Tinmans Love Child

I’m sure that extra £30 will boost the coffers

You know it’s just for fun right? ?

I didn’t realise another team in Red came in for him before Utd! #nospoilers Enjoy!

Alex: The Man Behind The Legend https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1739855205/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_FAVHHSTZQJPYCRH6PW6C

No not a Man U fan at all, my wife got it for me for Xmas! It’s a good read, interesting stuff on pre Man Utd era as well

You can see our problems, we are light of good players in the prime 23-28 age, and have too many under 23 players

Great work!! Actually in the book Fergie said he chose Moyes to takeover as he knew he would continue this process, and has gone on record as saying Moyes was the only person he trusted to continue the long term thinking, so was gutted when Utd sacked him, after that it was all about short term thinking

Bare in mind when he first joined Utd in 87 the squad was ageing and they had next to no academy to speak of so this system would have highlighted the gaps. He put more scouts in place at Utd in his first week, and knew it was a 5 year plan really to get into a position where they could not only win the league, but keep winning it, which they obviously did with multiple squads. In the book he mentions that the likes of Jose and Kloop never took/take a long term view of the squad, and this means after the 3/4 glory years the squad is aged and it takes too long or too much £££ to replace what you’ve lost, and that’s when those managers move on.

Is it another version of cricket? ?

I’m reading the Alex Ferguson biography called ‘Alex’ at the moment, and apparently he would split his squad into 3 age categories: - under 23’s; - 23-28; and - over 28. His aim was to have 3 players for each outfield position, and those 3 would be from each age category, the under 23 to keep the older player on his toes, the player in their prime aged 23-28 to be the main man, and then the old head in the over 28 category for experience. The next important part to ensure longevity of success and keep the squad rolling forward with consistency was to ensure the contracts of players in the 3 age categories, or equally 1 position are not elapsing at the same time, I.e. you don’t want all your 23-28 players ending contracts at the same time, or you don’t want your 3 left back contracts running out at the same time for example. This relatively simple process ensures that you know exactly where you are in terms of squad experience, what gaps might be coming up, helps to identify what types of players you might need and when you might need them. If another club snaps up your under 23 left back then you know you want to bring in another under 23 left back, not one whose over 28. I don’t know what City do or if we follow anything like this process, but it would be quite a good way of measuring where our current squad sits on the ‘Alex Ferguson experience scale’. Anyone got the time to do this? ?

Really? I’ve not seen much about it to be honest, I guess the bottle throwing incidents arnt going to help

I see Chelsea had 12,000 safe standing spaces being trialled v Liverpool, great to see. Any news on how many potential standing areas we could have if trial successful? https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/59848850.amp

Surely if he was making a point then it didn’t work as we won!

The kids are alright….again

Just reading a biography of Alex Ferguson and he would bring on 2 new strikers in the 78th minute more often than not when needing a goal, apparently the stats are there to prove it, if only we had another 2 decent strikers to bring on!

That’s the spirit! I think we will win 2-1 not a problem

My mates Frome manager, he’s doing very well there after a good spell as manager of Bradford Town before that

The atmosphere is soulless because we’ve been crap at home for years so nobody is singing, nothing to do with the stadium design. Via Man Utd it wasn’t soulless was it, why do people keep pumping this untruth

And in the process take the money away from global criminal gangs who use drug money for terrorism, buying weapons, human trafficking etc etc but the government will only do something radical like this if they accept that cocaine use is rife through all walks of life, not just the junkies living in squats which is the perpetual image of drug users.

That’s what I thought was happening, this is almost a temp site (hence why not that big) as plan always to have a ‘superstore’ when the arena is built

Not ok but it’s the reality

Noel Gallagher got grief 25 odd years ago after saying taking drugs was like having a cup of tea, but he also went on to say that the sooner society accepts that people from all walks of life (including politicians) take drugs then the better we will all be. The propaganda for years in the media has been that people who take drugs are bad and evil and need to be punished etc etc etc when the reality is that anyone from any walk of life takes drugs, especially coke, but the users arnt the problem, it’s the suppliers which need to be targeted as the money made is used in even more sinister ways. Legalisation and control of drugs would be much more effective than the current prohibition which clearly doesn’t work, and would help with other problems in society. So many of my friends do or have done coke and other stuff, and they are all what you would call successful middle class people in decent jobs with families etc. To them coke isn’t perceived as any different to having a pint, in fact it’s more like having a bag of crisps with a pint. If you only think people who do coke wear stone island you are in massive denial about what’s actually going on. I will caveat this post with I don’t or haven’t done coke, it’s not for me. I did enjoy having a smoke for a long time until I gave up cigarettes, but stick to the beer these days!

I think part of the reason players are fitter and stay fitter, in general, is because they arnt getting flogged playing too many games as the science is now understood and re overt is important if you want your players performing. Back in the day players used to play on when injured as that’s what was done, and end up having to retire or finish playing much earlier due to injury (Cheesley running up and down the Dolman steps to gain fitness is an example of poor understanding). They get paid a fortune but they are also worth a fortune and cannot and should not play too many games without appropriate rest. The Xmas games are a joke really, no need for them at all apart really.

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