Forest won't let something as pedestrian as a transfer window stop them from signing players, as they added Andre Ayew as a free agent today. That's 28 first-team signings for them this season!
They are basically stealing my management style for "managing a 1st division club in Football Manager". Sign everyone, sign free agents, hope for the best, sell the rest.
I would imagine that ETH not being the one who brought Greenwood along might play a factor as well. Would any of us expect Mik to let a youth from Emery or Wenger’s era to return with such baggage and disrupt the chemistry he’s fostered?
Listened to the Athletic podcast and Ornstein did Xhaka dirty, talking about the Jorginho signing he says "about Granit Xhakas availability and with his penchant for the referees notebook" when talking about why we tried to sign Caicedo and Jorginho because with Elneny out we are a bit short. Xhaka has 3 yellow cards in 19 games in the Prem, Xhaka has killed that reputation.
That’s football ‘journalism’ for you. The most surface level…I hesitate to call it analysis…color (?) added to the reporting of information. Ornstein obviously is well-sourced and has great discipline when he doesn’t have the concrete information he needs to report something, but his own embellishment is no better than mine when it comes to adding meaningful insight into the whys and wherefores.
Agreed. I've actually lost respect for him since he's gone to work for The Athletic. I feel like he previously wasn't one to default to old narratives and bullshit. But now---not so much. I'm tending to agree with the speculation that his "inside sources" were folks in/around Wenger and now he can't rely on those anymore.
The Athletic in general has gone down hill IMO The long form journalism we were promised seems to have mostly become the usual old hot takes
I see why the criminal trial has collapsed. They need the witness to testify to the acquisition of and corroborate the recording. Just in terms of technical evidence, they have a huge problem if she doesn't do that. That doesn't apply so much in an HR/Commercial setting. If Man Utd decide to get rid, I think they have plenty good enough evidence to do so.
I don't read TA a ton, but it seems to me they expanded, and "acquired" so many new writers, so quickly that it must be a bit challenging to perform oversight/management/editorial functions.
Never too early for a new thread https://www.bigsoccer.com/threads/w...-his-summer-2023-transfer-window-bbq.2124557/