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In my professional grown up life (away from ft) i have interviewed and hired many people. Hiring the wrong person is a costly mistake. To ensure i hired good people i often asked them about a challenging time or when things didnt work out well; and i asked them what their reflections were now. I marked up those who took responibility and showed what theyd learned... i marked down those who felt everyťhing was someone else's fault. .they were hapless. Here gray is suggesting that not one but two city managers wilfully held him back. I wonder if he can identfy what they wanted from him and how he could have shown this. I would hope both cr and cs would have told him. If they didn't he should have asked and worked on it. I hope that puel offering him this chance has not meant that he has failed to learn

I wouldn't

Is gray a sticker or a twister... does he see us as a place he can grow and enjoy his football or are we just a stepping stone. It will be diffucult to shift his view

aren't we supposed to hoof the ball in to space so that it becomes a race? It strikes me that we have been playing hoofball all wrong

I wonder if we have ever had a player who never played a match?

I doubt they will be in a scrap come april

He should refuse to engage for the first 24 secs of each game

I am often critical of slim... yet i believe in him. He needs a mentor to sort out his issues... first touch. .. shooting from the efge if the box (weve seen him do it)...his strength to stand his ground. We then need to work with the wingers to put ealy diagonal balls in for him. With a few tweeks abd the right service he could score 20

Sorry if ive missed it ... which other prem clubs are in it?

Musa slim and iheanacho can get some game time to sort out their first touch

He is one of the english players who could make the top table.... but to do so he has to develop. Look at how renaldo kicked on when he went to real. Strength and confidence boardering on arrogance were key. I wonder if sterling has that

Any one know how many folk want to buy a st but can't get one

Thanks that's rrakky interesting.... i will go thru it tonight before watching curb your enthusiasm

The club earned about 180mil last year... from mem. Tv money dwarfs ticket rev. The money from matchday doesnt add much.... eg. 20 home games of 30000 at a mean price of £20 is about £12million a season. If we had another 15000 full seats it would only add £6million per year Imo i doubt there is demand for much above 40000 seats so i doubt a new stadiium is worthwhile. . I think adding 10000 seats is marginal

Better 2nd than 3rd etc

Final score?

That ben arfa bloke please

What formation are they playing. Any sign of hoofball? Is promotion automatic for top 2?

He was one of our proud intentionals

Not all stereotypes are pejorative...

Amarty had a run of games last season... he did well and was making great improvement. Then he went to afcon. Whatever he achieves in his carear he was not helped by the timing of afcon. He would have been better to give it a miss . I expect there are other examples where players' careers have stalled coz of afcon

We have a great squad to play vardyball. I hope claude will work out how we can play alternative formations and the players we need to do so

Lets see if it gets better. My real gripe is thst i dont think we work on these issues eith individual olsyers. Slim and musa have the same issues

The owners' decisions re rudders are a revealing sign of their metal

If i was a new manager i would sit down with iheanacho and tell him to sort out his first touch and his inability to dribble the ball rather thsn kick it 10m and run. Untill he demonstrates these things he cant play.