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So it looks like Mino Rioala will have Man U's pants down again. After the first move to Juve for free (when he was worth 10 of £m's), they paid £90m to get him back (of which Riaola received £27m from Juve apparently). Now he either moves back for free, having offered nothing like his identical twin who looks quite handy for Les Bleus, or he stays on for £500k per week and will continue to drift along, p*ssing Paul Scholes off for another few years. Tell him to b***er off and get Kalvin Phillips in.
I was thinking about this on the walk to work this morning after hearing various rumours - will we get to see the legend Murty back on the touchline if Gerrard does go?
My cousin's son plays with the under 10's & everyone absolutely loves him.
'tis done
From top of the league with guaranteed CL next year to relegation fodder and mid-table mediocrity at best... 🤷♂️ Just smarts a bit after all his talk of wanting to build a legacy and being happy and settled.
Still, he's not bigger than the club, so onwards and upwards. GvB looks like he could be a good option.
Yeah, he's obviously spoken with a few people down south though & a decent run at a mid-table premiership club might put him in a better place for the Liverpool job in the future than a few years at Rangers, even with the European football... could still be a gamble if initial results don't go his way & Villa end up in a relegation battle.
A few of my mates are hell bent on Gio - be interesting to see what transpires in the next few weeks!
I read somewhere else that the manager at St Johnstone had won more trophies that Stevie G over the same period, he must have a hell of a pr team to use that PL win to engineer this, he’s been very much a middling fish in a smaller pool.
kilo
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I read somewhere else that the manager at St Johnstone had won more trophies that Stevie G over the same period, he must have a hell of a pr team to use that PL win to engineer this, he’s been very much a middling fish in a smaller pool.
Well depends if you class 2 cups as better than a league. The St Js banter has been good though. 😆 Ultimately, my unbiased opinion of Gerrard is that he did eventually come good and done a decent job, he did put a good team together and you canny fault going unbeaten to win a title. Ultimately though he was very lucky, cause pre covid he was about 1 more loss away from the sack. Next season we just imploded.
I think he'll do alright down there. He's kinda learned his trade I guess, still a bit of a question mark there though. Guess it's all really a question of if he has learned his trade or not really. Not sure he'll he 2/3 years to put a team together down there. But converse to that is rangers did need a good few years to build something so I dunno if many would have done it quicker.
I think in his quest for the Liverpool job though, it's probably a good job for him, if he can get them up the table and challenging for europe, mibbe even on the edge of the top 6, it'll be better for his CV than staying at rangers. His stock had got as high as it ever was going to up here. I don't think winning another league and getting scudded about in the CL would have done him any favours down south rep wise.
Aye, a lot of people have been saying how we're looking at CL next season but in reality that's just £££, unless we got a highly favourable draw it would most likely be a horsing most games - Slavia ultimately made us look pretty ordinary after a string of great Europa League performances last season. The racist ****s.
Who're you hoping for next rangers manager? I think you'll get someone in quickly, doubt you'll want to delay if possible.
Seems to be a toss up between McInnes if youse are being sensible, financially, and one of the former Dutch contingent if Park has still got his hands in the pension pots? 😆
A few mates who know far more about football than me reckon GvB would be a good shout & so i'd be inclined to agree with them, maybe Rino Gattusso as a wildcard but I think we need some stability & no risky stuff - the league this year & CL £ is a must. Crazy outside bet - Barry Fergusson & Bob Malcolm double act to keep the loyalists happy with Coisty & Gazza randomly turning up to at training to show the team how to hit free kicks at each others bare arses for £100 notes.
hahaha 😆
It was always a stepping stone for Gerrard, he's not really grown up around it or have any ties, and scottish football is just a bland affair these days, even in Europe it's just trying to compete with similar second or third tier teams.
Villa are a decent enough team, with a good squad and aiming for mid-table, they spent a lot of money in the summer with the funds from Grealish and have a good pot of money left for the manager to spend.
argee
scottish football is just a bland affair these days,
Speak for yerself, Scottish fitba is class!
Murty, lol, behave!
The disappointing thing about him leaving is Beale et al going too, he's got a great team around him, openly admits Beale is the main man himself.
Barry n Boab Malcolm, eh, naw.
I haven't a clue tbh, GVB mibbe, don't know much about his coaching methods etc, I'd like to see Kevin Thomson at least as an assistant.
Gerrard would have been looking to leave Rangers at the end of next season anyway IMO and I guess this was too good of an opportunity to pass. It seems like his Liverpool links worked well at Rangers with loans and transfers but I can't imagine that will be the case at Villa and will he get backed in the transfer market.
It's a no brainer for him tbh, managers have to move while their stock is high, it's all in the timing. Villa are a potentially big club with cash, and he's been away from his wife n kids for 3 years now. I'd imagine their in Cheshire somewhere, so much closer to home.
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Nobeerinthefridge
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I’d like to see Kevin Thomson at least as an assistant.
why him seems a bit random?
He was in charge of the U18s, runs his own youth academy too, everyone has nothing but praise for him, and he's doing not too bad in his first proper job.
