Recent content by pr0sl0

I wish I had any!

Edwards is just an indefinite caretaker while Fosun sort their shit out behind the scenes. Jeff apparently knew he was being moved on for months before it actually happened, everything about his appointment reminds me of when we got Lambert after the Zenga debacle. If he managed to pull off...

There's also plenty of reporting from the time Fosun were looking for a club to buy that they felt player trading was the only part of the sport that could reliably make a profit. Hence the link-up with Mendes. I would not be surprised if Jeff's (crude) instructions from on high were explicitly...

As soon as Shi was fired Edwards’ days here were numbered. And obviously it always felt like an appointment made with an eye to next season - a tacit acceptance of relegation already - but I still can’t get my head around it, even allowing for Shi’s incompetence, and ignorance of the sport...

I think you give him too much credit. He spent a decade in charge of a professional team yet seems to have never developed any kind of contacts outside of the club, bar those introduced by Mendes. Promoting repeatedly from within, rather than accepting the need to run actual hiring processes...

As much as I welcome anyone from Nuno’s team coming back, I note that this is yet another appointment of someone Shi already knows.

Nuno was also total chance - Lopetegui turned us down and (much like most of our best signings under Fosun) Mendes was able to float us one of the people within his network. Zero chance we would have sought him out otherwise.

That was my paraphrasing this Daily Mail article from back in early September: I completely buy this as our strategy basically since Fosun took over, even during the Nuno years. The best signings have come off the back of Mendes helping to convince players of "the project" (whichever version it...

I'm surprised there's anyone left at Compton to empty the bins these days, with the rate Jeff Shi loves to promote from within. His dogged insistence on only hiring people he already knows is so, so strange. Is he allergic to interviews or something?

I can't get over the revelation a few months ago that our scouting department still does things the old-fashioned way (like the eye test) rather than using data analysis like everyone else. It made everything click into place about our transfer business since we were promoted - so many of the...

Feels like it isn’t a coincidence that this rumour starts up and then we get linked with Kalvin Philips.

Used to love Gamma Ray (much preferred it to Neck Oil), but ever since Heineken bought a stake and they opened up their new brewery it's not tasted the same.

And let's not forget he admitted to raping a woman during a sworn deposition.

No surprise at all O’Neil would want to come back. The man’s so up his own ass, believing his own hype, that he no doubt thinks he can come back and prove that he could have turned it around last time. And not surprised at all that Shi would once more, like a dog with its own vomit, return to...

I think he was meant to be the JSL replacement but Newcastle never called our bluff.