If we hire Gareth Southgate I genuinely might jump in the river and swim all the way across the Atlantic to personally slap everyone at ENIC in the face

We met his release clause, so by definition we *did* make the right offer, lol. He’d be playing for us right now (and probably also struggling in this system) if Forest hadn’t thrown a hissy fit about it

I meant the gun thing purely as a joke, to be fair, but that whole saga was shady from them tbh

I’d argue coercion let us down on MGW. Remember that video he did with Marinakis after extending? Man talked like there was a silenced pistol just offscreen at all times

True, though I’d posit that they’d turn their noses up at anyone we hired regardless of nationality. I can’t say for certain since obviously I’ve never lived there, but I get the sense that you’d get zero quarter from the English media at all unless either you’re SAF himself or you manage Arsenal

It’s the sort of scene that can only be assembled by people who are actually incapable of feeling true joy, yet think they can mask that fact by using lavish decorations and prioritizing pure spectacle over genuine warmth

Why would you speak that evil into the world? What have you *done?*

Speaking as an American…I think we’d be disqualified from complaining about the press at the moment, given the circumstances

I genuinely don’t think one player over another would save us from the situation we’re in. If we had gotten Eze, he would’ve looked awful in this system while Simons flourished at Chelsea or wherever he’d have ended up, and people would be saying “why didn’t we get this Simons guy instead”

Sure, but would we even be able to pay enough to convince Peter Crouch to come out of retirement?

Honestly, if I were Ange, I wouldn’t want to come back to the club that kicked me to the curb days after delivering their first silverware in almost twenty years

Justified or not, getting rid of him the way we did was cold, and I wouldn’t be surprised if there was some bad blood there