. Saying they believe the lad did nothing wrong and have evidence to the fact also. If that was the case why not explain this 'evidence' and if you believed there was no wrong doing then why are they getting rid.

 

Load of PR crap.

They will save £3.75m a year in wages if he is loaned out and may even get a supplementary loan fee. 

If they think they can get away with it next summer, they'll have no problems selling him if, for example, a Turkish/Saudi club were willing to offer a fee. Otherwise, why not pay off the remainder of his contract now and let him leave as a free agent? 

[Bruce Spanner]

I think there is the legal issue of unfair dismissal which is why we're seeing this particular dance.

 

He could go at them for loss of future earnings, and we know they had him as a '100m asset' and all that that could bring.

 

He's 'innocent' remember?

[torahboy]

Rangers fans with a banner of Bill The Butcher from Gangs of New York before the game against PSV. Other than the fact that they're fucking idiots, can anyone explain why they would have this banner?

[Kepler-186]

4 minutes ago, torahboy said:

Rangers fans with a banner of Bill The Butcher from Gangs of New York before the game against PSV. Other than the fact that they're fucking idiots, can anyone explain why they would have this banner?

 

“God save us all from your Roman popery!”

 

[Bruce Spanner]

The News Agents, Maitlis and Sopel post Auntie podcast is going into the Greenwood stuff and it's pretty damning of the club as they had a long term plan for his reintegration, which was only backed away from once they got wind of how bad the backlash would be.

 

Effectively 'He's not guilty, what's the problem?'

[torahboy]

3 minutes ago, Kepler-186 said:

 

“God save us all from your Roman popery!”

 

Thanks for that. As long as its something rooted in a cinematic dramatisation of 19th century New York slum life then I suppose it's acceptable. 

[El Rojo]

Mason Mount out for the next few games with an injury. He seems to be working on a post-2003 Harry Kewell tribute act these days. 

[Bjornebye]

Classy, Bill the Butcher who enjoyed killing Catholics and organised gangs to "purify" his city in the name of protestantism and whiteness. Also "surrender or you'll die" the line that comes after "Up to our knees in Fenian blood" in their favourite song. 

 

[razor]

6 minutes ago, Bruce Spanner said:

The News Agents, Maitlis and Sopel post Auntie podcast is going into the Greenwood stuff and it's pretty damning of the club as they had a long term plan for his reintegration, which was only backed away from once they got wind of how bad the backlash would be.

 

Effectively 'He's not guilty, what's the problem?'

 

Maybe based on this quite damning article by Melissa Reddy.  An excellent skewering of the upper echelons of that football club.  In life, if you are given an opportunity to do the right thing, do the right thing.  They didn't:

 

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/12945077/revealed-how-man-utds-greenwood-decision-was-reached