It makes Cuca and Enzo look like twats for their comments on the whole affair.

3 hours ago, Sexyfootball said:

Weird statement from the club, essentially washing dirty laundry in public.

Probably would have been a much better strategy to make no comment at all and then go all in on the Alonso positive PR when he starts officially on 1st July.

3 hours ago, Sexyfootball said:

Weird statement from the club, essentially washing dirty laundry in public.

Probably would have been a much better strategy to make no comment at all and then go all in on the Alonso positive PR when he starts officially on 1st July.

Generally i would agree with you, because all i ever see from this mob is woke nonsense, PR bullsh*t, and a complete erosion of all standards. This is the first inkling from them that they possess a pair of gonads between them by calling the fcker out in public.

He adhered to the terms of his contract and reported the contact. Not a problem. The fact that he then came out with that snaky "worst 48 hours" comment on live Tv and then shortly followed that up with resigning with the intention of taking up a position where the incumbent was still gainfully employed is a pretty compelling, if somewhat circumstantial, case of breach of contract. What makes the whole scenario more sinister than just an approach by another club, is that there was no vacancy at the time the conversation was had.

I'm glad that the club have made this statement.

I have never been particularly impressed with the way that Maresca has conducted himself in public, from announcing to the world about the bomb squad and telling Ben Chilwell there was no place for him, despite then playing a formation that Chilwell could have played in. There have been numerous examples where he has said things, possibly in his mind being honest, but actually looking naive and contradictory to the world's press. It has now culminated in this, where his conduct has cost his new employer an embarrassing settlement when they already have a significant number of charges hanging over their heads and it has hit him in the pocket too.

For me, what is even more satisfying, is that everybody involved in football knows that nobody wants to be the guy after a legend. Everyone wants to be the guy after the guy. So to Moyes 2.0 or O'Farrell 2.0 i would say, enjoy Manchester for a year you tw@t, for sure.

And we actually end up with the better manager.

Great stuff.

I was happy to see the back of him and I do share the opinion of many that the football under him was largely turgid. He did weird sh*t and had plenty of bad results.

However, given there were also some good performances and wins and he had a dodgy squad and clearly didn’t have his heart in it, as much as I hope he fails at City, they are well organised as a club and have a lot of good players and loads of cash. It’s certainly not inconceivable that he does a good job there. I saw a stat earlier about us having more attacks or something than anyone else while he was in charge.

Let’s hope Alonso is as good as we seem to think he is and he gets given what players he needs to do whatever it is he’s going to do.