Moneyball won't win the Premiership 2012-13

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Touching, unselfish tribute from Ruud van Nistelrooy: "2001-2006, 219 games, 150 goals under the most successful manager in history. It was a unique privilege."

"... for sir alex"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/may/08/alex-ferguson-greatest-living-briton

I don't really care about who the "greatest living Briton" is but this sort of shit from your casual news Tory is so pathetic. Full of shitty sentences too.

My Man U supporting 9-yr old is disconsolate about Moyes: he's rubbish dad, he's only a four-star manager in Match Attax

Work colleague just quoted a friend as saying "they may not have won as much under Busby Berkeley, but they did it with *style*". Lethal on a waterlogged pitch, that team.

I think Jon Snow is the one who should be retiring after describing Ferguson and Moyes as two dour Scots and then asking Clayton Blackmore whether he could understand Ferguson when he first took over "... and that's from a Welshman!"

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Hughes would certainly fit the bill for Everton. Bruised by #qpr but still has what it takes for a club of #efc stature. No money, though

By Martin Lipton 2 Mar 2013 10:51
Shock QPR revelations: Club decline to comment as Harry's stars lift lid on astonishing Dubai booze bender

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11095/8700594/Mark-Hughes-has-refused-to-rule-himself-out-of-the-running-for-the-Everton-job

lmao just chilling out in a trophy room. dickhead

Everton would be a great fit for Hughes who has real experiencing of managing on a limited nah i can't do it

Hughes - return to Dogs Of War? His record at Blackburn in four years wasn't too different to Moyes at Everton, but I seem to remember them being a horrible bunch of thugs.

Laudrup or...I'll do it meself.

don't mean to be rude but would laudrup really be particularly fussed about everton

Yeah, no way he'd go to Everton

Probably not. Who would, really? Just banging your head against the ceiling. He could do that at Swansea next season.

(Obviously, we're the best club in the world and anyone who chooses to play for/work for anyone else is making a laughable error of judgement, but I suppose it might be a stretch for ML to share that PoV).

xp

Probably not. Who would, really?

Mark Hughes

if they even let someone in hr phone screen hughes i am going back to 1999 and tearing up my season ticket

Jol in

I like him!

Why 1999? (xps)

Hughes and Redknapp and the other names that are being tarted around would be unmitigated disasters. Martinez wouldn't necessarily be, given he's never had a good defence to work with, but would be quite a tactical shift given their existing squad.

Slaven Bilic might be worth a punt.

Where is Bilic nowadays?

Oh Stan

Now I gotta try to get a Chelsea ticket so I can bellow props at him after the game

I'm well-disposed to anyone that the Pinefox can impersonate. Maybe not Redknapp. Or Lawrenson. Or Hansen. Actually, forget it... just JOL IN.

i would just as soon they took a punt on another moyes are robbed someone off a championship playoff team. mind you, i can name precisely one of the managers of those four teams, so i literally don't have a fucking clue what i am talking about.

nbs 99/00 was the last time i had a season ticket at goodison as a lol student

I haven't been to Goodison since 2004 and that was my only visit since '89, and I certainly don't follow football to the forensic level I sometimes see on here, so I just have this vague, romantic idea of EFC and Laudrup (being my vague, romantic idea of a pre-CL/pre-Sky genius) seems to fit that.

malky mackay is very good imo

But his name's Malky.

Martinez would be a disaster.

Redknapp might not be. He failed to get QPR relegated but did about as well with Spurs as AVB has and let's not forget he whipped them into shape too, after Ramos, figure of fun and all as he may be.

Martinez wouldn't necessarily be, given he's never had a good defence to work with, but would be quite a tactical shift given their existing squad.

― Matt DC, Thursday, 9 May 2013 11:59 (7 minutes ago) Bookmark

wtf are u talking about, the last four solid years of defensive cluelessness were all his own

sad about petrov, i always liked him

Redknapp might not be. He failed to get QPR relegated but did about as well with Spurs as AVB has and let's not forget he whipped them into shape too, after Ramos, figure of fun and all as he may be

He didn't fail to get QPR relegated.

He was good at Spurs and at Portsmouth, but he loves spending shitloads of money and he wouldn't have that opportunity at Everton. I don't think his dog would let him do it.

Bilic is at Lokomotiv Moscow, who have been really poor this season. Not sure they'd be fussed about him leaving.

Yeah he's signed defensive shite and that's not going to be good in the longer term but the defence he'd be inheriting is pretty tight. He's still the wrong candidate obv.

Redknapp as EFC manager is a bit LOL BORIS IS A LEGERND.

It's good that my horizons are being expanded here though. Laudrup, JOL, and this Malky fellow, who is younger than me for Inchy's sake.

i agree lovely bobby might not necessarily be a stonewall disaster but he is very... not quite overrated but certainly indulged in the media and would need to improve a great deal

no chance uprooting arry from the south even for a prem gig but idk how anyone could think it wouldnt be an absolute carcrash

Redknapp inherited a really good squad at Spurs (with some problem spots), he didn't actually spend that much money overall, and Levy kept him on a pretty tight leash. He'd be a catastrophe at Everton.

kenwright is a soppy old fool anyway and is sure to fall head over heels for martinez. it's a lock imo

United's desire to secure Moyes took Everton by surprise, with the Merseyside club aggrieved they did not receive the courtesy of an official approach from the champions. However, as Moyes's contract with Everton expires on 30 June United were not required to do so.

The news had been so unexpected at Goodison Park that until 2pm on Wednesday, four hours after Ferguson made his plans public, Everton's chairman, Bill Kenwright, had no idea that Moyes was wanted by United.

Was gonna say redknapp prob close to break even at spurs, he actually sold too many players

Rafas everton vs jols everton is an interesting thought experiment

incredible xpost to the everton stuff.

He didn't fail to get QPR relegated.

oops yep, failed to stop qpr getting relegated.

Everyone in the world knew that Fergie had identified Moyes as his heir apparent, although the retirement probably came as a surprise. Guess Kenwright just got complacent with contracts and expected Moyes to hang around forever.

Do we really think Moyes will bring the likes of Baines, Fellaini, Osman with him?

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/67490000/jpg/_67490370_mmftbfocuspunditsonmoyes.jpg

yeah i definitely want to click on this video

Osman will likely see his career out at Goodison. The other two, yeah, they'll probably go.

Be a very bad sign if those two are his big signings

Thought Shearer was James Richardson for a second then

Fellaini wd improve United, Baines & Osman good but not necessary signings.

Fellaini wd be a good replacement for Rooney qua midfielder