Third from bottom

[ex_pat_magpie]

It's a bit like having bought a shop fully stocked with good produce and the owner sells the produce and pockets most of the profit for his lavish lifestyle and gambling then the shop manager has to scrimp with lesser quality goods but try to sell them at top retail prices.

Then the shop manager is left with crumbs to restock with so he goes to the food bank and scavenges amongst the rubbish to try to fill his shop window.


What would Ghost do if he was in the shop managers position?

[waalsendmick]

Probably thank his owner and tgen try to pull the wool over his customers eyes.

Something Rafa won't do.

[Sclox]

Laughable and he lets himself down.

Its like giving a builder lego because bricks are too expensive then blaming him when the house falls down. "Not my fault guvnor"

DWUMMC

[Geordie1974]

The obese slug will be over the moon with 18th.We are only one place away from his season target of 17th.


Ashley OUT!!!!!

[Kal]

Who in your opinion would that manager be ?

Still no answer from ghost as to who he thinks could manage the players better than Rafa.

[HughieG]

Still no answer from ghost as to who he thinks could manage the players better than Rafa.

Didn't he say De Boer at one point? Great track record in the PL.

[Zippity]

Yet only 3 points from 12th place

Still very early days, I guess.

[Kal]

Didn't he say De Boer at one point? Great track record in the PL.

Ah! The reason for his silence.

[HughieG]

Ah! The reason for his silence.

[ghostrider]

It's a bit like having bought a shop fully stocked with good produce and the owner sells the produce and pockets most of the profit for his lavish lifestyle and gambling then the shop manager has to scrimp with lesser quality goods but try to sell them at top retail prices.

Does that really make sense?

Lesser quality goods but selling them at top prices?
Like the lesser quality Mitrovic who was kept in the store room to collect dust until someone asked to borrow him because they realised it was just a collection of dust on him, so dusted him down and turned him into a polished piece of quality.

There's much more to it than meets the outside eye, in my opinion...but when someone is hated by accumulated mass, then there's little anyone can do to retrieve that situation. Even Ashley knows this.

Then the shop manager is left with crumbs to restock with so he goes to the food bank and scavenges amongst the rubbish to try to fill his shop window.

And this is what Rafa appears to convey to the fans and public.
He's using scraps and wants bigger portions.
He's willing to put his players down by basically telling all and sundry how inept they are at playing football but are honest grafters...when he won't allow them to actually play football.
The same scraps are by and large, internationals.
Some of them are touted for England by a proportion of fans that believe we have those scraps.

I look at the squad and get frustrated about how they're set up, because I know there's much more in them than what is being allowed out.

What would Ghost do if he was in the shop managers position?

I would make sure the produce I bought was fit for purpose.
Any parts of produce that seem to be wilted would be put into the bargain basket.
I'd try not to buy too much of one item if I clearly know it's not going to be used and just sits on the shelf until it goes sour, or rotten.

Rafa could take a leaf out of that book.