Dr. Gonzo

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We are so wasteful for a team that creates so much.

This referee doesn’t deserve kneecaps let alone a salary

Quansah needs subbing off at half time, definitely his worst performance for us. He and Bradley have been abysmal lol.

I think whoever comes in will be afforded patience as long as it’s not an unmitigated disaster like when Hodgson was our manager. The one thing I feel confident going for always is having Michael Edwards back. But I think us being worse next season is almost inevitable. We’ll be going from one of the best managers in football to someone who’s going to be a lot more of an unknown quantity.

Yeah but there’s very few managers who are as good in the CL as Ancelotti, let alone with teams as good as the ones he’s won CLs with. Idk it’s hard to feel excited about any of the names we’ve been linked with really. They all seem like pretty massive downgrades. I’m not too optimistic about the near future.

He’s become a lot more pragmatic compared to his first few seasons with us & we’ve been better for it. He’s a hell of a lot more pragmatic than Rodgers ever was for us. I think a good manager should be able to have an adaptable general philosophy than a rigid philosophy they will stick to even when it clearly isn’t working all the time.

If he ends up our manager he should get used to injuries and throwing kids into big matches. I like his football but he just comes across a bit of the same personality as Rodgers. A bit stubborn, not as pragmatic. I think I’d prefer him to the Portuguese guy though.

Nah I don’t think so. Everyone we’ve been linked with is a massive massive step down from Klopp, it’s inevitable. I think whoever comes in after him basically has an impossible job so we should be doing whatever we can to make the transition go as smoothly as possible.

I don’t know I think failing with the squad they’re about to have is almost unforgivable.

Dangerous move going there so young. If he fails at Madrid with Mbappe & co, I can’t see him ever managing Liverpool or Bayern Munich after that.

Lol he’d try to sell Trent, he should be nowhere near a club with serious ambitions

I think he’d be a disaster tbh. His man management is more Rafa than Klopp, I don’t think that works out long term in 2024 with player power and people having very sensitive feelings.

I think he’s got to worry more about what the manager thinks about it than the fans. The fans might get pissed off now but fans are fickle and if he’s playing we he’ll be easily forgiven.

Why did I not see this

Gutted tbh. Both leave me thinking "meh" as well

The 2 other names our credible journos have linked us with are Amorim (who I honestly know nothing about, so maybe he's very good - he's got a pretty shit record in Europe though if I recall) and De Zerbi, who's football I generally like... but I also get Brendan Rodgers-ish vibes from him. Maybe that's misplaced. Neither really fill me with the same kind of optimism and confidence as Xabi - but maybe it's for the best because filling Klopp's shoes will be immensely difficult and it would be sad if fans turn on Alonso if things don't go well.

I’m absolutely gutted. The one manager we could bring in that gave me a bit of confidence about us replacing Klopp was Xabi Alonso and now he’s announced he’s staying at Leverkusen. I think he probably is waiting til Ancelotti fucks off out of Madrid then he’ll go there. The other names on the shortlist don’t exactly fill me with a great deal of confidence, so pretty gutted.

Tbh I'd heard of none of those things other than the Boehly thing and I only heard about it because of @The Palace Fan

He's still chairman til 2027. Might be old news, but that's what this old news actually says.

Lol what an absolute moron

Also accurate

He's clearly hoping he can use this terror attack as a false flag as an excuse to further escalate against Ukraine. I think it's pretty clear ISIS did it, they released the pictures of the attackers (which look to be the same people Russia arrested, tortured, and charged) as well as the actual body cam footage from the attackers - which I don't think they'd be able to do without having received that footage from the attackers or if it was livestreamed to ISIS for them to record. ISIS has been getting bombed by Russia for years in Syria, Russia tried to foster ties with the Taliban when they took over Afghanistan again (and ISIS-K are fighting with the Taliban in Afghanistan), Russia had just arrested some ISIS-K members as well. I think ISIS just saw Russia busy with war in Ukraine that has tied up its military and thought "this is a good time to strike at Russia while it's weak." And Russia looks weaker than ever because the general response times to the attack were appalling. Dictatorships rule over their people by demonstrating their strength. Admitting that civilians may be vulnerable to attacks by ISIS is an admission that Russia is not as strong. By trying to play off this attack as something Ukraine's done and as part of the war, the threat doesn't seem so imminent and unpredictable - attacks like this will stop when Russia wins according to Putin. It also can serve as a way to direct the outrage of a massacre of civilians towards Ukraine rather than at Russian security forces for their lackluster response that let over 100 people die. And by making this claim he can probably go to the international community and say "look we aren't the only ones who have deliberately targeted civilians in this war, and sending in gunmen to slaughter people is worse than just dropping bombs." So I think it's pretty clear what he's playing at here. He's a dictator trying to twist an embarrassing situation into something he can use positively for himself.

With Yemen it's because the US is more involved in the genocide the Saudis have been behind than they are with the human rights abuses in Israel. With Syria, it's because Russia's helping Assad. They're both on the UNSC, so they've got veto power so even if something was raised it'd get immediately vetoed. Sad truth though is that the international community does not give a fuck if other Muslims kill other Muslims - I honestly think there's large parts of the world that see Muslims killing Muslims and think "lol cool." Tbh I don't know much about the conflict between Sudan and South Sudan so I'm not going to comment on that, but I assume it's more of the same + they're African so racists probably care even less if they kill each other. The UN's important because it's a world diplomatic forum, but in terms of actually doing anything about human rights abuses when UNSC permanent members are involved... it doesn't do anything. All those committees and commissions on stuff like human rights, climate initiatives, drug abuse... I think that's partially just some countries want to pat themselves on the back and other countries just end up in those committees/commissions and even heading them because of the policy of rotation and just make a mockery of the situation. It is what it is, but I still think it's good to have an avenue for diplomacy for the international community to all gather and get their say, especially with the world as polarised as it is today. It's good to have an institution for diplomatic avenues in the face of global conflict, to avoid a world war - and that's really all the UN has to it that has any point at all. The rest is just pointless fluff so some countries can have a feel good moment.

Lol the UN only has one purpose - serving as a forum of open dialogue between nations of the world to avoid another world war. All the other shit, like the human rights committee, is absolutely meaningless. The idea that any state shouldn’t be in the UN demonstrates a fundamental lack of understanding about why the UN exists.