Moneyball won't win the Premiership 2012-13

people are banging on about Ferguson being the greatest manager of all time but he's never even won the Europa Cup which puts him well below Rafa to my mind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDKO6XYXioc

i notice Ferguson's never lifted the Johnstone's Paint Trophy either

Hands off avb

Fergie goin on deadpool 2014 for sure

It pleases me that his last real game is a scrappy loss to Rafa

Wau.

damn

Mourinho 6/4
Moyes 6/4
Klopp 16/1
Solskjaer 33/1
Beckham 33/1

the sudden nature of this suggests mourinho to me

mourinho is the only one i can see continuing the reign of terror

You'd think so, but objectively how attractive a job is it? On one view it's the biggest job going, but it's still a relatively crappy squad.

so many heartbroken cornishmen phoning up 5 Live

The real big news is that Arsenal have apparently signed a new kit deal with Puma for 30m a season starting 2014... what's that, something else is going on?

IT'S OVER. IT'S FINALLY OVER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXpmunmG5ss

£30m?! That outmoneys everyone iirc.

Really hope next season is somehow some mad free for all now, but instead Mourinho will come back and suck the life out of everything that isn't his own press conferences

Yep, biggest deal in english football if true... http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/arsenal-agree-puma-kit-deal-1874661

Fergie goin on deadpool 2014 for sure

― al leong the watchtower (darraghmac), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 09:44 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

No lie, that was my first thought.

It pleases me that his last real game is a scrappy loss to Rafa

― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 09:47 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Probably the moment he realised he had to go.

Hm, with that and the sponsorship step-up, this does change the playing field quite a bit.

How swag are puma kits though?

fuck off about arsenal this is the day of all days

God this is like Thatcher dying all over again.

Haha imagine being Roman Abramovich and seeing yr managerial shortlist just evaporate again.

Get the feeling this is the point at which being owned by the Glazers could really fuck United. No manager is going to have the luxury that Ferguson have and a couple of short-termist decisions coupled with failing to back the manager properly could lead to a string of managers in a relatively short period of time. Could Mourinho manage on the sort of financial constraints the Glazers have imposed?

Ferguson will be desperately trying to sell Rooney before the end of the season now.

Swag? Um... http://soccerlens.com/files/2010/08/Spurs_Home_kit_10_11_Puma.jpg

Oh yeah, the Spurs one was nice. I was thinking of that range of tight numbers puma did a couple of African Cup of Nationses ago - not sure that'd work on a team of spindly wimps though.

How dare you, Gervinho looked magnificent

i was there... the day kit deal transferred from liverpool to arsenal... 4th spot will never be the same again

He's not dead you know

(yet)

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Football/Pix/pictures/2012/2/12/1329044774475/Kenny-Dalglish-looks-deje-007.jpg

RIP kit deal

So does the next manager at Old Trafford retain Fergie's powers? Or does Fergie time just stop now?

Arsenal have been a pretty big part of the Nike strategy in recent years - this does raise questions about their preëminence in the sportswear market imo.

people are seriously suggesting mike phelan on twitter

Fergie goin upstairs, lol disaster

He spent years doing the post-match interviews, so

Rafa to take over, Ferguson back in by Christmas

That puma deal though

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#mufc sources say successor announcement "soon", and "he'll be cut from same cloth as Ferguson and Busby, and believe in youth development"

Xp The latter, but almost imperceptibly so imo.

Moyes, then

cut from same cloth

Tartan?

Moyes is a pretty big gamble imo.

Moyes

Did they run out of cloth

I fear that means Klopp, not Moyes

Though I find it hard to believe they've lined him up already

yeah moyes is a massive gamble. would think that is solely fergie's decision

thought about klopp but "cut from the same cloth" would be stretching it somewhat no

wonder if pep turned them down before bayern, seems an oversight not to have spoken to him if this was in the works

would be lol if moyes got there to find the glazers embarking on a new era of fiscal probity

don't imagine he'd have got the rvp deal greenlighted for instance

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