5 hours ago, Frankie8Lampard said:

Gary Neville's talk about ownership in this video shows is just an example of the hypocrisy when it comes to owners. He talks about City and Newcastle's owners and says that he would rather be at the table with them than prevent them from owning teams in the league and then after that he says he is concerned by the increasing number of American owners in the league because they will the disrupt "tradition". The fact that he is more worried about American owners because of 'tradition' versus owners that have taken part in human right violations is shocking. It's no surprise that all these people turned against Roman when the slightest of opportunities arrived.

He likes to pick and choose when accountability is a good thing.

Like he's (rightly) trying to help oust the Tories for the mess they've made but his mate Ole running United into the ground was perfectly fine.

1 hour ago, PhilH930 said:

Todd and teams plans slowly coming together. Quite a bit of anti-American sentiment on posts here these days, but if you look where our club was six months ago and now I’m not sure we could have asked for much more. 
Fully onboard the Potter bandwagon, and new technical director incoming. Massive off field restructuring underway and definitely building a team for now but more importantly the future. Maybe we’ll get some new stadium plans soon also - exciting times ahead. What remains for me is can we more consistently challenge top four, and is there a path to challenge for title in coming years - quite the ask with City and Haaland!

Keep up the good work Todd and team!

Honestly. There's been of greeness and at times cringe but i like the idea of what he seemingly (going by words, sources and his work at his other projects) wants to do.

This will probably be blasphemous to many but I feel this regime will be an upgrade on the Roman regime of the last decade (obviously 00s Roman is untouchable).

The fact Boehly and Eghbali were so heavily involved this summer and played director of football as a stop gap, they now know what to expect from this role and what to look for in order for it to be effecient. 

21 minutes ago, Argo said:

This will probably be blasphemous to many but I feel this regime will be an upgrade on the Roman regime of the last decade (obviously 00s Roman is untouchable).

Sacré bleu !

By upgrade i hope you mean more silverware ? If so that's going to be some task.

Roman 2011-2022 >

Two Champions Legue.

Two Europa League.

Two league titles. 

Two FA cup.

One League cup.

One Uefa Supercup

One Fifa Club World Cup.

1 hour ago, coco said:

Sacré bleu !

By upgrade i hope you mean more silverware ? If so that's going to be some task.

Roman 2011-2022 >

Two Champions Legue.

Two Europa League.

Two league titles. 

Two FA cup.

One League cup.

One Uefa Supercup

One Fifa Club World Cup.

Big claim yes but I'm not afraid of them.

While I don't think things got anywhere near as average/bad as some claimed and ofcourse as you've pointed out we never lost the winning mentality even when we were poor I do think we got a bit slack with recruitment and contract management.

I feel with that absolute freak manager incharge of City we need a different approach if we hope to challenge them over 38 games. 

2 hours ago, coco said:

Sacré bleu !

By upgrade i hope you mean more silverware ? If so that's going to be some task.

Roman 2011-2022 >

Two Champions League.

Two Europa League.

Two league titles. 

Two FA cup.

One League cup.

One Uefa Supercup

One Fifa Club World Cup.

Unpopular opinion I'm sure, but I think, considering the huge financial advantage we had in the early Roman years, that we won the bare minimum of what we OUGHT to have won during his tenure. Man United fans I know really thought we'd win 10 straight League titles after Mourinho won the first two. I think the lack of structure, planning, strategy, transfer acumen (whatever you want to call it) behind the scenes was actually what has held us back. In the last 12 seasons, and with a similar financial outlay, City won 6 of the PL titles to our 2 ... and the PL title will always be the definitive measure of dominance, no matter how delightful our 2 Champions Leagues wins vs their none (to date) are ... 

33 minutes ago, Sexyfootball said:

Unpopular opinion I'm sure, but I think, considering the huge financial advantage we had in the early Roman years, that we won the bare minimum of what we OUGHT to have won during his tenure. Man United fans I know really thought we'd win 10 straight League titles after Mourinho won the first two. I think the lack of structure, planning, strategy, transfer acumen (whatever you want to call it) behind the scenes was actually what has held us back. In the last 12 seasons, and with a similar financial outlay, City won 6 of the PL titles to our 2 ... and the PL title will always be the definitive measure of dominance, no matter how delightful our 2 Champions Leagues wins vs their none (to date) are ... 

still think Pep has been the difference maker. Any other manager won’t have had the same level of consistency with his team in the PL, though another manager might have snuck a CL win.

4 minutes ago, ducavis said:

still think Pep has been the difference maker. Any other manager won’t have had the same level of consistency with his team in the PL, though another manager might have snuck a CL win.

In terms of someone else being there instead of Pep now for sure but in terms of post Pep I sadly think City's level won't wane for a while after.

The intensity and aura of invincibility he gave Barca took years of erode and even that was because of how poor they are run while Bayern are still relentless 6 years on, people will point to their stranglehold on the Bundi but they never went past 3 in a row pre Pep and even that only happened twice. 

10 minutes ago, ducavis said:

still think Pep has been the difference maker. Any other manager won’t have had the same level of consistency with his team in the PL, though another manager might have snuck a CL win.

It’s Txiki for me. 

On 09/10/2022 at 21:42, Frankie8Lampard said:

I've honestly lost count but I think this guy is going to be the technical director and they will still be looking for a sporting director.

Ah yes, my bad.