He does some commentary too, and I just really like the ethos he has on football, quite refreshing.
Normally I'd avoid the whole ex player merry-go-round tbf.
seosamh77
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argee
scottish football is just a bland affair these days,Speak for yerself, Scottish fitba is class!
I can barely watch it any more, when i had my season tickets it started with the likes of Di Canio, Van Hooijdonk, Cadete, etc, then we had the glory period with Larsson, Sutton, Petrov, Lamberts, etc, etc, i look at it now and it's a sad state, look at Celtic last year, i still can't believe we lost Rodgers to a top EPL side, and replaced him with bloody Lennon, a manager who had been sacked by Hibs, that's where we and rangers are now, scrambling around the B&M of football hoping to pick up a bargain we can sell on for profit
Nobeerinthefridge
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He was in charge of the U18s, runs his own youth academy too, everyone has nothing but praise for him, and he’s doing not too bad in his first proper job.He does some commentary too, and I just really like the ethos he has on football, quite refreshing.
Normally I’d avoid the whole ex player merry-go-round tbf.
fair enough, just no a name I was expecting to hear!
argee
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seosamh77
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argee
scottish football is just a bland affair these days,Speak for yerself, Scottish fitba is class!
I can barely watch it any more, when i had my season tickets it started with the likes of Di Canio, Van Hooijdonk, Cadete, etc, then we had the glory period with Larsson, Sutton, Petrov, Lamberts, etc, etc, i look at it now and it’s a sad state, look at Celtic last year, i still can’t believe we lost Rodgers to a top EPL side, and replaced him with bloody Lennon, a manager who had been sacked by Hibs, that’s where we and rangers are now, scrambling around the B&M of football hoping to pick up a bargain we can sell on for profit
Ah, i see, yer living in the past. 😆 Come back in, Ange is doing a fine job, fitba is good again. Long way to go still, but we're building again.
ps As for Lennon, we made the mistake of seeing him as more than a caretaker manager, shit happens. He did well continuing on from rodgers, but that's where we should have left it, hindsight though eh... But we've had it no bad in general i'd suggest over the last 20 odd years... (edit it I actually find in amusing/perplexing listening to some celtic fans at the minute, you'd think we hadn't won at trophy for 10 years. 😆 )
can barely watch it any more, when i had my season tickets it started with the likes of Di Canio, Van Hooijdonk, Cadete, etc, then we had the glory period with Larsson, Sutton, Petrov, Lamberts, etc, etc, i look at it now and it’s a sad state, look at Celtic last year, i still can’t believe we lost Rodgers to a top EPL side, and replaced him with bloody Lennon, a manager who had been sacked by Hibs, that’s where we and rangers are now, scrambling around the B&M of football hoping to pick up a bargain we can sell on for profit
I actually think both teams play far better football now than they did in the days of buying 'names', Hearts, Hibs and Dundee Utd are also playing some good stuff this season.
I wouldn't open my blinds to watch English football, rather watch the juniors.
When i saw a Celtic player having to climb over the boardings and over the fence to get the ball for a throw in i thought wow, scottish football is the real deal these days!
I think the EPL womens league has a higher level now than the SPFL ;o)
So England should've pumped us at the Euros....
Recent highlights of the Scottish game:
Also recent highlights of bbc's football coverage tbh...
🤣🤣🤣
He won one trophy in a pub league and Celtic gift wrapped that one for him. I'd be pretty underwhelmed if I was a Villa fan.
He won one trophy in a pub league and Celtic gift wrapped that one for him. I’d be pretty underwhelmed if I was a Villa fan.
That's one way to look at it.
England v Albania, I've no idea how a game like this is entertaining. For once it would be nice if England had a mediocre group rather than a poor one.
Lol @ keano giving Maguire pelters for his celebration!
will Albania continue with the suicide press ?
That’s one way to look at it.
Doesn't matter how many ways you look at it, it's still one less win than Callum Davidson managed.
crazy games today!
now slab head is dismissed!
Being a ManU fan just now must be a dream!
4-1 - that'll be a P45 winging its way to OGS later today
But he has brought the united culture back to the club!
ooof! that gotta hurt
now slab head is dismissed
His family back in Easter Island will be ashamed.
Being a ManU fan just now must be a dream!
Oh, I don’t know. Its started to become weirdly compelling seeing just how bad we can get. Shipping 4 to Watford is a new low, but I suspect there could potentially be worse to come. We’ve got Chelski next week
We look a like a pub side. A really really bad pub side who’ve all been out on the lash on the run up to kick off
Slabhead excelled himself again. I suppose if you score against San Marino, you’re Billy Big Bollocks all of a sudden
However, if I did need cheering up, watching Arsenal trying to play it out from the back usually provides some comedy gold, and they’ve just obliged
Talksport just advised of an emergency board meeting tonight to pay Ole off and get Zidane in.
That would be the logical thing to do, so you can absolutely guarantee that the bunch of parasitic clowns who run the club definitely won’t do that
They’ll probably appoint Ronnie as player manager or something equally mental