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martymarts
06 Jun 2004, 02:38 AM
... to win the EPL within 4 years??? This guy is smart! He's getting a 5 year contract for oodles of wonga and promises to deliver in 4! Which means he has 4 tries at proving himself wrong before Roman buys out the last year of his contract for even larger oodles of cash, to replace him early!

This has to be the most gilt edged case of "heads I win tails you lose" I've ever seen engineered by a football manager? It would even put old red nose to shame. Well, even if Chelski are crap for the next 4 years the mind games coming out of the Bridge should be quite interesting?

I'm betting they"ll lose the 1st 5 games of the season and
Murinho will blame it on bad Feng Sui in his office! At this point, Roman Money Bags will appoint Sir Norman Foster to redecorate his workspace and have the entire Stadium rotated 6" for a better celestial alignment with the ley line that runs down the middle of the Kings Road!!! Claudio Ranieri, Zola, Ray Wilkins, Rudd Guillett and Gianluca Vialli will all be bought out of their repective contracts, for at least 10x's their value and ritually scarificed on Mourinho new solid gold desk! Then Chelski will lose the next 10 games and Mourinho will blame this on the fact that the stadium was rotated 6" in the wrong directions!

Just another episode of "Prem". The Saturday afternoon soap about an absurd football team who waste embarassingly large amounts of oil money because their filthy rich owner has nothing better to do than to play with his tinker-toy club! Sounds a bit like Dallas, only it's "Who sacked CR?" instead of "Who shot JR?" I guess that makes Mourinho Cliff Barnes!!!

jwaldman11
06 Jun 2004, 02:56 AM
I wonder: if he doesn't succeed in four years, if he'll pull a Houllier and try to say that the first year doesn't count because he didn't have the chance to bring in all of his own players yet?

mad theory
26 Jun 2005, 07:32 PM
got to hand it to him though, he did it in one.. :o

antifan
26 Jun 2005, 07:40 PM
got to hand it to him though, he did it in one.. :o
Yeah, it was an amazing turnaround, going from Second to First in only one year. :rolleyes:

mad theory
26 Jun 2005, 09:18 PM
Yeah, it was an amazing turnaround, going from Second to First in only one year. :rolleyes:

i agree with you, don't get me wrong but he promised it a title within 4 years and he got it in 1. well done to him, i doubt he'll be able to retain it though.

Grand_Rapids_Gunner
26 Jun 2005, 09:22 PM
... to win the EPL within 4 years??? This guy is smart! He's getting a 5 year contract for oodles of wonga and promises to deliver in 4! Which means he has 4 tries at proving himself wrong before Roman buys out the last year of his contract for even larger oodles of cash, to replace him early!

This has to be the most gilt edged case of "heads I win tails you lose" I've ever seen engineered by a football manager? It would even put old red nose to shame. Well, even if Chelski are crap for the next 4 years the mind games coming out of the Bridge should be quite interesting?

I'm betting they"ll lose the 1st 5 games of the season and
Murinho will blame it on bad Feng Sui in his office! At this point, Roman Money Bags will appoint Sir Norman Foster to redecorate his workspace and have the entire Stadium rotated 6" for a better celestial alignment with the ley line that runs down the middle of the Kings Road!!! Claudio Ranieri, Zola, Ray Wilkins, Rudd Guillett and Gianluca Vialli will all be bought out of their repective contracts, for at least 10x's their value and ritually scarificed on Mourinho new solid gold desk! Then Chelski will lose the next 10 games and Mourinho will blame this on the fact that the stadium was rotated 6" in the wrong directions!

Just another episode of "Prem". The Saturday afternoon soap about an absurd football team who waste embarassingly large amounts of oil money because their filthy rich owner has nothing better to do than to play with his tinker-toy club! Sounds a bit like Dallas, only it's "Who sacked CR?" instead of "Who shot JR?" I guess that makes Mourinho Cliff Barnes!!!


And the point of this post was...?? Just checking.

rgrayson
26 Jun 2005, 09:29 PM
And the point of this post was...?? Just checking.

It was from a year ago?

jegerpenge
26 Jun 2005, 10:15 PM
got to hand it to him though, he did it in one.. :o

If I were Roman, I wouldn't hand him anything except the bill.

Grand_Rapids_Gunner
26 Jun 2005, 10:22 PM
It was from a year ago?

Oh, I didn't see that part....oops, my bad... :D

nicephoras
26 Jun 2005, 10:23 PM
i agree with you, don't get me wrong but he promised it a title within 4 years and he got it in 1. well done to him, i doubt he'll be able to retain it though.

We shall see, won't we ;) I wouldn't bet against it.

Speaking of which - where's Rick? :D :D

blackjack
27 Jun 2005, 01:01 AM
well done to him.

I'm almost surprised you're not headed to court over this. Things must not be quite so tense over here these days. :p

jegerpenge
27 Jun 2005, 03:46 AM
I'm almost surprised you're not headed to court over this. Things must not be quite so tense over here these days. :p

MT doesn't take part in any of the reindeer games that many of the other posters do. Neither do I, for that matter, but he's much more vocal in his opposition.