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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/23/questioners-at-sunak-warehouse-speech-turn-out-to-be-tory-councillors-derbyshire-euros-wales

Denies charges. Will fit well at City.

Well, here's a little breakdown for you: First Bayern were speaking about competing with Liverpool for Alonso's signature until Alonso said he'd be staying at Leverkusen for at least 1 more season in a pc. Than they negotiated with Nagelsmann pressuring him publicly to decide quickly, which he did by extending his DFB- contract.Next candidate they spoke about in the public was Sebastian Hoeneß, one or two days later he extended with Stuttgart. Next candidate was Ralf Rangnick with Bayern announcing the negiotiations would be as good as finished, when Ralf Rangnick publicly said he'd stay Austrian NT manager, after a few unfortunate statements of Bayern's honorary president on a media event. Than their were rumours of Bayern being interest in Flick and having good negotiations with him, never heard of again at one point. Next candidate that became public was Roger Schmidt, with the consequence of him saying he felt very well at Benfica and would intended to fulfill his contract at that very day the rumours became public. After that Bayern went for Glasner but were deterred from Crystal Palace's demanded transfer fee, allegedly. In the meantime Bayern were that desperate they even negotiated with Tuchel about him staying with them anyway,despite of Bayern sacking him beforehand, that fell through as well. So Kompany is their 9th choice at best. Them being in such a situation is glorious- long may it continue.

What's this? He's posting a new Gloryhunter game when the other one is still sat there laying dormant and not updated in months? Correct. I'm working on the regular one's results but in the meantime let's get started on GLORYHUNTER - EURO 2024. This edition of Gloryhunter works in the same way as the regular versions, and exactly the same as the previous Euros and World Cup versions I've ran in the past. But, just in case we have any newbies, here's how it works: Getting Started / How Does It Work? Each player will be randomly assigned a team competing in Euro 2024 If your team wins, you will get 3 points and stay with them for their next fixture. If your team draws, you receive 1 point and get to choose which of the two teams you go to the next fixture with. If your team loses, you receive 0 points and go to the next fixture with the team who have just beaten you. If the team who have beaten you are out of the competition after that game (for example if a 4th place team happens to beat a 1st place team but is still out of the competition afterwards), you are also out of the competition. The difference is that it's a group stage competition and then a knockout so we will likely lose a few players at the group stage, and then it'll be a race for everyone else to the final. There will be a Euro 2024 winner crowned and immortalised in the Gloryhunter Honours thread, and there will be a Gloryhunter Euro 2024 Champion which is the player who is top of the standings in the table. So, if you're interested, let me know and once we've got a few players, I'll start to do the draw for the teams - once a team goes, it will not be allocated to anybody else. Anybody is free to take part, even if you don't take part in the regular season ones! (And yes, this is the exact same post as the other editions but with a few words edited and changed - I'm lazy - get over it)

Reading your reponse I'm even wondering whether the utter dominance Bayern had first and foremost in the 2nd year of Heynckes 3rd stint and under Guardiola wasn't even detrimental in hindsight, since humans have short memories for inconviniences and the club's officials and fans forgot how hard to fight Bayern usually had for the most of their titles before that period and irrationally assumed this sleepwalking to the title they enjoyed for, the factually short time, of 4 years would go on forever. It's disappointing for everyone if their wet dreams are proven to be exactly that, after all.

Deflecting from the shambles that has been VAR, officiating and 115 by getting players in the news for betting offences. Fuck off you boring twats.

