ENIC pout

[The Fighting Cock]

You also get those 'treasured moments' with winning things. Memories. The history books record the score and it’s there in black and white to brag about later on. But is that what you desire? To make numbers out of those moments?

Read article

 

[SchmoodSpur]

John Thomas has an ENIC pout

Spoiler

:dierpochhug:

 

[ArcspacE]

I think they've taken us as far as they're willing to invest. Our transfer dealings last few years prove that further - even with record profits we're still looking to bring in cheap punts and nothing players instead of finally solidifying our position in the PL elite. If you think club success if about record profits and the occasional good game vs top teams - so be it but many fans disagree

Last straw for me was the furlough embarrassment - shameless, disgraceful and proof the club and fans will never be ahead of corporate greed and the balance sheet

 

[ArcspacE]

Further to above - selling now would ensure amicable parting for them and fans (over an above and astronomical ROI) - leaving behind a great legacy in the form of a 6-star stadium while allowing someone more ambitious trophy-wise to come in and finally take us from a just-about nice team who play good football to a ruthless winning machine made of first-class player. And that is not just down to the manger because we've been through them 'all'.

 

[pipes]

Fucking magic. Another ENIC thread.

 

[78Spur]

Another great piece by Spooky - truth be told he's not advocating 'ENIC Out', in my reading of the piece, he's saying that the people talking them down don't see the context of ENIC's involvement in the club:

Then there’s the current badge of honour for the ENIC OUT brigade, comparing the past 20 years under Levy to the 20 years before. Without including any context at all. I’ve written about this before. Does it need repeating? How can you possibly compare different eras of football? How can you pretend Irving Scholar didn’t happen? The club on the brink of administration? The Sugar/Venables debacle? The hardship of playing catch-up to the ‘Top Four’? To suggest another chairman would have guided us to this point is also highly debatable. Okay, we might have won more League Cups and had days out, but come on. We gonna dance to this tune every time the football gets a little bland and the common cold comes at us tooled up with bat juice.

 

[SpiderSpurs]

Further to above - selling now would ensure amicable parting for them and fans (over an above and astronomical ROI) - leaving behind a great legacy in the form of a 6-star stadium while allowing someone more ambitious trophy-wise to come in and finally take us from a just-about nice team who play good football to a ruthless winning machine made of first-class player. And that is not just down to the manger because we've been through them 'all'.

Nine of our squad were in the semi finals of the last world cup. Isn't that 'first class' enough?

 

[Airfixx]

Andros Pout:

:townhmm:

...Any good?

 

[Doom Funk]

Nine of our squad were in the semi finals of the last world cup. Isn't that 'first class' enough?

Do we get a trophy for that then ?

It’s also a squad that sat in 8th place after 30 odd games this season

Doesn’t scream first class to me

 

[SpiderSpurs]

Do we get a trophy for that then ?

It’s also a squad that sat in 8th place after 30 odd games this season

Doesn’t scream first class to me

Fault of the manager, no?

 

[Doom Funk]

Fault of the manager, no?

In part I would say so but your being disingenuous if you are going to claim that we have a “first class squad”

That’s just not true

 

[SpiderSpurs]

In part I would say so but your being disingenuous if you are going to claim that we have a “first class squad”

That’s just not true

So... you're not first class if you get to a world cup semi final?

 

[Doom Funk]

So... you're not first class if you get to a world cup semi final?

Is Jesse Lingard first class ? Or Phil Jones perhaps ?

Would you be happy if we sign both of them this summer as they were part of the same squad that got to a World Cup semi final ?

 

[SpiderSpurs]

Is Jesse Lingard first class ? Or Phil Jones perhaps ?

Would you be happy if we sign both of them this summer as they were part of the same squad that got to a World Cup semi final ?

Now we have a manager that might make the best of their talents then maybe.

 

[Doom Funk]

Now we have a manager that might make the best of their talents then maybe.

You can’t be serious mate

 

[SpiderSpurs]

You can’t be serious

Notice the word 'maybe'.

 

[Doom Funk]

Notice the word 'maybe'.

That implies that you believe there is a chance they would be good signings for us when they clearly wouldn’t

If you do believe that then fair enough but I suspect you don’t

 

[SpiderSpurs]

That implies that you believe there is a chance they would be good signings for us when they clearly wouldn’t

If you do believe that then fair enough but I suspect you don’t

You've implied that you think Mourinho is a shit manager?

 

[Don Giovanni]

Is Jesse Lingard first class ? Or Phil Jones perhaps ?

Would you be happy if we sign both of them this summer as they were part of the same squad that got to a World Cup semi final ?

Lovren, Fellaini, Giroud, bunch of other world class players who played in a WC SF.

 

[Doom Funk]

You've implied that you think Mourinho is a shit manager?

Because I don’t think he could turn lingard and phill Jones into top players

Haha ok mate