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[Royalstandard74]

Our owner spends more time talking publicly about his old club than us.
2nd March

Ex-Inter Milan President Erick Thohir: “Miss Inter A Lot But Not Thinking About A Return”

Read this news on OneFootball.

onefootball.com

and note this
“Moreover, Inter is like a family and in order to really be part of it you have to stay in Milan, whilst I’m focused on matters here in Indonesia,” he continued.

FFS

And here's us thinking he chose us out love, if we don't get the go ahead on a scaled down stadium project, then we are in the s**t. Hence the B*****s we are in now regarding our off field matters.

 

[RyanioBirdio]

And here's us thinking he chose us out love, if we don't get the go ahead on a scaled down stadium project, then we are in the s**t. Hence the B*****s we are in now regarding our off field matters.

There are deeply political reasons for Thohir and Bakrie to be involved in Oxford. It’s all out there and very easy to find, and has been flagged on this forum before. Anybody who believes that this is solely a footballing venture for these people is being very silly.

This will likely get me in trouble and some prominent individuals may get their backs up as a result, but there we go. It’s not even an opinion once you lay the pieces out on the table. There are merely facts.

Doesn’t mean we can’t benefit from it all, of course. In fact, I would argue that it’s pretty important that we do well out of it. But it’s not because these billionaire politicians and titans of industry are in awe of the ‘Oxford brand’. Honestly, it makes me laugh when people suggest that they’re simply gagging for a bit of the action. These people have entire f*****g skyscrapers named after them and their families, and are capable of walking into the White House and exchanging casuals texts with the richest man on the planet.

A little 18,000 seater stadium on the edge of Kidlington is not a feather in their cap. Nobody can honestly believe that.

Anyway, that’s for another thread another time.

 

[MC Yellow]

^^^

Waiting to be chewed up and spat out at any time we no longer serve a purpose.

Precarious.

 

[yellowbow]

Well this is all getting very depressing…

 

[OxfordYankee]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1634081903442644992

 

[uptheus]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1634081903442644992

That’s it then!

 

[Mythbuster3000]

I’m really excited by Manning. He’s a young and exciting manager and has a clear vision. let’s get behind and watch him take us to the Championship.

 

[UTO]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1634081903442644992

 

[Orkney Islands Yellow]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1634081903442644992

I don't understand why the board arrived at that decision or why he's a better option than Appleton or McCann.

But let's hope he keeps us up and is a success

 

[IsleofWightYellow]

And it goes wrong and then "why wasn't a proper recruitment process followed?" complaints follow.....

Wait and see the complaints the if Liam Manning appointment goes wrong…

 

[pommy80]

I’ll be honest and say I don’t really know too much about him. Hopefully he gets the team going quickly, then the rebuild can really begin in the summer.

Only thing that worries me is he is an ex MK Dons manager…

 

[Teddydee1980]

Ex MK manager who plays attacking possession based football, sacked this season after good success in previous years.

Does he do a scouse accent?

I do think it's peak Oxford to go for a manager sacked from team doing worse than us, when other 'better' names were in the frame.

My only hope is this comes with new coaching staff, and another name in a DoF type role.

 

[ubermeistervonmeat]

Wait and see the complaints the if Liam Manning appointment goes wrong…

and rightly so - underwhelming

 

[dickwalton1964]

That’s it then!

Yes, seems so. I’m happy with this appointment and glad we didn’t go for a typical journeyman lower league manager. As I’ve said before, the performance of his MK side here last season was phenomenal and way above that of a L1 side. Didn’t get the result on the night but the performance had everything I’d want to see. Total control of the ball, quick, incisive and strong, we were like kids bouncing off them and couldn’t get near the ball for an hour. Obviously that was just one game. My only reservation is the job Ainsworth did on him in the play offs but MK had chances to have put that tie well and truly to bed.

 

[oufc1991]

Well if it's manning then I'm happy enough with that yeah he's had a bad season and got sacked but so did Appleton and so did McCann so let's just get behind the new guy and the team and as a one let's try and stay in league one

 

[Yellow Hols]

Interviews are fallible though giving some sort of test or project to do can be useful. However they’re more reliable than asking what a bunch of online guys ‘reckon’.

I don't necessarily agree. Women can wear short skirts and get an advantage. If i did the same, it would become a disadvantage. Stick to the objective test, and this risk goes away. I've suffered from this exact issue in the past. It wasn't pretty.

 

[uptheus]

Has Tim signed Liam so he can still get a lift home?

 

[Yello]

Underwhelmed.. be lying if i said i felt otherwise. Be more than happy if he makes me eat my words.

 

[dickwalton1964]

Hopefully his own coaching staff, think this is going to be vital.

 

[IsleofWightYellow]

I didn’t know much about Manning so I looked up his record.

He’s only managed two clubs, a Belgian side in their second tier for 30 games, and then MK Dons for 83 games?!

At MK Dons he had just two seasons, one where he finished in the playoffs then lost the semi-finals, and then got sacked the next season with his side doing awfully?

Look, he might be a massive success, as might literally any manager - Andy Whing, Robbie Fowler, Jermain Defoe, Sol Cambell, Craig Short and Chris Hackett all might be a success, you simply don’t know whether they would or not.

But to appoint him over some of the other names apparently in the frame means that he must have had a hell of an interview (or was really cheap?!)

I’ll support him fully, but I can’t say that I’m not disappointed, apprehensive or that I won’t have the same patience as I would with some of the other names mentioned…