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• Where to start? Such an interesting and lively thread. Actually, it’s easy. That was one of the best posts I have read on here for ages Darrel (4). Conversely, does anyone else roll their eyes – or something worse – when reading sanctimonious codswallop from Mr. Bentley (44) and the like, telling us to ‘cheer up’ and erm ‘chill’? This is hardly helped when the same Mr. Bentley reassures us that ‘transfer activity … always happens later in the window’, when in fact there is no sacred reason why wheeling and dealing cannot happen earlier, even in a World Cup year. Phillip Warrington (10): Moyes is not the one who missed chance after chance and made mistake after mistake which led to most goals scored against us. This is perhaps one of the most trite and shallow ‘defences’ of the manager. Yes, needless to say, players miss chances and make mistakes. But to tweak your words if I may PW, Moyes ‘made mistake after mistake’ in picking the same players...
  Paul Griffiths in When opportunity knocks...
• Mike, I have NEVER accused or inferred you have ever been a Trump supporter - far from it, but they exist in the hundreds of thousands muppet millions in your country.rnrnYour \"ten-year\" claim of rebuffing me is bizarre. When your wife was trapped in Wuhan for months due to Covid I was explicitly and repeatedly supportive of you both on TW. I\'ve also been explicitly supportive of you re Jewry on TW, for years.rnrnYou have chosen to extol Friedkin to every TW reader, always.rnrnAll I\'m seeking from you is a credible explanation as to what hard evidence, rather than mere hope, underpins your opinion?rnrnTrump fans, unlike you, would just avoid such a question because answering it would expose their blind stupidity in supporting him, so what information underpins your support for Friedkin please?rnrnAll the best.rnrn ...
  Don Alexander in When opportunity knocks...
• Annika, Carlo coming to Everton was a very $pecific $et of circum$tances enabled by the financial contribution of the not-yet-$anctioned U$manov to make the offer irre$i$table. (I tru$t I\'m not being too $ubtle here.) If I recall correctly, Carlo\'s magic number was £14 million a year. rnrnI\'m just assuming Glasner\'s perspective here, but we\'re a project just launched 19 months ago, with a newly-cemented management team and still a deeply imperfect squad to work with. Milan has a very recent history of success and several of the world\'s top 100 players, and they\'re a hell of a lot closer to making the Champions League than we are. rnrnAnd besides, involved ownership is not always attractive to a manager -- quite the contrary, if you ask Mou, Conte, Tuchel and Nuno among many others. Glasner himself has had publicly antagonistic relationships with management at Wolfsburg and Eintracht. ...
  Mike Gaynes in When opportunity knocks...
• Folks, if you're ever curious as to why I have never acknowledged Don Alexander in 10 years, that post is a perfect example. As if "with respect" were anything but a sarcastic overture to a snotty, sneering comment that includes a poorly veiled accusation that I'm a Trump supporter, he actually expects a reply. Not likely. ...
  Mike Gaynes in When opportunity knocks...
• Michael, what is the connection between Neco Williams and Everton? Genuine question....
  Ajay Gopal in International Football — Wales vs Ghana
• Mike, please, with respect, just state what you believe is the model envisioned by your hero Friedkin next season and the three after Moyes\' current contract has expired.rnrnYour writings suggest you have insight into the Roma owner\'s mindset when it comes to lil\' ol\' Everton\'s development as serious trophy winning aspirants in lil\' ol\' England, trophy winning clubs in England rather than Italy bestowing way more wealth to their owner/s.rnrnOr, like swathes of the US electorate, have you too backed a serial chancer intent on exploiting whatever he controls to enhance his own personal fortune and f*** the aspirations of those forever underpinning his \"enterprise\" by paying hugely to watch dross on the pitch, more often than not? ...
  Don Alexander in When opportunity knocks...