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Bear said:
100s of millions 😳😂 Well Brendan didn't want it, Emery doesn't and others

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Long post alert blah bler bleh! ;) This is what will destroy them when it doesn't happen. Just how many of them live in the cheat mode of Football Manager thinking they can just buy success like Man City? They can't just hoy £100's of millions at it and it will take a few years of sustained success to even spend decent money sensibly. Even Leicester after winning the league and tasting Champions League aren't a financial powerhouse regarding revenue and they're not even that far ahead of the Mags even now.

Are potential managers being told the owners plans and spend they will be given over the period of the contract on offer and thinking fuck that? There's the northern tax to hoy into trying to get players up here and a manager will also know that will make his job harder. This is on top of all the baggage attached to the job due to the owners, the expectations of the fans (due to the 'entataynaz' delusion) and the world media focused on them.

They may well tempt a manager in with a huge salary but he won't be spending £100's millions. This isn't the 90's when money was no object and players fees went up and they were offered numerous times the money they were on. They had to tempt them with huge increases in wages and the broke the transfer record bring Shearer up here on the highest wage of £35,000 a week when Bergkamp was on £19,000 the season before! Shearer's wage is nearly the equivalent of £500,000 a week now. Ravinelli going from £7,000 a week at Juventus to £42,000 a week at Boro for an extreme example of how daft it was in the 90's.

Also decent players are already multi millionaires so a few extra grand a week on top of £100,000 a week isn't exactly gonna persuade them. Jesse Lingard is coming to the end of his £15m contract (ignoring bonus/sponsorships also) so offering his the same as West Ham won't get him up north. Paying the extra northern tax will eat even more into the revenue. As I said, come January, they will be linked with loads but they'll be disappointed. There's grumbling now within the toon army and in time they will revolt when they just end up still being a mid to lower league team with a few overpaid big team cast offs.

This is probably as close as Emery will get to being at St James Park :lol: I know it's a canny bit shit at the moment for us but at least we have our own 'entataynazs' to give us a little smile.

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Why would he want to move himself and his family to Covid Island? Why would any of these forrin managers want to?….apart from money.
 
I still think it'll be Emery.
IF the only stumbling block was his wages then he's obviously got no moral objections. You have to imagine they could sort the wages out.
 
Are the Arabs really that good at running football clubs? Everyone keeps going on about Man City and PSG but if I'm not mistaken Malaga were owned by Saudi Arabians. Portsmouth too. Sheffield United had some success but are back in the Championship. Didn't some Arab prince buy Charlton?
 
The longer Staveley remains the figurehead the better...suckered the mags into marching on parliament and writing to MP's to help force the takeover through despite their backtracking.

Getting the run around on the manager chase and then the fans won't know which way to turn once they appoint their 4th choice manager and then Benitez gets the sack from Everton 2 weeks later.
 
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