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  • May 12, 2025
    DEL_DVYg

    Literally not early. It’s 6 months.

    6 whole months! Wow!

  • May 12, 2025
    DwindlingSun

    What do they say about assumptions

    Speechless

    Bravo

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    Wow don’t remember it being that bad

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    Sprout Spreghorst

    he’s a Liverpool supporter who trolled this thread during ETH

    Nah i actually rooted for ETH. Too much effort to troll that way.

    Also don’t watch Liverpool these days. I love watching the underdogs for some odd reason

  • May 12, 2025
    DEL_DVYg

    Oh I thought you were on about Ajax lmao and their return to title winning.

    @Be2ye I didn’t know you were a Liverpool supporter

    I thought i told everyone itt.

    But yea, i became interested in the premier league after Suarez joined Liverpool from Ajax.

    So yea. But i’m not the average aficionado

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    KingOfPop
    https://twitter.com/office____/status/1921907338912436309

    Wow don’t remember it being that bad

    Didn't get away with it in my book. Bruno/COVID/no fans extended his leash by 18 months and now we're here because of it.

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    ANTI

    Didn't get away with it in my book. Bruno/COVID/no fans extended his leash by 18 months and now we're here because of it.

    we’re here because of the ownership Glazers 72% (20 years) and INEOS 28% (1 year) not a player or a manager

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    Sprout Spreghorst

    we’re here because of the ownership Glazers 72% (20 years) and INEOS 28% (1 year) not a player or a manager

    Do you see any path forward with the current ownership structure now there seems to be more focus on hiring football people etc than before

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    KingOfPop

    Do you see any path forward with the current ownership structure now there seems to be more focus on hiring football people etc than before

    Only if the Glazers keep reducing their ownership which will in turn lessen the amount of money/resources they take from the club and the debt they continue to put on the club via interest each year

    Sadly, anything we win is despite them and I can’t see any real consistent dominance with their ownership

    Leeches

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    Sprout Spreghorst

    INEOS own 28% of the club

    they are in charge of all operations tho - cancelling Christmas parties, benefits for staff, ex-players fund, etc.

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    Grenouille

    @Be2ye is an SEG agency appointed salesman

    if everyone's wife/partner loved them the way be2ye loves ETH (or the way KOP defends Amorim)

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    KingOfPop
    https://twitter.com/office____/status/1921907338912436309

    Wow don’t remember it being that bad

    he literally finished 3rd and then 2nd. we are 16th and playing the worst football anyone has ever seen this century.

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    KingOfPop

    Do you see any path forward with the current ownership structure now there seems to be more focus on hiring football people etc than before

    we've fired half the hires and cut out the heart and soul of the club. INEOS are worse than glazers so far.

  • May 12, 2025
    DEL_DVYg

    he literally finished 3rd and then 2nd. we are 16th and playing the worst football anyone has ever seen this century.

    😂😂😂 not everything is about Ruben man it’s ok

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    DEL_DVYg

    we've fired half the hires and cut out the heart and soul of the club. INEOS are worse than glazers so far.

    Made some massive mistakes for sure but to say they’re worse than the family that killed the club long before they arrived? Not sure myself

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    KingOfPop

    Made some massive mistakes for sure but to say they’re worse than the family that killed the club long before they arrived? Not sure myself

    I guess we didnt realize it could get worse when we pined for some new ownership to bail us out.

  • DEL_DVYg

    they are in charge of all operations tho - cancelling Christmas parties, benefits for staff, ex-players fund, etc.

    If they don’t control the money, which they don’t, it doesn’t really matter

  • May 12, 2025
    DEL_DVYg

    I guess we didnt realize it could get worse when we pined for some new ownership to bail us out.

    Full sale was absolutely the only way forward

    The concept of an Ineos just doesn’t work in the United structure

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    Sprout Spreghorst
    https://twitter.com/themagic_tophat/status/1921840854915850492

    this is what most concerns me about Ruben. we dont have the luxury of misfiring on signings. he needs to improve his existing players. relying on a bunch of transfers to save his job isn't gonna work especially when we have the scouts that we have and the poor decision making of not even being able to find the right man for the job without firing him after 1 cup of coffee.

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    DEL_DVYg

    this is what most concerns me about Ruben. we dont have the luxury of misfiring on signings. he needs to improve his existing players. relying on a bunch of transfers to save his job isn't gonna work especially when we have the scouts that we have and the poor decision making of not even being able to find the right man for the job without firing him after 1 cup of coffee.

    this will be the case regardless of manager

    Biggest upside for Ruben is INEOS continue to get pelted for deciding to take ETH’s one year extension option, overpaying for Ashworth only to pay out his contract, and the constant cuts to club staff. It’s not likely they’ll be trigger happy regardless of UCL or not (which won’t save us from PSR) and will hopefully back him in to whatever extent they can..

    The Glazers could strengthen our transfer/ PSR position tomorrow by paying off the debt they’ve put on the club with their own money, not the club’s money.

  • Goes unmentioned too often that none of the $1.65b that Ratcliff paid the Glazer family for his minority share went towards the debt or interest payments

    Directly into the Glazer’s pocket

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    this will be the case regardless of manager

    Biggest upside for Ruben is INEOS continue to get pelted for deciding to take ETH’s one year extension option, overpaying for Ashworth only to pay out his contract, and the constant cuts to club staff. It’s not likely they’ll be trigger happy regardless of UCL or not (which won’t save us from PSR) and will hopefully back him in to whatever extent they can..

    The Glazers could strengthen our transfer/ PSR position tomorrow by paying off the debt they’ve put on the club with their own money, not the club’s money.

    I mean I dont want him backed - when you deliver 16th -11gd and go on a run this bad, I prefer to give someone else a shot. but yeah I think if the finances are this bad, they will keep him and pray he can figure something out.

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    DEL_DVYg

    I mean I dont want him backed - when you deliver 16th -11gd and go on a run this bad, I prefer to give someone else a shot. but yeah I think if the finances are this bad, they will keep him and pray he can figure something out.

    we’re at the point where the kitchen is on fire so the chef is arbitrary