Good morning.
Boy this week has dragged on – like of those interminable B movies, one of those westerns that still occasionally turn up in the schedules starring nobody you’ve ever heard of bar Ronald Reagan when he was fourteen.
Lots of dialogue gets exchanged. Lots. The plot line is pretty straightforward. Everything starts of calmly. Then there’s an incident. This is triggers a shake up and the cast harrumph backwards and forwards, mostly on horse back (this is usually accompanied by very urgent music) until they confront evil and vanquish it a bit.
I think I’ve actually reached a state of transcendental inertia. I’m not even harrumphed out. There’s been nothing to insanely purse in days. Barring something seismic occurring the world and his wife are now saying that Villas Boas is a done deal, Sigurdsson not far behind him and Vertonghen plugging away in third place.
However, seismic may just be the word.
Maybe it’s just been a sinister ITK time killing device but the talk of the club being sold has resurfaced with gusto. Perhaps all my ranting and raving about how much money failing to reach the Champions League was accurate after all.
Those whining on and on about patience last season don’t live in the real world. Time isn’t your friend in a results driven business and it would make perfect sense for the owners to take matters into their own hands and do something dramatic.
Gaining CL, established manager entering a new contract after the most successful stint in recent times, best players signed up and commited to the club. These ar ethe things that puts a high price on a club being sold. They’re also the things we had but suddenly dont have but stand a chance of having again soon.
I can’t help but think there are financially better times to sell a football club if you arent struggling to put food on the table.
Or in shorthand, if they were selling the club they would’nt have sacked Rednapp
I totally agree with you. Last year was a milestone in our history. And because of one point we’re on the wrong end of it. That was the result that could mean everything we had wanted including players would push on to a higher state. It’s something that Levy had worked tirelessly towards.
Something dramatic had to be done and Harry buggering off is the start of it. But with something dramatic you may make up the loss, but your risks to go backwards usually go triple. Time to pray to the Laughing Buddha. He’s the best mascot this club could have.
Not Jol, if so, what was it McEnroe used to say?
He once said:
I’d like to think I could have and should have won more, but that’s not the point. And I was at the point where I was playing great tennis in the mid 80s – the type of tennis people hadn’t seen before – and I was very proud of that.
Sounds familiar? :P
As others have already mentioned, this is a pivotal decision in the history of THFC. Managers who know their time is limited take a short-term approach to management. Bring in seasoned pros and fail to develop youth. Harry did this and it’s hard not to blame him. Didier Deschamps here in Marseille did the same thing. Now that Marseille have no money he wants out because results are going to suffer and the youth have not been developed.
If we are going to take a long-term approach to management and appoint somebody like AVB, we are going to have to stick with him even if results are a little rocky to begin with.
For a change I would like to start with a trot then finish like an express train. That way we wouldn’t get the total collapse that we witnessed this year. AVB for me.
we witnessed the same thing the year before which i why i maintain harry cost us two years in the cl. levy wants that and works tirelssly toward it, harry shrugsm, says this lot have never had it so good, a buggers off for a drink with his favourite journos. i know who i want in charge
Crazy, blind optimism.
Don’t want to dampen your mood here, but what if, just what, AVB doesn’t get off to the flyer you somehow expect? What if he has a pretty shonky start, a muddling middle and a faltering finish? Will he still be your man? Or is such a wild and far-out notion beyond your scope of hypothesis?
I’m still clinging to the hope Moyes will be produced out of a top hat to the cry of ‘Tah Dahhh!”
Here’s a crazy thought, what if Villas-Boas DOES get off to a flyer?
@UnkleKev
Yeah, it is a crazy thought, I agree.
However, I am quite willing to consider this scenario and hypothesize that I will be both surprised and delighted. But also still wary that it is the honeymoon period most new managers get.
UnkleKev Reply:
June 27th, 2012 at 12:53 pm
Here’s a crazy thought, what if Villas-Boas DOES get off to a flyer?
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Like he did at Chelsea P6 W6 L0 D0….that turned out well!
Aw, fuck it — you’ve convinced me.
AVB OUT!
it would be nice to just hear a definate ‘yes’ or ‘no’ coming from whl on any of the rumours being touted about. getting pretty naffed off with it all now.
Give enough monkeys typewriters and sooner or later one of them will come up with Macbeth!
Or just give one monkey a really, really long time. That will do as well.
By that logic, we should have been more patient with ‘Arry. He would have won the league eventually.
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