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  1. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Morgan Gibbs-White

    And that’s…comforting to you? I don’t much like the idea that we go for a player, and aren’t confident that we can offer a more attractive proposition than their selling club. Especially when we are Spurs, and our Chairman is saying we need to win the league. And Forest were in the Championship...
  2. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Morgan Gibbs-White

    I actually don’t have an issue so much with the idea that Spurs did something wrong, or whatever Maranakis is accusing us of. My issue is that either: A: we wanted this player and thought whatever moves we laid out were going to be good enough to get this done, and have been surprised and...
  3. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Morgan Gibbs-White

    I’m not really disagreeing with you. I think we wanted the player enough at the price, to book a medical. And then the moment it got complicated, we backed away. Just a completely ridiculous situation regardless.
  4. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Morgan Gibbs-White

    We booked a medical for this player thinking that we’d met a release clause. And we failed to sign that player because the owner on the other end of the deal accused us of doing some underhanded stuff. That owner successfully resisted our interest and got that player to sign a new contract. I...
  5. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Morgan Gibbs-White

    But just reading your post again…all those PR battles he does…I agree he looks like a fool. It doesn’t mean anything though if he successfully progresses Forest’s standing as a club. It’s undeniable he has done that, and this particular episode shows he’s winning the micro battles to keep his...
  6. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Morgan Gibbs-White

    Yeah, as I said the way Maranakis operates is not necessarily to my taste. But it’s undeniable he has won a round here. A club that were in the Championship not too long ago has successfully resisted a ‘release clause met, medical booked, deal basically done’ story and retained their best...
  7. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Morgan Gibbs-White

    Hope so! Not sure what all of the decent journos with Spurs connections saying ‘we still expect this to get done’ were talking about in that case, but yeah I hope we have a plan to move on from this. A very strange saga. Basically I feel like: if this was an important deal for us, we’ve been...
  8. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Morgan Gibbs-White

    Yeah, I find the way he does PR to be quite cringe and not exactly to my taste, but he’s fighting for his club and the metric he will be judged on is does he win these battles, and does he improve the club’s standing. I think you have to say in these aspects right now he’s done really well, and...
  9. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Morgan Gibbs-White

    I mean that if MGW joined us, the next step up would be a Madrid or a club of that ilk. Basically the clubs that are spending 80m plus on their signings. That’s the next step from us. And I agree that we *should* be a step up from Forest.
  10. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Morgan Gibbs-White

    Well obviously. But he’s kept his key player. He turned around a ‘Here We Go, medical booked, release clause met’. He’s won this one, no doubt.
  11. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Morgan Gibbs-White

    I would do exactly the same thing in his situation. He assessed the situation, and he won.
  12. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Morgan Gibbs-White

    Yeah…we’ll see. Obviously I don’t know for sure. Maybe it wasn’t so much a ‘bargain’ as a reasonable price for a proven player that wouldn’t require too much back and forth in negotiation. Personal opinion though is that at the rate prices are inflating, MGW would be an £80m+ player with us as...
  13. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Morgan Gibbs-White

    When I say bargain, I mean way cheaper than their actual worth. And I’ve never criticised Levy’s willingness to do those sorts of deals. I would criticise focusing on those details too much at the expense of of getting real top players that we really need to push on. The moment MGW signs with...
  14. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Morgan Gibbs-White

    Agreed. Very strange. This ends up reading to me like maybe there wasn’t new investment, maybe this was just a classic ‘deal’ that we saw, just like all the other ‘deals’ we’ve done in the past, and we thought we were getting a bargain and so went for it? I have no idea who the alternative is...
  15. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Morgan Gibbs-White

    Honestly I have to say, after the back and forth we had about whether this summer would be ‘different’, I am leaning very much on the side of ‘no, it’s actually not that different to what has come before’ now. Still time of course, but this outcome is just completely ridiculous in my view...
  16. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Morgan Gibbs-White

    https://www.reddit.com/r/coys/s/Ykhw6KXhfm I’m not being funny but…how did we manage to mess that up so badly?
  17. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    I actually agree with you on Sunak’s competence, what he predicted as it relates to Truss and in managing a stable economy I agree he had it. But economics is not politics. It’s a political choice to raise NI to spend more on the NHS. It was in dire straights. It’s a political choice to give...
  18. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    Interesting. I have just read this article: https://consortiumnews.com/2024/07/10/uk-labour-the-party-of-big-business/ I don't disagree that Labour tried to engage business at all. I think it is part of their strategy to drive growth and encourage investment, is it not? This also goes hand in...
  19. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    Who are the lobbyists? What are they lobbying for specifically?
  20. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    Although it does seem that stability and convincing the bond markets that the UK is a worthwhile investment is maybe an achievement in and of itself. So if they can drive some wins through that and have that translate into jobs, growth, wages, then great. It is crazy that the UK wasn’t seen as a...
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