Could Harry go at the end of the season?

[rich75]

Being confident is not the same as gossiping. No details discussed at all.

It is absolutely not a witch hunt, it is a criminal trial.

Sounds like bollocks to me.

I doubt very much anybody who is genuinely involved with the trial is going to say one way or the other in the first place. Secondly , if someone close did give an opinion , it's unlikely they would say they thought the case was shaky. If that got to the media , that the crown thought the case was wobbly, then it would certainly cause trouble.

 

[Wirral Spurs]

Sounds like bollocks to me.

I doubt very much anybody who is genuinely involved with the trial is going to say one way or the other in the first place. Secondly , if someone close did give an opinion , it's unlikely they would say they thought the case was shaky. If that got to the media , that the crown thought the case was wobbly, then it would certainly cause trouble.

Not sure how many barristers you know but the ones I do including QC's are reasonably open in private about cases they are working on.

Anyway, whether it is bs or not, we will find out in the Summer.

 

[markiespurs]

Mourinho will see Spurs as too much a risk to his reputation. He's unlikely to move anywhere but the top one or two teams. I even think City is too risky for him, although £20m might reduce this.

Personally, i think the very real opportunity of becoming the first man since Sir Bill to lift the title as spurs manager would be a massive pull to an ego like Mourinho's.

 

[Azrael]

Not sure how many barristers you know but the ones I do including QC's are reasonably open in private about cases they are working on.

That's a new one on me. Unless a case has gone to trial or is in the media spotlight no barrister I ever instructed has disclosed details of other extant cases where the parties are indentifiable.

 

[BringBack_leGin]

Not sure how many barristers you know but the ones I do including QC's are reasonably open in private about cases they are working on.

Anyway, whether it is bs or not, we will find out in the Summer.

You do realise that outside of a courtroom, anybody involved in a case is under strict instruction to breathe nothing to nobody?

 

[Bus-Conductor]

Interesting.

But why (oh why oh why) the continuing wank-fest over United?
If he took over at the Lane and got to (or close to the top), why not carry on? Why be obsessed with the poisoned chalice job at United (probably in financial meltdown)?

I really hate tose PNMKINONI***)*JONBIOJNOIJH(**IJNB-ERS:bang:

I agree. There is no way the manager after Ferguson is going to be seen as anything but a failure - or second best - at least.

It's not necessarily a poisoned chalice, but you are always going to be compared to ManU's greatest ever manager, straight after him and suffer by comparison.

If you take charge at spurs just as a new 55K stadium is built, perhaps with a new owner ?, and turn them into the next ManU then you go down in history as one of the greats (Mourinho will anyway - but not in the long term dynasty type of way that he's talking about in the previous post).

Apart from liking London, we would be no more attractive than Liverpool or ManC though.

 

[thekneaf]

Concerning Mourinho, might he want to coach the Portuguese national team at some stage? If so, he'd be wise to do it while Ronaldo was still turning out for them. That'd mean taking the reigns at the next World Cup.

 

[StartingPrice]

^^^^:shrug: I have a hazy recollection of him saying somewhere that if he manages his national team he wants it to be his last job in football (but I could be delusional on that one:grin.

I agree. There is no way the manager after Ferguson is going to be seen as anything but a failure - or second best - at least.

It's not necessarily a poisoned chalice, but you are always going to be compared to ManU's greatest ever manager, straight after him and suffer by comparison.

If you take charge at spurs just as a new 55K stadium is built, perhaps with a new owner ?, and turn them into the next ManU then you go down in history as one of the greats (Mourinho will anyway - but not in the long term dynasty type of way that he's talking about in the previous post).

Apart from liking London, we would be no more attractive than Liverpool or ManC though.

Exactly.
Except, with regard to Citeh you may be right, but, unless you are privy to information that the Scousers are in a much better financial position than I believe, then I think we probably just edge them at the moment (for the first time in 40 odd years, before anyone accuses me of being delusional). Also, we have a Chairman we know Mourinho gets on with, who will allow him to be sole manager, just as he did with 'Arry, whereas the Scousers have just employed Comolli for the blatantly obvious reason that they are in the position we were in - that we couldn't just buy the players to maike them the premier team, again, so they will have to radically overhaul their recruitment policy and invest in youth. Having done this, I doubt they would be keen on hiring someone who will insist on dismantling this process and taking sole charge - not unless they have the budget to keep him happy.

 

[Bus-Conductor]

^^^^:shrug: I have a hazy recollection of him saying somewhere that if he manages his national team he wants it to be his last job in football (but I could be delusional on that one:grin.



Exactly.
Except, with regard to Citeh you may be right, but, unless you are privy to information that the Scousers are in a much better financial position than I believe, then I think we probably just edge them at the moment (for the first time in 40 odd years, before anyone accuses me of being delusional). Also, we have a Chairman we know Mourinho gets on with, who will allow him to be sole manager, just as he did with 'Arry, whereas the Scousers have just employed Comolli for the blatantly obvious reason that they are in the position we were in - that we couldn't just buy the players to maike them the premier team, again, so they will have to radically overhaul their recruitment policy and invest in youth. Having done this, I doubt they would be keen on hiring someone who will insist on dismantling this process and taking sole charge - not unless they have the budget to keep him happy.

Come on..ManC or Liverpool boards would both chew their own cocks off to employ Mourinho, as would anyone other than ManU, Chelsea or Arsenal.

 

[StartingPrice]

Come on..ManC or Liverpool boards would both chew their own cocks off to employ Mourinho, as would anyone other than ManU, Chelsea or Arsenal.