But still all in all two openings to shoe in a Shed End stallwart 

On 10/10/2022 at 11:22, Sexyfootball said:

Unpopular opinion I'm sure, but I think, considering the huge financial advantage we had in the early Roman years, that we won the bare minimum of what we OUGHT to have won during his tenure. Man United fans I know really thought we'd win 10 straight League titles after Mourinho won the first two. I think the lack of structure, planning, strategy, transfer acumen (whatever you want to call it) behind the scenes was actually what has held us back. In the last 12 seasons, and with a similar financial outlay, City won 6 of the PL titles to our 2 ... and the PL title will always be the definitive measure of dominance, no matter how delightful our 2 Champions Leagues wins vs their none (to date) are ... 

Another difference is that the money is now everywhere. We have newly promoted side in Nottingham forest who have spent £150m this summer....

People acting as if a completely structure change isn't needed, confuses me. There's no way we can continue to operate the way we have been. 

This one is not inspiring given he has just maintained Norwich as a yo yo club, signed no real outstanding players who went on to better things, and has been accused by Norwich fans of lacking commitment:

"

Norwich sporting director Webber being considered by Chelsea

Norwich sporting director Stuart Webber has emerged as a contender to join Chelsea in the same role.

The 38-year-old has been targeted by the Blues as part of their restructure following Todd Boehly's takeover.

Webber has been at Carrow Road since 2017 and helped them to two Sky Bet Championship titles but their two Premier League campaigns have ended in abject failure.

He has been criticised amid a fractious relationship with the fans who questioned his commitment to the Canaries after he revealed earlier this year he had started training to climb Mount Everest.

Webber helped improve the Canaries' training facilities and the club earned new investment last month when Mark Attanasio, the owner of the Milwaukee Brewers, joined the board.

Webber would come in to work under Christopher Vivell, who is expected to join Chelsea as technical director.

Vivell has been Chelsea's top target to replace Petr Cech, who left his technical director role in the summer.

The London club are understood to have held talks for some time with Vivell, who was sacked from the same role at RB Leipzig last week.

Chelsea's new owners Boehly and Behdad Eghbali are thought to want to build a multi-club model at Stamford Bridge."

From Skysports

2 hours ago, axman2526 said:

This one is not inspiring given he has just maintained Norwich as a yo yo club, signed no real outstanding players who went on to better things, and has been accused by Norwich fans of lacking commitment:

"

Norwich sporting director Webber being considered by Chelsea

Norwich sporting director Stuart Webber has emerged as a contender to join Chelsea in the same role.

The 38-year-old has been targeted by the Blues as part of their restructure following Todd Boehly's takeover.

Webber has been at Carrow Road since 2017 and helped them to two Sky Bet Championship titles but their two Premier League campaigns have ended in abject failure.

He has been criticised amid a fractious relationship with the fans who questioned his commitment to the Canaries after he revealed earlier this year he had started training to climb Mount Everest.

Webber helped improve the Canaries' training facilities and the club earned new investment last month when Mark Attanasio, the owner of the Milwaukee Brewers, joined the board.

Webber would come in to work under Christopher Vivell, who is expected to join Chelsea as technical director.

Vivell has been Chelsea's top target to replace Petr Cech, who left his technical director role in the summer.

The London club are understood to have held talks for some time with Vivell, who was sacked from the same role at RB Leipzig last week.

Chelsea's new owners Boehly and Behdad Eghbali are thought to want to build a multi-club model at Stamford Bridge."

From Skysports

This is a joke surely?

1 hour ago, Kev56 said:

This is a joke surely?

Knowing our luck , we'll recruit him then he'll finish his training for Everest and get buried in an avalanche .

A few sources name dropping us around Mbappe. Personally as much as I love him as an athlete and the possibility he gives us to keep up with Haaland and City I'm not interested. 100% the opposite direction to which we're moving, we finally have a settled squad a new manager finding his feet, last thing we want is next summer to sign a egocentric player that wants control over how we play. 

Phenomenal footballer but if Todd has any sense he will wait to get a proper DOF before commiting any large outlays on individual players especially ones who define the football project itself.

53 minutes ago, LongtimerLurker said:

A few sources name dropping us around Mbappe. Personally as much as I love him as an athlete and the possibility he gives us to keep up with Haaland and City I'm not interested. 100% the opposite direction to which we're moving, we finally have a settled squad a new manager finding his feet, last thing we want is next summer to sign a egocentric player that wants control over how we play. 

Phenomenal footballer but if Todd has any sense he will wait to get a proper DOF before commiting any large outlays on individual players especially ones who define the football project itself.

I don't want him here, too much drama will come our way. He will want all the attention on him and distract from our goals.

Hmm apparently we are about to pinch someone from Saints, who only just joined them from Man City, as our "director of recruitment"...so sporting director?

 

Just hire all of them, and sack them after 6 months if we still sign crap players.

Oh no, no Todd posts for a long time 😕are we f**ked again ?

Has Todd f**ked off?

8 minutes ago, Kev56 said:

Has Todd f**ked off?

Anyone ❓

1 minute ago, Kev56 said:

Anyone ❓

Rumour has it @CaitlinCFChas been gaining his trust and now has his ear. She has not confirmed nor denied this herself however I submit the near naked Matteo Kovacic as my proof this rumour is true!

It brightened up a bad finish to the game.

5 minutes ago, CaitlinCFC said:

It brightened up a bad finish to the game.

For some maybe 🤐

Brightons Paul Winstanley is set to join asnour head of recruitment, forming a committee along with Joe Shields from Southampton and Laurence Stewart from Monaco. 

Also been said Todd will stay on as sporting director for January as we wait for the right person for the role, possibly former Liverpool chief Edwards.