lets be honest..chelsea are streets ahead of us

[Roboklopp]

Parry has been at the club for some time now and this wasn't going on when Houiller was in charge.

Rafa must have been given a budget for targets by G&H, so someone must be accountable.

Why go public on the Barry transfer so early?

Why does no one want to pay more than 15mill for xabi?
(because he had a **** end of season and wasn't worth it)

Why would it be Parry's fault?

Wasnt that MONg?

[Johnny]

It was Mon who went public with it, before hand it was just paper talk.

Wasnt that MONg?

Answered in stereo.

[El Jefecito]

That's pretty much the same in the public sector. Spend your budget or lose it. However, I don't think it's true in the football world to be honest. It doesn't appear the way football operates

Public sector is different, and I know, because I did a number of consulting assignments with government agencies in the US. There the goal is justifying the operational budget. You spend to ensure that you get the same or a better budget next year.

In the private sector it is different, at least where I have worked. In my current job I am expected to return at least 25% on my capital budget.

Last year I had about 25 projects in my portfolio, some returning up to 200%. I had to do a project to stop us losing customers that cost me 75% of my budget, so only had 25% left to spend. While I had plenty of projects that would return better, I had to choose the project that only returned 30% because that was all I could afford. The company wanted the 30% return now, rather than the x% that could be returned next year. The thinking of course is, who knows what the climate will be like next year, so rake in your returns while you can.

BTW Sorry footie fans, Sarb and I get like this from time to time. You'll just have to consider it the cost of having such fine posters as ourselves among you

[Johnny]

71 members active and four of us discussing football.C`mon lurkers,we don`t bite.

[Sarb]

Parry has been at the club for some time now and this wasn't going on when Houiller was in charge.

Rafa must have been given a budget for targets by G&H, so someone must be accountable.

Why go public on the Barry transfer so early?

Why does no one want to pay more than 15mill for xabi?
(because he had a **** end of season and wasn't worth it)

Why would it be Parry's fault?

The transfer was a farce beginning to end. MON got pissed off with Rafa (maybe Rafa didn't start it off...maybe he did). Quite a few people said after that, that we'd be held to ransom on the deal and that's what has happened.

All of the blame can't be laid at the door of Parry and The Yanks. When we bought Torres and Mascherano (on loan) there was never this going after players in public and rafa used to play it down as well. Rafa for some reason has also started to conduct deals in public. He hadn't even signed Barry and started talking about selling Xabi. The other day still thinking he might get Barry he was still talking about selling Alonso. It's very unprofessional regardless of what people say

We had to donate to Spurs' charity because of what Rafa said about going after Keane

The thing is I used to love Rafa's press conferences where he showed a lot class and never got involved in slanging matches with the likes of Fergie and Wenger. For me he has lost that now

[Roboklopp]

71 members active and four of us discussing football.C`mon lurkers,we don`t bite.

CHOMP

[El Jefecito]

Parry has been at the club for some time now and this wasn't going on when Houiller was in charge.

Rafa must have been given a budget for targets by G&H, so someone must be accountable.

Why go public on the Barry transfer so early?

Why does no one want to pay more than 15mill for xabi?
(because he had a **** end of season and wasn't worth it)

Why would it be Parry's fault?

I agree to blame it all on Parry is niave. I see a culture clash. I see Rafa trying to change the way we work to put him front and center, I see G&H enforcing a financial perspective on all transfers, I see ...

[Johnny]

CHOMP

You teenagers and your new chav talk.



What does it mean?

[Roboklopp]

You teenagers and your new chav talk.



What does it mean?

It's the noise you make when you bite mate.

[Shanks]

We had to donate to Spurs' charity because of what Rafa said about going after Keane

The thing is I used to love Rafa's press conferences where he showed a lot class and never got involved in slanging matches with the likes of Fergie and Wenger. For me he has lost that now

Yeah, what was all that about.

Donate to a charity.

How much did we end up putting in?

I think the match early on against the Mancs will settle a lot of people down and when we get a result, all of this talk will be out the window.

[Johnny]

It's the noise you make when you bite mate.

It is indeed,whoosh,I`m a bit slow tonight.

[Roboklopp]

It is indeed,whoosh,I`m a bit slow tonight.

Slow I can take as you're just back from holiday, but not the offensiveness.


Chavvy teenager my arse- I'm almost 33 & of terribly good stock.

[Shanks]

71 members active and four of us discussing football.C`mon lurkers,we don`t bite.

Could you imagine the fall out though.

It's bad enough with 3 or 4 never mind 50 +

[El Jefecito]

We had to donate to Spurs' charity because of what Rafa said about going after Keane

Sorry Sarb that is factually incorrect. We had to cough up because of something that lfc.tv posted.

That is a fact.

[Johnny]

Could you imagine the fall out though.

It's bad enough with 3 or 4 never mind 50 +

True,but it would be funny as feck.