Yes @Tommy! Up the Dorf

Yeah, I get it to some degree. Ill go down the list but basically I think we'e struggled mightily to actually back any manager since Guardiola for a myriad of reasons. Ancelotti and Kovac get their own category as I dont think either worked with the players or management and both relied way too heavily on individual talent rather then tactics for our team for whatever the reason. Flick is an interesting one as he seemingly caught lightning in the bottle. He was the perfect coach at the perfect time for the team. Specifically the high defensive line got us exposed far more in the second season and it didnt really seem sustainable. Part of that could have the squad, I know Boateng was aging out at that point for example so who knows maybe with a bit of change maybe we could have kept going but I think he saw the writing on the wall and jumped ship for the DFB job while he had the option. I flat out hated the Nagelsmann dismissal for a multitude of reasons. The timing was shite for one, we were in the middle of things competing for all 3 trophies. When he was hired I recall the overall sentiment was all about stability and enough of the merry go round of managers and this was the answer. They also seemingly proved intent with the amount of money they paid to RB for his services. Then to basically hit the panic button when everything is in sight and we had an excellent start to the CL campaign as well. It just felt worse as the first season had some hiccups which where fully to be expected but the second season seemed like there was growth there. He was figuring things out and it was finally coming to some fruition only to have a knee jerk firing at the first sign of any adversity. Tuchel 's time was a bit turbulent and I would write off the back part of the season and the situation he took over to start with. I more look to the start of this season and allot of the issues with the squad weren't addressed. He was very outspoken in the beginning of the season and we tried plugging a bunch of holes that made no sense. Tuchel was proven beyond right with how decimated the already thin squad was by the end of the season, it was laughable. The first half of the season seemed good but to start the Rückrunde we were kind of in a tail spin of form. Some of it Id blame on personal and situations with Afcon and whatnot but at the same time some of those losses where flat out embarrassing. The losses to Heidenheim and Bochum in particular come to mind is just not good enough, there is no world where we should be played off the pitch by those clubs and it wasnt just a blip it was a trend to some degree. Maybe Ive been spoiled by Jupp football and Pep football but there just hasn't be any stability as well ever since.

I did not expect that. Wow. We were even so close to scoring the 4-0. But we still have 90 minutes at our hands. Granted, our home form has been amazing this season, but if Bochum scores an early goal on Monday, it could be a close encounter after all. But l'm carefully optimistic. Ao Tanaka was so good today. He was everywhere on the pitch and worked his socks off. Well Tzolis just did Tzolis things. What a player. I hope we can somehow keep him.

Düsseldorf leading 3-0 now.

Or didn't want to be associated with the Saudis through Newcastle...

@Viva la FCB Interested in your view on an opinion of mine.: Tending to see the calamities Bayern are currently in as some kind of higher justice, since the treatment they were giving all their managers after Heynckes last stint, after Guardiola's time actually, left something to be desired, in my honest opinion. Regardless whether they were called Tuchel, Nagelsmann, Kovac, or Ancelotti. Flick being the exeption from this rule, here. Sagnol and Heynckes last stint are special cases since them were only meant to be caretakers, anyway.

A lot of the tactico nerds on Twitter have convinced me on this move to some extent but I'm also a bit like come on. Kompany came up with a team that dominated the Championship and they even invested over the summer. It's not like he had his hands tied like the Luton manager, and their effort was truly pathetic as well. 24 points. I know he wasn't Bayern's first choice and I get the argument that the style of play will work better with better players but surely you'd want to see some evidence that the guy can find a way to turn around results during a bad run. Will watch this with interest...

In fairness I don't think Kompany would be in my top 50,000 candidates.

All Düsseldorf are we!

Yeah that’s the most direct action of voting, and the most rational. The only problem is that once you step outside of the two party system, voting like that tends to favour the party the relies the most on political apathy, usually the party with the most media support and in the case of the UK, that’d be the Tories.

Thanks for the breakdown. Kompany is literally being looked at because everyone else said no and that's just a byproduct of no one wanting to work with them. Crazy but also quite amusing.

Said it a few times before, here it is again. Speaking German is as required to be a manager in Germany as speaking English is in England. And Kompany does speak German.

I don't get how people don't vote like this. Stop worrying about who has charisma Stop worrying about the mud other slides have slung Stop worrying about optics. Go to the websites of each party you're considering, look at their mission, and the individual policies and promises they're making, have a quick look at the local candidates too, then fucking vote based on whos policies benefit YOU and the nation the most. This is how awful governments get and stay in power. People too worried about white noise and feedback.

Good Luck! Hope you'll be promoted.

And the award for most random post goes to............