:eh: I was arguing it from Mourinho's end, how enticing the contending claims of us, Citeh and the Scousers would look to him. Not the other way around. I agreed with you about Citeh, anyway. Just not Liverpool, and my argument was that they may really, really want to have him, but their financial situation would have to be very different for them to look enticing to him.

Glad to have cleared that up for you.

 

[Kendall]

City would be ideal for Mourinho. He'd have the ability to attract any player in the world with his reputation and also be able to afford any player. In addition, if he were to were in the league and/or CL with City it would go down in history forever. First silverware in 35 years+ probably. Mourinho would eat that up.

His job would be considerably more difficult at spurs and would be a potential blot on his CV - something I'm sure he'd rather steer clear of.

 

[StartingPrice]

City would be ideal for Mourinho. He'd have the ability to attract any player in the world with his reputation and also be able to afford any player. In addition, if he were to were in the league and/or CL with City it would go down in history forever. First silverware in 35 years+ probably. Mourinho would eat that up.

His job would be considerably more difficult at spurs and would be a potential blot on his CV - something I'm sure he'd rather steer clear of.

I agree with the first part - but will put a fly in your ointment. Citeh have a decent squad, but not a great squad, and they will conspicuously fail UEFA's financial regs. So their spending/wage structure is not sustainable. Don't you think there is scope for a 'blot' on his record, there.

As for the second part: we have the (young) squad and we are in excellent financial health with which to meet the new regs. Why are you all so certian we would be a 'blot' on his record?

This 'poor little us', 'everyone is so much bigger and better than us' attitude has to end some time:duh:

 

[Misfit]

Battered wife syndrome, SP. Not that I'm suggesting Kendall suffers from it personally but as a collective many many Yids have had disappointment, false-dawns and just plain old mental anguish and torture foisted upon them for a good two decades. Without respite.

It'll take a while to shake the demons off properly.

 

[StartingPrice]

Battered wife syndrome, SP. Not that I'm suggesting Kendall suffers from it personally but as a collective many many Yids have had disappointment, false-dawns and just plain old mental anguish and torture foisted upon them for a good two decades. Without respite.

It'll take a while to shake the demons off properly.

:up:

:think: you and me, Misfit, we musta knowed all along, even through all the abuse and harm to our self-esteem, that we was Goddam Sexy Biatches:grin:

 

[$hoguN]

Not sure how many barristers you know but the ones I do including QC's are reasonably open in private about cases they are working on.

Anyway, whether it is bs or not, we will find out in the Summer.

Without wanting to call you a liar mate, I really cannot believe that. As if anyone caught wind of it, it would most certainly cost them their jobs and lead to mistrials. They may say yeah we think we have a good case, or this case has a good foundation but there is no way they divulge case information which is not public knowledge.

 

[C0YS]

Concerning Mourinho, might he want to coach the Portuguese national team at some stage? If so, he'd be wise to do it while Ronaldo was still turning out for them. That'd mean taking the reigns at the next World Cup.

I'm pretty sure mourinho has made it clear he will go manage internationaly towards the end of his life in the world of football, so not for a long time yet. And Ronaldo has two world cups left in him. Not that I think Mourinho gives a toss

 

[$hoguN]

Looking over on KUMB to their reaction to us appealing the OPLC decision, a couple of their posters believe that they have spoken to people involved inthe Harry case who are certain he will go down. Although I feel this is bullshite, and that no barrister worth his salt would be silly enough to divulge case information to members of the public due to the possible ramifications, I must say that Harry's legal team really should be taking a look at these claims.

 

[Misfit]

:up:

:think: you and me, Misfit, we musta knowed all along, even through all the abuse and harm to our self-esteem, that we was Goddam Sexy Biatches:grin:

Indeed. I'm not even being greedy. Half a dozen or so league titles, a couple of CLs and a few more FA cups would do me over the next 20 yrs. Hardly dominating English football but a nice period of sustained success at the end of which our penis length (er, um forget that) trophy haul will look much healthier.

Or we could nuts and win everything in sight. Either is fine.

The Stadium issue is the only major hurdle. There's no reason why we can't win 13 trophies in 15 yrs as Chelsea have done once that is sorted. They're making their history right now. The future can be ours. Other trite sayings follow on etc etc.

Why and how are so many people privy to Harry's case anyway? I mean., I know there a number of lawyers/barristers in London but it seems everyone of them is working on this case and is mates with various football forumers.

 

[Bus-Conductor]

City would be ideal for Mourinho. He'd have the ability to attract any player in the world with his reputation and also be able to afford any player. In addition, if he were to were in the league and/or CL with City it would go down in history forever. First silverware in 35 years+ probably. Mourinho would eat that up.

His job would be considerably more difficult at spurs and would be a potential blot on his CV - something I'm sure he'd rather steer clear of.

I agree, Mourinho and City would be a perfect match. Turning City into something bigger (or more successful) than Utd/Ferguson would also appeal to his ego.

 

[Matt C]

City would be ideal for Mourinho. He'd have the ability to attract any player in the world with his reputation and also be able to afford any player. In addition, if he were to were in the league and/or CL with City it would go down in history forever. First silverware in 35 years+ probably. Mourinho would eat that up.

His job would be considerably more difficult at spurs and would be a potential blot on his CV - something I'm sure he'd rather steer clear of.

With the money/wages they have to spend give Les Reed a couple of years and an unlimited budget and he would win the premiership, it will be no achievement at all for Jose and no real test of his ability as they are only 1-2 players away from domination, any manager who has a blank cheque would end up winning trophies.

Going to City would not be a test of Mourinho's ability.