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Dane Murphy - ex-CEO

Strummer

Strummer

Socialismo O Muerte!
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Strummer

Strummer

Socialismo O Muerte!
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GreeksBearingGifts

GreeksBearingGifts

Stuart Pearce
Firing Murphy and his entire transfer team would have been an extremely knee-jerk reaction. His team did wonders last year. Admittedly, the Premier is a different game, and Murphy himself may feel a little overwhelmed by the challenge (hence the role in the administration of the new guy you all hate, I forget his name, presumably sought by Murphy himself). Perhaps Giraldi's appointment was meant to help him in the football department.
 
Otis Redding

Otis Redding

Try A Little Tenderness
GreeksBearingGifts said:
Firing Murphy and his entire transfer team would have been an extremely knee-jerk reaction. His team did wonders last year. Admittedly, the Premier is a different game, and Murphy himself may feel a little overwhelmed by the challenge (hence the role in the administration of the new guy you all hate, I forget his name, presumably sought by Murphy himself). Perhaps Giraldi's appointment was meant to help him in the football department.
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The bloke you're referring to is Lee Charnley, an experienced PL administrator, most notably at Newcastle.

He seems to have a attracted a largely negative reaction mainly because he was willing to work under Mike Ashley's ownership - a bloke whose biggest 'crime' in football is that he royally pissed-off Newcastle fans by resisting their demands to splash most of his wealth rather than run the tight ship that he did.

Ironically, although Ashley's methods in his outside business life are anything but beyond question, the vast majority of those same fans are now delighted that their club is owned by a sovereign state that endorses the assasination and mutilation of dissident journalists, murders people of a LGBT-persuasion, encourages the stoning of "adulterous" women and routinely carpet-bombs innocent citizens of Yemen but, more importantly as far as the supporters are concerned, has pledged to compete with Manchester City's owners in the spending league. Which makes the decision by some Newcastle fans to stage protests at business premises owned by Ashley in support of his employees nothing short of ludicrous.
 
Erik

Erik

oopsy daisy!
LTLF Minion
Otis Redd'un said:
The bloke you're referring to is Lee Charnley, an experienced PL administrator, most notably at Newcastle.

He seems to have a attracted a largely negative reaction mainly because he was willing to work under Mike Ashley's ownership - a bloke whose biggest 'crime' in football is that he royally pissed-off Newcastle fans by resisting their demands to splash his most of his wealth rather than run a tight ship.

Ironically, although Ashley's methods in his outside business life are anything but beyond question, the vast majority of those same fans are now delighted that their club is owned by a sovereign state that endorses the assasination and mutilation of dissident journalists, murders people of a LGBT-persuasion, encourages the stoning of "adulterous" women and routinely carpet-bombs innocent citizens of Yemen but, more importantly as far as the supporters are concerned, has pledged to compete with Manchester City's owners in the spending league. Which makes the decision by some Newcastle fans to stage protests at business premises owned by Ashley in support of his employees nothing short of ludicrous.
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Pretty fair assessment.
 
Morpeth

Morpeth

John Robertson
Otis Redd'un said:
The bloke you're referring to is Lee Charnley, an experienced PL administrator, most notably at Newcastle.

He seems to have a attracted a largely negative reaction mainly because he was willing to work under Mike Ashley's ownership - a bloke whose biggest 'crime' in football is that he royally pissed-off Newcastle fans by resisting their demands to splash most of his wealth rather than run the tight ship that he did.

Ironically, although Ashley's methods in his outside business life are anything but beyond question, the vast majority of those same fans are now delighted that their club is owned by a sovereign state that endorses the assasination and mutilation of dissident journalists, murders people of a LGBT-persuasion, encourages the stoning of "adulterous" women and routinely carpet-bombs innocent citizens of Yemen but, more importantly as far as the supporters are concerned, has pledged to compete with Manchester City's owners in the spending league. Which makes the decision by some Newcastle fans to stage protests at business premises owned by Ashley in support of his employees nothing short of ludicrous.
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When you put it like that, it makes being sick in an open fire in a pub after 12 pints a bit tin pot really.
 
adam09

adam09

Super Koopa
Newcastle bought loads of players under Ashley though. Unfortunately most of them were crap. Quite a lot from France from what I remember.
 
Ashley

Ashley

Steve Chettle
Listen 'ere young man said:
Reports that Murphy went against the grain by hiring Cooper. Board wanted Wilder.

www.nottinghamforest.news

Report: Dane Murphy went against Forest staff to appoint Steve Cooper

Dane Murphy went against the thoughts of other Nottingham Forest staff members to appoint Steve Cooper in 2021, The Athletic has claimed.
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Given how badly Wilder did at Middlesbrough and what Cooper has achieved here, I think it's safe to say we made the right call!
 
Omar Devone Little

Omar Devone Little

Mr Realistic
Ashley said:
Given how badly Wilder did at Middlesbrough and what Cooper has achieved here, I think it's safe to say we made the right call!
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We did although to be fair at the time I'd say Wilder was the outstanding candidate. He was certainly the one I wanted as I knew very little of Cooper.
 
Any Time Now

Any Time Now

Grenville Morris
Remember saying at the time (when a lot of fans were calling for Wilder ahead of Cooper) that he wouldn't be a good fit for us, he's very old school/traditional in his approach as a manager which would make no sense for us considering we were in the process of undergoing a mass overhaul of club operations with the intention of shifting to a more modern structured approach, which is why we were crying out for a head coach figure like Cooper

Wilder is renowned for wanting a certain level of control when he's managing a club, he comes with a lot of demands and wants to be involved in a lot more ways than just a head coach position. Most notably are his transfer demands, not only does he have high demands and expect to be backed heavily he also prefers to act independently to get his specific targets. The problem being the majority of his signings have proven to be overpriced and not very good. You can only imagine the clash of personalities between Marinakis and someone like Wilder

As far as coaching abilities go I don't think Wilder is terrible, but I do think he is limited and traditional managers like him are few and far between in the modern game (for a reason). That being said he deserves a certain amount of respect for what he achieved with Sheff United, relieved we never ended up with him here though
 
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